• There are hundreds of Emmy Award categories — that means there are thousands of winners. • Plenty of musicians and non-actors have won Emmys over the years. • Taylor Swift, Barack Obama, and Jay-Z are Emmy winners.
It's not just TV stars who can claim Emmy-winner status.
There are hundreds of Emmy categories, not just the 26 that air during the Primetime Emmy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, September 14 this year. The categories are split across multiple events throughout the year — the Primetime Emmy Awards, Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards, Daytime Emmy Awards, Sports Emmys, News & Documentary Emmys, Children's and Family Emmy Awards, and Creative Arts Emmy Awards — and many winners and nominees are known only within the industry.
But a lot of obscure categories also mean