Sally Field is having a remarkably bright night at the 2026 Emmys.
The Remarkably Bright Creatures star won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie at the Sept. 14 ceremony in Los Angeles' Peacock Theater.
Field beat out Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette's Sarah Pidgeon, The Beast in Me's Claire Danes, Beef's Carey Mulligan and All Her Fault's Sarah Snook for the award. (Click here to see all the winners.)
While accepting her prize, the 79-year-old—who became the oldest performer to win in the category—quipped, "This was not supposed to happen."
"I have been so grateful and so proud to be a part of this community—the arts—for 62 years," Field continued. "We're the arts. We matter. Our voices matter. Our diversity, our unique storytelling matters. We can't let those voices be silenced, or compromised, or merged."
This is Field's fourth Emmy win. The actress won in the same category in 1977 for her performance in Sybil, as well as Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2001 for ER and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Brothers & Sisters.
During her acceptance speech, Field also had a hilarious recovery after stumbling over the name of author Shelby Van Pelt, whose book Remarkably Bright Creatures served as the inspiration behind the movie.
"I love this project from page one of this lovely novel by Shelby Van Pelt, whatever her name is," she quipped. "She knows what it is. This story of an old woman, a young man and an octopus doesn't come around a lot."
And for Field, she "read about three chapters" of the book before immediately jumping on board the project, which also stars Lewis Pullman.
"Because I'm old, it's very hard to find a role that's interesting for an older woman," she told People in May. "I never take to the kinds of stories about women and older women that are trying to find a man."
Especially since the two-time Oscar winner didn't like those types of stories when she was younger as well.
"It doesn't appeal to me,' she explained, "because I think women are about so much more."
In fact, Field found Remarkably Bright Creatures to be quite "life-affirming."
"It's an homage to life, to creatures, and the connection that human beings have to creatures," she told People back in February. "Even when we were shooting, we were constantly noodling and fixing and letting it breathe and have its own existence outside of the book. It was a long journey."
To see Field and more stars on the Emmys 2026 red carpet, read on.
Zendaya
in custom Prada and Mikimoto jewelry.
Selena Gomez
in Louis Vuitton and Tiffany & Co. jewelry.
Ayo Edebiri
in Chanel and Mikimoto jewelry.
Mariska Hargitay
in Monse and Stuart Weitzman shoes.
Noah Wyle
in custom Brunello Cucinelli and Cartier watch.
Nicole Kidman
in Chanel and OMEGA watch.
Elle Fanning
in Ralph Lauren and Cartier jewelry.
Dakota Fanning
in Carolina Herrera and Swarovski jewelry.
Kristen Bell
in Alberta Ferretti.
Shailene Woodley
in Balenciaga.
Julia Garner
in Loewe and Marco Bicego jewelry.
Florence Pugh
in Vivienne Westwood.
Colman Domingo
in custom Valentino and OMEGA watch.
Kaley Cuoco & Tom Pelphrey
in Christian Siriano (Cuoco) and Giorgio Armani (Pelphrey).
Julianne Hough
in Antonio Grimaldi.
Sarah Pidgeon
in Chanel.
Michael Urie
in Christian Siriano and Azza Fahmy jewelry.
Allison Janney
in Pamella Roland and Sabyasachi.
Emilia Clarke
in Prada.
John Mulaney & Olivia Munn
in Brunello Cucinelli (Mulaney) and FFORME (Munn).
Michelle Pfeiffer
in Saint Laurent.
Oscar Isaac
in Celine.
Jessica Williams
in Honor, Tyler Ellis bag, and Jessica McCormack jewelry.
Harrison Ford & Calista Flockhart
in custom Paul Smith (Ford) and Zuhair Murad (Flockhart).
Sterling K. Brown
in Brunello Cucinelli.
Ryan Michelle Bathe
in Lia Stublia and Martin Katz jewelry.
Lisa Kudrow
in Celine.
Paul Anthony Kelly
in Louis Vuitton and Vacheron Constantin watch.
Sally Field
in Akris.
Chase Infiniti
in Louis Vuitton and Hearts on Fire jewelry.