Kendrick Lamar's NFL Super Bowl 59 Halftime Show Nominated for 4 Emmys

Five months after his dazzling performance at the Super Bowl, Kendrick Lamar is still receiving accolades for that showing.

The 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show received four Primetime Emmy nominations on Tuesday:

• Outstanding Variety Special (Live)
• Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special
• Outstanding Music Direction
• Outstanding Choreography (Variety/Reality)

Lamar's performance was produced by Roc Nation and Jesse Collins Entertainment. The show drew a record audience for the Super Bowl Halftime Show with 133.5 million viewers.

Lamar was previously part of the first Super Bowl Halftime Show to win an Emmy Award. The Super Bowl 56 show at SoFi Stadium featured Lamar, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Mary J. Blige, among others.

That show won the award for Outstanding Variety Special, beating out the Grammys telecast, The Oscars, Live In Front Of A Studio Audience: The Facts Of Life And Diff'rent Strokes and The Tony Awards Present: Broadway's Back!

Lamar wasn't the only musical act nominated for a 2025 Primetime Emmy award for a performance during an NFL game. The Super Bowl 59 Halftime Show will be going up against Beyoncé in the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) category for her halftime performance during the Baltimore Ravens-Houston Texans game on Christmas Day.

The two megastars split the biggest awards at the Grammys earlier this year. Lamar's "Not Like Us" won for Record of the Year, while "Cowboy Carter" earned Beyoncé her first Album of the Year win.

This year's Emmy Awards ceremony will be held on Sept. 14 on CBS. The winners in the Super Bowl Halftime Show categories will be unveiled during the Creative Arts Emmys on Sept. 6-7.