It was an unrealistic undertaking for the Emmy Awards at the nd૨ – the first major acting awards show since the epidemic began, a bizarre and defeated ceremony in which the Stars accepted the award at Zoom. But unpopular new methods (telecasts require more than 100 live feeds), and the end of the former Ames Juggernaut’s Game of Thrones and Whip, join in the celebration of a new series and talent: Shaw, H.B.O. No. President, Fantastic Watch Watch, limited range cleaning.
From the almost empty Staples Center in Lost Angeles, Jimmy Kimmel hosted mostly virtual “pandemics,” with the help of Jennifer Aniston, Ozark actor Jason Batman and black-ish star Anthony Anderson, as well as huge screens zoomed into celebrity homes. Country. Safety protocols – masked camera operators, styrofoam cutouts of celebrities in empty stands – were necessary, Kim said, because “this is not a mega rally, it’s an amis.”
One year after Fliabag dominated the FM Medi Awards, a show – Skeet Creek, a Canadian production that got a second life and swept the fanbase on Netflix – swept the genre. Actors and crew, including father-son duo Eugene and Dan Levy, Best Actress Catherine O’Hara and Best Supporting Actress Anne Murphy, accepted their awards together, wearing masks and sitting on a set in Canada, keeping a safe safety-consistent distance.
As widely predicted, Succession, the intensely written and brutally humorous HBO play about the proud family of the media, won the Drama Award, Best Writing, Best Director, Jeremy Strong and Best Actor for Best Series. The show’s British producer, Jesse Armstrong, flipped the script with a series of ‘Un-Thanks You’ that kept the cast and crew apart for half a year: viruses, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and “media moguls, a lot for those in power” doing.
Other winners of the evening included Best Week Tonight with Last Week Tonight, John Oliver for the best variety series, Raupoul’s drag race for the reality contest, and the Morning Show’s Billy Crudup for a supporting role in a play that brought Apple Paul TV + its only win of the evening.
The disappointment of the unusual streamer was further fueled by Netflix, which entered the evening with a record 160 nominations, but emerged with just two wins during the telecast (Oz Zark’s Julia Garner to support the actress in one play and Anardhod Oxx’s Maria to direct the limited series) 21 overall wins. The prestigious HBO of the Awards, topped the evening with 0 awards, the succession for the best limited series and the most notable best drama series for Watch Chaman. Based on the 1980s comic book series The Watch Chaman and the 1921 Tulk, lah Klahoma massacre of “Black and Street”, which used real life as its original story, received 11 of the 26 nominations, of which the evening was part.
In a year of racial census for the United States, when millions of people took to the streets this summer to protest police brutality, the television academy nominated their most diverse slate: the nominee of 34. %% was black, accounting for 19.8% in 2019. 2020 The Amis were “considered the black Amis so far,” Anderson said shortly after with Kimmel. “I still keep everyone original for black people, because black stories, black performances and black life are important,” said Loud, rather than increasing the volume, “so that Mike Pence can hear it.”
Yet the host took a lot of clear political statements – or, in a ceremony filled with 24 awards, many winners – many winners, including many black artists, supporting the Black Lives Matter movement and encouraging viewers to vote in the next national. Election. Watchman’s Regina King, acknowledged for Best Actress in a Limited Series, wore a shirt named after Breno Taylor, who was beaten by police officers in Louisville in March, helping to ignite America’s largest civil rights movement in half a century.
While accepting Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for the role of Shirley Chishom, the first black woman to run for President of the United States, Uzo Aduba pointed to her own bra t-shirt: “Let’s change the world.” Euphoria star Zendaya, who became the youngest person at the age of 24 and the second black woman to win the Best Drama Actress award, shouted at protesters on the streets of the country. “I see you, I admire you, I respect you,” he said.
HBO’s I Know Much This Much Is True, urged the same audience to vote “for love, compassion and mercy”.
“If you have the privilege, you have to fight for those who are struggling.”
And Watchmen’s Yahya Abdul-Maten II, who won to support the actor in a limited series, dedicated to “all the black women of my life”.
Damon Lindelof, creator of Vmen Chamen, conceded the best limited-range win with the “Remember Tulsa ’21” shirt and dedicated the award to the victims of the Black and Street burning in Tulsa in 1921. “History is a mystery – it’s broken into millions of puzzles. Fragments and many more are missing,” he said. “We have to name it before we can repair it.”
