HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 25: Rob Reiner speaks onstage at the screening of “Misery” during the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival at TCL Chinese Theatre on April 25, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for TCM)
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Paradise guest star Shailene Woodley was awarded the first acting honor Sunday for The Bear at the Creative Arts Emmys at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
Performers from The Pitt, DTF St. Louis and Widow’s Bay were also honored at the celebration, which marked the second night of the annual Creative Arts ceremony.
Woodley won a Guest Actress in a Drama Emmy for her turn as Annie Clay in Season 2 of Hulu’s Paradise. Annie is a tour guide at Graceland who survives the event known as “The Day” by hunkering down in Elvis Presley’s bunker.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 06: Shailene Woodley, winner of the Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series award for “Paradise”, poses in the Winner’s Walk during the 78th Emmy Awards Night 2 at Peacock Theater on September 06, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Annie eventually emerges to meet a fellow group of survivors and eventually helps Xavier Brooks (Sterling K. Brown) on his path to finding his wife, Teri (Enuka Okuma), after he discovers she is alive.
Woodley’s Emmy win is her first in two tries. She was previously nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie for Big Little Lies in 2017.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 06: Ernest Harden Jr., winner of the Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series award for “The Pitt”, poses in the Winner’s Walk during the 78th Emmy Awards Night 2 at Peacock Theater on September 06, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Ernest Harden Jr. won the Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series Emmy for playing Louie Cloverfield — a regular patient at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center — in the HBO Max drama The Pitt. The win came for Harden’s first Primetime Emmy nomination.
Betty Gilpin’s turn as Sarah Westcott Warren — the second wife of Widow’s Bay founder Richard Warren (Hamish Linklater) — in Apple TV’s Widow’s Bay won her the Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy. The win was Gilpin’s first after three nominations in the Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series category for Glow.
Reiner won a posthumous Emmy for playing Albert Schnurr in Season 4 of Hulu’s The Bear. Reiner, who died tragically along with his wife, Michelle Singer, in December 2025, previously won Emmys in the Supporting Actor in a Comedy category in 1974 and 1978 for playing Michael Stivic in the classic sitcom All in the Family.
The announcement of Reiner’s win prompted the crowd to give the late filmmaker and actor a standing ovation at the Peacock Theater.
Betty Gilpin wins the Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series award for “Widow’s Bay” at the 78th Emmy Awards Night 2 held at Peacock Theater on September 06, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by JC Olivera/Variety via Getty Images)
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Outstanding Guest Actor and Actress Emmys in the Comedy and Drama categories are traditionally awarded at the Creative Arts ceremony, while Outstanding Supporting Actor and Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie were moved from the main ceremony to the Creative Arts ceremony this year.
HBO Max’s DTF St. Louis took the latter two categories for David Harbour and Linda Cardellini for playing Floyd Smernitch and Carol Love-Smernitch. Both Harbour and Cardellini became first-time winners for their turns in the dark comedy.
The Creative Arts Ceremony — which largely hands out Emmys for winners in craft categories on night two after recognizing winners in variety, reality and documentary/nonfiction shows in night one — is traditionally held a week before the Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony.
This year’s main event is set for Monday, Sept. 14.
US actor David Harbour and US actress Linda Cardellini winners of Outstanding Supporting Actor and Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for “DTF St. Louis” pose with their Emmys during Night Two of the 78th Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on September 6, 2026. (Photo by LISA O’CONNOR / AFP via Getty Images)
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Mariska Hargitay Was Among The Big Winners At Night 1 Of The Creative Arts Emmys
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star Mariska Hargitay was among the big winners during night one of the Creative Arts Emmys, capturing two honors for her documentary My Mom Jayne: A Film By Mariska Hargitay.
The HBO Max original film, in which Hargitay delves into the life and tragic death of her mother — Hollywood legend Jayne Mansfield — won Emmys for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special and Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program at the Creative Arts Ceremony.
Hargitay will also host the main show for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater on Sept. 14. The 2026 Creative Arts Emmys are not televised, but recordings of the Saturday and Sunday night ceremonies will be edited into a single broadcast to air on FXX on Saturday, Sept. 12, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The highlights of the 2026 Creative Arts Emmys will begin streaming on Hulu on Sept. 13.
The complete list of winners for both nights of the 2026 Creative Arts Emmys can be found here.