After winning best comedy actress for a fifth consecutive time for HBO’s “Veep”, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who plays flawed US president Selina Meyer on the show, said “I want to personally apologize for the current political climate”.
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A sitcom that has aggressively taken on issues including use of the “N-word” and police brutality, “black-ish” is up against “Veep” for top comedy honours in a field that also includes “Master of None”, “Modern Family”, “Silicon Valley”, “Transparent” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”. Rami Malek of “Mr Robot” and “Orphan Black” actress Tatiana Maslany overcame heavyweight competition to be named best actor and best actress, respectively.
On stage, she said described Clark as a “complicated, whip smart, giant-hearted mother of two” who dedicated herself to “righting an unconscionable wrong”.
Epic war drama series “Game of Thrones” has won big at the 68th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, as the series took home the award for “Outstanding Drama Series”.
” Veteran Jeffrey Tambor won best comedy actor for a second time for his role as a father who transitions to a woman in Amazon’s ground-breaking “Transparent”.
Yes, Donald Trump was a featured player at the Emmys.
“I’d also like to take this opportunity to personally apologise for the current political climate”. “I’m so glad that he liked Veep”, she said, “because his opinion was the one that really mattered”. “Our show started out as a political satire but it now feels more like a sobering documentary”.
She promised to “rebuild that wall and make Mexico pay for it”.
In the press room after her for win for outstanding directing for a comedy series, she compared him to Hitler.
Her rivals included Game Of Thrones stars Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke and Maisie Williams, but the 81-year-old went on to land another Emmy to her bulging trophy cabinet – her third for her Downton role alone.
She’s the democratic candidate running against Trump in the race to become the US President. Sterling K. Brown, who won a supporting actor award, said later it felt like he had floated out of his body and looked down at everyone in the crowd when his name was announced.
The Bourne actor strolled onstage, munching an apple and asking Kimmel if he won the award which went to John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight.
Damon showed up to taunt him over his loss.
“The People v. O.J. Simpson”, which earned the second-highest number of nominations, converted five to trophies Sunday.
He wasn’t quite on target – Tambor did win, “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” cleaned up, and “Game of Thrones” won outstanding drama. Courtney B. Vance won Outstanding Lead Actor for his portrayal of defence lawyer Johnny Cochran, exiting the stage with thanks to his wife, the incredible Angela Bassett, and saying, “Obama out; Hillary in!”.
The HBO series picked up 12 Emmys this season: nine awards in technical categories and three top prizes at the glitzy ceremony in downtown Los Angeles – television’s equivalent of the Oscars.
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series went to Louie Anderson from “Baskets”. “I play a young man who is, I think, like so many of us, profoundly alienated”, he told the crowd.
The “Ghostbusters” star, who has been dealing with trolls on Twitter, joined the reps from Ernst and Young on stage and joked that she needed their protection for her social media account.
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“Thank you, Ellen DeGeneres, thank you, Hillary Clinton”, she said, naming two of the famous people she’s caricatured on the show. “Big fan of yours, too”, with a photo of McKinnon in character as Clinton.
