2025 Emmy Awards live: Severance and The White Lotus vying for glory as anticipation builds – UK Times

Severance leads the way this evening with 27 nominations, including stars Adam Scott and Britt Lower in the acting categories.

Here’s our five-star review of the Apple TV+ show’s engrossing season two:

At last Sunday’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards honouring technical and artistic achievements in television, the show won outstanding directing for a variety series for Jim Hoskinson for the episode featuring David Oyelowo, Finn Wolfhard, Alan Cumming, and Ok Go.

Can’t remember what won last year? Here’s a reminder:

Leading the presenting lineup for this year’s ceremony are late-night host Stephen Colbert, Sydney Sweeney, Sofia Vergara, Kathryn Hahn, Jennifer Coolidge, Kristen Bell, Angela Bassett, Elizabeth Banks, Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sarah Paulson, Eric Dane, Colman Domingo, Tina Fey, and Kathy Bates.

Ike Barinholtz, Jason Bateman, Sterling K. Brown, Alan Cumming, Walton Goggins, Tony Goldwyn, Mariska Hargitay, Justin Hartley, Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law, James Marsden, Christopher Meloni, Leanne Morgan, Julianne Nicholson, Evan Peters, Parker Posey, Jeff Probst, Phylicia Rashad, Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai, Michael Schur, and Jesse Williams have also been announced as presenters.

Another Apple TV+ show, Seth Rogen’s The Studio, picked up 23 nominations in the comedy categories, breaking a record previously held by Ted Lasso for the most comedy nominations for a show in its first season.

Mike White’s The White Lotus also picked up an impressive 23 nominations, with its cast dominating the Supporting Acting in a Drama categories.

Weeks before the Primetime Emmys are announced, the Creative Arts Emmys are awarded.

The latter celebrates the behind-the-scenes and technical achievements in television. “This is the Emmys for the people that the people who run the Emmys don’t think should be seen on network TV,” presenter Sarah Silverman said when she opened the show as a presenter.

Kendrick Lamar won his second career Emmy for the music direction of his Super Bowl halftime show, while Barack Obama won his third in this year’s documentary narrator category. Neither were in attendance.

Distinctive Assets, a Los Angeles-based entertainment marketing company, has created a special gift bag for the 77th annual Emmy Awards.

Some specific items include a $139 Helight Red Light Sleep Aid, a Tea Tasting Assortment Tea Chest worth $69, and a PETA x Miomojo Angelica Bag, made with faux leather, worth $140.

Altogether, the goodies add up to a hefty $25,000.

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