Technical Emmys open the American season, Toronto launches its market

The U.S. television awards season entered its public phase with the Creative Arts Emmys, presented September 5 and 6 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, more than a week before the main ceremony. Over the weekend, awards were given for guest and supporting acting in limited series, hosting for entertainment and quiz programs, animated program, television movie, casting, directing, writing, and dozens of technical honors. Winners include “The Pitt,” “Paradise,” “DTF St. Louis” and “Widow’s Bay.”

This year’s overall nominations are led by “The Pitt” (HBO Max) with 25 nods, ahead of “Hacks” with 24 for its fifth and final season — a new annual record for a comedy — and “Pluribus” (Apple TV) with 18. In the major categories, “The Pitt” counts 12 nominations.

The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards honor primetime programming aired between June 1, 2025 and May 31, 2026 and are produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment. The ceremony will air Monday, September 14 on NBC and Peacock, hosted by Mariska Hargitay of “Law & Order: SVU”; a taped version of the two Creative Arts evenings will air September 12 on FXX. In 2026, the 47th editions of the News & Documentary Emmys, on May 27 and 28, and the Sports Emmys, on May 26, had already taken place.

The two technical evenings award most of the statuettes; Monday’s ceremony awards the titles people remember.

Toronto adds the market. The Toronto International Film Festival returns from September 10 to 20, 2026 for its 51st edition, led by chief executive officer Cameron Bailey and presented by Rogers. The structural novelty is the formal launch of an audiovisual market separate from the public-facing event, hosted at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, while screenings remain at the usual venues: the Princess of Wales Theatre, Roy Thomson Hall, the Royal Alexandra Theatre and TIFF Lightbox. The festival had announced in May 2024 its intention to launch a full market in 2026.

The opening film is “Being Heumann” by Sian Heder, and the closing film is “Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend” by Yan Lanouette Turgeon. Among the titles announced are the documentaries “Rapinoe,” “Musk” and “Edward Said: Between Worlds,” as well as “The Surgeon” with Michelle Yeoh and “Ashes” by Diego Luna. The festival’s only juried competitive section marks its eleventh anniversary; in 2025 the audience award went to “Hamnet.”

What we don’t know. We don’t have the complete list of winners from the two Creative Arts evenings, nor the breakdown of awards by network and platform. We don’t know the number of accredited operators at the new Toronto market or its access rules. We don’t know how much weight the Canadian market will carry compared with already established venues: this is its first year, and a comparison without data would be a forecast, not a news item.

The two verifiable deadlines are close together: September 10, the opening of the Canadian festival with “Being Heumann,” and September 14, the Primetime Emmy ceremony on NBC and Peacock.

Sources: TVLine; Gold Derby; Deadline; Wikipedia – 78th Primetime Emmy Awards; TIFF; Ticketmaster Canada; Wikipedia – TIFF 2026; Wikipedia – TIFF.