As it did in 2015, HBO led the platforms in the winners’ circle, with 22 wins, followed by FX Networks with 18.
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“Oh, my God. Please tell me you’re seeing this too”, Malek, who plays an emotionally troubled engineer caught up in a risky hacking conspiracy, said after winning the honour.
After commenting on the diversity of the Emmy nominations in comparison to the Oscars, and after seeing Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang win the award for Master of None, he joked, “Now there’s nearly too much diversity in this show”. Master of None’s Alan Yang encouraged Asian parents to give their kids cameras instead of violins, so that the 17 million Asian Americans in this country, who deserve more than Long Duk Dong, could be as well-represented as the 17 million Italian Americans in this country. Jeffrey Tambor, who won again for playing Transparent’s Maura Pfefferman, said he would not be “sad if he were the last cisgender male to play a transgender woman on television”.
“I think that “Veep” has torn down the wall between comedy and politics”, she said. Thanks, host Jimmy Kimmel! For her part, Maslany also seemed dazed when her name was called: “I should have had this written down”, she said. Referring to the current political climate, Louis-Dreyfus said “our show started as political satire but now feels like sobering documentary”.
“So, I certainly do promise to rebuild that wall and make Mexico pay for it”.
Dame Maggie Smith won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role in “Downton Abbey”. It was her third win for playing the role of a dowager and like always she didn’t attend the ceremony.
She was alert, sipping water and smiling but had become dehydrated. Oh sure, white men still won plenty of awards, but even host Jimmy Kimmel made some jokes about how the open acceptance of diversity wasn’t necessarily “good” for him.
The Sky Atlantic fantasy, based on George RR Martin’s novels, was named best drama series, while also picking up honours for outstanding writing and directing. Birmingham-born John Oliver won best variety talk series for his HBO show Last Week Tonight, beating fellow Brit James Corden, who was nominated for The Late Late Show. “That’s a bummer. It makes a lot of sense.but you must be really bummed out”, cracked Damon.
Paulson was joined at the Emmys by Marcia Clark, the prosecutor she portrayed in the People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story.
The win for FX’s “The People v. O.J. Simpson” for best limited series was the most widely predicted victory of the night, and the show – a scripted drama recounting the American football star’s shocking fall from grace – swept up acting prizes.
Sarah Paulson brought Marcia Clark as her date to the awards show.
The award for best direction for a limited series, movie or drama went to Susanne Bier for “The Night Manager“. It was able to hold onto the acting categories from past year, with Saturday Night Live’s Kate McKinnon succeeding Mom’s Allison Janney in the supporting actress in a comedy series race, and American Crime’s Regina King repeating as supporting actress in a movie or miniseries. – Saturday Night Live star Leslie Jones, joking about the hack of her Twitter account and personal website that led to a leak of naked photos with the Emmy accountants from Ernst & Young. She thanked her father, who died Friday. “When you take women, people of color, transpeople, queer people, and you put them at the center of the story, the subjects instead of the objects, you change the world, we found out”.
The Democratic presidential contender responded quickly with a tweet: “Congratulations on your Emmy, Kate!”
The ceremony started out with a political edge.
In the very memorable opening segment, Kimmel wound up in a limo driven by former GOP candidate Jeb Bush.
“If you run a positive campaign, the voters ultimately will make the right choice”. When the announcer introduced Bill Cosby as the next presenter, the audience looked stunned.
“I’m in between jobs right now”, says Bush, sporting a cap.
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A pair of key changes made by the TV academy may have affected the outcomes in Sunday’s 27 categories.
