“Oh, my God. Please tell me you’re seeing this too”, said a stunned Malek, who plays an emotionally troubled engineer caught up in a unsafe hacking conspiracy.
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Sunday night’s win was the 81-year-old actress’s fourth, having won twice before for her performance as Violet Crawley in Masterpiece Theatre’s costume drama, as well as taking home the outstanding lead actress in a miniseries or movie for My House In Umbria in 2003.
The bit led to some really amusing jokes – like when Amy Schumer read her napkin note from Mrs. Kimmel aloud only to realize it was intended for Amy Poehler and Cuba Gooding Jr. getting props for his work in Snow Dogs – but the whole thing felt like a blatant rip-off of two previous Oscars jokes: Ellen DeGeneres passing around pizza to the 2014 crowd and Chris Rock selling Girl Scout Cookies to the crowd in March.
It is the fifth time in a row Louis-Dreyfus has won the award for her role in the U.S. version of BBC comedy The Thick Of It. Before that, she honed in on Trump’s Republican presidential campaign.
“Thrones” nabbed eight awards at last year’s Creative Arts Emmys and four during the Emmys telecast including its first win for Best Drama, and a second prize for Supporting Actor Peter Dinklage, who previously won for his role as Tyrion Lannister in 2011.
He called for Hollywood to make him the last non-transgender actor to get such a role. She topped it off with an emotional dedication to her father, who she said died this past Friday.
Ben Mendelsohn of Bloodline and Dame Maggie Smith of Downton Abbey walked away with acting Emmy glory in the supporting categories. It was large-scale and small-scale, from Tatiana Maslany’s win to the fact that Last Week Tonight With John Oliver won best variety talk show, a category that has nearly automatically been won by The Daily Show for years.
“This is so humiliating”, said Damon, ignoring Kimmel’s request to leave. That didn’t happen. Instead The People vs O.J. Simpson took a ton of Emmys and deservedly.
Louie Anderson was honored as best supporting actor in a comedy series for his portrayal of a loving but tough mom in “Baskets”. He also managed to reference a running joke on the show and Good Will Hunting with one flawless parting line: “Tell your mom I like them apples”. McKinnon got an extra-loud round of applause when she thanked Hillary Clinton, one of her regular impressions. “Big fan of yours, too”.
The ceremony, hosted by funnyman Jimmy Kimmel, starts roughly at 5:00 pm (0000 GMT Monday). “If Donald Trump gets elected and he builds that wall, the first person we are throwing over it is Mark Burnett”, quipped Kimmel, addressing Burnett, the British producer who created Celebrity Apprentice.
On the red carpet, Judith Light was being fully transparent when she told bleacher fans how hard it is to walk a red carpet in heels. “This is other-izing with a capital O. He needs to be called out every chance we get for being one of most risky monsters to ever approach our lifetimes”, Soloway said.
Tambor plays a retired professor who becomes a transgender woman as the Amazon show looks at how the transition impacts her grown children.
There were signals throughout that there is a change that is ongoing even in the stuffy traditions of the Television Academy.
“I feel so lucky to be on a show that puts women at the center”, Maslany said.
Rami Malek won for best actor in a drama series for his role in “Mr. Robot”.
Perpetual bridesmaid in the series categories, FX has found great Emmy success in the limited series/miniseries arena with a genre it reintroduced to television, anthology drama series, with American Horror Story.
Outside the acting categories, D. V. DeVincentis took home the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special for writing the installment’s Episode 6, titled “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia”.
A sitcom that has aggressively taken on issues including use of the “N-word” and police brutality, “black-ish” is up against “Veep” for top comedy honors in a field that also includes “Master of None”, “Modern Family”, “Silicon Valley”, “Transparent” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”.
It’s now official: Game of Thrones has won more Emmys than any primetime TV show ever.
Backstage, the drama’s tight-lipped showrunners were hesitant when asked about the series’ upcoming seasons as the fantasy drama nears its end. While Saturday Night Live still holds the record with 44 wins, it’s a late night program and can’t be counted against the primetime shows. As if that wasn’t enough, Kimmel then joked about the meal’s “juice” boxes – a reference to Simpson’s football nickname – and wondered if Simpson was watching the show from prison and rooting for “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”.
Sarah Paulson, who played former O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark, brought Clark to the Emmys and apologized to her in front of millions for not being kind in the past.
Supporting Actor, Limited Series or Movie: Sterling K. Brown, “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”.
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One of them, Sara Paulson, won for outstanding lead actress in a limited series.
