Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show won seven Emmy Awards on Saturday, Sept. 5, dominating Night 1 of the Creative Arts Emmys at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles.

The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show picked up Outstanding Variety Special (Live) and six other awards, according to The Wrap. The haul made it the most-awarded Super Bowl halftime show in Emmy history, more than doubling the three wins earned by the 2022 hip-hop halftime show, Billboard reported. It is also the first Spanish-language program to win the top variety special Emmy.

Bad Bunny, who won as both lead performer and producer, was not at the ceremony. The 13-minute halftime performance in February transformed the football field into scenes including a sugar cane field, bodega, wedding party and casita, the Los Angeles Times reported, and featured appearances by Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin. Director Hamish Hamilton won Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special for the third time in four years.

The Emmy comes seven months after Bad Bunny became the first artist to win the Grammy for Album of the Year for a Spanish-language album.

The Traitors finished second on the night with six wins. Host Alan Cumming took Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program for the third consecutive year, breaking a tie with Jane Lynch. Only Survivor host Jeff Probst (four wins) and RuPaul Charles (eight) have won the category more often.

A teary-eyed Mariska Hargitay won two awards for her HBO Max documentary My Mom Jayne, about her late mother, Jayne Mansfield. It was Hargitay's first Emmy since 2006. "I can't believe I get to do all this great stuff," she said, per Deadline. Hargitay will host the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Sept. 14, on NBC.

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert won five awards for its final week of episodes, including Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series for Yvonne De Mare's work on the finale. Disney's revival of The Muppet Show, led by special guest Sabrina Carpenter, won four awards, including Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded), beating Taylor Swift's Eras Tour special. And PBS's Antiques Roadshow won its first Emmy after 24 nominations stretching back to 2002.

Jimmy Kimmel won Outstanding Host for a Game Show for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for the second consecutive year.

Wanda Sykes set the tone early, joking that the Emmys "are spread across three glorious nights. It's a little like the friend who celebrates a birthday month because they like free margaritas."

Behind the humor sat a real dispute. The DGA, WGA and SAG-AFTRA issued a joint statement saying the Television Academy's decision to eliminate several categories from the primetime broadcast devalues the work of the people the Academy exists to honor.

Night 2 of the Creative Arts Emmys takes place Sunday, Sept. 6. A combined broadcast of both nights airs Sept. 12 on FXX and streams on Hulu the following day, followed by the primetime telecast Sept. 14 on NBC and Peacock.