Caleb McLaughlin distributes sandwiches at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Along “O.J. Simpson” winners Brown and Vance, Egyptian-American Rami Malek beat veterans Kevin Spacey and Liev Schreiber to scoop his first Emmy for playing a socially inept computer hacker in “Mr. Robot”.
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“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 on the USA Network series.
The award gala also honoured Indian-origin actor-writer-director Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang, who received the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy series honour for “Master of None”.
“When Maggie Smith hears she’s nominated for an Emmy, she has the same reaction that the rest of us have when we get those 20 percent off Bed Bath and Beyond coupons: right in the garbage”. Do that. I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television. She dedicated her award to her father, who died on Friday. Reading from paper, she said, “I would also like to take this opportunity to personally apologize for the current political climate”.
In her acceptance speech, Louis-Dreyfus said: “Our show started out as political satire but now feels like a sobering documentary”.
Last weekend, “Game of Thrones” dominated the Creative Emmy Awards, picking up nine prizes for technical achievement.
It is the third time Dame Maggie has won an Emmy for her portrayal of Violet Crawley, but she has never attended the ceremony in person.
She’s the democratic candidate running against Trump in the race to become the US President. – Mr Kimmel said sparking furrowed brows with a joke about the veteran comic, who is to go on trial in Pennsylvania next year for sexual assault.
Ben Mendelsohn of Bloodline won as best supporting drama actor and also was a no-show. The show was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, who did a pretty good job with role. As if that wasn’t enough, Kimmel then joked about the meal’s “juice” boxes a reference to Simpson’s football nickname and wondered if Simpson was watching the show from prison and rooting for “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”.
The American fought back tears as she collected the outstanding lead actress in a comedy series award.
“Mom, we did it!”, Anderson shouted, hoisting his trophy and dedicating the award to his late mother, Ora Zella Anderson.
“For me to be here as an atypical leading man”.
Clinton tweeted her congratulations to Kate McKinnon of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live”, who won a supporting actress award for comedy.
“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 you, too!”
Actress Tatiana Maslany holds her award for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series for “Orphan Black” as she mingles at the Governors Ball. “Did you know you can make $12 an hour driving for Uber?” he asked Kimmel. “Thanks to Mark Burnett, we don’t have to watch reality shows anymore because we’re living one”.
In an attempt at comedy that fell flat, the ceremony announcer indicated that Bill Cosby would be taking the stage.
The emcee, Jimmy Kimmel, himself has accused British producer Mark Burnett, behind the show The Celebrity Apprentice, to be the one who created Donald Trump. It revised how votes are cast and counted, switching from a ranking and points system to letting voters simply check off their top choice.
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Transparent, a half-hour show about a family whose patriarch transitions, isn’t the first to blur the awards-enforced division between comedy and drama.
