The 78th Emmy Awards' second Creative Arts ceremony took place on Sunday evening at the Peacock Theatre at LA Live, opening with a monologue from "The Pitt" star Noah Wyle, whose medical drama leads this year's field with 25 nominations. The event matters because it now carries several major categories that were previously reserved for the main televised ceremony, reflecting a restructuring by the Television Academy ahead of the primetime Emmys on 14 September on NBC and Peacock.

The Sunday show featured 53 categories, largely scripted, including guest acting, animated programme, cinematography and costume awards, with "The Pitt" competing across multiple fields such as casting and guest drama performances. Five categories, including writing for a variety series and several limited-series awards, were controversially shifted from the main telecast to free up time, prompting the Academy to drop the "Creative Arts" label altogether and refer to all three ceremonies simply as "the Emmys". The night also saw the debut of a new "Legacy Award", presented to "I Love Lucy" for its lasting influence on sitcom format and TV syndication, with several winners, including costume designer Alix Friedberg and casting director Cathy Sandrich Gelfond, praising Los Angeles-based production crews.