On Sept. 14, the 77th annual Emmy Awards were hosted in downtown L.A. to celebrate outstanding American television from the past year. Like all award shows, there were unexpected speeches and historic award wins. Here are all the noteworthy things you missed from the 2025 Emmys.
Awards
Let’s get into what we are all here for: the awards. With many releases and new rising stars this year, the awards were as eventful as ever. Owen Cooper won Outstanding Supporting Actor for Limited or Anthology Series or Movie with his performance as Jamie in the series “Adolescence.” Cooper made history by being the youngest person to win this award at 15 years old. “Adolescence” won eight awards in total.
The comedy series “The Studio” broke the record of Emmys won in a single year, which was 13. This accomplishment is even more remarkable when considering this is the show’s debut season.
Emmy history was also made this year with Tramell Tillman becoming the first Black person and openly gay person to win the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series with his performance in the series “Severance.”
Speeches
Award show speeches are debatably the most interesting part of award show season. From motivational speeches to calls for action, there is no doubt that speeches are not something you want to miss out on.
Cristin Miliot won the first Emmy of her career with her work in the series “The Penguin” playing Sofia Falcone. Her speech started off as usual, with thanking her friends, family, and co-workers, before putting her award under her arm and screaming, “I love you, and I love acting so much.” This expression of love was able to show viewers the passion Miliot and other actors have for their work. This was also able to break the trend of actors trying to contain their excitement on stage, even if they had just won one of the most prestigious awards in television.
Another memorable speech came from Hannah Eidenberg, who won an award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Ava Daniels in “Hacks,” and used her speech as a time to speak on what she believes in. After thanking and honoring the people she worked with on “Hacks,” she used her few seconds left of her speech to briefly yell “go birds,” call for freedom in Gaza and criticize ICE.
One of the most bittersweet speeches given this year was from Steven Colbert. His show, “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”, which was canceled earlier this year and is scheduled to end in May of 2026, won an Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series. After jokingly asking if anyone was hiring for the 200 people who currently work with him, he discussed when he first started the show, saying he wanted to make it about love. He then referenced the growing concern about the government by saying, “Sometimes, you only know how much you love something when you get a sense you might be losing it … I have never loved my country more desperately. God bless America.”
Host Nate Bargatze
Bargatze needs a category of his own simply because of the failed bit he ran throughout the show. The plan was that Bargatze would have $100,000 ready to donate to The Boys and Girls Club, with $1,000 being deducted for every second a winner went over the time limit of their speech and $1,000 added if they went under. This was supposed to control actors from going over, which is what they are notorious for doing constantly. Unfortunately, the plan backfired, with the number going deep into the negatives by the end of the night at -$60,000 which means The Boys and Girls Club would technically owe them money. Bargatze still donated $250,000 and CBS donated $100,000.
