It’s a good time for nerd TV, and it looks like the Emmy Awards are finally catching on.
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Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the awards saluted the excellence of the small screen’s most celebrated talents.
Last night the Emmy Awards aired on ABC with Jimmy Kimmel as host. “Game of Thrones” and “The People v O.J. Simpson” took home a combined 18 awards. Martindale was joined by actor Hank Azaria, victor of this year’s “Guest Actor in a Drama Series”. Politics was on the minds of many.
Despite representing 40% of the US population and overindexing on time spent watching TV content on a weekly basis across several distribution platforms, people of color still only represented 8% of all lead roles on scripted broadcast television shows and 16.6% of cable scripted shows during the 2013-14 TV season, according to UCLA’s 2016 Hollywood Diversity Report. Many other winners and presenters expressed they don’t endorse Trump.
When the victor was called for outstanding supporting actress drama series the audience let out a bout of laughter to learn it was Smith.
Actor, Comedy Series: Jeffrey Tambor, “Transparent”. On Sunday night the show took a haul of 12 awards. “Liberal Hollywood”, as usual, the conservatives will cry.
“We loved “Frasier” and he had a long run”, showrunner David Benioff joked backstage after the show’s Best Drama win. No other program has won as many awards. And Game of Thrones won its 38th Emmy, a new record-breaking number for a primetime series. And it’s been a night of surprises and sharp political jabs as “Game of Thrones” and “Veep” dominate the drama and comedy categories respectively. Courtney B. Vance, 56, won his first career Emmy for best actor in a limited series for his role as famed Simpson defense attorney Johnnie Cochran.
Former Republican candidate Jeb Bush made an appearance in Kimmel’s opening comedy skit and Hillary Clinton tweeted congratulations to her impersonator Kate McKinnon, of Saturday Night Live, who won best supporting actress in a comedy. It beat off a challenge from US network’s “Mr. Robot”, as well as Netflix’s dark Washington D.C. drama “House of Cards”. Rami Malek of “Mr. Robot” was awarded lead actor in a drama series and Aziz Ansari and Alan Young won outstanding writing in a comedy series for Netflix’s “Master of None”.
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Tatiana Maslany, victor of Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for “Orphan Black”.
