Disney Dominates 2026 Children's & Family Emmys as Rise of Red Leads With Five

Disney and Netflix led the 4th Annual Children's & Family Emmy Awards (held in New York) with Disney-branded projects sweeping wins; Descendants: The Rise of Red topped the night with five Emmys, including outstanding fiction special, while Sesame Street and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew also took multiple trophies. Joe Locke won lead performer for Heartstopper, and the ceremony marked NATAS’s NY move and Bill Nye’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Also, Netflix tallied strong wins alongside Disney across categories celebrating preschool to young-teen programming.