Bad Bunny Wins His First Emmy Award

Bad Bunny has officially joined the Emmy winners’ club, and he didn’t exactly arrive quietly.

The global superstar’s Super Bowl LX Halftime Show dominated the competition, taking home all seven awards it was nominated for and emerging as the night’s most-decorated nominee.

The biggest victory came in the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) category, making Bad Bunny’s halftime spectacular only the third Super Bowl halftime show ever to win the award.

The performance also earned Emmys for music direction, choreography, sound mixing, lighting design, technical direction and camerawork, and directing.

Interestingly, Bad Bunny can technically claim a connection to an eighth Emmy, although the trophy won’t be his. The Saturday Night Live episode he hosted last season won Outstanding Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Program.

The wins also gave Jay-Z another reason to celebrate. As an executive producer on Bad Bunny’s halftime show, he now has another Emmy to add to his collection. Jay-Z previously won for his work on Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX performance in 2025, which held the record for the most Emmys won by a Super Bowl performance until Bad Bunny’s sweep.

Bad Bunny wasn’t the only major name to leave the ceremony with some hardware.

Sabrina Carpenter picked up her first Emmy for her work as a performer and executive producer on The Muppet Show. The special won Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded), beating Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour | The Final Show.

The Billy Joel HBO miniseries And So It Goes also earned an award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction Program.

Meanwhile, 50 Cent’s Diddy documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning took home the Emmy for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program.

With seven wins from seven nominations, Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime performance has officially gone from a major pop-culture moment to an Emmy-winning one.