Will Martin Short win Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for 'Only Murders in the Building' on Sept 14?
100% of users predicted NO — the community got this one right. 3 predictions cast.
Martin Short did not win the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for "Only Murders in the Building" at the Sept. 14, 2026 ceremony. The award went to Matthew Rhys for Apple TV's "Widow's Bay," part of a historic night in which Rhys also won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series for Netflix's "The Beast in Me," the first time any performer has won two lead-acting Emmys in one ceremony.
Short's nomination came for the long-running Hulu mystery-comedy, which he stars in alongside Steve Martin and Selena Gomez, but the category's momentum belonged to "Widow's Bay," which swept the comedy acting categories on its way to a record 14 total wins for a comedy series, the most ever, breaking the mark set by Apple's own "The Studio" the year before.
The Predict Six community had given Short no realistic chance, pricing the category at 0% yes odds for him, correctly anticipating he would not win.
The result matched community expectations exactly, one of the more lopsided predictions among the night's many acting races given "Widow's Bay"'s dominant nomination position.