The kids of “Stranger Things”, ineligible for awards at this year’s Emmys due to the show dropping in July 2016, also performed the Bruno Mars hit “Uptown Funk” at the Emmy Awards pre-show.
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Variety Talk Series: “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”. It also won for best writing. “If just a couple of you can get your kids cameras instead of violins, we’ll be all good”.
When asked about the possibility of a prequel or spinoff following the end of the series, Benioff tempered expectations-asking reporters to pose that question to author George R.R. Martin, and implying that he and Weiss would bow out of the show once “Thrones” reached its conclusion: “It’s a great world, I’m sure there will be other series set in Westeros, but for us, this is it”.
Yes, “Game of Thrones” has the most Emmy wins in television history. “But for now we still have two seasons to finish and I still have two books to finish, so it’s all speculation”.
The HBO fantasy drama won three awards at the 68th annual Emmy Awards on Sunday night, pushing its lifetime total number of awards to 38 – one more than Frasier, the previous all-time record holder.
Sterling K. Brown also won for outstanding supporting actor in a limited series for his role as Christopher Darden in the “People v. O.J”.
The cast of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” pose backstage with their award for Oustanding Drama Series at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California U.S., September 18.
“Veep” star Julia Louis-Dreyfus won her fifth straight Emmy for her role in the satirical White House comedy in which she plays a graspingly ambitious and inept president battling to stay in power. His opening skit included jokes with former GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush (“Did you know you can make $12 an hour driving for Uber?”) and his opening monologue tweaked Donald Trump by goofing on Mark Burnett, who created “The Apprentice”.
Paulson, who played prosecutor Marcia Clark, brought her as a guest and singled her out from the stage. “I’m so glad that he liked Veep, because his opinion was the one that really mattered”, she said.
Louis-Dreyfus apologized for what she called “the current political climate”, seven weeks before the presidential election.
We have the best cast that’s I think ever been assembled.
“Our show started out as a political satire”, she said, “but it now feels more like a sobering documentary”.
Jill Soloway accepts the award for Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series for “Transparent” at the Emmy Awards on September 18.
Everybody expected Tambor to win the trophy so that before the first award of the night was handed out, host Jimmy Kimmel already gave the veteran actor an Emmy gold-it was a joke, but eventually became a reality as the night progressed.
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A stunned Kate McKinnon from “Saturday Night Live” won the Emmy for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and was literally in tears as she took the stage.
