The Primetime Emmy Awards 2026 should still be every week away, however the award season has begun. Over the weekend, the Tv Academy handed out early awards in technical and inventive classes, every week earlier than the primary ceremony. Among the many massive winners was Prime Video‘s Spider-Noir, the superhero present that was abruptly cancelled simply days earlier.
Spider-Noir’s bittersweet week
Spider-Noir was abruptly cancelled by Prime Video and MGM after its first season, regardless of receiving constructive evaluations and robust viewership. The information emerged this week. Simply days later, on Sunday, the Nicolas Cage-starrer secured a number of wins on the 2026 Emmy Awards. The collection, which debuted on the streamer in Could, acquired 11 nominations for the 2026 Emmy Awards, essentially the most by any Prime Video present. On Sunday, it gained awards for stunt coordination for comedy programming, sound modifying for a one-hour comedy or drama collection, title design, particular visible results in a single episode and cinematography for a collection.
Talking to the press backstage, supervising stunt coordinator Freddy Bouciegues addressed the weird timing of the wins, coming days after the collection was cancelled. When requested whether or not they hoped Prime Video would reverse its cancellation determination, Bouciegues joked, “Inform me who to name, I will ask them.”
The Spider-Noir character debuted within the animated Into the Spider-Verse movie, the place it was voiced by Nicholas Cage. The actor introduced the character to live-action with its personal present this 12 months. Spider-Noir follows Ben Reilly, a down-on-his-luck personal investigator in Nineteen Thirties New York who’s “compelled to grapple along with his previous life following a deeply private tragedy, as the town’s one and solely superhero.”
Rob Reiner wins posthumously
9 months after his dying, the late actor-director gained the Excellent Visitor Actor Award in a Comedy Sequence for The Bear on the Emmys. The award was a posthumous honour for the legendary actor-filmmaker, who was killed alongside his spouse, Michele Singer Reiner, in December final 12 months. Additionally it is the primary posthumous Emmy for an on-camera efficiency since Raúl Juliá gained for The Burning Season in 1995.
The win acquired a standing ovation from the viewers. Presenter Wendi McLendon-Covey acquired the award on the late actor’s behalf and stated, “It’s applicable to face for this one. I do know all of us want Rob may very well be right here tonight.” This was Rob Reiner’s first Emmy for appearing in 48 years.
Now not the ‘Inventive Arts’ Emmys
This weekend’s ceremony was earlier dubbed the Inventive Arts Emmys. However this 12 months, that branding has been performed away with. Now, they’re merely the primary two nights of the 78th Emmy Awards. The 2 nights can be edited collectively to air September 12 on FXX and stream on Hulu the next day. The primetime September 14 ceremony, additionally on the Peacock Theater, can be hosted by Mariska Hargitay. The awards will stream in India on JioHotstar.
Usually, the early ceremony solely options technical awards. However this 12 months’s version additionally included 5 classes that had been beforehand offered throughout the Primetime ceremony, together with supporting actor and supporting actress in a restricted or anthology collection