One such victor was the ever lovely Dame Maggie Smith who won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama for her role on Downton Abbey. That makes 38 total in the series’ history, passing “Frasier” as the most-honored prime-time series ever. Besides best drama, “GOT” won David Benioff and DB Weiss the best writing in a drama series honour and best directing in a drama series for Miguel Sapochnik.
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McKinnon, a tearful victor of a supporting actress award in comedy for her work on “Saturday Night Live”, thanked Clinton upon accepting.
Three of its stars – Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, and Maisie Williams – dominated the pre-show betting in the supporting actress category, but the statuette went to veteran Maggie Smith of “Downton Abbey”. “Our show started out as a political satire”, she said, “but it now feels more like a sobering documentary”.
Next up, when Julia Louis-Dreyfus picked up her award for best actress in a comedy, she quipped, “I want to personally apologize for the current political climate”.
“Transparent” creator Jill Soloway compared Trump to Adolf Hitler during the awards ceremony, which was filled with references to the USA election.
“If Donald Trump gets elected and he builds that wall, the first person we are throwing over it is Mark Burnett”, Kimmel said, setting the political tone of the show 50 days before America elects its next president. Two critical darlings earned major hardware, with surprise wins for Mr. Robot’s Malek and Orphan Black’s Maslany for outstanding lead actor and actress in a drama series, respectively. Women won awards, Jeffrey Tambor made a passionate speech about giving trans actors a shot, Leslie Jones yelled at the Ernst And Young guys for not protecting her Twitter account, and throughout the whole thing it was clear that this wasn’t just about white guys for once. “We’re sure someone will come along and take [the record] from us, but hopefully not until we’re all dead”. Quite the competitive race once again for Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie, but it was a win for Regina King for her work on the ABC mini-series “American Crime”. She went to the Oscars to get an Oscar. The award for best direction for a limited series, movie or drama went to Susanne Bier for “The Night Manager”.
Peter Dinklage missed out on a supporting actor trophy, as did co-star Kit Harington, the category’s favorite, with Ben Mendelsohn picking up the prize for Bloodline.
Backstage, actress Regina King took note of the Simpson series after winning a supporting award for “American Crime”, the only victor from a scripted series that aired on one of the commercial broadcast networks.
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John Oliver of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” won the Emmy for top variety talk series.
