EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max‘s The Pitt made a splash at the Emmys with its first season: the medical drama’s 2025 submissions resulted in 15 nominations, five of which it converted into wins — all in big categories. The Pitt‘s Emmy haul included Outstanding Drama Series, Casting For a Drama Series as well as trophies for all three nominated actors, Noah Wyle for Lead Actor In a Drama Series, Katherine LaNasa for Supporting Actress and Shawn Hatosy for Guest Actor.
The Pitt is looking to do it again with its 2026 Emmy submissions that mirror HBO Max’s 2025 strategy, with Wyle (Dr. Robby) up for Lead Actor In a Drama Series and all of his Season 2 series regular co-stars up for Supporting Actor/Actress In a Drama Series: LaNasa (Nurse Dana), Patrick Ball (Dr. Frank), Gerran Howell (Dr. Dennis), Shabana Azeez (med student Victoria), Isa Briones (Dr. Trinity), Taylor Dearden (Dr. Melissa), Fiona Dourif (Dr. Cassie), Supriya Ganesh (Dr. Samira) and Sepideh Moafi (Dr. Baran).
As Deadline reported last month, there is one major change from last year, with Hatosy (Dr. Jack), who has been recurring for the past two seasons, switching from Guest Star To Supporting Actor In a Drama Series after the scope of his role in Season 2 qualifyied him for the supporting category.
Up for guest acting Emmys are three actors who portrayed patients in Season 2, Ernest Harden Jr. (Louie), Tal Anderson (Becca, who is also Mel’s twin sister) and Tina Ivlev (Ilana).
Wyle is a true multi-hyphenate on The Pitt; in addition to starring, he executive produces the series and writes two episodes a season. This season, he also directed an episode (206: “12 P.M.”), as did Hatosy (209: “3 P.M.”). Both are submitted for Directing For a Drama Series alongside Uta Briesewitz (211: “5 P.M.”), Damian Marcano (213: “7 P.M.”) as well as The Pitt executive producer John Wells — nominated last year for helming the series premiere — for the Season 2 finale.
The Pitt creator, executive producer and showrunner R. Scott Gemmill, an Emmy nominee last year for penning the series premiere, is back in Writing For a Drama Series contention, this time alongside Kirsten Pierre-Geyfman for the Episode 207 script, “1:00 P.M.”, which they co-wrote together. The Pitt‘s second writing Emmy submission is for Valerie Chu’s Episode 206 script, “12:00 P.M.” Last year, the series landed two writing and two directing nominations.
Like in 2025, The Pitt has been submitted in Casting For a Drama Series, Contemporary Makeup (Non-Prosthetic), Prosthetic Makeup, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing — all categories in which the show received nominations last year — as well as Cinematography for a Series (One-Hour), Picture Editing For a Drama Series (separate submissions for Tamara Luciano, Joey Reinisch and Mark Strand), Production Design For A Narrative Contemporary Program (One-Hour or More), Contemporary Costumes, Contemporary Hairstyling and Music Supervision.
New this year are The Pitt‘s entries in Original Music and Lyrics for the song “Need Someone” by Gavin Brivik and Andrew Bird, and in Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction Or Reality Series for the companion interview show Inside The Pitt.
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