The March 12th, 2023 television broadcast of the 96th Academy Awards, the ceremony gala both colloquially known and officially billed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as “The Oscars,” on Sunday beat out competition that included the June 11th, 2023 broadcast of the 76th Annual Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre (known as the “Tony”) Awards and the February 4th, 2024 broadcast of the 66th Grammy Awards (no “official” name) to win the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’s award (known as the “Emmy”) for “Outstanding Variety Special (Live).” It was the first win for the Oscars in the category but at least the 18th Emmy for the annual film industry awards show, past wins including “Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special” and “Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special” out of at least 54 nominations in various categories.

Other nominees in the “Outstanding Variety Special (Live)” included non-awards shows such as “The Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show Starring Usher” and “The Greatest Roast Of All Time: Tom Brady.” The 76th Annual Tony Awards broadcast did not go home empty handed as the awards show took the other awards show’s prize for “Outstanding Choreography For Variety Or Reality Programming – 2024.” The 66th Grammy Awards was shut out at the 76th Emmy Awards however.

And we’re not saying the American entertainment media industry is an incestuous, self-indulgent circlejerk, we’re just reporting that two of its top awards shows won at another top awards show.