by Nathaniel R
Did you watch the show last night? Despite the monotony of the nominations -- the Television Academy just has to do better and they must install specific juries to determine nominations since people naturally only have a couple handfuls of shows and naturally vote on the series as a whole rather than that season -- it was a night where the wealth was magically spread. At least a little bit...
Ted Lasso won big (Series, Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress) but so did its chief rival Hacks (Actress, Directing, Writing). Mare of Eastwood won three acting races but had to step aside for The Queens Gambit (Limited Series, Directing) and I May Destroy You (Writing) in the other top Limited Series categories. The only true sweep was The Crown which won all six of the top Drama Series awards (Drama, Directing, Writing, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor).
Random Trivia from the Night
- Jean Smart became the first woman since Betty White to have win all three Emmys for actresses in Comedy Series: Lead, Supporting, Guest.
- Michaela Coel is the first black woman to win the writing Emmy for a Limited Series
- RuPaul Charles is the now most Emmy'ed black person in Emmy history winning his 11th Emmy. (In the runner up spot is the cinematographer Donald A Morgan who won his 10th Emmy just last year for "Outstanding Cinematography for a Multi-Cam series" for The Ranch. He could have tied RuPaul this year but lost despite three nominations in that category again this time for The Conners, Last Man Standing, and The Upshaws)
- Debbie Allen is the most nominated black woman of all time at the Emmys (21) and extended her Emmy Queendom with a wonderful Honorary Emmy last night AND a fourth competitive win last week for her choreography on Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square. Her four wins are split evenly between choreography and acting.
- Maya Rudolph won twice last week at the Creative Arts Emmys so she's now won 4 Emmys so she's tied as runner up for most competitive wins for a black woman with both Debbie Allen and Regina King. The leader is Jacqueline Glover who has won five times between Outstanding Children's and Nonfiction programming.
- Josh O'Connor (31) is the youngest Best Actor Drama winner since Bruce Willis (32) way back in 1987. (Though the youngest of all time in that category was 21 year old Richard Thomas as "John-Boy" in the 1970s era show the Waltons)
Random Additional Notes
- Most Elated All Night: Hannah Waddingham began the night screaming with joy and never stopped, beaming for everyone who won.
- Best Speech: That'd be Debbie Allen who was inspiring. The Oscars have no excuse not to incorporate the Honorary Oscar winners in their annual show. The Oscars only have 23 categories, which is less than the Emmys give out on their primetime show and the Emmys still made time to celebrity their history and do several dumb comedy sketches.
- Most Surprising Win: Emma Corrin had dominated the precursors but Olivia Colman won Best Actress instead for the same show
- Best Censored Shout-Out: Here in the US they bleeped her out but Olivia Colman added "And Michaela Coel - Fuck, Yeah" towards the end of her acceptance speech.
- Best Uncensored Shout-Out: "Kate Winslet, man you're good at acting!" Julianne Nicholson
THE COMPLETE LIST OF EMMY WINNERS
COMEDY
COMEDY SERIES Ted Lasso (AppleTV)
COMEDY WRITING Hacks "
COMEDY DIRECTING Hacks "There is No Line"
ACTOR Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso
ACTRESS Jean Smart, Hacks
SUPPORTING ACTOR Brett Goldstein, Ted Lasso
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Hannah Waddingham, Ted Lasso
DRAMA
DRAMA SERIES The Crown
DRAMA WRITING The Crown "War"
DRAMA DIRECTING The Crown "War"
ACTRESS Olivia Colman, The Crown
ACTOR Josh O'Connor, The Crown
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Gillian Anderson, The Crown
SUPPORTING ACTOR Tobias Menzies, The Crown
LIMITED SERIES OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES
LIMITED SERIES The Queens Gambit
LIMITED WRITING I May Destroy You
LIMITED DIRECTING The Queens Gambit
ACTRESS Kate Winslet, Mare of Easttown
ACTOR Ewan McGregor, Halston
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Julianne Nicholson, Mare of Easttown
SUPPORTING ACTOR Evan Peters, Mare of Easttown
OTHER PRIZES HANDED OUT ON EMMY NIGHT
REALITY COMPETITION RuPaul's Drag Race
VARIETY SERIES, WRITING Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
VARIETY TALK SERIES Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
VARIETY SKETCH SERIES Saturday Night Live
VARIETY SPECIAL, LIVE Stephen Colbert's Election Night 2020
VARIETY SPECIAL, PRE-RECORDED Hamilton
OTHER WINS FROM THE CREATIVE ARTS CEREMONIES
The Queens Gambit - Cinematography, Period Costumes, Period Makeup, Period Production Design, Editing Single-Cam, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Casting, Dramatic Score
Mare of Easttown - Production Design Comtemporary
I May Destroy You - Music Supervision
The Flight Attendant - Main Title Theme Music
Ted Lasso - Editing Comedy Single Cam, Sound Mixing Half Hour, Casting Comedy
Bridgerton - Period Hairstyling
The Mandalorian -- Cinematography, Prosthetic Makeup, Sound Mixing One Hour, Dramatic Score, Visual Effects Season, Stunt Coordination, Stunt Performance
Star Trek Discovery - Visual Effects Single Episode
The Crown - Cinematography, Editing Drama Single Cam, Casting Drama, Guest Actress Drama (Claire Foy)
Pose - Contemporary Costumes , Contemporary Hairstyling, Contemporary Makeup
Saturday Night Live - Contemporary Hairstyling Variety, Contemporary Makeup Variety, Production Design Variety, Directing Variety Series, Guest Actor (David Chappelle Host), Guest Actress Comedy (Maya Rudolph Host), Lighting Design Variety Series
Bo Burnham's Inside - Directing Variety Special, Music Direction, Writing Variety Special
A Black Lady Sketch Show -- Picture Editing Variety
WandaVision - Fantasy Costumes, Production Design Half Hour, Original Music and Lyrics "Agatha All Along"
The Good Lord Bird - Main Title Design
The Conners - Comedy Editing Multi-Cam
Love Death & Robots - Sound Editing Half-Hour, Production Design Animation, Stop Motion Animation, Character Design Animation, Short Form Animated Program
The Simpsons - Lead Character Layout Animation
Lovecraft Country - Sound Editing One Hour, Guest Actor Drama (Courtney B Vance)
David Byrne's American Utopia - Sound Mixing Variety, Lighting Design Variety Special
RuPaul's Drag Race - Host Reality, Casting Reality, Directing Reality, Editing Competition Reality
RuPaul's Drag Race Untucked - Unstructured Reality
Queer Eye - Structured Reality
Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal - Animated Program, Storyboard Artist
76 Days -Exception Merit in Documentary Filmmaking
Big Mouth - Character VoiceOver Performance
David Attenborough Life on Our Planet - Cinematography Nonfiction, Dramatic Score Nonfiction, Sound MIxing Nonfiction
Life Below Zero - Cinematography Reality, Editing Unstructured Reality
Dick Johnson is Dead - Directing Documentary
The Social Dilemma - Editing Documentary, Writing Nonficition
Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Hart - Editing Nonfiction
Secrets of Whales - Documentary Series
Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy - Hosted Nonfiction
Sterling Brown on Lincoln: Divided We Stand - Narrator
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man - Short Form Nonfiction
Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square - TV Movie, Choreography Scripted Program
Dancing with the Stars - Choreography Variety
Nike "You Can't Stop Us" - Commercial
Carpool Karaoke - Short Form Series
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver - Technical Direction Special
Mapleworth Murders - Actor in Short Form Series (JB Smoove)
Keke Palmer's Turnt Up with the Taylors - Actress in Short Form Series (Keke Palmer)