Netflix Hit Rebel Ridge Wins Best TV Movie at 2025 Creative Arts Emmys

The best TV movie of the year has been crowned at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmys!

On Saturday, Sept. 6, Rebel Ridge took home the award for Outstanding Television Movie. Also in the running for the prize were Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, The Gorge, Mountainhead and Nonnas.

Rebel Ridge became a hit on Netflix after its September 2024 release and won the Critics Choice Award for Best Movie Made for Television in February.

The story of corrupt small-town cops taking on a former Marine was written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier and stars Aaron Pierre, Don Johnson and AnnaSophia Robb. 

Set in the fictional Shelby Springs, Louisiana, Rebel Ridge was filmed in authentic locations in that state.

“New Orleans is one of my favorite cities in the whole world,” Pierre, 31, told PEOPLE at the movie’s release. “I love the food, I love the community, the culture, the energy. And New Orleans really embraced us and welcomed us.”

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, which premiered in the U.S. in February on Peacock, was also nominated.

It is the fourth movie in the romantic comedy franchise starring actor-producer Renée Zellweger in the title role. Directed by Michael Morris and costarring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall, Isla Fisher, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant, it is based on the 2013 novel by British writer Helen Fielding.

“Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man,” per an official synopsis for the TV movie.

In February, the Oscar-winning Zellweger, 56, told PEOPLE that she enjoyed diving back into Bridget’s world once more: “Bridget feels like an old friend.”

Apple TV+’s The Gorge, which premiered on the platform on Valentine’s Day, brings science fiction to this year’s TV movie Emmy category.

Starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller, it centers on two trained snipers tasked with guarding either side of a mysterious gorge without knowing what lies inside it.

In addition to sci-fi, action and horror, The Gorge is also a romantic drama.

“It’s a love story,” Teller, 38, told PEOPLE at its premiere. “If there’s any holiday, I guess, to watch a romantic movie, even if it’s set in a bit of a sci-fi world,” added the actor-producer.

Mountainhead premiered on HBO and streamer Max in May.

The film stars Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith and Ramy Youssef as four toxic frat-bros-turned-billionaires who are on a secluded weekend retreat amid a major global event.

Shot on a real-life lavish Utah estate, Mountainhead is another modern satire from Succession creator Jesse Armstrong — who reunited with that HBO drama’s composer Nicholas Britell for more unforgettable music. 

Netflix’s Nonnas premiered in May timed to Mother’s Day, a fitting choice as it’s the story of grandmothers working as chefs in a Staten Island restaurant.

The movie tells the true story of Joe Scaravella, played by actor-producer Vince Vaughn, his restaurant Enoteca Maria and its staff of nonnas. Susan Sarandon, Lorraine Bracco, Brenda Vaccaro and Talia Shire round out the cast as the grandmother-chefs.

Joe Manganiello, who plays Scaravella’s best friend Bruno, said in May that learning from his real-life counterpart made his role even more meaningful: “Vince and I got to actually go to the restaurant and be served by the nonnas and have dinner with the real-life Bruno and Joe.”

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The 2025 Creative Arts Emmys are being presented in Los Angeles on Saturday, Sept. 6 and Sunday, Sept. 7. The full show will be broadcast on Saturday, Sept. 13 at 8 p.m. ET on FXX.