Watch: Rob Reiner Earns Posthumous Emmys 2026 Nomination for ‘The Bear’
Rob Reiner remains a titan of television.
Less than a year after the legendary filmmaker and his wife MicheleSingerReinerwere killed at their Brentwood, Calif., home on Dec. 14, Rob won the award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series at the Sept. 6 Creative Arts Emmy Awards for his role as restaurant consultant Albert Schurr on season four of The Bear.
The late actor beat out fellow nominees ConnorStorrie (Saturday Night Live), Hamish Linklater (Widow’s Bay), ChristopherMcDonald (Hacks), Michael J. Fox (Shrinking) and BrettGoldstein (Shrinking). And the win felt especially poignant for all those gathered at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (See all the winners here.)
Accepting the award on Rob’s behalf was presenter Wendi McLendon-Covey, who told the audience, “We all wish he was here,” as they gave him a standing ovation.
The win marked Rob’s first since 1978 when he picked up the award for Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on All in the Family, and comes nine months after prosecutors say he and his wife Michele were stabbed to death at home by their son Nick Reiner, who has pleaded not guilty to murder.
Rob also received a touching tribute in the final episode of The Bear, when line cook Ebra (Edwin Lee Gibson) called Rob’s Albert—his business mentor on the FX series—to tell him of the plan to franchise their restaurant.
“Albert, we are in business,” Ebra said into the phone. “It’s perfect. I will have all the documents, email it to you immediately. Anything else I can do?”
While audiences couldn’t hear Albert on the other end, Ebra smiled as he quoted Rob’s 1987 film The Princess Bride, saying, “As you wish.”
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But returning to film season five of The Bear without Rob was certainly challenging for Edwin.
“It’s emotional when I think about it,” he told The Standard in June. “Because we go back in season five, and he’s not there and we fully expected him to be there, [it] changed a bit the trajectory of the story.”
Of course, he will always treasure the moments he did get to share with Rob—both on and off camera.
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“All those days that Rob and I spent together were a lot of fun,” he remembered. “I’m really happy that it looks like, ‘Oh, they must have spent so much time,’ when in actuality we just had such a great chemistry immediately.”
“I got to be his last scene partner, unfortunately,” Edwin reflected. “But it was just really, really great moments with someone that you grew up watching in front of the camera, then behind the camera.”
Before more Emmy Award winners are revealed at the Sept. 14 ceremony on NBC, read on for a look at which surprising celebrities were—and weren’t—nominated this year.
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Don’t miss the Emmy Awards 2026 live telecast Monday, Sept. 14, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on NBC and streaming on Peacock.
