Kathy Bates draped her slimmed-down figure in a ball gown when she hit the red carpet for the 77th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles this Sunday.
The 77-year-old underwent a staggering 100lbs weight loss process over the past few years, trimming the last 15 to 20lbs off with the help of Ozempic.
She decided to reduce her frame after being diagnosed with diabetes, the illness that Ozempic was initially designed to treat before it became a weight loss trend.
Now she is the oldest-ever Emmy nominee for lead actress in a drama, thanks to her position at the head of the cast of CBS’ gender-swapped Matlock reboot.
Her competitors are Sharon Horgan for Bad Sisters , Britt Lower for Severance, Bella Ramsey for The Last of Us and Keri Russell for The Diplomat.
Arriving at the Peacock Theater for her history-making night, she cut a resplendent figure in a flowing walnut brown frock with a regal cowl.
Kathy Bates draped her slimmed-down figure in a ball gown when she hit the red carpet for the 77th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles this Sunday
Kathy, who is also presenting at the awards show, glowed as she posed with her co-star Skye P. Marshall, who plays her character’s boss on Matlock.
The 77th Emmy Awards are honoring the best of television, with the star-studded ceremony being held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
The three-hour show begins at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Sunday, September 14, and is being broadcast live on CBS. Paramount+ premium subscribers can also stream the Emmys live or on demand, while base-tier subscribers can stream on-demand the day after.
Grammy-nominated comedian Nate Bargatze is making his debut hosting the ceremony after becoming a stand-up star and a popular repeat guest on Saturday Night Live in recent years.
Apple TV+’s hit series Severance leads the nominees this year with an impressive 27 nods, including for Best Drama Series and most of the drama acting categories.
Nominees Adam Scott and Britt Lower star as office coworkers at a secretive company that uses a proprietary brain surgery to ‘sever’ their personality, creating a separate version of themselves at work that never knows what happens outside the office.
It’s competing in the Best Drama Series category against Andor, The Diplomat, The Last of Us, Paradise, The Pitt, Slow Horses and The White Lotus.
The Colin Farrell–starring HBO series The Penguin is in second place with 24 nominations, including for Best Limited or Anthology Series, along with acting nominations for Farrell and his costar Cristin Milioti.
The show takes a dark, realistic tone as it creates a backstory for the iconic comic book villain after Farrell played the character in the Robert Pattinson–starring blockbuster The Batman.
The 77-year-old underwent a staggering 100lbs weight loss process over the past few years, trimming the last 15 to 20lbs off with the help of Ozempic
Kathy, who is also presenting at the awards show, glowed as she posed with her co-star Skye P. Marshall, who plays her character’s boss on Matlock
The 77th Emmy Awards are honoring the best of television tonight, with the star-studded ceremony being held at the Peacock Theater in Downtown Los Angeles
The show airs at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS and on Paramount+
Apple TV+’s hit series Severance leads the nominees this year with an impressive 27 nods, including for Best Drama Series and most of the drama acting categories
Grammy-nominated comedian Nate Bargatze is making his debut hosting the ceremony after becoming a stand-up star and a popular repeat guest on SNL in recent years; pictured in 2023 in Nashville, Tenn.
Apple’s The Studio and HBO’s The White Lotus season three are both tied for 23 nominations, with the latter series scoring multiple supporting and guest actor nominations for its ensemble cast.
Seth Rogen, Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz, Chase Sui Wonders and Kathryn Hahn star in The Studio as Hollywood executives trying too revive a struggling studio, and the series features a bevy of A-list guest stars in cameo roles as themselves.
White Lotus stars Walton Goggins, Jason Isaacs, Sam Rockwell, Carrie Coon, Parker Posey, Natasha Rothwell, Aimee Lou Wood and Scott Glenn will all be competing for acting honors, while creator Mike White is nominated in the writing and directing categories.
Fans will be watching for any signs of tension between Goggins and Wood after they struck up controversy after Goggins unfollowed his on-screen love interest on Instagram despite offering surprisingly effusive praise for Wood just weeks beforehand.
Goggins later claimed that it’s his standard practice to cut off communications with his costars after finishing up a big project.
‘When I left Justified . . . I didn’t talk to [costar Timothy Olyphant] for almost two years,’ he told Variety in June. ‘I’ve done that with every single thing that I’ve done.’
Apple’s The Studio and HBO’s The White Lotus season three (pictured) are both tied for 23 nominations, with the latter series scoring multiple supporting and guest actor nominations for its ensemble cast
Fans will be watching for any signs of tension between Walton Goggins (L) and Aimee Lou Wood (R) after they struck up controversy after Goggins unfollowed his on-screen love interest on Instagram despite offering surprisingly effusive praise for Wood just weeks beforehand
Seth Rogen, Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz, Chase Sui Wonders and Kathryn Hahn star in The Studio as Hollywood executives trying too revive a struggling studio, and the series features a bevy of A-list guest stars in cameo roles as themselves; Rebecca Hall is seen with Rogen on The Studio
Pedro Pascal’s zombie video game adaptation The Last Of Us follows with 16 nominations, while Disney+’s Star Wars prequel series Andor and HBO’s previous Emmy winner Hacks both have 14 nominations.
Hacks star Jean Smart, who has already won Best Lead Actress in a comedy for the past three years, is again nominated.
Her costar, Hannah Einbinder, is also nominated in the Supporting Actress category, even though she also has a lead role as a struggling comedian working to help an aging stand-up star (Smart) make it back to the A-list.
This will be Einbinder’s fourth nomination, but so far she hasn’t been able to clinch the prize.
The Bear will hope to repeat its Emmys success with 13 nominations, and newcomers The Pitt and Adolescence are tied with it.
This year marks the first Emmy nomination for Harrison Ford for his work in Apple TV+’s dramedy Shrinking.
The line between film and television was further blurred when filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard received their first-ever acting Emmy nominations for guest appearances on Seth Rogen’s Hollywood satire The Studio.
Many of the biggest stars of film and television will be on hand to present this evening, including Elizabeth Banks, Ike Barinholtz, Angela Bassett, Jason Bateman, Kathy Bates, Kristen Bell, Sterling K. Brown, Stephen Colbert, Jennifer Coolidge, Alan Cumming, Eric Dane, Colman Domingo, Tina Fey, Walton Goggins, Kathryn Hahn, Mariska Hargitay, Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law, James Marsden, Christopher Meloni, Jenna Ortega, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Parker Posey, Jeff Probst, Phylicia Rashad, Hiroyuki Sanada, Sydney Sweeney, Sofia Vergara, Jesse Williams and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Hacks star Jean Smart (L) is in the running for another Best Actress in a Comedy win, while Hannah Einbinder (R) is competing for her fourth Best Supporting Actress nomination after losing out each previous time; still from Hacks
This year marks the first Emmy nomination for Harrison Ford for his work in Apple TV+’s dramedy Shrinking
Disney+’s Star Wars prequel series Andor and HBO’s previous Emmy winner Hacks both have 14 nominations; Diego Luna is pictured in Andor
It hasn’t sunk in yet for comedian Nate Bargatze, 46, that he’s about to perform for his biggest audience ever.
‘This is the first I’m thinking about it, was this week,’ he joked in his trademark deadpan tone while speaking to CBS last week.
Bargatze, who favor clean comedy at his arena-filling shows, said he planned to avoid ‘mean’ jokes at the Emmys.
‘I was like trying to think of like how, which way you want to go and it’s like . . . even we’ve had stuff written that I think was a little more roast stuff and then it’s like after you think about it a couple of days, I’m like, “Nah, let’s go back another way,”‘ he said, adding, ‘We have some fun stuff though that’s planned.’
In addition to hosting, Bargatze will be competing in the Best Variety Special and Best Writing for a Variety Special categories for his stand-up special Your Friend, Nate Bargatze
The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards: All the major nominations
Best Drama Series
Andor
The Diplomat
The Last of Us
Paradise
The Pitt
Severance
Slow Horses
The White Lotus
Severance is among the shows nominated for Best Drama Series
Best Limited or Anthology Series
Adolescence
Black Mirror
Dying For Sex
Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story
The Penguin
The Penguin was the second most-nominated series this year with 24 total nominations
Best Television Movie
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy
The Gorge
Mountainhead
Nonnas
Rebel Ridge
Best Reality Competition Program
The Amazing
Race RuPaul’s Drag Race
Survivor
Top Chef
The Traitors
Best Actor in a Drama Series
Sterling K. Brown: Paradise
Gary Oldman: Slow Horses
Pedro Pascal: The Last Of Us
Adam Scott: Severance
Noah Wyle: The Pitt
Noah Wyle is among the Best Actor in a Drama Series nominees for his hit medical drama The Pitt
Best Actress in a Drama Series
Kathy Bates: Matlock
Sharon Horgan: Bad Sisters
Britt Lower: Severance
Bella Ramsey: The Last of Us
Keri Russell: The Diplomat
Kathy Bates (seen in Matlock) is the oldest acting nominee this year at 77
Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Zach Cherry: Severance
Walton Goggins: The White Lotus
Jason Isaacs: The White Lotus
James Marsden: Paradise
Sam Rockwell: The White Lotus
Tramell Tillman: Severance
John Turturro: Severance
Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Patricia Arquette: Severance
Carrie Coon: The White Lotus
Katherine LaNasa: The Pitt
Julianne Nicholson: Paradise
Parker Posey: The White Lotus
Natasha Rothwell: The White Lotus
Aimee Lou Wood: The White Lotus
The White Lotus scored 23 nominations, with several of them in the supporting and guest actor categories
Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series
Giancarlo Esposito: The Boys
Scott Glenn: The White Lotus
Shawn Hatosy: The Pitt
Joe Pantoliano: The Last of Us
Forest Whitaker: Andor
Jeffrey Wright: The Last of Us
Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series
Jane Alexander: Severance
Gwendoline Christie: Severance
Kaitlyn Dever: The Last of Us
Cherry Jones: The Handmaid’s Tale
Catherine O’Hara: The Last of Us
Merritt Wever: Severance
Best Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Colin Farrell: The Penguin
Stephen Graham: Adolescence
Jake Gyllenhaal: Presumed Innocent
Brian Tyree Henry: Dope Thief
Cooper Koch: Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story
Best Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Cate Blanchett: Disclaimer
Meghann Fahy: Sirens
Rashida Jones: Black Mirror
Cristin Milioti: The Penguin
Michelle Williams: Dying For Sex
Best Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Javier Bardem: Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story
Bill Camp: Presumed Innocent
Owen Cooper: Adolescence
Rob Delaney: Dying For Sex
Peter Sarsgaard: Presumed Innocent
Ashley Walters: Adolescence
Best Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Erin Doherty: Adolescence
Ruth Negga: Presumed Innocent
Deirdre O’Connell: The Penguin
Chloë Sevigny: Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Jenny Slate: Dying for Sex
Christine Tremarco: Adolescence
Best Comedy Series
Abbott Elementary
The Bear
Hacks
Nobody Wants This
Only Murders In The Building
Shrinking
The Studio
What We Do In The Shadows
Best Talk Series
The Daily Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
Best Scripted Variety Series
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Saturday Night Live
Best Actress in a Comedy Series
Uzo Aduba: The Residence
Kristen Bell: Nobody Wants This
Quinta Brunson: Abbott Elementary
Ayo Edebiri: The Bear
Jean Smart: Hacks
Jean Smart will try to win another Emmy for her lead role as an aging comedian on Hacks
Best Actor in a Comedy Series
Adam Brody: Nobody Wants This
Seth Rogen: The Studio
Jason Segel: Shrinking
Martin Short: Only Murders in the Building
Jeremy Allen White: The Bear
Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Liza Colón-Zayas: The Bear
Hannah Einbinder: Hacks
Kathryn Hahn: The Studio
Janelle James: Abbott Elementary
Catherine O’Hara: The Studio
Sheryl Lee Ralph: Abbott Elementary
Jessica Williams: Shrinking
Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Ike Barinholtz: The Studio
Colman Domingo: The Four Seasons
Harrison Ford: Shrinking
Jeff Hiller: Somebody Somewhere
Ebon Moss-Bachrach: The Bear
Michael Urie: Shrinking
Bowen Yang, Saturday Night Live
Harrison Ford scored his first Emmy nomination for Shrinking
Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
Olivia Colman: The Bear
Jamie Lee Curtis: The Bear
Cynthia Erivo: Poker Face
Robby Hoffman: Hacks
Zoë Kravitz: The Studio
Julianne Nicholson: Hacks
Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
Jon Bernthal: The Bear
Bryan Cranston: The Studio
Dave Franco: The Studio
Ron Howard: The Studio
Anthony Mackie: The Studio
Martin Scorsese: The Studio
Filmmakers Ron Howard and Martin Scorsese scored their first acting Emmy nominations for guest appearances on Seth Rogen’s The Studio
Best Writing for a Comedy Series
Quinta Brunson: Abbott Elementary
Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, Jen Statsky: Hacks
Nathan Fielder, Carrie Kemper, Adam Locke-Norton, Eric Notarnicola: The Rehearsal
Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen, Bridget Everett: Somebody Somewhere
Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory, Frida Perez: The Studio
Sam Johnson, Sarah Naftalis, Paul Simms: What We Do In The Shadows
Best Writing for a Drama Series
Dan Gilroy, Andor
Joe Sachs, The Pitt
R. Scott Gemmill, The Pitt
Dan Erickson, Severance
Will Smith, Slow Horses
Mike White, The White Lotus
Best Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Jack Thorne, Stephen Graham: Adolescence
Charlie Brooker, Bisha K. Ali: Black Mirror
Kim Rosenstock, Elizabeth Meriwether: Dying For Sex
Lauren LeFranc: The Penguin
Joshua Zetumer: Say Nothing
Best Directing for a Drama Series
Janus Metz: Andor
Amanda Marsalis: The Pitt
John Wells: The Pitt
Jessica Lee Gagné: Severance
Ben Stiller: Severance
Adam Randall: Slow Horses
Mike White: The White Lotus
Best Directing for a Comedy Series
Ayo Edebiri: The Bear
Lucia Aniello: Hacks
James Burrows: Mid-Century Modern
Nathan Fielder: The Rehearsal
Seth Rogen: The Studio
Best Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Philip Barantini: Adolescence
Shannon Murphy: Dying For Sex
Helen Shaver: The Penguin
Jennifer Getzinger: The Penguin
Nicole Kassell: Sirens
Lesli Linka Glatter: Zero Day
