“Game of Thrones” won best drama for the second year in a row on Sunday, and became prime-time television’s most-honored show ever. “GoT” has broken the record of ‘Frasier, ‘ one of the most critically acclaimed comedy series of all time that won a total of 37 Primetime Emmy Awards during its 11-year run, reports the Guardian.
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The HBO series did pick up Emmys for writing, directing, as well has a bevy of Creative Arts Emmys, but walked away empty-handed when it came to the acting categories.
“Oh, my God. Please tell me you’re seeing this too”, said a stunned Malek, who plays an emotionally troubled engineer caught up in a risky hacking conspiracy. “I mean, you lost and now you’ve gotta stand out here for the rest of the night in front of everybody, when you probably just wanna go home and curl up and cry”.
Despite her face showing up on the seating chart the day before, Beyonce was a no show at the awards where she was nominated for her visual album Lemonade. That’s what we’re doing moving forward with American Crime Story: We’re interested in socially relevant stories; we won’t be doing trial of the week.
For the full list of Emmy-winners, visit the official website. Kimmel joked, “And the victor of tonight’s plus one contest: Sarah Paulson, who played Marcia Clark, and brought Marcia Clark with her tonight”. “Did you know you can make $12 an hour driving for Uber?’ he said to Kimmel”.
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“We’re not mailing this to her”, he said, running onstage and swiping the trophy when it was revealed Smith had won a third Emmy for her role as the Dowager Countess of Grantham, Violet Crawley, on Downton Abbey.
Actress, Limited Series or Movie: Sarah Paulson, “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”.
“I want to thank the Academy”, she began.
SNL’s McKinnon, who has portrayed Clinton on the show, won for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. A tearful McKinnon could barely speak, saying, “This is really insane!” “Thank you, Ellen DeGeneres, thank you, Hillary Clinton”, she said, naming two of the famous people she’s caricatured on the show.
The tweet was an olive branch in response to Kimmel’s ongoing faux war of words during the ceremony. The show also went on to win outstanding comedy. Julia Louis- Dreyfus won her fifth straight award for her performance in “Veep”.
Anticipation is high for Season 7, and when asked what we can expect from the penultimate year of the show, Weiss wryly said, “it will be bigger, and it will be better, and it will also be worse, but mostly better”. “I’d also like to take this opportunity to personally apologise for the current political climate. Our show started out as a political satire but it now feels like a sobering documentary”. Louis-Dreyfus finished: “So I certainly do promise to rebuild that wall and make Mexico pay for it”.
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“Veep” later picked up the Emmy for outstanding comedy series. “Please give transgender talent a chance”, he told the industry decision-makers. “I would very much like to be the last cisgender male playing a transgender female”.
