LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – Netflix’s “The Crown” and Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” dominated the 73rd Emmy Awards Sunday evening, winning arsenic champion play and drama bid portion sweeping oregon astir sweeping apical show honors successful their respective genres.
In summation to its apical play award, “The Crown” collected pb acting honors for Olivia Colman and Josh O’Connor and supporting prizes for Gillian Anderson and Tobias Menzies.
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“Ted Lasso” earned a lead-actor Emmy for co-creator Jason Sudeikis and supporting honors for Hannah Waddingham and Brett Goldstein.
Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” scored the Emmy for outstanding limited/anthology bid oregon movie, portion besides winning a prize for manager Scott Frank.
HBO’s “Mare of Easttown,” however, besides had a large nighttime astatine the Emmys, winning a best-actress prize for prima Kate Winslet and supporting- performer honors for Evan Peters and Julianne Nicholson.
“`Mare of Easttown’ was this taste moment, and it brought radical unneurotic and gave them thing to speech astir different than a planetary pandemic,” Winslet said.
Ewan McGregor won the Emmy for champion histrion successful a limited/anthology bid oregon movie for Netflix’s “Halston” — the lone show grant successful the genre not won by “Mare of Easttown.”
Michaela Coel won the Emmy for outstanding penning for a limited/anthology bid oregon movie for HBO’s “I May Destroy You.”
Colman, accepting her drama-actress Emmy for “The Crown,” called the triumph “a beauteous extremity to the astir bonzer travel with this beauteous family.”
“I loved each 2nd of it, and I can’t hold to spot what happens next,” Colman said.
Best histrion victor O’Connor called said appearing successful the bid astir the beingness and reign of Queen Elizabeth II “has been the astir rewarding 2 years of my life. The formed and unit … you made the amusement specified a pleasance to beryllium a portion of, convey you.”
He besides thanked his family, particularly “my grandma who passed a fewer months agone and my grandfather,” saying, “your kindness and loyalty has been the top gift. Thank you truthful much.”
Among drama performers, the Emmy not won by idiosyncratic connected “Ted Lasso” went alternatively to Jean Smart, who was named outstanding pb histrion successful a comedy. Smart won for her relation arsenic Las Vegas comedian Deborah Vance successful HBO’s “Hacks.” While accepting the award, she archetypal honored her precocious husband, histrion Richard Gilliland, who died six period ago.
“I would not beryllium present without him,” she said, “without him putting his vocation connected the back-burner truthful that I could instrumentality vantage of each the fantastic opportunities that I’ve had.”
She called moving connected “Hacks” a “thrill,” saying, “I work this and said I person to bash this. It checked disconnected each container I was looking for.”
She gave peculiar praise to her bid co-star, Hannah Einbinder.
“I could not person asked for a idiosyncratic to bounce everything disconnected of each day,” she said. “I mean, she’s a natural. She’s a precious quality being. She’s incredible, and each time we enactment is simply a joy.”
“Hacks” besides won prizes for champion drama bid directing for Lucia Aniello, and for drama bid penning for Aniello, Jen Statsky and Paul W. Downs.
Jason Sudeikis won the Emmy for outstanding histrion successful a drama for his relation arsenic ever-upbeat football-turned-soccer manager Ted Lasso successful the bid of the aforesaid name.
“Heck of a year,” Sudeikis said. “I would accidental that this amusement is astir family. This amusement is astir mentors and teachers. This amusement is astir teammates. And I wouldn’t beryllium present without those 3 things successful my life.”
After thanking his household and influences successful his life, and the unit of the show, helium turned to his chap formed mates.
“I’m lone arsenic bully arsenic you guys marque maine look,” helium said. “So truly it means the satellite to maine conscionable to beryllium up present and conscionable beryllium a reflector of what you guys springiness to me.”
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“Ted Lasso” besides earned some supporting-performer Emmys for drama series, with Hannah Waddingham and Brett Goldstein claiming the prizes. Both gave acknowledgment to bid prima and co-creator Sudeikis.
“Jason, you’ve changed my beingness with this, and astir importantly my babe girls,” Waddingham said. “… I’m honestly truthful privileged to enactment with you, I truly am.”
A seasoned of London’s theatre scene, Waddingham punctuated her acceptance code saying, “West End philharmonic theatre performers request to beryllium connected surface more. Please springiness them a accidental due to the fact that we won’t fto you down.”
Goldstein hailed the show’s full company, saying, “This formed makes maine sick they’re truthful good.” He called moving connected the amusement “one of the top honors and privileges” of his life.
VH1’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race” won its 4th consecutive Emmy for outstanding contention series. It won implicit Bravo’s “Top Chef,” which was nominated for the 15th consecutive year, and NBC’s “The Voice,” which had its 10th consecutive nod. Ten-time victor “The Amazing Race,” which was nominated successful each of the archetypal 17 years of the class but was not eligible past twelvemonth due to the fact that CBS did not aerial a caller play during the eligibility period, was besides among the nominees.
RuPaul Charles gave acknowledgment for the triumph “to each of our beauteous children connected our amusement from astir the world.”
“They are truthful gracious to archer their stories of courageousness and however to navigate this hard life,” Charles said. ” … This is for you. And for you kids retired determination watching, you person a people that is waiting for you. We are waiting for you, baby.”
With the win, Charles became the winningest Black creator successful Emmy history, with 11.
HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” won Emmys for champion assortment speech bid and champion penning for a assortment series.
Meanwhile, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” won its 5th consecutive Emmy for outstanding assortment sketch series.
Actress, dancer and choreographer Debbie Allen received the 2021 Governors Award from the Television Academy to grant her vocation contributions to the tv satellite and philanthropic work.
“Debbie’s committedness to mentoring underserved communities has been thing abbreviated of extraordinary,” said Debra Curtis, a co-chair of the Governors Award enactment committee. “She has shared her acquisition and emotion of creation and choreography with countless aspiring performers crossed the globe.”
A three-time Emmy victor for choreography connected “Fame” and “The Motown 25th,” Allen is besides a Kennedy Center honoree and a victor of aggregate NCAA Image Awards.
She has done choreography for specified entertainers arsenic Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Dolly Parton and Sammy Davis Jr.
Allen’s tv directing and producing credits see “Fame,” “Scandal,” “How To Get Away With Murder,” “Empire,” `That’s So Raven, “A Different World” and “Grey’s Anatomy.”
Rule changes for 2021 included immoderate films that person been nominated for an Oscar are nary longer eligible to participate the Primetime Emmy Awards competition, and immoderate non-documentary movie placed connected the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences level for Oscar information was deemed a theatrical question picture, and frankincense ineligible for the Emmy competition.
In different alteration for 2021, nominees and winners successful immoderate performer class titled “actor” oregon “actress” whitethorn petition that their information certificate and Emmy statuette transportation the word “performer” successful spot of histrion oregon actress.
No performer class titled “actor” oregon “actress” has had a sex request for submissions.
Cedric the Entertainer big the Emmy ceremony, which was televised unrecorded by CBS.
The ceremonial was held successful an outdoor — yet enclosed — structure astatine LA Live successful downtown Los Angeles. Producers insisted the amusement was held successful adherence with each wellness requirements, though the constricted assemblage sat astatine afloat circular tables without masks.
The bulk of the 119 awards were presented astatine 3 Creative Arts Emmy ceremonies past weekend. Those awards are chiefly successful method categories, specified arsenic representation editing, costuming, hairstyling, constitution and sound, but besides see awards for impermanent acting.
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