There are more than 120 different Emmy award categories. And that doesn't even include the retired ones.
The huge number of awards — compare it to the Oscars, which has 24 categories — means that a lot of people are winners. They're split between Primetime Emmy Awards, Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards, and Creative Arts Emmy Awards categories, which means that many winners and nominees are known only within the industry. But a lot of obscure categories also means that a good number of famous people get lost among all the gold.
While movie stars like Tom Hanks and Brad Pitt have received Emmy awards for producing prestigious television shows, a good number of musicians like Taylor Swift and Cher have won for working on other creative projects.
Here are 10 famous people you didn't realize had Emmys.
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Taylor Swift has an Emmy for an interactive version of her "Blank Space" music video.
The pop star won an Emmy in 2015 for an original interactive program: "AMEX Unstaged: Taylor Swift Experience." It's an app that offers a 360-degree view of her "Blank Space" music video integrated with a virtual reality headset.
Brad Pitt won an Emmy for bringing a classic play to television.
Pitt has long been an A-list producer with his company Plan B Entertainment, which won him an Oscar for producing "12 Years a Slave." With Ryan Murphy's HBO adaptation of Larry Kramer's classic play, "A Normal Heart," he also got the Emmy for Outstanding TV Movie in 2014.
Pitt was nominated in the same Emmy award category for producing "Nightingale" and has a nomination from 2002 for Outstanding Guest Actor in "Friends."
Jay-Z has a Sports Emmy award for his 2009 Super Bowl performance.
His performance of "Run This Town" at Super Bowl XLIV won an award for Outstanding Music Composition, Direction, or Lyrics.
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