Overview
- Night 1 at the Peacock Theater on Saturday handed out dozens of trophies and produced several high-profile winners, including the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show starring Bad Bunny, The Traitors and Jimmy Kimmel.
- Bad Bunny’s halftime special won multiple craft awards such as variety special, directing, music direction, choreography, sound mixing and technical direction, reflecting strong recognition for live-event production.
- The Traitors earned a string of unscripted wins for hosting, directing, cinematography, production design and picture editing, while Octavia Spencer won Outstanding Narrator for Lost Women of Alaska.
- The Television Academy will edit the two early-night ceremonies into a single broadcast for FXX with streaming on Hulu before the Sept. 14 live primetime telecast, concentrating many behind-the-scenes prizes outside the live show.
- Major guilds including the DGA, WGA and SAG-AFTRA criticized the move to shift writing, directing and supporting acting categories off the primetime telecast, saying the change reduces public visibility and recognition for those contributors.