While The Pitt failed to clean house at the 2026 Emmy Awards, there’s no doubt the hit series is continuing it’s reign over Hollywood.
The beloved HBO medical drama took home six Emmys by the end of this year’s 78th Primetime Emmy Awards, held at the Peacock Theater in Downtown Los Angeles on Monday, September 14, including two prestigious awards presented during the live ceremony.
Star Noah Wyle took home an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama series for a second year in a row, while the show also snagged its second award of the evening for Best Drama. (The show also received four awards during the Creative Arts ceremonies. The show was nominated a historic 25-times this year, for a total of 38 Emmy nominations overall.)
“This is overwhelming,” Wyle told the crowd while accepting his award. “I have to acknowledge the work of my fellow nominees. Your work is inspirational. I watch you, I learn from you. In particular, Mr. [Gary] Oldman: I have to tell you, I don’t know if there’s an actor my age [who didn’t] look at Sid and Nancy and think, ‘That’s the benchmark that I want to hit one day in my career.’ ”
The acclaimed series — following a group of employees at a fictional Pittsburgh hospital’s emergency room working a single 15-hour shift, one hour per episode — is no stranger to success. After the show’s January 9, 2025, debut, the series has won several high-profile awards. Katherine LeNasa won for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2025, while Wyle won a 2025 Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
LaNasa — who stars alongside Wyle, Patrick Ball, Supriya Ganesh, Fiona Dourif, Taylor Dearden, Gerran Howell and Shabana Azeez — exclusively opened up to Us on Wednesday, September 9, about the process of portraying beloved charge nurse Dana, revealing that her previous cancer battle played a major role in how she brought the character to life. (Ganesh has since left the series.)
“When I had cancer, I was really surprised at how kind the nurses were to me in that hospital and — and just in general, everyone at Piedmont in Atlanta [were] incredibly kind and it mattered so much,” LaNasa, 59, exclusively told Us on Wednesday, September 9. “All the little details mattered, whether they brought you a warm blanket before a screening or if they really took the time that maybe. Maybe the doctor took extra time to explain what was happening, [or] another nurse took extra time to explain what was happening. All those little considerations and those moments of compassion mattered so much.”
LeNasa was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer in February 2023, writing in an essay for Women’s Health that her diagnosis “hit her like a ton of bricks.” She underwent surgery and three weeks of daily radiation treatments, suffering complications that required several visits to a local emergency room before she was eventually diagnosed cancer-free.
“I was able to bring that into Dana — that knowledge. And also, I was really connected with how scary it is going into the hospital when you’re getting radiation,” she told Us. “You’re going to the hospital regularly, and so I got to be in touch with what it felt like to be a patient. I think that informed the way I played Dana as well.”
