Last night at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles, the 71st Emmy Award ceremony took place.
For the occasion, the idols of the small screen abandoned their costumes and, in impeccable long dream dresses and tuxedos, came along with directors, screenwriters, TV presenters, and many others to discover the names of the winners of the TV Oscars.
For the fourth time in Emmy history and following last year’s Oscars, this year’s edition does not include a real host, a choice taken at FOX in order not to take away attention to the awards. But someone who starts the evening must be there, and here is that nothing less than Omer Simpson goes on stage, to be crushed miserably and replaced by one at random: Bryan Cranston and his words.
“Television has never benn bigger.
Television han never matter more.
Television has never been this damn goood.”
It starts with the comedy category awards. The first two statuettes were won by The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel with Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress awards in a comedy series and, while Bill Hader wins the Emmy for Best Actor in a comedy series for his amazing performance in Barry, the other 3 awards in the category go to Fleabag: for Best Director for a comedy series and, above all, for Best Screenplay for a comedy series and for Best Actress in a comedy series, both went to Phoebe Waller-Bridge, a British actress and author who has been entrusted with the script for the next 007 Time to Die.
Once the comedy category is over, we move on to reality shows, and what reality shows are there without Kardashian? The category is presented by Kim and her sister Kendall, who deliver the Emmy to RuPaul for the television show RuPaul’s Drag Race, also known in Italy as America’s Next Drag Queen.
The evening continues with the nominations dedicated to miniseries and films for TV.
After greeting Game of Thrones for the last time with a clip that traces its highlights, the entire cast takes their seats on stage to award Patricia Arquette the Best Actress Award in a miniseries or film that moves the audience with a speech in favor of transgender people.
Mahershala Ali, Hugh Grant, Jared Harris and the other actors nominated as Best Actor in a Miniseries or Film must leave the statue in the hands of Jharrel Jerome for his wonderful work in When They See Us.
The Emmy for Best Picture for TV goes to Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, and no, this time you can’t change the course of things.
Like Game of Thrones, Veep, which ended with the seventh season this summer, also deserves a moment for itself, so it’s up to the entire cast to present the award for Best Actress in a mini-series or film, given to Michelle Williams.
The beloved Chernobyl takes home, without too much surprise, the statuette for Best Director for a miniseries or films and the one for Best Miniseries.
After a series of awards dedicated to talk shows and verities, here is the most touching moment, another movie, a montage of emblematic scenes of the series that this year we were forced to greet.
To kick off the awards dedicated to the drama category is Viola Davis and its sneakers. In the category supporting actor and supporting actress, we see respectively Peter Dinklage aka Tyrion Lannister and Julia Garner winning the statuette for the role in Ozark.
The most important prizes are missing, but first of all the inevitable In Memoriam – this year entrusted to Halsey‘s voice – the commemoration of those who left us this year: a roar of applause accompanied above all the images of Luke Perry and Stan Lee.
We come to the most important awards, for the best performances in a drama series, which go to the eccentric Billy Porter for Pose and with great surprise to Jodie Comer for Killing Eve.
Following the trend of the evening, Fleabag takes home the Emmy as Best comedy series, bringing Phoebe Waller-Bridge on stage for the third time. The seventy-first edition of Emmy ends with the entire cast and crew of Game of Thrones occupying the stage to collect the award for Best TV drama series for the last time.
Adding up last night’s awards with the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, awarded last week, the show closes with Amazon grabbing 15 statuettes, and Netflix 27, but neither of the two streaming giants still manages to oust HBO which, thanks to Chernobyl and Game of Thrones, takes home 32 Emmys.
Below is the complete list of winners.
Drama Series
“Better Call Saul” (AMC)
“Bodyguard” (Netflix)
“Game of Thrones” (HBO)
“Killing Eve” (AMC/BBC America)
“Ozark” (Netflix)
“Pose” (FX)
“Succession” (HBO)
“This Is Us” (NBC)
Comey Series
“Fleabag” (Amazon Prime)
“Barry” (HBO)“The Good Place” (NBC)
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon Prime)
“Russian Doll” (Netflix)
“Schitt’s Creek” (Pop)
“Veep” (HBO)
Limited Series
“Chernobyl” (HBO)
“Escape at Dannemora” (Showtime)
“Fosse/Verdon” (FX)
“Sharp Objects” (HBO)
“When They See Us” (Netflix)
Television Movie
“Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” (Netflix)
“Brexit” (HBO)
“Deadwood: The Movie” (HBO)
“King Lear” (Amazon Prime)
“My Dinner with Herve” (HBO)
Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Billy Porter (“Pose”)
Jason Bateman (“Ozark”)
Sterling K. Brown (“This Is Us”)
Kit Harington (“Game of Thrones”)
Bob Odenkirk (“Better Call Saul”)
Milo Ventimiglia (“This Is Us”)
Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Jodie Comer (“Killing Eve”)
Emilia Clarke (“Game of Thrones”)
Viola Davis (“How to Get Away With Murder”)
Laura Linney (“Ozark”)
Mandy Moore (“This Is Us”)
Sandra Oh (“Killing Eve”)
Robin Wright (“House of Cards”)
Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Bill Hader (“Barry”)
Anthony Anderson (“Black-ish”)
Don Cheadle (“Black Monday”)
Ted Danson (“The Good Place”)
Michael Douglas (“The Kominsky Method”)
Eugene Levy (“Schitt’s Creek”)
Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Phoebe Waller-Bridge (“Fleabag”)
Christina Applegate (“Dead to Me”)
Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“Veep”)
Natasha Lyonne (“Russian Doll”)
Catherine O’Hara (“Schitt’s Creek”)
Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
Jharrel Jerome (“When They See Us”)
Mahershala Ali (“True Detective”)
Benicio Del Toro (“Escape at Dannemora”)
Hugh Grant (“A Very English Scandal”)
Jared Harris (“Chernobyl”)
Sam Rockwell (“Fosse/Verdon”)
Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
Michelle Williams (“Fosse/Verdon”)
Amy Adams (“Sharp Objects”)
Patricia Arquette (“Escape at Dannemora”)
Aunjanue Ellis (“When They See Us”)
Joey King (“The Act”)
Niecy Nash (“When They See Us”)
Competition Program
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” (VH1)
“The Amazing Race” (CBS)
“American Ninja Warrior” (NBC)
“Nailed It” (Netflix)
“Top Chef” (Bravo)
“The Voice” (NBC)
Variety Talk Series
“Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (HBO)
“The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” (Comedy Central)
“Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” (TBS)
“Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC)
“Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS)
“Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS)
Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”)
Alfie Allen (“Game of Thrones”)
Jonathan Banks (“Better Call Saul”)
Nikolaj Coster-Waldeau (“Game of Thrones”)
Giancarlo Esposito (“Better Call Saul”)
Michael Kelly (“House of Cards”)
Chris Sullivan (“This Is Us”)
Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Julia Garner (“Ozark”)
Gwendoline Christie (“Game of Thrones”)
Lena Headey (“Game of Thrones”)
Fiona Shaw (“Killing Eve”)
Sophie Turner (“Game of Thrones”)
Maisie Williams (“Game of Thrones”)
Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Tony Shalhoub (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
Alan Arkin (“The Kominsky Method”)
Anthony Carrigan (“Barry”)
Tony Hale (“Veep”)
Stephen Root (“Barry”)
Henry Winkler (“Barry”)
Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Alex Borstein (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
Anna Chlumsky (“Veep”)
Sian Clifford (“Fleabag”)
Olivia Colman (“Fleabag”)
Betty Gilpin (“GLOW”)
Sarah Goldberg (“Barry”)
Marin Hinkle (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
Kate McKinnon (“Saturday Night Live”)
Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
Ben Whishaw (“A Very English Scandal”)
Asante Blackk (“When They See Us”)
Paul Dano (“Escape at Dannemora”)
John Leguizamo (“When They See Us”)
Stellan Skarsgård (“Chernobyl”)
Michael K. Williams (“When They See Us”)
Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
Patricia Arquette (“The Act”)
Marsha Stephanie Blake (“When They See Us”)
Patricia Clarkson (“Sharp Objects”)
Vera Farmiga (“When They See Us”)
Margaret Qualley (“Fosse/Verdon”)
Emily Watson (“Chernobyl”)
Variety Sketch Series
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC)
“At Home With Amy Sedaris” (truTV)
“Documentary Now!” (IFC)
“Drunk History” (Comedy Central)
“I Love You, America With Sarah Silverman” (Hulu)
“Who Is America?” (Showtime)
Directing for a Comedy Series
“Fleabag”, “Episode 1,” Prime Video (Harry Bradbeer)
“Barry”, “The Audition,” HBO (Alec Berg)
“Barry,” “ronny/lily,” HBO (Alec Berg)
“The Big Bang Theory,” “Stockholm Syndrome,” CBS (Mark Cendrowski)
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, “We’re Going to the Catskills!” Prime Video (Dan Palladino)
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, “All Alone,” Prime Video (Amy Sherman-Palladino)
Directing for a Drama Series
“Ozark,” “Reparations,” Netflix (Jason Bateman)
“Game of Thrones,” “The Iron Throne,” HBO (David Benioff, D.B. Weiss)
“Game of Thrones,” “The Last of the Starks,” HBO (David Nutter)
“Game of Thrones,” “The Long Night,” HBO (Miguel Sapochnik)
“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Holly,” Hulu (Daina Reid)
“Killing Eve,” “Desperate Times,” BBC America (Lisa Bruhlmann)
“Succession”, “Celebration”, HBO, (Adam McKay)
Directing for a Limited Series or TV Movie
“Chernobyl,” HBO (Johan Renck)
“A Very English Scandal,” Prime Video (Stephen Frears)
“Escape at Dannemora,” Showtime (Ben Stiller)
“Fosse/Verdon,” “Glory,” FX Networks (Jessica Yu)
“Fosse/Version,” “Who’s Got the Pain,” FX Networks (Thomas Kail)
“When They See Us,” Netflix, Ava DuVernay
Directing for a Variety Series
Saturday Night Live (Episode: “Host: Adam Sandler”), Directed by Don Roy King (NBC)
DocumentaryNow! (Episode: “Waiting for the Artist”), Directed by Alex Buono and Rhys Thomas (IFC)
Drunk History (Episode: “Are You Afraid of the Drunk?”), Directed by Derek Waters (Comedy Central)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Episode: “Psychics”), Directed by Paul Pennolino (HBO)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (Episode: “Live Midterm Election Show”), Directed by Jim Hoskinson (CBS)
Who Is America? (Episode: “Episode 102”), Directed by Sacha Baron Cohen, Nathan Fielder, Daniel Gray Longino and Dan Mazer (Showtime)
Writing for a Comedy Series
“Fleabag”, “Episode 1,” Prime Video (Phoebe Waller-Bridge)
“Barry,” “ronny/lily,” HBO, (Alec Berg, Bill Hader)
“PEN15,” “Anna Ishii-Peters,” (Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle)
“Russian Doll,” “Nothing In This World Is Easy,” Netflix (Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler)
“Russian Doll,” “A Warm Body,” Netflix (Allison Silverman)
“The Good Place,” “Janet(s),” NBC (Josh Siegal, Dylan Morgan)
“Veep,” “Veep,” HBO (David Mandel)
Writing for a Drama Series
“Succession,” “Nobody Is Ever Missing,” HBO (Jesse Armstrong)
“Better Call Saul,” “Winner,” AMC (Peter Gould, Thomas Schnauz)
“Bodyguard,” “Episode 1,” Netflix (Jed Mercurio)
“Game of Thrones,” “The Iron Throne,” HBO (David Benioff, D.B. Weiss)
“Killing Eve,” “Nice And Neat,” BBC America (Emerald Fennell)
“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Holly,” Hulu (Bruce Miller, Kira Snyder)
Writing for a Limited Series or TV Movie
“Chernobyl”, Craig Mazin (HBO)
“Escape at Dannemora” (Episode: “Part 6”), Brett Johnson, Michael Tolkin and Jerry Stahl (Showtime)
“Escape at Dannemora” (Episode: “Part 7”), Brett Johnson and Michael Tolkin (Showtime)
“Fosse/Verdon” (Episode: “Providence”), Joel Fields and Steven Levenson (FX)
“A Very English Scandal”, Russell T Davies (Prime Video)
“When They See Us” (Episode: “Part Four”), Ava DuVernay and Michael Starrbury (Netflix)
Writing for a Variety
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Documentary Now! (IFC)
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS)
Saturday Night Live (NBC)
