Emmy Awards: The Pitt, DTF St Louis and Widow's Bay win biggest prizes
The Pitt, Widow's Bay, and DTF St. Louis took home the coveted Outstanding Series prizes at Monday (14.09.26) night's Emmys.
The Pitt, Widow's Bay, and DTF St. Louis took home the coveted Outstanding Series prizes at Monday (14.09.26) night's Emmys.
The medical saga scooped Outstanding Drama Series, while Apple TV+'s quirky horror was named Outstanding Comedy Series, and the HBO dark comedy mini series bagged the Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series during the final half hour of the ceremony, which took place at Los Angeles' Peacock Theater.
Widow's Bay creator Katie Dippold - who had earlier won the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series award - paid tribute to the "wonderful weirdos" who had worked on the show, as well as giving a special shoutout to her mom.
She said: "I love this room so much, thank you, this is incredible, we love all these other shows so much. I have to thank my mom for always making Halloween fun. This was a great collaboration of the best wonderful weirdos. It's a wonderful group.
"Thank you Apple for letting us take this crazy, creative swing. They let us do this weird show and we can't thank you enough...
"We'd also like to thank the evil entity on the island that trusted us with its story."
Widow's Bay was nominated alongside Abbott Elementary, The Bear, Hacks, Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Nobody Wants This, Only Murders in the Building, and Shrinking.
Showrunner R Scott Gemmill paid tribute to the power of storytelling as he accepted The Pitt's award.
He said: "Thank you this is, we are so grateful and humbled to be here amongst all of the nominees, not just in our category, the others, as well as our colleagues from last weekend's creative arts celebrations, we are so grateful to be in this business.
"It takes 100s of people to put on a TV show and we are so blessed to have the most passionate cast and crew, I know you feel the same about your shows.
"We are so blessed to live in this community, the best part of the job is the people we work with every day. We've tried to be authentic and tell stories about the real life heroes in the emergency room we just want to shine a light on them. Yes the stories can be frustrating and heartbreaking but they can be inspiring and healing.
"We can make you laugh and cry, occasionally look away in disgust, but I look around this room and see something more important than awards and ratings, a community trying to do the right thing.
" It's hard to tell what is real and what we can believe, which makes telling stories more important than ever. It changes people's lives and I'm so happy we get to do that.
The Pitt was nominated alongside The Diplomat, The Gilded Age, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Paradise, Pluribus, Slow Horses, and Your Friends and Neighbors.
Meanwhile, DTF St. Louis creator Stephen Conrad paid tribute to the "good cheer and faith" of the families of all the cast and crew of the show as he spoke on behalf of the "extraordinary" people who worked on the show.
Accepting the Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series prize - which the show won ahead of All Her Fault, The Beast in Me, Beef, and Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette - he said: "I'm so proud to be able to speak on behalf of an extraordinary crew and cast. We are all grateful fora moment like this to thank our families, their good cheer and faith was our greatest resource on the way. Thank you HBO for the kind and intelligent guidance.
"We are all grateful and send our appreciation, thank you."
