Tambor discussed the controversial nature of his role as a transgender woman, saying he would like to see more roles for transgender actors.
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Kate McKinnon won best supporting actress in a comedy for her work on “Saturday Night Live”.
A shaking Louis-Dreyfus ended her speech by dedicating the trophy to her father, who she said died Friday.
John Oliver of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” won the Emmy for top variety talk series.
For the full list of Emmy-winners, visit the official website.
Matt Damon and Jimmy Kimmel brought their long-standing “feud” to primetime television during Sunday night’s 68th Emmy Awards.
American Crime Story, a dramatisation of the 1995 murder trial of the United States football star, won nine Emmys, including the award for best limited series. As has become her custom, she didn’t attend the ceremony.
Smith, who’s been nominated for nine Emmys dating back to 1993 and won four times, has never appeared at the ceremony (“That’s right, no times”, Kimmel emphasised), instead she’s been replaced by a greyscale 8×10 picture whenever she’s read out as a nominee. “Right in the garbage”.
The Outstanding Actress for a Drama Series is Tatiana Maslany of “Orphan Black”.
With that said, do U think the Emmys are really dead??
That of course isn’t to say that Maggie Smith didn’t deserve the award. After Smith’s win, Kimmel said her Emmy would not be mailed to her but would be kept in the Microsoft Theater’s Lost and Found until she shows up to claim it.
Veteran actress Maggie Smith accepted her Emmy award and also responded to the 2016 Emmy host Jimmy Kimmel’s running joke about “the Maggie Smith Rule”. But reply she did.
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FX’s “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” also commanded the night, with wins for outstanding limited series and acting awards for Courtney B. Vance, Sterling K. Brown and Sarah Paulson. “I feel the Emmys have been overly generous to me”, the 81-year-old said via the Masterpiece PBS Twitter account. “If Mr. Kimmel could please direct me to the lost and found office I will try and be on the next flight”. Discussing her show’s pushing of boundaries for transgender people backstage after accepting her award, Soloway likened Trump’s rhetoric about minority groups to that which took place in Nazi Germany, where Jews were, as she put it, “otherised” by Hitler.
