Premium cable network HBO dominated television’s Emmy awards on Sunday with trophies for best comedy Veep and best drama Game Of Thrones, holding off challenges from the digital upstarts that have shaken up traditional Hollywood.
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In the lead drama acting categories, Viola Davis was honored for How to Get Away with Murder and Jon Hamm won his first ever Emmy for Mad Men’s series finale.
In fact, Stewart, who exited the show earlier this year, said backstage at the Emmys that if Trump were to be elected president, he would “consider getting in a rocket and going to another planet because clearly this planet has gone bonkers”.
Sentiment appears to favor stylish 1960s-era advertising show “Mad Men” as it bids for a record fifth drama series win to crown its final season. This is his second Emmy win in the category – he had last won in 2011 for the same show. Game Of Thrones co-creator David Benioff said on stage.
Instead, the 18,000 voters of the Television Academy threw their support behind the HBO medieval fantasy series “Game of Thrones“, which was the night’s biggest victor with 12 Emmys. Photo by Mike Blake, Reuters. Amy Poehler missed her last chance for an Emmy for “Parks and Recreation” – which had its finale in February – losing to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who took home her fourth straight Emmy for “Veep“. Veep also clinched the comedy writing statuette. “Families – who have chosen for some reason to take me in and be nice to me along this unusual , odd road”, he said. “Thank you for letting us be part of the change”, he concluded his acceptance speech. On the more irreverent side, there was Amy Schumer (winner of Best Variety Sketch Series) thanking the makeup artist who made her eyes “smoky”, and the pithy Frances McDormand (Lead Actress in a Limited Series for Olive Kitteridge), who said simply, “My colleagues Jane and Lisa have already given the thank-yous that need to be said”.
Georgia schoolteacher Kim Lane has been to the Emmys bleachers for at least eight award shows and remembers one other year it was 100 degrees.
Netflix is the streaming pioneer, paving the best way with its political thriller “House of Cards” and ladies’s jail dramedy “Orange Is The New Black”.
‘Thank you all very much, ‘ he told them.
“I’d like to dedicate my performance and this award to the transgender community”.
“I think you know how I’ll be celebrating tonight”, she said.
Either way, we’ve got you covered.
The actress won her seventh career Emmy Sunday for playing the title role in the CBS comedy “Mom“.
Supporting Actress, Limited Series or Movie: Regina King, “American Crime“, ABC.
“Draper was so deeply flawed, but Hamm gave him humanity”.
The video flashes forward a year, and Samberg emerges bearded and disheveled, delighted he’s watched every television show.
“Empire” star Taraji P. Henson, another black nominee in the category, stood and applauded Davis’ win.
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Alexander ditched the fan later on the carpet, but “Modern Family’s” Ariel Winter used one before entering the venue.
