SNL’s McKinnon, who has portrayed Clinton on the show, won for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
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“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.
Modern Family has piled up 26 wins over its impressive run, but it only took home one trophy in 2015 and zero in 2016. She is the second female SNL cast member to win an Emmy for her work on the show after Gilda Radner in 1978.
6 – Years since a non-white actress won the award for Best Actress in a Comedy.
“If you want an Emmy you better hop on a plane right now and get your Dowager Count-ass over here”, he said.
Sunday’s Emmys saw HBO’s fantasy epic “Game of Thrones” make television history, becoming the most decorated fictional show since the awards began almost seven decades ago. “She’s treating us like the People’s Choice Awards”, Kimmel joked. Numerous nominees and winners aren’t even on TV.
Jeb Bush also made a weird appearance in the awards show during a segment where he played a chauffer for Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
September 20: Looks like Emmys, this year was dedicated to American fantasy drama “Game of Thrones” as it bagged a total of 38 trophies in its kitty.
The PBS Masterpiece Twitter account published her reply which reads, “I was very astonished and pleased to win the award”.
The HBO series picked up 12 Emmys this season: nine awards in technical categories and three top prizes at the glitzy ceremony in downtown Los Angeles – television’s equivalent of the Oscars.
Louis-Dreyfus apologized for what she called “the current political climate”, seven weeks before the presidential election.
“Topple the patriarchy!” yelled Soloway, while receiving her award for directing her comedy episode “Man on the Land”. The dramatic retelling of the football star’s murder trial was honored as best limited series and writing, and earned awards for stars Courtney B. Vance, Sterling K. Brown and Sarah Paulson.
Rami Malek won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, his first win.
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Other Emmy newcomers included Canadian Tatiana Maslany, a surprise best drama actress victor who beat out presumed front runner Robin Wright for playing a woman with multiple cloned personalities in “Orphan Black”.
