71st Emmy Awards
The 71st Emmy Awards aired live on FOX from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The final season of Game of Thrones led the pack of nominations with 32, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel grabbed 20 nominations, HBO tipped the scales with a whopping 137 nominations, and Netflix came close behind with 117.
What was supposed to be missing from the 71st Emmy Awards was a host, but Homer Simpson, Anthony Anderson, and Bryan Cranston opened the broadcast in rare form.
Homer Simpson started out as the host of the Emmys. His animated figure walked on the stage and the audience looked puzzled. Then a grand piano fell from the ceiling and smashed Homer straight through the stage floor. Again, the audience was puzzled.
Anthony Anderson, sitting in the audience with a look of shock on his face said, “What the hell is going on?” Anthony then jumped on stage out of the audience to save the show.
He said, “We are going without a host tonight.” Anthony went to a shelf of Emmy statues backstage and said they won’t miss one and started handing the trophies to his mother to put in her pocketbook.
Anthony finally pushed Bryan Cranston from backstage on the stage to deliver an Emmy monologue. He ended with, “and television has never been this damn good.”
Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert then shared how they can’t fathom the program without a host.
Ben Stiller introduced the first category which was, of course, comedy. A Bob Newhart hologram or what looked like one came out and said, “Ben, I’m still alive.” Bob was actually standing beside Ben on stage. Ben and Bob awarded the Emmy for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series to Tony Shalhoub for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
They also pulled out another animated character, Family Guy just before the announcement of the next category, which was Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. The Emmy went to Alex Borstein for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
The next category was Writing for a Comedy Series and the Emmy went to Phoebe Waller-Bridge for Fleabag.
• Directing for a Comedy Series was the next category and the 71st Emmy Award went to Harry Bradbeer for Fleabag.
• The 71st Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series went to Bill Hader for Barry.
• Outstanding Actress in a Comedy went to Rachel Brosnahan for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
• Outstanding Competition Series went to RuPaul for RuPaul’s Drag Race.
The cast of Game of Thrones came on stage for their last goodbye. The audience stood and cheered and applauded for a very long time. The cast announced the nominees for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Film and the 71st Emmy went to Patricia Arquette for Escape at Dannemora. “I am happy at 50 to be getting the best roles of my life.” She mourned her sister and cried about the struggles of transsexuals.
• Directing for a Limited Series or Film went to Johan Renck for Chernobyl.
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• Craig Mazin won for Writing for Chernobyl.
Jharrel Jerome won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Film for When They See Us. The audience went wild. The Central Park Five stood in the audience with fists in the air honored, exonerated, and proud of the 71st Emmy win. Jharrel Jerome called them all out by name and cheered The Exonerated Five on, and dedicated the win to them.
The Emmy for Outstanding Television Movie went to Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the cast of Veep came out to a standing ovation. The category, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. The 71st Emmy Award went to Michelle Williams for Fosse/Verdon. She spoke of pay disparities in Hollywood and championed the plight of black women being at the lower end of the pay scale.
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• Outstanding Writing in a Variety Series went to the cast of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
• Saturday Night Live won the 71st Emmy for Variety Sketch Series. The show is going into its 45th session.
• Directing for a Variety Series went to Don Roy King for Saturday Night Live.
• Outstanding Variety or Talk Show went to Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
• Supporting Actor in a Drama Series went to Peter Dinklage for Game of Thrones.
• Writing for a Drama Series went to Jesse Armstrong for Succession, Nobody Is Ever Missing.
• Supporting Actress in a Drama Series went to Julia Garner for Ozark.
Halsey performed Cyndi Lauper’s Time After Time for the In Memoriam segment. Valerie Harper, Rip Torn, Carol Channing, just a few among the many we didn’t know had left us.
• Lead Actor in a Drama Series went to Billy Porter for Pose. Historic, very big win!
• Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series went to Jason Bateman for Ozark.
• Lead Actress in a Drama Series went to Jodi Comer for Killing Eve.
Oh gosh, Norman Lear came to the party with Marisa Tomei for Outstanding Comedy Series, and the Emmy went to Flea Bag. Phoebe Waller-Bridge had a fantastic night!
Michael Douglas came to close the whole thing down with Outstanding Drama Series. The 71st Emmy Award went to Game of Thrones. Yes! The series can’t go off the air without an Emmy win.
Congratulations of all of the 71st Emmy Awards winners!
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