Find out who took home gold for this year’s Emmy Awards

She promised to “rebuild that wall and make Mexico pay for it”.

Maggie has now won four Emmys and been nominated for nine but hasn’t picked up any of the prizes in person.

Which nominees came out on top? “I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a transgender character on television”, Tambor said, referencing a criticism of the show and other Hollywood efforts that cast cisgender actors as transgender characters.

Game of Thrones, which went into Sunday’s show with a leading 23 nominations, won a total of 12 Emmys, including for directing and writing. This time she had a Sunday ceramics class she couldn’t get out of. Both young, on celebrated but niche shows, they are in profoundly actor-y parts, albeit ones that the Television Academy hasn’t always fully appreciated.

Downton Abbey actress Dame Maggie stayed away from the Los Angeles ceremony but won a best supporting actress gong for her role as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, in the hit period drama.

The first post-show stop for most Emmy guests is the Governors Ball across the street from the Microsoft Theater, an event that transforms a normally drab Los Angeles Convention Center meeting hall into a fairy-tale-like garden. Smith has never attended an Emmy but personally collected her two Oscars (1969 and 1978) and a Tony (1990). He was also a no-show.

HBO’s tally was boosted by “Last Week Tonight” (Outstanding Variety Series) and “Veep” (Best Comedy Series).

I guess when you are as talented and respected as Maggie Smith you can really do whatever you please.

Courtney B. Vance beat out favorite Bryan Cranston to win best actor in a limited series or movie for playing lawyer Johnnie Cochran in “The People v. O.J”.

Clark was not “the two-dimensional cardboard cutout that I saw on the news” but a “whip-smart” woman dedicated to justice for the case’s victims, Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman.

Two years into a series of tweaks to make the awards a little less staid and predictable – first expanding the voting pool, and then doing with a ranking system that tended to celebrate second and third choices, rather than favourites – they were rewarded with what surely has to be an awards-granting body’s biggest dream: the show ran like clockwork while the awards themselves had some surprises.

Louie Anderson, victor for best supporting actor for comedy “Baskets”, credited FX with worrying less than others about initial ratings.