Emmys 2024: The Biggest Moments, Snubs & Surprises

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A night of nostalgia, a Baby Reindeer sweep and incredible launching pad for the upcoming seasons of The Bear and Shōgun made up the 76th Annual Primetime Emmys.

While the Family Levy didn’t exactly rock the L.A.’s Peacock Theater as the first father-and-son hosts, breakout moments came courtesy of TV’s old guard (yey, Candy Bergen!) and Jodie Foster’s first Emmy win.

Here are some of the great moments, surprises and snubs from tonight’s telecast on ABC. Great Moment when Eugene Levy made a crack about The Bear‘s record wins in the comedy category and how, well, it’s hardly a knee-slapping series. “In the true spirit of The Bear we will not be making any jokes.” Surprise when Martin Short, Steve Martin and Selena Gomez came out right after the Levy opening monologue and showed us how to really make the Emmy audience laugh at the top of the show. (Take this little zinger from Martin when explaining how he converses with actors he doesn’t recognize: “I loved your scene with Nicole Kidman.”) Snub when Billy Crudup took the first assumed-for-Shōgun Emmy in the supporting drama actor category.

The immediate thought was that votes for Takehiro Hira and Tadanobu Asano canceled each other out and gave Crudup the win. Whatever; it was worth hearing him take the stage and call out his “eye candy” wife, Naomi Watts. Surprise when The Bear‘s Liza Colón-Zayas won her first Emmy, beating out grand dames Meryl Streep (who everyone expected to win) and Carol Burnett (who everyone thought would win).