Her words brought Clark to tears.
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“Holy crap!”Veep showrunner David Mandel said when he took the stage, before joking, “I have a 9:30 a.m. library shift at my son’s school tomorrow morning if anyone is willing to trade with me at home or you just email me”.
When Sterling K. Brown won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actor, Limited Series for “People v. OJ Simpson” on Sunday night (Sept. 18), the crowd went wild as his performance as Christopher Darden was epic. “The People v. O.J. Simpson” won best limited series, and its cast swept related categories.
“Glory to God”, Vance yelled before later dedicating his award to wife, actress Angela Bassett.
Television’s star-studded 68th Emmy Awards ceremony got underway Sunday (Sep 18) with Game of Thrones tipped to become the most decorated fictional show in history. “How many times do you think she’s showed up to win?” Among them is “How to Get Away with Murder” star Viola Davis, who previous year became the first woman of colour to be honoured as best drama series actress.
“I’m trying to figure out if “topple the patriarchy” is a good thing for me or not”, Kimmel offered after Soloway left the stage.
Perhaps the evening’s best aspect was the generous hand with which time was given to many winners.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus picked up her fifth consecutive Outstanding Lead Actress award for her role as President Selina Meyer in HBO’s “Veep”.
Sarah Paulson and her real-life doppelganger, O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark, joined forces at Sunday’s Emmy Awards.
There was nothing amusing about the racist, sexist hacking Saturday Night Live star Leslie Jones experienced in August, but taking to the stage alongside the Emmys’ Ernst & Young accountants (i.e. the representatives who protect the award show’s voting results) the Ghostbusters actress brought some much appreciated levity and realness to the incident, joking, “Y’all protecting something nobody is trying to steal”.
He then tried to catch a ride from “Veep” star Julia-Louis Dreyfus, but her chauffeur, played by a surprisingly amusing Jeb Bush, wouldn’t help him out.
Her victory gave her six best comedy wins – five for “Veep”, one for “The New Adventures of Old Christine” – and broke her tie with Candice Bergen and Mary Tyler Moore.
The comedy acting race includes Anthony Anderson of ABC’s modern black family series ‘black-ish, ‘ and Indian-American Aziz Ansari who is nominated for his new Netflix comedy “Master of None“.
The In Memoriam segment began with a tribute to producer-director Garry Marshall, who died July 19, from his “Happy Days” star Henry Winkler. Winkler said his former boss “had a generosity of spirit and knowledge”. “This is other-izing with a capital O. He needs to be called out every chance we get for being one of most unsafe monsters to ever approach our lifetimes”, Soloway said.
Jeffrey Tambor won his second Emmy in a row for best comedy actor for his role in “Transparent“.
“I would not be unhappy where I the last cis-gender male to play a transgender female on television”, Tambor said during his acceptance speech. “We have work to do”.
We’ve rounded up the most memorable moments below-take a look!
Later, after Mark Burnett accepted the Emmy for Outstanding Reality Competition, Kimmel joked, “That Emmy is going on the hood of Trump’s limousine, isn’t it?”
WRITING, LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE: D.V. DeVincentis, “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story“, FX.
If you said that TV’s biggest night, as they call it in Los Angeles, was a routine acknowledgment of the usual suspects, you would not win an award for outstanding statement of the obvious.
Early on in the show Kimmel announced the Maggie Smith rule that any victor not in attendance would not be receiving their Emmy statue.
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In his breezy monologue, Kimmel scolded multi-honored Maggie Smith for never attending the Emmy ceremony: “She shows up at the Oscars”. Kimmel rushed out after Smith won for outstanding actress in a drama series. She’s treating us like the People’s Choice Awards. “What do you want?”
