Seth Rogen Wins Emmy for Best Actor in a Comedy for ‘The Studio’

Before 2025, Rogen had been nominated multiple times for Emmys, but he'd never won.

Seth Rogen is an Emmy winner. Capping an incredible awards season run for his Apple TV+ hit “The Studio, Rogen won the Emmy for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. And then two Emmys later in the night.

It’s an absolute triumph for the 43-year-old actor after working in Hollywood for more than 25 years and scoring massive box office successes, but never quite getting major awards recognition to this point. He beat nominees Adam Brody (“Nobody Wants This”), Jason Segel (“Shrinking”), Martin Short (“Only Murders in the Building”), and Jeremy Allen White (“The Bear”) to win the prize.

Rogen had been nominated for Emmys five times before this year, ranging from a writing nod for “Da Ali G Show” to an Outstanding Drama Series nod for producing “The Boys” to his work as a supporting actor in “Pam & Tommy.”

But “The Studio” finally put Rogen over the top. Playing Matt Remick, a longtime veteran of fictional Continental Studios, suddenly promoted to be its head of production, Rogen captures a very 2025 sense of art versus commerce. He doesn’t believe box office success and quality are at odds, and when given a mandate from CEO Griffin Mill (Bryan Cranston, playing a character with the same name as Tim Robbins’ character in “The Player”) to draft off Barbie’s success and make a movie about Kool-Aid, he initially tries to enlist Martin Scorsese to make a movie about Jonestown. That doesn’t go anywhere, and Rogen has said he’s long observed the inherent comedy in movie studio moguls having to disappoint their idols. The season ultimately took viewers to a full-scale recreation of the Golden Globes at the Beverly Hilton to Las Vegas, where Mill has a disastrous mushroom high at The Venetian.

In his speech accepting his Best Actor in a Comedy Series award, Rogen acknowledged that he’s been nominated for many Emmys before this but had never won. A short time later, he then won his second Emmy of the night, alongside Evan Goldberg, for Best Directing for a Comedy Series, for “The Studio.” And then after that, he won as part of the team for Best Writing for a Comedy Series.

Rogen’s exactly the kind of Hollywood insider to have made “The Studio” — yes, he’s one of its creators alongside longtime creative partner Evan Goldberg and several others, and they’ve directed the entire series as well. After all, he all but ended an entire regime at Sony Pictures when his 2014 comedy about assassinating Kim Jong Un, “The Interview,” resulted in North Korea actually hacking then-distributor Sony’s company-wide emails, including those sent by co-chair Amy Pascal, who then stepped down from her post.

Now, Rogen has delivered his own meta-commentary on the industry, and collected quite an honor for it.