Rob Reiner receives posthumous Emmy nomination for ‘The Bear’
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Rob Reiner has earned a posthumous Emmy Award nomination for his guest role in “The Bear” Season 4.
This marks Reiner’s first award nomination since his death in December and his first performance-related Emmy nom since 1978, when he won for supporting actor in a comedy series for “All in the Family.”
He last received Emmy nominations in 2024 for directing and producing “Albert Brooks: Defending My Life.”
In FX’s “The Bear,” Reiner played pragmatic restaurant consultant Albert Schnurr, who mentored line cook Ebra (Edwin Lee Gibson) as part of a three-episode arc in the series’ fourth season. In its series finale in late June, the show paid tribute to Reiner with a line of dialogue referencing his 1987 classic “The Princess Bride.”
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“All those days that Rob and I spent together were a lot of fun,” Gibson told the London Evening Standard in June. “I’m really happy that it looks like, ‘Oh, they must have spent so much time,’ when in actuality we just had such a great chemistry immediately.
“I got to be his last scene partner, unfortunately ... but it was just really, really great moments with someone that you grew up watching in front of the camera, then behind the camera.”
Reiner was last seen onscreen in Larry David’s historical HBO sketch comedy series “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness,” portraying George Washington in a pointed diss against President Trump. The episode aired July 3.
The actors at the center of Christopher Storer’s FX series discuss the finale, what it means to leave their characters behind and what they imagine for the Bear and its crew.
In addition to his acting roles, Reiner was best known for directing Hollywood classics such as “Stand by Me,” “The Princess Bride” and “When Harry Met Sally...” He and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, an accomplished photographer, were also well-established political activists and Trump critics.
Reiner and Michelle were killed in their home in Los Angeles on Dec. 14. Their son, Nick, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and pleaded not guilty in February.
This is Reiner’s eighth Emmy nomination. Throughout his illustrious career, he also received one Oscar nomination in 1992 — as a producer for best picture nominee “A Few Good Men.” He was honored by colleagues and friends at the 98th Academy Awards in March.
