Just One Awards Show Won Multiple 2025 Primetime Emmys – And It Wasn’t the Oscars

The squad that produced the 2025 Grammy Awards experienced a large disappointment erstwhile the nominations for this year’s Primetime Emmys were announced connected July 15 and Music’s Biggest Night wasn’t connected the short-list for outstanding assortment peculiar (live). The Grammys had been nominated successful that class successful 5 of the erstwhile 7 years.

Only 1 awards amusement was nominated successful that class this twelvemonth – and it was, unsurprisingly, the granddaddy of each awards shows, the Oscars. The different nominees were Beyoncé Bowl, The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar and a brace of SNL50 celebrations – The Anniversary Special (which won) and The Homecoming Concert.

Here’s thing that whitethorn supply immoderate consolation for Team Grammy – the 2025 Grammys were the lone awards amusement to triumph aggregate awards crossed the 3 nights of the 2025 Primetime Emmys – the main telecast connected Sunday (Sept. 14) and 2 Creative Arts ceremonies connected Sept. 6 and 7. The Grammys won outstanding choreography for assortment oregon world programming for a circumstantial regular – Doechii’s philharmonic show – and besides outstanding lighting design/lighting absorption for a special. Doechii performed “Catfish” and “Denial Is a River” connected the Grammys arsenic portion of an extended series focusing connected each of the 8 champion caller creator nominees.

This marked the archetypal clip successful 12 years that the Grammy telecast has won 2 Primetime Emmys successful a azygous year. The 2013 amusement won awards for dependable mixing and costumes.

The lone different awards amusement to triumph a Primetime Emmy this twelvemonth was the Oscars, which won outstanding accumulation plan for a assortment special.

The Grammys person ne'er won successful the apical assortment programme class – present called outstanding assortment peculiar (live). This year’s amusement aired little than a period aft wildfires devastated wide swaths of Los Angeles, calling the feasibility of adjacent putting connected a amusement into question. The Grammys, which aired connected Feb. 2, combined accepted awards amusement elements with affectional appeals and fundraising efforts.

Note: Conan O’Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor besides won 1 Primetime Emmy – outstanding assortment peculiar (pre-recorded). While that’s a prestigious award, that’s not a accepted awards amusement with winners and, um, non-winners.

This year’s Primetime Emmys honored programs that aired betwixt June 1, 2024, and May 31, 2025.

Ben Winston, Raj Kapoor and Jesse Collins were enforcement producers of the 2025 Grammys for Winston’s Fulwell 73 Productions. Trevor Noah hosted the amusement for the 5th twelvemonth successful a row. Hamish Hamilton directed. David Wild served arsenic writer.