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The Emmys, or: Everyone is sitting at home and only wins one series for 70 minutes
In the end, almost everyone sat there in elegant evening gowns, mostly at home rather than at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. And from there there was a lot of criticism of President Donald Trump at the Emmy Awards on Sunday night six weeks before the US election.
The three big winners of the night were the drama “Succession” about the broken family of a media mogul, the friendly tolerance comedy “Schitt’s Creek” and the comic adaptation “Watchmen” based on an actual massacre of black people in southern United States. The Emmy Award is the most important television award in the United States.
Moderator Jimmy Kimmel (on site) and nominees (at home). Image: keystone
I wanted to say “no thanks” to some, said producer and screenwriter Jesse Armstrong at the announcement of the award for best drama series on “Succession.” A “no thank you” to the virus and to Donald Trump and Boris Johnson for their “lousy and uncoordinated response” to the virus, he said. “Thank you” also to all the nationalists in the world and “to all the media moguls who keep them in power,” said the Briton.
His opulent furniture series is about the aging patriarch Logan Roy and how his sons fight for successors in his media group. He has won seven awards, including Emmys for Jeremy Strong for best actor and Andrij Parekh for best director. The fact that the phone rang in the background while the grand prize was being awarded remained one of the few setbacks: “Room service, I guess,” Armstrong joked.
Otherwise, the president of the United States was the subject of many serious jokes and allusions much more frequently. At first, host Jimmy Kimmel spoke to the clapping stars first, but then revealed that these were recordings from previous years and that he would be almost alone on the Staples Center stage.
“Of course we don’t have an audience,” said the comedian. “This is not a MAGA rally,” Kimmel added as a blow to the “Make America Great Again” campaign speeches that US President Donald Trump delivered in front of thousands of supporters despite the risk of infection during the corona pandemic.
Then Kimmel went backstage to a room full of monitors with switches for around 100 nominees. When the first prize was awarded, the impressive triumph of “Schitt’s Creek” in the comedy categories began; any other show took more than 70 minutes to win an award.
By then, the affectionate series about the flamboyant Rose family, who, after problems with tax authorities, moved to a small town that the father had once given his son as a joke, won in all seven major categories.
“At its core, our series is about the changes that love and acceptance unleash,” said Daniel Levy, who received awards as a director, writer and supporting actor. “And that’s something we need today more than ever,” he added before calling on viewers to vote on November 3. In addition to her, Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy were also honored for their leading roles and Annie Murphy for Best Supporting Female Role. Including the awards for best comedy series, as well as the casting and costume awards already handed out on the previous nights, “Schitt’s Creek” received nine awards.
At the TV Movie and Miniseries Emmy Awards, “Watchmen” was the big winner with a total of eleven awards. In their speeches on Sunday, the creators recalled a dark chapter in American history on which the series is based: By some estimates, up to 300 blacks were killed in the Tulsa massacre in 1921. “This country often neglects its own story to his own detriment, “said screenwriters Damon Lindelof and Cord Jefferson.
Jury Prize for “Unorthodox”
From a German point of view, the awards for the miniseries saw the most surprising moment of the night: Maria Schrader from Hannover received the award for best director for the four-part series “Unorthodox” on the streaming provider Netflix.
In it, she tells the story of the ultra-Orthodox Jew Esther, who fled from New York to Berlin before her husband. “I am speechless,” the 54-year-old, also known as an actress, said on the live broadcast, surrounded by some team members. (sda / dpa)
