Emmy Awards 2025 recap: The biggest winners and most memorable moments

The critically acclaimed Netflix limited series "Adolescence" won the Emmy for outstanding limited or anthology series.

Stephen Graham, who also won outstanding lead actor for his role in "Adolescence," said while accepting the award, "What we managed to create was a beautiful family. Whether you was number one on the call sheet or No. 101 ... everyone was respected and treated with the utmost of respect. We are all the same. I think that's how you get the best work.”

Other nominees in the category were "Black Mirror," "Dying For Sex," "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story" and "The Penguin."

"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" took home the Emmy for outstanding talk show.

Colbert accepted the award on behalf of the show as chants of "Stephen! Stephen!" filled the room.

Colbert thanked the show's crew and supporters as well as his family.

He said that while ten years ago he planned to do a comedy show about love, he realized later, his show was about loss.

The popular talk show series has been on air for more than three decades. CBS announced in July that the "Late Show" franchise will come to a close in May 2026.

Other nominees in the category included "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and "The Daily Show."

Stephen Graham, who won outstanding lead actor in a limited series or TV movie for his role in "Adolescence," was swarmed by his colleagues after the winner was announced.

Graham plays the dad of a 13-year-old boy accused of murder in the critically acclaimed Netflix limited series.

He said in his acceptance speech, “To be here today, in front of my peers and to be acknowledged by you, is the utmost humbling thing I could ever imagine in my life. And it shows you that any dream is possible."

“The Cosby Show” star Phylicia Rashad introduced the in memoriam segment, honoring her co-star Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who drowned in Costa Rica in July.

“He was a beloved teenager in an iconic television series who the world watched grow into manhood. And like all our friends and colleagues who transitioned this past year, Malcolm Jamal-Warner remains in our hearts,” Rashad said, as the crowd applauded.

“Even though they may no longer be here with us, we can all smile knowing that their impact will remain, knowing that their lasting impressions will continue to live on through story, knowing that they touched our lives,” Rashad said. “Whether you grew up watching them, or have just now discovered their brilliance, their light remains in the very fabric of our industry."

Others remembered in the in memoriam segment include "Gossip Girl" star Michelle Trachtenberg, who died from complications of diabetes in February; Robin Kaye, an “American Idol” music supervisor who was killed in her home in July; and Food Network chef Anne Burrell, who died by suicide in June.

During the in memoriam segment, singers Vince Gill and Lainey Wilson performed Gill's 1995 song, "Go Rest High on That Mountain."