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For sheer awards tonnage, it was a triumph for HBO.
Peter Dinklage was smacking on some chewing gum when his name was called as the victor for best supporting actor at Sunday’s Emmy Awards.
The next closest network was Comedy Central with four.
The drama awards were a little better, if only because I was surprised at how many awards Game of Thrones got (for a relatively weak season, I thought).
“Thanks again, HBO, for believing in dragons”, said David Benioff, producer of “Game of Thrones“. “The Voice” won for outstanding reality competition series, its second Emmy win in the category. Last year, it was nominated for 31 Emmys and won seven, though none in the prime-time ceremony. She invoked the words and spirit of 19th-century American abolitionist Harriet Tubman in accepting the award. “Let me tell you something”, she continued, “the only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity”. “You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there”.
Supporting Actress, Limited Series or Movie: Regina King, “American Crime“, ABC.
Host Andy Samberg’s best and worst jokes from the evening.
He tweeted his delight at the show’s success. Colbert this month replaced the retired Letterman on CBS. “It’s incredible and impossible for me personally to be standing here”, Hamm said. “It is a barren wasteland out there”. Weiss won for their writing on the hit HBO series, it looks like it.
Allison Janney found a blast of air conditioning when she came backstage after winning for supporting actress in the comedy series “Mom”.
“It’s getting trickier and trickier to satirize this stuff”, she quipped.
Jeffrey Tambor from Amazon’s comedy Transparent, won Best Actor in a Comedy series for his act as a transgender.
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“I wasn’t prepared because the other actors in my category, I’m still sort of awed by all of their performances”.
