Sept. 13, 2026The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards will take place on Monday night, with the ceremony to be televised on NBC and Peacock. Here is a look at some of this year’s nominees and how they ended up on the invite list.Carey Mulligan and Oscar IsaacSela Shiloni for The New York TimesIn the second season of “Beef,” Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan play a married couple caught up in an intergenerational conflict.“Where your sympathies lie is pretty clear at the beginning,” Isaac said. “And then that starts to shift.” Read more >Jon HammAdali Schell for The New York Times; Cinematography by Pilot LeeNominated for best drama, “Your Friends & Neighbors” stars Jon Hamm as a slick former hedge funder, a role with subtle nods to his most famous character: Don Draper in “Mad Men.”“That’s the fun of having a relatively lengthy career,” Hamm said. “You can play both sides of that kind of expectation.”Read more >Sarah PidgeonCaroline Tompkins for The New York TimesSarah Pidgeon stars as Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy in “Love Story,” a fraught role that was the most prominent of her career so far. “I didn’t have a moment to step back and assess,” Pidgeon said. “I really had to just keep betting on myself and what my instincts were.” Read more >Chase InfinitiChantal Anderson for The New York TimesChase Infiniti followed her breakout performance in the film “One Battle After Another” with a starring role this spring in “The Testaments,” a sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale.” “I did an interview not that long ago where somebody asked me, ‘What was it like to channel from the perspective of a girl who’s living in a world where women are never equal to men?’” Infiniti said. “And I was like, ‘Well, that’s technically society now.’”Read more >TK Pitt castSela Shiloni for The New York TimesIn the second season of the medical drama “The Pitt,” the young characters played by Shabana Azeez, left, and Isa Briones were a little older, a little wiser and still soaked in fake blood.“In the traumas, you really need to know your dialogue, because then they’re going to throw 700 types of choreography at you,” Azeez said. “If you’re not on it, you’re kind of screwed.”Read more >Colman DomingoBlaise Cepis for The New York TimesColman Domingo received two Emmy nominations for two very different shows: the edgy HBO drama “Euphoria” and the bittersweet Netflix comedy “The Four Seasons.”“For a boy who comes from the inner city of West Philadelphia, who had no access into this whole industry, who’s been in this for over 30 years — for me to get to the Emmy stage, even to get to a nomination, is just extraordinary,” he said.Read more >Jason BatemanCody Cutter for The New York TimesJason Bateman also received two nominations, for acting in “DTF St. Louis” and directing “Black Rabbit.” He credited the influence of his father, Kent Bateman, who also worked as a director.“He’d take me to the movie theaters instead of the park,” Bateman said.Read more >Hannah Einbinder and Jean SmartChantal Anderson for The New York TimesIn “Hacks,” Hannah Einbinder, left, and Jean Smart were often at odds. But in the show’s final season, their characters were mostly friendly. (Mostly.) “Ironically, we had more fun when we were getting along,” Smart said. “There was still so much humor, but it was a different kind of humor.”Read more >Stephen ColbertAmir Hamja for The New York Times“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” is in Emmy contention for the last time. CBS canceled the show, and it wrapped up in May after 11 seasons. But Colbert was philosophical about the end.“I feel so much better to be ‘grateful for’ than to be ‘mad about,’” he said.Read more >Jessica WilliamsAdali Schell for The New York TimesJessica Williams has been nominated for an Emmy for all three seasons of “Shrinking,” but she’d rather not consider the possibility of winning. “I can’t think about it,” she said. “Everyone I’m obsessed with is in my category.”Read more >Miss PiggyMolly Matalon for The New York Times; Cinematography by Joel Barhamand“The Muppet Show” has already won four Emmys, including best pre-recorded variety special. Its chaotic backstage energy evoked the original “Muppet Show,” recalling an era when Miss Piggy was a global superstar.“She is a very layered and complicated character,” said Eric Jacobson, her puppeteer for more than two decades. “Perhaps the most complex in the pantheon of Muppets.”Read more >Allison JanneyKobe Wagstaff for The New York TimesIn “The Diplomat,” Allison Janney plays the U.S. president and Bradley Whitford, her longtime “West Wing” cast mate, plays her husband. “We have been arguing in fake government buildings for over 20 years,” Janney said.Read more >Matthew RhysBlaise Cepis for The New York TimesMatthew Rhys, the star of “Widow’s Bay,” enjoys the show’s distinct comic-horror tone and island setting. But he doesn’t get to shoot on the water as much as he’d like. “I was kind of angry that we weren’t on the ocean,” he said. “But I was laughing a lot.”Read more >Martin ShortThea Traff for The New York TimesAt 76, Martin Short is as popular as ever and received three Emmy nominations this year. (A documentary about his life, “Marty, Life Is Short,” also received three.) But he has suffered a series of profound personal tragedies.“I am trying to head toward the light,” he said.Read more >Tyler James WilliamsCody Cutter for The New York TimesTyler James Williams, a star of “Abbott Elementary,” grew up in show business, beginning his career on “Sesame Street” and playing the title role, as a boy, on “Everyone Hates Chris.”“Like for me, prom was the Emmys,” he said. Read more >Richard GaddLucia Bell-Epstein for The New York Times; Cinematography by Gus AronsonRichard Gadd’s “Baby Reindeer” and his followup, “Half Man,” were both steeped in brutal honesty and vulnerability. It has led strangers to want to tell him their own secrets.“I always have to say that I’m not a therapist, and I think sometimes people look for some sort of answer I can’t provide,” he said. “But I can listen.”Read more >Vince GilliganPeter Fisher for The New York TimesVince Gilligan followed up “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul” with “Pluribus,” a heady sci-fi series about a woman who would rather be lonely than forced into happiness.“I’ve never been a particularly happy person,” he said. “It’s like chasing your own shadow, you know, and never catching it. And then you think about it for enough decades, like I have, and then you think to yourself, Why is it that important?”Read more >Dale DickeyMaiwenn Raoult for The New York TimesDale Dickey has nearly 150 acting credits, but her character in “Widow’s Bay” is her first series-regular role. It earned the first Emmy nomination of her career.“My nomination was so completely unexpected,” she said. “It makes me feel good that my peers thought, Hey, she’s been doing this a long time — why don’t we throw her a bone?”Read more >Visit nytimes.com/emmys for complete coverage of the awards.Text by Jeremy EgnerProduced by Jolie Ruben