Rob Reiner wins Emmy Award 9 months after tragic death
Rob Reiner wins Emmy Award 9 months after tragic death
Kathleen O'Boyle Mon, September 7, 2026 at 3:30 AM UTC
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Rob Reiner has officially won a posthumous Emmy -Credit:Jesse Grant, Getty Images for TCM
Late actor Rob Reiner has officially won a posthumous award at the 78th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which came nine months after his tragic death.
Reiner won the Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series award for his role on FX’s The Bear during Night 2 of the Emmy Awards. He prevailed over Michael J. Fox and Brett Goldstein for Shrinking, Hamish Linklater for Widow’s Bay, Christopher McDonald for Hacks and Connor Storrie for Saturday Night Live.
The award marked a posthumous honor for Reiner, who died at 78 after being killed alongside his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, in December. It also marked the first posthumous Emmy for an on-camera performance since Raúl Julia won for The Burning Season in 1995.
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Presenter Wendi McLendon-Covey accepted the Emmy on Reiner’s behalf, with the audience giving the late actor and filmmaker a minute-long standing ovation.
“It’s appropriate to stand for this one,” McLendon-Covey said to the crowd, who gave the win a standing ovation. “I know we all wish Rob could be here tonight.”
The win also made Emmy history and rewrote a record previously held by Reiner’s own father, Carl Reiner.
Rob Reiner had not won an Emmy since 1978, when he took home his second consecutive Supporting Actor trophy for the classic sitcom All in the Family. His latest win came 48 years after that victory, setting a new record for the longest gap between acting Emmy wins.
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The previous record belonged to Carl Reiner, who went from winning an Emmy for Caesar’s Hour in 1958 to taking home a guest comedy Emmy for Mad About You in 1995, a span of 37 years.
The elder Reiner had set the record in the guest comedy category, and his son now broke it in that same category nearly five decades after his previous acting Emmy.
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