The 78th Emmy Awards finished on Monday night at the Peacock Theater, and Disney’s year ended quietly. The company went in with 125 nominations across its brands and studios and came out with a tally that puts its platforms well down the leaderboard.
The Final Count
By Deadline’s count of wins per network, Disney+ finished with four, FX and Hulu with three, and National Geographic with three. Apple TV led everything with 26, followed by HBO Max with 19 and Netflix with 16.
The Muppet Show was Disney’s biggest winner of the year with four Emmys, collected during the Creative Arts ceremonies over Labor Day weekend rather than on the final night. Rob Reiner’s posthumous win for FX’s The Bear also came during those earlier nights.
Monday’s televised ceremony belonged to other people. Apple’s Widow’s Bay took Best Comedy Series and finished with 14 wins overall, the most ever for a single season of a comedy. HBO Max’s The Pitt won Best Drama Series. Matthew Rhys became the first actor in history to win two lead acting Emmys in the same year.
Spider-Noir Is Not A Disney Win
Spider-Noir won five Emmys, and it is a Marvel property with Nicolas Cage in the lead. It is not a Disney production. The series is an MGM+ and Prime Video title, made under Sony’s Spider-Man television rights rather than by Marvel Studios, and its wins land on Amazon’s ledger.
Disney’s own Marvel Television entry, Eyes of Wakanda, took a juried animation award earlier in the run, as did the Star Wars: Visions episode “The Duel: Payback.”
What 125 Nominations Actually Covered
Disney’s nomination haul in July spanned ABC, Disney Kids and Family, FX, 20th Television and 20th Television Animation, Hulu Originals, National Geographic, Onyx Collective, Lucasfilm, Marvel Television, 20th Century Studios and Searchlight. Disney+ and Hulu accounted for 109 of them between them.
Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette carried seven nominations for FX and Hulu. Star Wars: Visions lost Best Animated Program to South Park, which took its fifth win in the category and its first since 2013. Matt Vogel lost the voice-over award to Julie Andrews for Bridgerton.
One Disney Moment Anyway
Andrews was not in the room for the voice-over award, so Eric Bauza, the Looney Tunes voice actor, accepted on her behalf and delivered the speech in a Donald Duck voice.
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