The MTV Movie Awards gave Best Kiss to Twilight when it clearly belonged to Harry Potter.
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Not to be outdone by Ellen DeGeneres, who ordered pizza for the Academy Awards audience when she hosted in 2014, Jimmy Kimmel provided food for Emmy Awards crowd Sunday.
It was an emotional night for many winners. “Good” because the Emmys themselves were actually pretty fun to watch: amusing in the right places, poignant in the right places, and entertaining in general from beginning to end.
Kimmel lost the trophy to British star John Oliver and his show, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver.
Our LGBT community is becoming so mainstream that we nearly dominated the 68th Annual Emmy Awards. “You want to get it right, not for you, but for them”, Paulson said. But happily corporate blandness is just one of the extreme poles. “But since you good at keeping things safe, I got a job for you: my Twitter account”. Kimmel’s seen-it-all, above-it-all schtick can be a little exhausting in the traditional late-night format, which has essentially settled into the TV equivalent of a cup of lukewarm tea before bed. Overall, Thrones won 12 Emmys this year, out of 23 total nominations. When Kimmel’s targets winced, it was only because his barbs had successfully hit home.
During his opening monologue, Emmy host Jimmy Kimmel called out producer Mark Burnett, the producer of reality series “The Apprentice” and “Celebrity Apprentice” which Donald Trump hosted, saying “who is to blame for the Trump phenomenon?” “I play a young man who is, I think, like so many of us, profoundly alienated”, he told the crowd. Master of None cowriter Adam Yang used his speech to advocate for Asian actors and filmmakers.
Actor Jeffrey Tambor, victor of Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for “Transparent”. Even the acceptances speeches that weren’t explicitly political were full of substance. Last time we saw her, Dany, her troops and her dragons were making a beeline for Westeros at the end of season six.
Rami Malek was named best lead actor in a drama series for his role in Mr Robot, while Tatiana Maslany won best actress in a drama series for her performance in BBC America series Orphan Black.
Brown, who played Christopher Darden in the “O.J.” series, earned a BA degree in drama at Stanford University and gave a shout out to his “extended family” on the Farm.
“Ladies and gentlemen, 4-time Emmy award-winner, Dr Bill Cosby”.
“I wanted this but my stylist Spry Lee Scott got me this custom tux from Eaden Myles, and this custom made bow tie from Dleak Bowties”, Caleb smiled.
If you’re looking, of course, you can find places to nitpick.
– Sarah Paulson, who won an Emmy for portraying Clark in The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, apologizing to the prosecutor – who she brought to the gala – for misjudging her. That happened past year, thus allowing someone in the acting branch to weigh in on a staggering 97 performances.
The show entered this year’s Emmy Awards ceremony already leading the pack, having won nine statues from the Creative Arts Emmys last weekend, a haul that allowed “Thrones” to surpass “The West Wing” and “Hill Street Blues” and claim the record for the drama series with the most wins in Emmy history.
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Fortunately, Emmy voters weren’t completely stuck in a rubber-stamp mode. You lost and now you gotta stand out here for the rest of the night in front of everybody.
