We’re so excited for the editors, motion graphics artists, VFX artists and so many other creatives whose work using Adobe tools will be recognized this weekend at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. And this year, the Emmys have given us an extra reason to be proud: the Television Academy is honoring Adobe Premiere with a 2026 Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement!
This one belongs to the editors, colorists, sound designers and engineers who've shaped Premiere over the past three and a half decades, and to the Adobe team that's built it alongside them. Our goal has been the same since we released Premiere in the early '90s: give filmmakers and creators tools that are intuitive, accessible and collaborative, so their story gets told the way they imagined it.
If you've cut a project in Premiere, this recognition is as much yours as it is ours. We're inspired by your vision, and your feedback has shaped nearly every feature we've shipped.
Empowering the craft of filmmaking
Here’s just a short list of creators and their projects who used Adobe to bring their stories to life:
"Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour — The Final Show" was nominated for Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming. Editor Dom Whitworth, ACE, and editor Rupa Rathod used Premiere to craft the full concert film following Taylor Swift as she closed out her record-breaking stadium tour across the world.
"Saturday Night Live" editors Christopher Salemo and Mak Makower are nominated for Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming (Segment) for their work cutting the viral “MAHAspital” sketch inspired by "The Pitt". To meet the fast turnaround times that come with a weekly live and sketch show like SNL, the SNL team collaborates across Adobe Premiere, After Effects, and Photoshop to get their final cuts across the finish line.
“Given the tight timeline we’re working with, it’s essential that we can collaborate, send projects back and forth and easily integrate materials from Adobe’s After Effects and Photoshop,” said Makower.
The Digital Kitchen team has received two Outstanding Title Design nominations for their work on Prime Video’s "Spider Noir" and Apple TV’s "Smoke". The team used After Effects and Photoshop for both sequences, and Illustrator for the Spider Noir logo. For "Spider Noir’s" title sequence, the team combined live-action elements, 2D animation, and stylized 3D environments on After Effects, perfectly matching the film-noir visual language of the show using a variety of influences and source materials from the 1930s. For "Smoke", a show focused on the life and mind of an arsonist, the sequence aptly follows the burning and "unburning" of objects related to moments within the show. Digital Kitchen shot the burning objects practically and edited in After Effects to show the effects in reverse.
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Editor Joanna Naugle, ACE, a two-time Emmy winning editor, received two Outstanding Picture Editing nods this year: she was nominated for her work on FX’s "The Bear" and on Ramy Youssef’s 2026 comedy special "In Love". The special was shot on film and cut on Premiere, where Joanna used Speech to Text to seamlessly navigate four different performances across three different film cameras.
“I could easily search for a piece of text and immediately jump to that point in the timeline,” said Naugle. “This was incredibly helpful for comparing performances while working with Ramy and ensuring we had the absolute best moment for each joke.”
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We’re also happy to celebrate the nominations of two incredible visual effects teams in the Outstanding Special Visual Effects category. The VFX team behind "Paradise" used Substance 3D and After Effects to craft the post-apocalyptic world, building expansive CG environments across a fictionalized Denver as well as the massive destruction of a mountain bunker. And on "Gen V", the VFX team used Premiere, Substance 3D and Photoshop to bring complex superhero powers to life.
Continuing the celebration of excellence
Premiere’s Emmy Award honor builds on Adobe’s continued recognition by the Television Academy. In 2024, we were honored with the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award, which recognized Adobe’s overall impact on television production, and an Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy for Substance Painter, the tool countless artists rely on to create visual effects and animations for across film and television.
Earlier this year, the Adobe research team behind Premiere's VR editing tools, including Adobe Immersive Environment — which lets editors view their footage and timeline together inside a VR headset — also won a Technology and Engineering Emmy. Adobe’s VR work goes back over a decade, when 360-degree video was first becoming viable for filmmakers, with the introduction of Project Clover.
Thank you to the Television Academy for this recognition, to the Adobe team behind Premiere, and above all, thank you to the extraordinary filmmakers and creatives who put your trust in Creative Cloud every day.
