THE RUNDOWNBad Bunny and Sabrina Carpenter won their first Emmys at last night’s 78th Creative Arts Emmy Awards and are now halfway to EGOT status.Carpenter was honored in the Best Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) category for her work as an executive producer and performer for The Muppet Show.Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show won Outstanding Variety Special (Live), for which he was credited as a performer and producer.Last night, Bad Bunny and Sabrina Carpenter both achieved a major career milestone, winning their first Emmys at the 78th Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Though neither artist was physically present at the Los Angeles ceremony and neither has addressed their award on social media yet, both stars are now halfway to EGOT status given their past Grammy wins. They now only need to earn an Oscar and a Tony to complete the rare honor.Bad Bunny, who recently finished his grand Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour, won his first Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special (Live) for his performance and production work at the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show this year. In fact, the show dominated the evening, winning a total of seven awards, making it the most-awarded halftime performance in television history.Carpenter won her first Emmy for her role as executive producer and performer on The Muppet Show. The TV special, which came out in February, won four of its six nominations, including Best Variety Special (Pre-Recorded), the category in which Carpenter was recognized.Prior to the Emmys, Carpenter and Bad Bunny had already won multiple Grammys. The “Espresso” singer won two Grammys in 2025, while Bad Bunny has been awarded six, earning his first in 2021. He has also received 17 Latin Grammys.The evening’s other first-time winners include Octavia Spencer, who was honored for her work in the true-crime series Lost Women of Alaska. Overall, the halftime show was followed by The Traitors in total wins. The reality show, hosted by Alan Cumming, earned six awards, including Outstanding Directing for a Reality Program and Outstanding Host.The Creative Arts Emmys precede September 14’s Primetime Emmys. In her opening remarks, stand-up comedian, actress, and writer Wanda Sykes spoke about the importance of the ceremony and the technical categories it honors, including directing, writing, cinematography, hairstyling, makeup, and sound mixing. “Television isn’t made by a handful of people,” she said. “It’s made by thousands of talented people solving impossible problems together to create something great. So, the more excellence there is to recognize, the more time we should spend celebrating it.”