The late, nice Rob Reiner received an Emmy, 9 months after his dying.
Reiner received excellent visitor actor in a comedy collection for “The Bear” on the second evening of the Emmy Awards, forward of Michael J. Fox and Brett Goldstein (“Shrinking”), Hamish Linklater (“Widow’s Bay”), Christopher McDonald (“Hacks”) and Connor Storrie (“Saturday Evening Dwell”). It is a posthumous honor for the director and actor who was killed alongside his spouse, Michele Singer Reiner, in December — and the primary posthumous Emmy for an on-camera efficiency since Raúl Julia received for “The Burning Season” in 1995.
Presenter Wendi McLendon-Covey accepted the Emmy on Reiner’s behalf to a one-minute ovation from the viewers.
This victory additionally units a file and rewrites the one set by his personal father, Carl Reiner. Rob Reiner hadn’t received an Emmy since 1978, when he received his second consecutive supporting actor trophy for the traditional comedy “All within the Household.” The 48-year hole between that win and the newest shatters the mark for longest span between performing Emmy wins — 37 years — held by Carl Reiner, who went from successful in 1958 for “Caesar’s Hour” to a comedy visitor Emmy in 1995 for “Mad About You.” The elder Reiner set the visitor comedy file and his son now beats him in the identical class.
Reiner, who died at 78, remained within the trade because the filmmaker behind classics similar to “This Is Spinal Faucet,” “The Princess Bride,” “When Harry Met Sally” and “A Few Good Males,” and was honored within the In Memoriam section on the 2026 Academy Awards. His visitor stint on FX’s “The Bear” constitutes one in all his last on-screen performances.
This 12 months’s Emmy nominations have been led by “The Pitt” with 25 nominations, adopted by “Hacks,” “Widow’s Bay” and “Beef.” An edited model of the primary two nights of the Emmys will air on FXX on Saturday, September 12 at 8 p.m. ET, whereas the 78th annual Emmys broadcast reside on NBC (and broadcast on Peacock) from LA Dwell’s Peacock Theater will happen on Monday, September 14 at 8 p.m. ET. Mariska Hargitay is the host. Michael J. Fox wins visitor comedy.