“The more I learned about the real Marcia Clark. the more I had to recognize that I along with the rest of the world had been superficial and careless in my judgment”, said Paulson, accepting her first Emmy. It’s a shame the Emmy voters didn’t keep that streak going by picking either “Robot” or “The Americans” over HBO’s repeat victor “Game of Thrones” – but still, those other wins were nearly enough to make you think they’ve finally actually started to watch television. This show, the Game of Thrones has broken records by winning the Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, the Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and the Outstanding Drama Series awards. But HBO won big at last weekend’s Creative Arts Emmys, earning 16 compared to FX’s 12.
Advertisement
This year, however, the series lost in the drama acting categories, which were far from predictable. From the sea of red a la Priyanka Chopra and Tatiana Maslany to Emilia Clarke redefining the ubiquitous naked dress, here are the best dressed of the night. “Oh, my God. Please tell me you’re seeing this too”, Malek, who plays an emotionally troubled engineer caught up in a unsafe hacking conspiracy, said after winning the honour.
And when it came to diversity, Alan Yang and Aziz Ansari, co-creators of Netflix’s Master of None, took the opportunity to point out that Asian-American representation on TV is only just getting started.
The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards averaged a meager 11.3 million viewers Sunday, worse than last year’s record low of 11.9 million. “I’m a … I’m a presenter”, David, 69, said while presenting the award for Best Comedy Series.
If Trump wins the United States presidency, she promised “to rebuild that wall and make Mexico pay for it”. Until, of course, a trembling, tearful Julia explained that her father passed away two days ago. The Voice won for a second year in a row, and Jeffrey Tambor also did a two-fur for his lead role on Transparent. He called for Hollywood to make him the last non-transgender actor to get such a role.
Dame Maggie won an Emmy for playing Violet Crawley for the third time. The Saturday Night Live comedian, who had her website hacked and Twitter account flooded with racist slurs this summer, made light of the situation onstage with the Ernst & Young reps who hold the winners’ names. “Thank you to the transgender community for your lived lives”, she said.
On Sunday night, “Downton Abbey” became the latest critically-acclaimed series to never win an Outstanding Series Emmy.
Variety Sketch Series: “Key & Peele”.
Advertisement
Actress, Limited Series or Movie: Sarah Paulson, “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”.
