The Television Academy today announced 122 nominations in 33 categories for the 2026 Los Angeles Area Emmy® Awards, to be presented Saturday evening, July 25, 2026, at the Skirball Cultural Center.
The Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards honor locally produced programs in the categories of Crime and Social Issues, Culture and History, the Arts, Human Interest, Sports, the Environment, and Live and Breaking News Coverage.
2026 Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards Nominees
NEWS & PROGRAMMING
L.A. Local Color
- Behind the Hollywood Sign (Locationland) — PBS SoCal
- Hispanic Heritage Month – Candelas Guitars — Spectrum News 1
- Pasión Fútbol: Día de Muertos — KVEA
- The True Origins of Surf Culture (Coastal California) — PBS SoCal
Education/Information
- Arctic Alchemy (Los Angeles Times) — Los Angeles Times
- The Cost of Fast Fashion (Earth Focus) — PBS SoCal
- Crónica de un Infierno — KMEX-TV
- For Dear Life: Art, Medicine & Disability (PST ART) — PBS SoCal
Crime/Social Issues
- Aging in America: Survive or Thrive — PBS SoCal
- Counter Surveillance (PST ART) — PBS SoCal
- LA Stories with Giselle Fernandez: Jane Goodall — Spectrum News 1
- LA Stories with Giselle Fernandez: Father Greg Boyle — Spectrum News 1
- Rewiring California: Outages & Innovation (Earth Focus) — PBS SoCal
Arts
- Aretha! with Sheléa and the Pacific Symphony — PBS SoCal
- Art & Science Collide — PBS SoCal
Culture/History
- George Washington Carver’s Legacy of Art, Science & Discovery (PST ART) — PBS SoCal
- Keeping Tradition Alive (OC World) — KLCS-PBS
- Somos de Aquí — KMEX-TV
- Tras la Huella del Futbol — KVEA
- Untold History of the Taa-laa-wa dee-ni’ – Tolowa People (Coastal California) — PBS SoCal
Informational Series (More Than 50% Remote)
- Rebel Kitchens Southern California — PBS SoCal
- Reframing the Future (PST ART) — PBS SoCal
- Tu Voz LA — KMEX-TV
Informational Series (More Than 50% Studio)
- Al Punto California — KMEX-TV
- Enfoque California — KVEA
- LA Times Today on Spectrum News 1 — Spectrum News 1
Entertainment
- 2025 Media Access Awards with Easterseals — PBS SoCal
- Animation (Lost LA) — PBS SoCal
- Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema (PST ART) — PBS SoCal
- Rosa de Guadalupe, Crónica de Milagros — KMEX-TV
Music Composition
- Art & Science Collide — PBS SoCal
- Lost LA: Animation — PBS SoCal
- Lost LA: Cold War Secrecy — PBS SoCal
News Series
- 7 On Your Side Investigates: Wildfire Insurance Issues — ABC7
- Black Heritage: Altadena Roots and Resilience — NBC4
- Pizarrón 52 — KVEA
- Sanando California — KVEA
Sports Special
- 竜巻 – The Story of Nomomania — Spectrum SportsNet LA
- Backstage Dodgers: Japan — Spectrum SportsNet LA
- The History of the CIF Southern Section — CIF Southern Section
Sports Series – Programming
- Access SportsNet: Dodgers — Spectrum SportsNet LA
- Backstage: Lakers — Spectrum SportsNet
- Beyond the Sport on Spectrum News 1 — Spectrum News 1
Live Sports Coverage
- Dodgers Kershaw 3000th Strikeout — Spectrum SportsNet LA
- Nuestra Copa, Nuestra Pasión — KVEA
Sports Feature
- After the Fire (Backstage Dodgers) — Spectrum SportsNet
- Limitless Lanes (CIF-SS This Week) — CIF Southern Section
- Wildfires Impact Local Sports Broadcasters (SportsCentral LA) — CBS LA
Sports Tease
- Dodgers Home Opener — Spectrum SportsNet LA
- Shohei Ohtani: Baseball’s Solar Eclipse — Spectrum News 1
Live Special Events – Programming
- 66th Annual LA County Holiday Celebration — PBS SoCal
- Desfile de Campeones — KVEA
- Nuestra Herencia, Nuestra Voz — KVEA
Live Special Events – News
- 2025 Dodgers World Championship Parade — NBC4
- ABC7 Presents the 40th Annual Kingdom Day Parade — ABC7
- ABC7 Presents the 55th Annual LA Pride Parade — ABC7
Feature Segment
- 93-Year-Old Disney Imagineer (LA Times Today) — Spectrum News 1
- Dancing Warriors (Acceso Total) — KVEA
- Indispensables, Pero Invisibles: Manos que Reconstruyen (Al Punto California) — KMEX-TV
- Mastermind (Acceso Total) — KVEA
- Reframing Dioramas: The Art of Preserving Wilderness (PST ART) — PBS SoCal
Information Segment
- California Live: Mychal’s Café — NBC4
- Combating Climate Change with Trees (Earth Focus) — PBS SoCal
- How This Contraption at UCLA Sent the First DM (Lost LA) — PBS SoCal
- Seeing the Unseeable (PST ART) — PBS SoCal
A complete list of today’s nominations, tabulated by the Academy’s accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP, is attached. The nominations are listed alphabetically by program within each category.
Brian DeCloux and Greg Taylor are the Los Angeles Area Governors.
For more information, visit Emmys.com.
