The 2024 Emmy Awards Have been a True Household Affair

It’s reliably thrilling to see superstar {couples} present up at award exhibits (hello, Ali Wong and Invoice Hader!), however the 2024 Emmy Awards exemplified an arguably much more heartwarming development: the “household date.” As a substitute of your mother and father forcing you to go tenting, say, the famous-person model is rather less crunchy and a little bit extra glam—and thus far, it’s my favourite theme of this 12 months’s awards season.

Monday was an enormous night time for household, from host Anthony Anderson tapping his IRL mother for bits (and to function the ceremony’s play-off music), to Succession stars Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin utilizing their wins to speak about their love for his or her younger youngsters (and, in Culkin’s case, straight-up asking his spouse if they will have extra from the Emmys stage). Even offstage, although, household ties remained robust, with Niecy Nash-Betts attending alongside her mom Margaret Ensley, and siblings Pedro and Lux Pascal strolling the crimson carpet collectively. Christina Applegate, Padma Lakshmi, and Justin Chambers additionally all introduced their daughters alongside to the Emmys, making them shoo-ins for the Cool Dad or mum of the 12 months award.

Mother and father bringing their grownup youngsters to award exhibits is nothing new (simply consider Reese Witherspoon taking her son, Deacon, to the Golden Globes, after which twinning together with her lookalike daughter, Ava, on the latest Critics Alternative Awards; or Martin Scorsese and his daughter Francesca on the Globes), and the reverse has been identified to happen as nicely; title one factor sweeter than Bradley Cooper bringing his tiny mother, Gloria Campano, to the Golden Globes—however personally, I’m rooting for some much more obscure household ties to be introduced into the award-show area earlier than the Oscars. I’m speaking uncles and nephews, step-siblings and third cousins mugging for the digital camera collectively…and, actually, that’s not such a stretch, given Hollywood is chock-full of bizarre household connections. (Take the truth that Gloria Steinem is Christian Bale’s stepmother, say; and God forbid you overlook that Sofia Coppola and Nicolas Cage are first cousins.) Who says an award present can’t do double responsibility as a household reunion?