'Primal' Doubles Up as 78th Emmys Announce Juried Winners
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- The Television Academy announced winners in the 78th Emmy juried categories — animation, costume, and emerging media programming — with awards presented Sept. 5–6 and an edited ceremony airing on FXX on Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. ET.
- "The Masked Singer" (Fox) won Outstanding Costumes For Variety, Nonfiction Or Reality Programming for "Premiere Part 1," while "The Traitors" (Peacock) won the same award for "The Black Banquet" — a split echoed across Deadline's coverage.
- "Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal" (Adult Swim) earned two animation Emmys — David Krentz for storyboard on "Kingdom of Sorrow" and Scott Wills for art direction on "Vengeance of Death" — making it a two-time winner before the main ceremony.
- "Crafting Crimes" (Meta Quest, produced by Targo; directed by Chloé Rochereuil) won Outstanding Innovation In Emerging Media Programming.
- Additional animation honorees, each recognized for a single craft: "Eyes of Wakanda" (Disney+, Uzoma Dunkwu, character design), "The Mighty Nein" (Prime Video, Howard Chen, background design), and "Star Wars: Visions" (Disney+, Takashi Okazaki, character design).
- No Emmy was awarded in Outstanding Motion Design — a detail wider coverage skips — illustrating the juried-panel rule that allows zero, one, or multiple awards per category with no pre-set nominees.
Why it matters: This early Emmy slate establishes which contenders already have hardware heading into the Sept. 12 main ceremony on FXX. Primal's two animation wins are industry validation for Tartakovsky, and the no-award in motion design shows juried panels can withhold Emmys entirely — meaning the final tally can still shift.
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