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The Puerto Rican star is up in the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) category<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\tBad Bunny stays winning. The Puerto Rican superstar just earned his first Emmy nomination <\/a>for his historic 2026 Super Bowl halftime performance, specifically in the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) category.<\/p>\n \n\tInterestingly enough, the musician is credited twice under the official nomination, once with his birth name \u00a0Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio for his role as a supervising producer of the performance, and as a performer. The performance itself earned nine nominations, including Outstanding Choreography For Variety Or Reality Programming, Outstanding Directing For A Variety Special, Outstanding Hairstyling For A Variety, Nonfiction Or Reality Program, Outstanding Production Design For A Variety Special, Outstanding Lighting Design\/Lighting Direction For A Special, Outstanding Music Direction, and the aforementioned Outstanding Variety Special (Live), though Bad Bunny is only listed under Outstanding Variety Special (Live).<\/p>\n \n\tBad Bunny\u2019s Emmy nomination marks a major moment of recognition after his halftime performance caused an intense meltdown among conservatives. Before he the star took the stage, prominent Republicans denounced<\/a> the NFL\u2019s decision to make Benito the headliner. President Donald Trump even weighed<\/a> in: \u201cI never heard of him. I don\u2019t know who he is \u2026 I don\u2019t know why they\u2019re doing it, it\u2019s crazy, and then they blame it on some promoter that they hired to pick up entertainment. I think it\u2019s absolutely ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tTurning Point USA, a conservative organization, went as far as setting up a \u201ccounterprogram\u201d called \u201cThe All-American Halftime Show\u201d<\/a> as an alternative to the star\u2019s performance. conservatives then decried<\/a> the performance for being in Spanish (Bad Bunny\u2019s primary language), and the FCC received over 2,000 complaints<\/a> about the halftime show, criticizing the \u201cvulgar\u201d dancer moves as well as\u00a0Bad Bunny<\/a>\u2019s lyrics.<\/p>\n