Emmys 2025 live updates: All the winners from the Emmys awards ceremony and red carpet looks

- Netflix’s zeitgeist-penetrating British miniseries Adolescence swept the Emmys winning every category it was nominated in across the limited series fields, taking the gongs for best limited series, writing, directing, lead actor for Stephen Graham, supporting actor for Owen Cooper and supporting actress for Erin Doherty.

- Hollywood satirical love letter The Studio was the dominant force in the comedy categories, winning best series, writing, directing and lead actor for Seth Rogen, who co-created the show. Rogen set the record as the only person to win across producing, writing, directing and lead actor.

- Medical drama The Pitt beat out heavy favourite Severance in the drama stakes, taking out best series, lead actor for Noah Wyle and supporting actress for Katherine LaNasa.

- Severance had the most nominations of any series going in, and it’s the first time since 2017 (when Westworld lost to The Handmaid’s Tale) that the most nominated show didn’t pick up a series award. While it underperformed, it still claimed the gongs for lead actress for Britt Lower and supporting actor for Tramell Tillman.

- Despite its haul of 23 nominations, The White Lotus walked away with nothing on the night. It picked one gong last week at the Creative Arts ceremony - ironically, for its main title theme music, which so many fans professed to hate this season.

- Stephen Colbert was a clear favourite in the room, walking on stage to a huge standing ovation as the first presenter, and then winning the talk TV award, which he has never before won for The Late Show. His series was controversially cancelled by his network, and wraps up in May.

Definitely in the minus. But the ceremony finished only five minutes overtime so it worked, people really did try to get through the speeches as fast as they could.

But the charity was always going to get some money because Nate Bargatze said broadcaster CBS, which aired this in the US, and he, will donate $350,000.

Everyone wins!

(Except for all the nominees who lost).

The Pitt beat out Severance in a tight race for best drama.

The emergency room medical drama’s freshman season was highly acclaimed and somewhat of a throwback to old-school TV - a procedural (of sorts) that elevated a beloved genre and which ran for 15 episodes instead of the standard six or eight that’s been normalised by streaming platforms.

It also had producer John Wells, who worked on ER and The West Wing, so that’s some strong network TV credentials right there.

If you haven’t seen it, it’s streaming in Australia on HBO Max. It’s truly brilliant, especially the climactic episode twelve which is the very best of drama TV.

DRAMA SERIES

Andor

The Diplomat

The Last of Us

Paradise

The Pitt - WINNER

Severance

Slow Horses

The White Lotus

Noah Wyle was nominated for Emmy every year in the back half of the 1990s for his run on ER, and to see him up onstage more than two decades later is truly a fabulous moment.

The Pitt, in case you haven’t seen it, is absolutely fantastic, and Wyle is the glue that holds it all together. This is a deserved victory.

He said, “First of all, to my fellow nominees, just having my name included in your company is the honour of a lifetime. Thank you to everybody at HBO Max, to Warner Brothers television for allowing the conditions to exist for lightning to strike in my life twice.

“To John Wells, thank you for being that lightning. To my creative partner in this endeavour, Scott Emerald, until the wheels come off, brother. To all the amazing artists who feed us every morning on stage 22, the cast, the crew, the background, the technical advisors, the writers, directors, you bring your A game every day, which inspires me to bring mine.

“To my children, to my parents, to my stepparents, and to my beautiful wife, Sarah, who owns half of this, not just because it’s California law, but because she earned it. Mostly to anybody who’s going on shift tonight or coming off shift tonight, thank you for being in that job. This is for you.”

ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Sterling K. Brown, Paradise

Gary Oldman, Slow Horses

Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us

Adam Scott, Severance

Noah Wyle, The Pitt - WINNER

Hells yeah! We’re not mad about this at all.

The Studio - a genuinely laugh-out-loud series - just won best comedy at the Emmys. How’s that? A comedy gong for something that’s hilarious. Love that.

Rogen now holds the record as the only person to win in the same night in writing, directing, producing and lead actor. He is one of only four people to win four Emmys at the same event.

Rogen said, “I mean, I’s getting embarrassing. I really appreciate it in all honesty, to everyone who wants to do my best attempted sincerity here.

“If you watch our show, if you appreciated our show, if you voted for our show, especially, thank you very much. I’m legitimately embarrassed by how happy this makes me, and to be standing up here with all these people, these are the best people I know and to have them spend their days with me working with me, is truly like one of the great honours of my life. So thank you to all these people so much.”

Charity countdown update: It’s down to minus $60,000. Awks.

COMEDY SERIES

Abbott Elementary

The Bear

Hacks

Nobody Wants This

Only Murders in the Building

Shrinking

The Studio - WINNER

What We Do in the Shadows

Adolescence has won every category it was nominated for tonight, so, of course, it was going to take the big one - limited series.

Stephen Graham accepted the award on behalf of everyone, as the producer, writer and lead actor of the show.

He said, “What we managed to create was a beautiful family. Whether you were number one on a call sheet or number 101, we were treated equally and everyone was respected and treated with the utmost of respect. We’re all the same.

“I think that’s how you get the best work, and that’s how you get the best out of your people. Do you know what I mean? If you fill them with love and give them that opportunity.”

He added, “Just look after each other and give your mate a cuddle or a call and tell them that you love them.”

LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES

Adolescence - WINNER

Black Mirror

Dying for Sex

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

The Penguin

Stephen Colbert has won Emmys before but never for The Late Show.

As soon as his series was cancelled by CBS in the midst of questions over political motives during the Paramount/Skydance merger, it seemed like he would be a sentimental favourite to win at the Emmys this year.

The room was rapturous at the victory.

He will eligible for one more Emmys run next year for the current season, so this isn’t the end-end for Colbert and the Emmys.

He said, “Ten years ago, in September of 2015, Spike Jonze stopped by my office and said, ‘Hey, what do you want this show to be about?’ And I said, ‘Oh, Spike, I don’t know how I used to do it, but I kind of like to do a late night comedy show that was about love.’

“I don’t know if I ever figured that out, but at a certain point, and you can guess what that point was, I realised that in some ways we were doing a late night comedy show about loss, and that’s related to love, because sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it.

“Ten years later, in September of 2025, my friends, I have never loved my country more desperately. God bless America. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor. Whoo!”

TALK SHOW

The Daily Show

Jimmy Kimmel Live

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - WINNER

Stephen Graham has won for his lead role in Adolescence. He also produced and co-wrote the show.

Graham has been a mainstay on British (and, to an extent, American) TV for a long time, notably known for playing East End gangsters, and it’s wonderful to see him given attention for his work.

It might seem like is win would’ve been a foregone conclusion given how strong Adolescence has been tonight, but this one was the tightest of the contests the show was in.

Graham was up against Colin Farrell who had won the Golden Globe and the SAG for his performance in The Penguin, which, of course, was before Adolescence was released.

He saidm “I’m just a mixed-race kid from a block of flats. So for me, to be here today, with my peers and to be acknowledged by you is the utmost thing I’ve ever imagined in my life.”

ACTOR IN A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE

Colin Farrell, The Penguin

Stephen Graham, Adolescence - WINNER

Jake Gyllenhaal, Presumed Innocent

Brian Tyree Henry, Dope Thief

Cooper Koch, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

It’s sitting at $52,000 right now. Cristin Milioti went quite long, so that would’ve cost the tally.

One of Hollywood’s favourite and enduring couples, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen have been honoured with the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award.

They have worked to support organisations involved with ocean conservation, pediatric medicine, arts funding in schools, the LGBTQI+ community, food charities and more.

Steenburgen said, “If it’s true that life is made up of two emotions, love and fear, the world’s a little out of balance right now. We don’t want to live in fear.

“So we make ourselves useful working for organisations that turn the scale away from fear and put it smack dab in the middle of love.”