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Emmy Awards 2025: Colbert Gets Emotional Farewell; Adolescence, The Studio, The Pitt Dominate

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Los Angeles, Sept 14: The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards turned into a night of surprises, historic wins and emotional moments as Adolescence, The Studio, The Pitt, and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert emerged as the biggest winners.

The limited series Adolescence led the tally with six awards, including Best Limited or Anthology Series. Stephen Graham won Best Actor, while young star Owen Cooper made history as the youngest-ever male Emmy winner with his supporting role. Erin Doherty also bagged Best Supporting Actress, with Philip Barantini and Graham-Jack Thorne duo recognized for directing and writing respectively.

Comedy belonged to Seth Rogen’s The Studio, which won Best Comedy Series, alongside trophies for Best Actor, Best Directing, and Best Writing. Jean Smart further solidified her legacy with Best Actress in a Comedy Series for Hacks, while her co-star Hannah Einbinder earned Best Supporting Actress. In a major upset, Jeff Hiller claimed Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for Somebody Somewhere, beating veteran nominee Harrison Ford.

Drama gold went to The Pitt, crowned Best Drama Series, with Noah Wyle winning Best Actor and Katherine LaNasa scoring a surprise victory for Best Supporting Actress. Severance also celebrated, with Britt Lower taking Best Actress and Tramell Tillman making history as the first Black man to win Supporting Actor in a Drama. Adam Randall won directing honors for Slow Horses.

In variety and talk categories, Stephen Colbert’s recently canceled The Late Show won Best Talk Series, receiving a thunderous standing ovation. John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight outshone SNL to claim Best Scripted Variety Series and Best Writing for a Variety Series, though SNL50: The Anniversary Special secured the Best Live Variety Special.

Cristin Milioti won Best Actress in a Limited Series for The Penguin, while The Traitors triumphed as Best Reality Competition Program. The ceremony also featured reunions, tributes, and an In Memoriam led by Phylicia Rashad.

Hosted by Nate Bargatze at LA’s Peacock Theater, the show celebrated both fresh talent and industry veterans, leaving audiences with memorable firsts and farewells in Emmy history.

Emmy Awards 2025- Complete List of Winners:

Best Drama Series – The Pitt
Best Comedy Series – The Studio
Best Limited or Anthology Series – Adolescence
Best Reality Competition Program – The Traitors
Best Talk Series – The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
Best Scripted Variety Series – Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Best Variety Special (Live) – SNL50: The Anniversary Special

Best Actor in a Drama Series – Noah Wyle, The Pitt
Best Actress in a Drama Series – Britt Lower, Severance
Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series – Tramell Tillman, Severance
Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series – Katherine LaNasa, The Pitt

Best Actor in a Comedy Series – Seth Rogen, The Studio
Best Actress in a Comedy Series – Jean Smart, Hacks
Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Jeff Hiller, Somebody Somewhere
Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series – Hannah Einbinder, Hacks

Best Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie – Stephen Graham, Adolescence
Best Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie – Cristin Milioti, The Penguin
Best Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie – Owen Cooper, Adolescence
Best Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie – Erin Doherty, Adolescence

Best Writing for a Drama Series – Dan Gilroy, Andor
Best Writing for a Comedy Series – Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg & team, The Studio
Best Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie – Jack Thorne & Stephen Graham, Adolescence
Best Writing for a Variety Series – Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

Best Directing for a Drama Series – Adam Randall, Slow Horses
Best Directing for a Comedy Series – Seth Rogen, The Studio
Best Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie – Philip Barantini, Adolescence

Religious affiliation impacts language use on Facebook

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Are you more likely to use words like “happy” and “family” in your social media posts? Or do you use emotional and cognitive words like “angry” and “thinking?” The words you use may be a clue to your religious affiliation. A study of 12,815 U.S. and U.K. Facebook users finds use of positive emotion and social words is associated with religious affiliation whereas use of negative emotion and cognitive processes is more common for those who are not religious than those who are religious.

The work replicates Ritter et al.’s 2013 results on religious and nonreligious language use on Twitter and appears in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. Researchers from the U.S., U.K., and Australia conducted the work.

Just as Ritter and colleagues discovered in 2013, “We also found that positive emotion and social words are associated with religious affiliation whereas negative emotion and cognitive processes are more associated with non-religious affiliation,” says David Yaden (University of Pennsylvania), lead author of the study.

And they found some additional insight; “non-religious individuals make more frequent mention of the body and of death” than religious people, says Yaden.

The researchers collected data from the MyPersonality application, which asked Facebook users to report their religious affiliation (among other things), and asks them for consent to allow researchers to analyze their written online posts and other self-reported information (Kosinski, Stillwell, Graepel, 2013). They ran two analyses, to see what words each group (religious vs. non-religious) used more than the other group.

The team conducted both a “top-down” and a “bottom-up” analysis. The top down approach, Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC), uses groupings chosen by researchers, and is useful in making sense of the data in terms of theory. The “bottom-up,” or Differential Language Analysis (DLA), approach allows an algorithm to group the words and can provide a more “transparent view” into the language.

Unsurprisingly, religious people used more religious words, like “devil,” “blessing,” and “praying” than do non-religious people. They also showed higher use of positive words like “love” and family and social words such as “mothers” and “we.” The non-religious individuals used words from the anger category, like “hate” more than did religious people. They also showed a higher use of words associated with negative emotion and cognitive processes such as “reasons.” Other areas where the nonreligious dominated: swear words (you can figure those out), bodies, including “heads” and “neck” and words related to death including “dead.”

The Role of Religion

While secularism is increasing in the west, “over 80% of the world’s population identifies with some type of religion – a trend that appears to be on the rise” write the authors. “Religion is associated with longer lives and well-being, but can also be associated with higher rates of obesity and racism.” For the researchers, understanding language use is part of the bigger picture of understanding how religious affiliation relates to these life outcomes.

Yaden and his colleagues do not know if the different linguistic behaviors between religious and non-religious people reflect the psychological states of those in the group, or if the language use reflects the social norms of being part of that group, or some combination of the two. They hope further research will offer more insights.

Originally Yaden and colleagues hoped to “compare different religious affiliations with one another. That is, how do Buddhists differ from Hindus? Christians from Muslims? Atheists from Agnostics?,” but they did not have enough specific data to conduct these analyses. “We hope to do so once a larger dataset becomes available to us,” says Yaden.