Every double nominee before him had gone home empty-handed. Matthew Rhys didn't just break that streak on Monday night, he broke it twice over.

Rhys won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series for Netflix's "The Beast in Me" early in the 78th Emmy Awards, edging out a field that included Oscar Isaac, considered the frontrunner for his work in "Beef" Season 2, according to TheWrap. A few hours later he took Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for Apple TV's "Widow's Bay," beating Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Steve Carell, Jason Segel and Martin Short.

Nobody had managed that before. TheWrap notes a handful of performers have scored dual lead nominations across drama, comedy and limited series since the categories split in 1979 — Mary-Louise Parker, Ted Danson, Daniel J. Travanti, Mariette Hartley among them, and every single one walked away with nothing. Rhys is the first to convert even one of those nods into a win, let alone both.

And there's a bigger stat attached. With a 2018 drama win for "The Americans" already on his shelf, Rhys becomes the first man to hold lead acting Emmys across all three categories, drama, comedy and limited series, per Variety. Robert Young, Carroll O'Connor and Andre Braugher had each managed two of the three. Barbara Stanwyck is the only other performer, of any gender, to complete the set, and even her run predates the comedy-drama split.

The two roles could not sit further apart. In "Widow's Bay," Rhys plays Tom Loftis, a single dad mayor trying to keep a cursed New England town on the tourist map. In "The Beast in Me," he's Nile Jarvis, a real estate scion suspected in his first wife's death, going up against Claire Danes' grieving-mother-turned-author. Rhys has said the comedy role was, oddly, the more exhausting one to play, telling the LA Times in July he'd end each "Widow's Bay" day "vibrating on a higher level" while Jarvis's stillness let him breathe.

Accepting the comedy award, Rhys credited "Widow's Bay" creator Katie Dippold, joking that co-star Stephen Root was right to call the show a product of her "depraved and twisted mind." For the limited series win, he thanked writers Daniel Pearle, Gabe Rotter and Howard Gordon and singled out Danes, calling her "an intimidating scene partner" he was grateful to work opposite.

Danes herself remains one short of the full set, having already won lead drama for "Homeland" but never the limited or comedy prize. She was in the room Monday as Rhys's co-star and, coincidentally, as the actress who once beat Elisabeth Moss in the last comparable double-nomination race, back in 2013.

The next question is whether anyone else gets close. "Widow's Bay" has already led the Creative Arts night earlier in September, and with Season 2 conversations reportedly underway, Rhys may get another shot at extending a record nobody else has even touched.