‘The Bear’ breaks record at 2024 Emmys; Liza Colón-Zayas makes history

Break one other Emmy Awards document? Sure, chef.

With a complete of 11 wins, “The Bear” shattered its personal document for probably the most Primetime Emmys received by a comedy sequence in a single yr. (It first bested that very same document on the final Emmy Awards, in January, with 10 trophies.)

Lead actor Jeremy Allen White and supporting actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach once more triumphed for his or her performances within the FX sequence. Liza Colón-Zayas joined them, turning into the primary Latina to win the Emmy for supporting actress in a comedy sequence. Regardless of the foremost wins, “Hacks” upset “The Bear” for the highest award within the comedy sequence class.

“This present has modified my life,” White mentioned on the ceremony, held on the Peacock Theater at L.A. Stay on Sunday. “It’s instilled a religion that change is feasible. Change is feasible if you’ll be able to attain out; you might be actually, really by no means truly alone.”

“Thanks for giving me a brand new life with this present,” Colón-Zayas mentioned in her stirring acceptance speech. “And to all of the Latinas who’re me: Hold believing and vote. Vote to your rights.”

Created by Christopher Storer, who serves as showrunner alongside Joanna Calo, the hectic but meditative FX sequence facilities on Carmy (White), a proficient however troubled chef who transforms his household sandwich store right into a fine-dining institution.

Storer received the Emmy for guiding the chaotic Season 2 episode “Fishes.” “This episode, it was a type of bizarre ones the place we had been all cramped right into a smaller home,” mentioned Storer whereas accepting the Emmy.

“And it was a type of situations the place I might, for the primary time, see our entire crew. It was particular as a result of I might see how onerous everyone labored, how a lot everyone cared and the way a lot they cared about one another. And I simply need to settle for [this] on their behalf, simply because they’re so great.”

“The Bear” entered this yr’s Emmys race with 23 nods, making it the most-nominated comedy sequence in a single yr (surpassing “30 Rock,” which collected 22 in 2009).

The present’s nominations included comedy sequence, lead actress Ayo Edebiri and supporting actor Lionel Boyce, in addition to two noms for guiding and one for writing (Storer and Calo).

On the Inventive Arts Emmys, the sequence took house visitor appearing awards for Jon Bernthal and Jamie Lee Curtis — each for his or her performances within the episode “Fishes” — in addition to casting, cinematography, image enhancing, sound enhancing and sound mixing.

“To be the supply of somebody’s ache may be very troublesome,” Curtis mentioned in her acceptance speech eventually week’s Inventive Arts Emmy Awards of her anxiety-inducing character. “And but, to observe this group of individuals come collectively — each the kitchen household and the family-family — and work it out, it’s astonishing to me that I get this chance at this level in my life.

“Chris Storer is the chef, and each single particular person — each crew member, each actor, each editor, these f—ing kitchen timers — they’re the substances of this stunning, stunning, stunning piece of tv.”