On Sunday, an Emmy audience 14 times as large saw its star, Tatiana Maslany, win for lead actress in a drama series.
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The HBO series was up for 24 awards and came away with 12 at Sunday night’s Emmy awards in Los Angeles.
Her rivals in the category included Game Of Thrones stars Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke and Maisie Williams.
If you have a passionate base of supporters who will go to bat for you, you can win, and now we have multiple pieces of evidence of it. RuPaul’s reality host victory at last weekend’s Creative Arts Emmys foreshadowed this.
American Crime Story, a dramatisation of the 1995 murder trial of the U.S. football star, won nine Emmys, including the award for best limited series.
Executive Producer David Mandel accepts the award for Outstanding Comedy Series for “Veep” along with the cast and crew at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California, U.S., September 18, 2016. I’ve never had the chance to do this before. She brought lead prosecutor Marcia Clark as her guest to Emmy ceremony. But things got odder when British writer Steven Moffat, who won for “Sherlock: The Abominable Bride”, tried to get into the act. Well, I don’t see her.
Paulson, 41, also said she learned a lot about Clark in preparing for the role, and it changed her opinion of her.
“You lost and now you gotta…stand out here for the rest of the night in front of everybody”, Damon said. The series had three nominations for directing for a limited series, movie or dramatic special, but it lost to Susanne Bier for “The Night Manager”. The Voice won for a second year in a row, and Jeffrey Tambor also did a two-fur for his lead role on Transparent.
At least “Mr. Robot” is on the USA Network, part of basic cable.
In his monologue, Kimmel reminded everyone that the TV world is more diverse than ever, then noted, “Here in Hollywood, the only thing we value more than diversity is congratulating ourselves on how much we value diversity”. “Because there’s a little bit of Elliot in all of us, isn’t there?” “I feel so lucky to be on a show that puts women at the center”, she said.
Maggie Smith, who had won three Emmys for playing the snarky and witty Dowager Countess on “Downton Abbey” – and been nominated for six more – won again in absentia for the final season of the PBS series.
Other Emmy newcomers included Canadian Tatiana Maslany, a surprise best drama actress victor who beat out presumed front runner Robin Wright for playing a woman with multiple cloned personalities in “Orphan Black”.
“Veep” repeated its best comedy series win, and its star, Julia-Louis Dreyfus, won a record-breaking sixth Emmy as best comedy actress.
Louis-Dreyfus apologized for what she called “the current political climate”, seven weeks before the presidential election. “This season is unbelievable and I think fans are going to be really satisfied”.
“There is no best actor, all right?” “I missed the last category”, he said to Kimmel. Is it officially time to acknowledge that big-name awards shows aren’t the major, advertising dollar-grabbing events they once were? “Give them an audition”.
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NBC’s “The Voice” won its second consecutive Emmy for outstanding reality-competition program.
