The 2026 Gotham TV Awards took place in New York on Monday night, with DTF St. Louis winning a leading two awards.
The HBO Max show won outstanding limited or anthology series and best supporting performance (David Harbour). The final limited series award, for best lead performance, was won by Death by Lightning‘s Michael Shannon, though he wasn’t present to accept the prize. Death by Lightning went into the night tied with Big Mistakes for a leading four nominations.
Accepting his award, Harbour shouted out his fellow nominee in the supporting category, Linda Cardellini, apologizing that there was only one award. “We can share custody of this,” he offered before highlighting the DTF St. Louis cast by name and creator Steven Conrad. With its three nominations, but across two categories, DTF St. Louis won all of the awards it could have unless there had been a tie.
Fellow triple nominee I Love LA won breakthrough comedy series, somewhat of an ironic honor at the New York-centric ceremony, which took place at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan. The Chair Company‘s Tim Robinson won best lead performance in a comedy series, though he wasn’t on hand to accept the trophy. The third comedy prize, best supporting performance, went to Big Mistakes‘ Laurie Metcalf.
Metcalf said the best thing about her work on the Netflix comedy was “getting to work with Dan Levy” and is “looking forward to season two” as she “missed everybody” and “can’t wait to get back to work.”
In the drama series categories, triple nominee Pluribus won breakthrough drama series, while best lead performance went to The Testaments‘ Chase Infiniti and supporting performance went to Babou Ceesay from Alien: Earth, another triple nominee. While Ceesay wasn’t in attendance, Infiniti and the Pluribus team were particularly excited to win, with Rhea Seehorn saying that the team behind the show were “so excited they spilled their wine on me.” She revealed creator Vince Gilligan was not there because he’s busy writing season two of the show.
Beef‘s first installment swept the TV categories at the 2023 Gotham Awards, winning breakthrough series under 40 minutes and outstanding performance in a new series (Ali Wong, who beat out her onscreen counterpart Steven Yeun). But the second installment of the show, despite its three 2026 Gotham TV Awards nominations, went winless on Monday night.
Katrina: Come Hell or High Water won breakthrough nonfiction series. In the best original film categories, Cory Michael Smith won best performance for his role in Mountainhead and Reflection in a Dead Diamond won best original film, broadcast or streaming. With the team behind Reflection in a Dead Diamond not on hand, presenter 50 Cent, one of the executive producers of Sean Combs: The Reckoning, joked that since his show didn’t win best nonfiction series, he was going to take the best film trophy home with him, saying if anyone’s looking for it, it’ll be at his house.
Greg Kinnear presented the first of several previously announced tribute honors to Michelle Pfeiffer, “calling her ‘the definition of cool; the gold standard.’ Accepting the Legend Tribute, Pfeiffer channeled her Catwoman character and licked the trophy. In her speech, she thanked the companies behind two of her recent TV projects, Paramount+’s The Madison and Apple TV’s Margo’s Got Money Troubles, for supporting both series and “making room for complex and complicated women at the center of them.”
Stranger Things executive producer Shawn Levy gave the Visionary Tribute to Matt and Ross Duffer, the showrunners on the Netflix hit series.
Lesli Linka Glatter honored Kerry Washington with the Spotlight Tribute. The former DGA president, who served as a director and executive producer on Apple TV’s Imperfect Women, Washington’s latest series, praised the Scandal alum for her “rare ability to stand in silence and command an entire scene. … She allows audiences to see complexity, the yearnings, the contradictions … and she’s allowed audiences to expand how we see women onscreen.”
Accepting her honor, Washington recalled her first experience with the Gotham Awards, an anecdote she used to express the importance of honoring the work and sharing the spotlight with other talented performers.
Brittany Snow presented the Performer Tribute to one of her “favorite people,” her The Beast in Me co-star Claire Danes. Snow talked about going from a fan to a friend of the veteran actress, saying that Danes’ “work showed me that acting could truly move someone and make someone feel truly and deeply seen” and made her realize the kind of actress she wanted to be.
“Her work is a reminder that the bravest thing an actor can do is tell the truth,” Snow said.
Danes opened her remarks by sharing how much she “really, really, really love[s] to act,” with Harbour later joking that he’d challenge her on that, and spoke about how the “gift” of growing up in New York gave her early exposure to film and TV production.
“I was always consumed with the desire to represent a human experience with as much verisimilitude as possible,” she said, before recalling how the street she grew up on, Crosby Street, would regularly serve as a filming location, something that “thrilled” her as a child.
Evan Ross Katz gave the Ensemble Tribute to the cast of Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, with the honor accepted by casting director Courtney Bright, who was joined by the cast of the FX series.
A complete list of this year’s Gotham TV Awards winners follows.
Breakthrough Comedy Series
Big Mistakes
Dan Levy, Rachel Sennott, creators; Etan Frankel, Timothy Greenberg, Dean Holland, Dan Levy, Anne-Marie McGintee, Rachel Sennott, executive producers (Netflix)
The Chair Company
Zach Kanin, Tim Robinson, creators; Andrew DeYoung, Zach Kanin, Adam McKay, Tim Robinson, Todd Schulman, Igor Srubshchik, executive producers (HBO Max)
I Love LA (WINNER)
Rachel Sennott, creator; Emma Barrie, Aida Rodgers, Lorene Scafaria, Rachel Sennott, Max Silvestri, executive producers (HBO Max)
Long Story Short
Raphael Bob-Waksberg, creator; Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Noel Bright, Steven A. Cohen, executive producers (Netflix)
Too Much
Lena Dunham, Luis Felber, creators; Tim Bevan, Michael P. Cohen, Lena Dunham, Eric Fellner, Surian Fletcher-Jones, Bruce Eric Kaplan, executive producers (Netflix)
Breakthrough Drama Series
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
George R.R. Martin, Ira Parker, creators; Sarah Bradshaw, Ryan Condal, Vince Gerardis, Owen Harris, George R.R. Martin, Ira Parker, executive producers (HBO Max)
Alien: Earth
Noah Hawley, creator; Dana Gonzales, Noah Hawley, Joseph E. Iberti, Clayton Krueger, Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, executive producers (FX/Hulu)
Dept. Q
Scott Frank, Chandni Lakhani, creators; Rob Bullock, Scott Frank, Andy Harries, Charlotte Moore, executive producers (Netflix)
Pluribus (WINNER)
Vince Gilligan, creator; Jeff Frost, Vince Gilligan, Diane Mercer, Allyce Ozarski, Gordon Smith, Alison Tatlock, executive producers (Apple TV)
Task
Brad Ingelsby, creator; David Crockett, Brad Ingelsby, Paul Lee, Mark Roybal, Mark Ruffalo, Ron Schmidt, Salli Richardson Whitfield, Jeremiah Zagar, executive producers (HBO Max)
Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series
Beef
Lee Sung Jin, creator; Sam French, Oscar Isaac, Lee Sung Jin, Ethan Kuperberg, Charles Melton, Anna Ouyang Moench, Carey Mulligan, Ravi Nandan, Alli Reich, Kitao Sakurai, Jake Schreier, Cailee Spaeny, Ali Wong, Steven Yeun, executive producers (Netflix)
Death by Lightning
Mike Makowsky, creator; David Benioff, Bernadette Caulfield, Mike Makowsky, Matt Ross, D.B. Weiss, executive producers (Netflix)
DTF St. Louis (WINNER)
Steven Conrad, creator; Molly Allen, Jason Bateman, Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steven Conrad, Michael Costigan, David Harbour, James Lasdun, Michael Nelson, Jennifer Scher, Bruce Terris, Steve Tisch, K.C. Wenson, executive producers (HBO Max)
Half Man
Richard Gadd, creator; executive producers to be determined (HBO Max)
Lord of the Flies
Jack Thorne, creator; Jamie Campbell, Amanda Duthie, Nawfal Faizullah, Marc Munden, Cailah Scobie, Jack Thorne, Joel Wilson, executive producers (Netflix)
Breakthrough Nonfiction Series
High Horse: The Black Cowboy
Kadine Anckle, Tom Casciato, Mari Keiko Gonzalez, Sacha Jenkins, Liz Yale Marsh, Keith McQuirter, Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, Keisha Senter, Jamal M. Watson, executive producers, Jason Perez, director (Peacock)
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water (WINNER)
Geeta Gandbhir, Spike Lee, Sam Pollard, executive producers (Netflix)
Mr. Scorsese
Damon Cardasis, Chris Donnelly, Rebecca Miller, Cindy Tolan, Julie Yorn, Rick Yorn, executive producers (Apple TV)
Sean Combs: The Reckoning
Brad Bernstein, Ariel Brozell, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, David Karabinas, Stacy Scripter, Alexandria Stapleton, executive producers (Netflix)
The Yogurt Shop Murders
Nancy Abraham, Avi Belkin, Margaret Brown, Beth Garrabrant, Lisa Heller, Ali Herting, Dave McCary, Emily Osborne, Sara Rodriguez, Limor Gott Ronen, Mickey Stanley, Emma Stone, Nicole Stott, executive producers (HBO Max)
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Comedy Series
Elle Fanning, Margo’s Got Money Troubles (Apple TV)
Dan Levy, Big Mistakes (Netflix)
Taylor Ortega, Big Mistakes (Netflix)
Tim Robinson, The Chair Company (HBO Max) (WINNER)
Rachel Sennott, I Love LA (HBO Max)
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Drama Series
Malin Akerman, The Hunting Wives (Netflix)
Sydney Chandler, Alien: Earth (FX/Hulu)
Peter Claffey, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (HBO Max)
Chase Infiniti, The Testaments (Hulu) (WINNER)
Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus (Apple TV)
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Limited or Anthology Series
Riz Ahmed, Bait (Amazon Prime Video)
Jamie Bell, Half Man (HBO Max)
Matthew Macfadyen, Death by Lightning (Netflix)
Carey Mulligan, Beef (Netflix)
Sarah Pidgeon, Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette (FX/Hulu)
Lili Reinhart, Hal & Harper (MUBI)
Michael Shannon, Death by Lightning (Netflix) (WINNER)
Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Comedy Series
Odessa A’zion, I Love LA (HBO Max)
Erika Alexander, The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins (NBC)
Laurie Metcalf, Big Mistakes (Netflix) (WINNER)
Michelle Pfeiffer, Margo’s Got Money Troubles (Apple TV)
Daniel Radcliffe, The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins (NBC)
Haley Lu Richardson, Ponies (Peacock)
Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Drama Series
Dexter Sol Ansell, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (HBO Max)
Babou Ceesay, Alien: Earth (FX/Hulu) (WINNER)
Zach Galifianakis, The Audacity (AMC)
Tom Pelphrey, Task (HBO Max)
Karolina Wydra, Pluribus (Apple TV)
Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Limited or Anthology Series
Linda Cardellini, DTF St. Louis (HBO Max)
David Harbour, DTF St. Louis (HBO Max) (WINNER)
David McKenna, Lord of the Flies (Netflix)
Nick Offerman, Death by Lightning (Netflix)
Cailee Spaeny, Beef (Netflix)
Outstanding Original Film, Broadcast or Streaming
Color Theories by Julio Torres
Julio Torres, director; Matthew Vaughan, producer (HBO Max)
People We Meet on Vacation
Brett Haley, director; Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, Isaac Klausner, producers (Netflix)
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (WINNER)
Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, directors; Pierre Foulon, producer (Shudder)
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Olivia Newman, director; Peter Craig, David Levine, Bryan Unkeless, producers (Netflix)
Skyking
Patricia E. Gillespie, director; Christopher G. Cowan, Patricia E. Gillespie, producers (Hulu)
Outstanding Performance in an Original Film
Sally Field, Remarkably Bright Creatures (Netflix)
Allison Janney, Miss You, Love You (HBO Max)
Cassandra Naud, Influencers (Shudder)
Yannick Renier, Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Shudder)
Cory Michael Smith, Mountainhead (HBO Max) (WINNER)
This story was first published on June 1 at 4:06 p.m.
