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To kick off the presentation of awards, Stephen Colbert made his way to the stage to announce the lead actor in a comedy series. And attendees quickly rose to their feet in support of the late night host who made headlines recently with the shocking cancellation of CBS’s long running talk show “The Late Show.”

“Stephen, Stephen!” the crowded chanted.

Colbert was quick to address the elephant in the room: “Is anybody hiring?”

“I’ve got 200 very well-qualified candidates with me here tonight,” he said, referring to the staff and crew of his show.

“I also brought my own resume here tonight,” showing off a piece of paper.

Colbert handed the paper to Harrison Ford to give to Steven Spielberg.

We’ve celebrated the nominations, predicted the winners and gotten all glammed up. Now follow along throughout the night as our experts break down the 2025 Emmy Awards.

5:29 p.m. Ha! I do think we need to have a conversation about how much time is being spent telling people to keep their acceptance speeches short. Too much time I fear. Someone like LaNasa should not be shamed! I mean it is an awards show. Give them a full minute. —M.M.

5:26 p.m. Katherine LaNasa wins supporting actress in a drama for “The Pitt”! Breaking through “The White Lotus” crowd in the category. Is this going to be a “Pitt” sweep? — M.M.

The awards, presented by the Television Academy, honor the best of the 2024-2025 TV season. The 77th edition of the ceremony, has begun and is airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.

Drama supporting actress

Seth Rogen claimed the first award of the night for lead actor in a comedy series, wearing a brown suit that felt straight out of the wardrobe of “The Studio.” The actor, much like his character in the Hollywood satire, seemed genuinely surprised at the win.

“This is so nice,” he said in his brief speech, thanking his loved ones and those who worked on the Apple TV+ series.

Television’s biggest night is here and with it comes some of the best red carpet fashion of awards season.

This year’s Emmy-nominated stars include the always stylish Kristen Bell (“Nobody Wants This”), Quinta Brunson (“Abbott Elementary”), Ayo Edebiri (“The Bear”), Keri Russell (“The Diplomat”), Carrie Coon (“The White Lotus”), Cate Blanchett (“Disclaimer”) and Michelle Williams (“Dying for Sex”). Meanwhile, Adam Brody (“Nobody Wants This”), Jeremy Allen White (“The Bear”), Colman Domingo (“The Four Seasons”), Bowen Yang (“Saturday Night Live”), Sterling K. Brown (“Paradise”), Pedro Pascal (“The Last of Us”) and Javier Bardem (“Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story”) are among the men who are sure to impress. Here’s hoping that host Nate Bargatze dresses as George Washington at one point in the night to revive his hit “Saturday Night Live” sketch “Washington’s Dream.” Hollywood (and red carpet) veterans Kathy Bates, Jean Smart, Catherine O’Hara, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Harrison Ford, Martin Short and Gary Oldman may school them all on sartorial taste.

The 77th Emmy Awards will be broadcast from the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live at 5 p.m. Pacific on CBS. Apple TV+’s “Severance” leads all nominees this year with 27, followed by HBO’s “The Penguin” with 24.

Here are the best looks from the 2025 Emmys, updating live:

Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez is radiant in red.

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Michele Williams

We’re dying for Michele Williams’ dress.

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Jason Segel, the star of Apple TV+’s “Shrinking,” was on the red carpet when he was asked about how the comedy series returned to production in Altadena after the Eaton wildfire.

“Some of our sets were in Altadena, which burned down unfortunately,” he said. “It was heartbreaking for our cast and crew. Obviously everyone who lives in these affected areas, it was tragic. But we’re building back strong — Altadena strong, Palisades strong. So many people were affected, but we’re all coming back.”

Segel is nominated for lead actor in a comedy series.

Cooper Koch, who starred in Netflix’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” was interviewed on ET’s red carpet show and said he had received a message from Lyle Menendez about his Emmy nomination.

“For so many, what you brilliantly portrayed is their reality. The goal is not accolades, the goal is to bring awareness,” Koch read from his phone.

Koch is nominated for lead actor in a limited series.

As the recently defunded Corp. for Public Broadcasting phases out operations, the media nonprofit received a final toast from the Television Academy.

At last week’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony, the academy recognized the CPB as the recipient of the 2025 Governors Award, which “honors an individual, company or organization that has made a profound, transformational and long-lasting contribution to the arts and/or science of television.” Honorees in recent years have included “Dawson’s Creek” writer-producer Greg Berlanti and LGBTQ+ advocacy organization GLAAD.

This year’s Emmy Awards, airing Sept. 14 on CBS, are set to shine a spotlight on 25 different categories in the main broadcast. This undertaking could take over three hours. But it would take much, much longer to honor every great scene, performance and quirky coincidence to appear on TV in the last year. There are so many shows and so many ways to be compelled (and sometimes repelled) by their content.

And so, cue the trumpets! Here, The Envelope presents its own, deeply subjective awards honoring the greatest moments in television during the 2024-25 season — at least those that won’t get their proper recognition at the big show. Welcome to the 2025 Envy Awards!

Lucky Starzzz, a contestant on Season 17 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” poses on the red carpet at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater.

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Arrietty poses on the red carpet at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.

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Call me foolish. Call me naive. But not too long ago, I truly believed that the big categories in this year’s Emmys were going to come down to the wire. That when that final envelope was opened, we’d be on the edge of our seats… or at the very least not completely numbed to the inevitability of the winners.

It could still happen, of course. I’m ready for “The Pitt” to make me cry again should the throwback medical drama prevail for drama series.

Jackie Chan wielding panda bear plushies at the 89th Academy Awards. Brad Pitt serving duck face at the 92nd. Anya Taylor-Joy’s otherworldly hair flip just last year. These are some of the most iconic Glambot videos shot by director Cole Walliser, who has been operating E!’s high-speed red carpet camera, a staple of awards season, since 2016.

It was a much different entertainment landscape then, before #MeToo and #AskHerMore, the latter of which Walliser says he’s inoculated from by virtue of the slo-mo clips the Glambot generates. “For better or worse, it doesn’t allow me to ask more!” he chuckles from his Venice Beach office six weeks out from this year’s Emmys, which will be Walliser’s 10th, though he admits he’s ignorant of the nominees. “I try to stay tuned out to who’s nominated and who’s coming because I don’t want to get nervous,” he tells The Envelope.

These days, Michael Urie spends most nights scribbling his name on Playbills after performances of “Oh, Mary!,” Cole Escola’s bawdy comedy about First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln in which Urie plays her teacher. And every now and then, in the bustle of signing and posing for fan selfies, he says, someone will chirp “Good luck at the Emmys!” and it feels like a whiplash reminder of his other major career achievement this year.

“It’s like, ‘Oh, yeah! That’s right, I have to go do that, don’t I?” he says, still very much processing his first Emmy nomination.

Beyoncé already has one Emmy in her trophy case. “Beyoncé Bowl,” the pop star’s “Cowboy Carter“-themed NFL halftime performance, could get one more during the prime-time telecast.

The special earned Beyoncé her first-ever Emmy in August for costumes for variety, nonfiction or reality programming, which she shared with designers Shiona Turini, Erica Rice, Molly Peters, Chelsea Staebell and Timothy White. The award is selected by a panel and was announced in advance along with other juried awards. “Beyoncé Bowl” received five overall nominations, including for choreography, production design and directing for a variety special. Winners of those categories were announced at last week’s Creative Arts Emmys, but so far “Beyoncé Bowl’s” tally remains at one.

Feedback is the seasoning that flavors the success of our favorite TV shows. Whether it’s from an executive, a trusted colleague or the actors, advice can shape tone, pacing, plotlines and character arcs — all of which can make or break a series. We asked some of this year’s Emmy contenders how creative collaborations provided the notes to their success.

“The Diplomat”

Nate Bargatze probably isn’t the Emmys host most people were expecting — which seems to be the reason he’s hosting. The Tennessee-bred comedian doesn’t live in Hollywood. He’s nice, polite and genuinely seems to want the best for people. So basically … we’re not exactly sure how he got the gig. But like the George Washington character he famously portrayed on “Saturday Night Live,” the measure and logic of his popularity is hard to quantify yet it’s oddly reasonable to the average American.

What Bargatze cultivates in comedy is a radical sense of safeness at a time when things feel hopelessly the opposite. When talking to him days before hosting the 77th edition of the awards, it’s clear that he knows his role is to entertain, make people laugh and move the night along. Behind that simple directive, there’s a genius to his slow, Southern gentleman persona that has made him the country’s highest-grossing stand-up comedian. So much so that he’s doing three back-to-back arena shows in Denver before the awards show just as a warmup.

The Emmy Awards bring together the best and brightest in television each year, and as such, it’s always a tightly secured event. This year will be no exception.

The security measures for Sunday’s awards ceremony, which will be held at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live in the heart of downtown, was reviewed with close eyes this week in light of Wednesday’s fatal shooting of political commentator Charlie Kirk in Utah.

The countdown is over: The 2025 Emmy nominations have been announced.

“Severance,” Apple TV+’s sci-fi workplace dark comedy, was the top nominee, earning 27 total nominations. HBO’s gritty comic book gangster origin story, “The Penguin,” followed with 24 total noms. The swanky luxury drama “The White Lotus” and the sharp Hollywood satire “The Studio,” also from HBO and Apple TV+, respectively, followed with 23 nominations apiece.

Whether you spent the last year in tears watching “The Pitt,” doubled over with laughter watching “The Studio” or binge-watching your go-to comfort show, this year’s Emmy Awards has something for you.

The 77th Emmy Awards, celebrating the best of the 2024-25 television season, are upon us. Hit series from this year’s slate, including “Severance,” “Hacks” and the aforementioned shows, could soon grab golden statuettes, and their casts and creatives will assemble in Los Angeles for the starry night this weekend.