{"id":2493792,"date":"2026-07-08T18:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2493792"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:31:29","slug":"bad-bunny-earns-emmy-nominations-for-super-bowl-halftime-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bad-bunny-earns-emmy-nominations-for-super-bowl-halftime-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Bunny Earns Emmy Nominations for Super Bowl Halftime Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Puerto Rican star is up in the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) category<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n\tBad Bunny stays winning. The Puerto Rican superstar just earned his first Emmy nomination <\/a>for his historic 2026 Super Bowl halftime performance, specifically in the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) category.<\/p>\n

\n\tInterestingly enough, the musician is credited twice under the official nomination, once with his birth name \u00a0Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio for his role as a supervising producer of the performance, and as a performer. The performance itself earned nine nominations, including Outstanding Choreography For Variety Or Reality Programming, Outstanding Directing For A Variety Special, Outstanding Hairstyling For A Variety, Nonfiction Or Reality Program, Outstanding Production Design For A Variety Special, Outstanding Lighting Design\/Lighting Direction For A Special, Outstanding Music Direction, and the aforementioned Outstanding Variety Special (Live), though Bad Bunny is only listed under Outstanding Variety Special (Live).<\/p>\n

\n\tBad Bunny\u2019s Emmy nomination marks a major moment of recognition after his halftime performance caused an intense meltdown among conservatives. Before he the star took the stage, prominent Republicans denounced<\/a> the NFL\u2019s decision to make Benito the headliner. President Donald Trump even weighed<\/a> in: \u201cI never heard of him. I don\u2019t know who he is \u2026 I don\u2019t know why they\u2019re doing it, it\u2019s crazy, and then they blame it on some promoter that they hired to pick up entertainment. I think it\u2019s absolutely ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTurning Point USA, a conservative organization, went as far as setting up a \u201ccounterprogram\u201d called \u201cThe All-American Halftime Show\u201d<\/a> as an alternative to the star\u2019s performance. conservatives then decried<\/a> the performance for being in Spanish (Bad Bunny\u2019s primary language), and the FCC received over 2,000 complaints<\/a> about the halftime show, criticizing the \u201cvulgar\u201d dancer moves as well as\u00a0Bad Bunny<\/a>\u2019s lyrics.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe 2026 Emmy Awards are set to take place on Sept. 14. Bad Bunny already has a few Grammys, so an Emmy win would bring him one step closer to EGOT status.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Puerto Rican star is up in the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) category Bad Bunny stays winning. The Puerto Rican superstar just earned his first Emmy nomination for his historic 2026 Super Bowl halftime performance, specifically in the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) category. Interestingly enough, the musician is credited twice under the official nomination, once […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2493793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[30802,377522],"class_list":["post-2493792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-bad-bunny","tag-super-bowl-2026"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Bad-Bunny-Earns-Emmy-Nominations-for-Super-Bowl-Halftime-Show.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2493794,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493792\/revisions\/2493794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2493793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}