The Crown won 3 Primetime Emmy Awards for its first season. Those wins came at the 2017 awards, recognizing John Lithgow’s performance, the series’ production design, and its period costumes.
Lithgow won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for playing Winston Churchill. The production-design team won for recreating the visual world of the early Elizabethan era, while the costume team was honored for the clothing that helped establish character, status, and historical period.
The figure can cause confusion because The Crown has won many more Emmys across its full six-season run. Its later success included a historic seven-award sweep at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards in 2021, when it won all seven major drama categories for its fourth season. That later achievement is separate from the first season’s three wins. The first season received additional nominations, including for Claire Foy and the drama series itself, but those nominations did not become wins.