Is TV a Big Deal?! The ’67th Annual Emmy Awards’ Sure think So (UPDATED)
(PLEASE NOTE: Most of this entry was written on Sunday afternoon prior to the broadcast. Some asides and clips — most notably a list of the winners — have been added on Monday morning.)
Even we mere mortals who just sit in front of our boob tubes slackjawed like a bunch of chumps consider it one heck of an occasion, as tonight — of all nights — TELEVISION HONORS ITSELF (as who else is more up to the task?) with what will be its 67th Primetime Emmy Awards.
Television’s elite are already arriving today at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater as we type this, during what is apparently one scorcher of an afternoon — weather-wise — in the City of Angels. We do hope the stars of all those dramas, comedies, and miniseries keep themselves out of the sun’s harmful rays.
We, however, will have no shelter from the mighty luminescence of all that collected star-power as our televisions bombard us, while we sit enraptured by tonight’s broadcast.
Or, I suppose you could skip it, maybe find a good movie on Netflix, or spend some time with your kids, or read a book, and then catch up with the winners — if you’re really at all curious — in tomorrow’s paper (or even here at the PeekYou blog).
But we say pshaw to such thinking. PSHAW!
Either way, all of TV’s biggest stars will be in that danged theatre and a bunch of them are going to win (and, we’re sorry we must add, a bunch are going to lose) awards for their efforts performing in and around TV and its assorted productions.
Tonight’s awards will kick off at 5pm PT — or 8pm ET — tonight on Fox. SNL alum and Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andy Samberg will be overseeing the evening’s festivities. His Lonely Island comedy troupe, and their trademark — and often hilarious, and invariably viral — short films are sure to be appearing throughout the broadcast.
Twitter’s #AskHerMore campaign — urging reporters to ask female celebrities red carpet questions less inane than “Who are you wearing?” — will be back in force, this time with a new spin courtesy of Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls organization.
A bunch of boring technical things are different this year in how the voting is being done, we believe. We’re sure the WikiPedia entry can help you out there, if you’re curious.
Below is a highlighted list of the categories we suspect you’ll find most interesting. A full list of nominees, however, if you’re feeling very thorough about things, can be found here.
UPDATED Before getting to the noms and winners below, here is the broadcast’s opening number:
And perhaps the night’t most moving moment, and biggest surprise, was the final award presentation by comedian Tracy Morgan; making one of his first public appearances since a near fatal car crash in June of 2014:
Here are the nominees, NOW UPDATED TO INDICATE WINNERS (remember, clicking the highlighted words in this entry will navigate you to other areas of the Internet, usually on PeekYou, an enormously useful site by the way, where you can learn more about the corresponding topic)…
(It seems of those roasted during the broadcast’s numerous moments of banter, none got it worse — quite predictably — than current GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. You read an overview of some of the worst jabs directed at The Donald here.)
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
“Better Call Saul”
“Downton Abbey”
WINNER “Game of Thrones”
“Homeland”
“House of Cards”
“Mad Men”
“Orange is the New Black”OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
“Louie”
“Modern Family”
“Parks and Recreation”
“Silicon Valley”
“Transparent”
“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”
WINNNER “Veep”LEAD ACTOR, DRAMA
Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”
Kyle Chandler, “Bloodline”
Kevin Spacey, “House of Cards”
WINNER Jon Hamm, “Mad Men”
Jeff Daniels, “The Newsroom”
Liev Schreiber, “Ray Donovan”LEAD ACTRESS, DRAMA
Taraji P. Henson, “Empire”
Claire Danes, “Homeland”
WINNER Viola Davis, “How to Get Away with Murder”
Tatiana Maslany, “Orphan Black”
Elisabeth Moss, “Mad Men”
Robin Wright, “House of Cards”LEAD ACTOR, LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Timothy Hutton, “American Crime”
Ricky Gervais, “Derek Special”
Adrien Brody, “Houdini”
David Oyelowo, “Nightingale”
WINNER Richard Jenkins, “Olive Kitteridge”
Mark Rylance, “Wolf Hall”LEAD ACTRESS, LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Felicity Huffman, “American Crime”
Jessica Lange, “American Horror Story”
Queen Latifah, “Bessie”
Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Honorable Woman”
WINNER Frances McDormand, “Olive Kitteridge”
Emma Thompson, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street”LEAD ACTOR, COMEDY
Anthony Anderson, “black-ish”
Matt LeBlanc, “Episodes”
Don Cheadle, “House of Lies”
Will Forte, “The Last Man On Earth”
Louis C.K., “Louie”
William H. Macy, “Shameless”
WINNER Jeffrey Tambor, “Transparent”LEAD ACTRESS, COMEDY
Lisa Kudrow, “The Comeback”
Lily Tomlin, “Grace And Frankie”
Amy Schumer, “Inside Amy Schumer”
Edie Falco, “Nurse Jackie”
Amy Poehler, “Parks And Recreation”
WINNER Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Veep”REALITY-COMPETITION SERIES
“The Amazing Race”
“Dancing With The Stars”
“Project Runway”
“So You Think You Can Dance”
“Top Chef”
WINNER “The Voice”VARIETY TALK SERIES
“The Colbert Report”
WINNER “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart”
“Jimmy Kimmel Live”
“Last Week Tonight With John Oliver”
“Late Show With David Letterman”
“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”LIMITED SERIES
“American Crime”
“American Horror Story: Freak Show”
“The Honorable Woman”
WINNER “Olive Kitteridge”
“Wolf Hall”VARIETY SKETCH SERIES
“Drunk History”
WINNER “Inside Amy Schumer”
“Key & Peele”
“Portlandia”
“Saturday Night Live”TELEVISION MOVIE
“Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Curtain, Poirot’s Last Case”
WINNER “Bessie”
“Grace of Monaco”
“Hello Ladies: The Movie”
“Killing Jesus”
“Nightingale”SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA
Jonathan Banks, “Better Call Saul”
Ben Mendelsohn, “Bloodline”
Jim Carter, “Downton Abbey”
WINNER Peter Dinklage, “Game Of Thrones”
Alan Cumming, “The Good Wife”
Michael Kelly, “House Of Cards”SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA
Joanne Froggatt, “Downton Abbey”
Lena Headey, “Game Of Thrones”
Emilia Clarke, “Game Of Thrones”
Christine Baranski, “The Good Wife”
Christina Hendricks, “Mad Men”
WINNER Uzo Aduba, “Orange Is The New Black”GUEST ACTOR, DRAMA
Alan Alda, “The Blacklist”
Michael J. Fox, “The Good Wife”
F. Murray Abraham, “Homeland”
WINNER Reg E. Cathey, “House of Cards”
Beau Bridges, “Masters Of Sex”
Pablo Schreiber, “Orange Is The New Black”GUEST ACTRESS, DRAMA
WINNER Margo Martindale, “The Americans”
Diana Rigg, “Game of Thrones”
Rachel Brosnahan, “House Of Cards”
Cicely Tyson, “How To Get Away With Murder”
Allison Janney, “Masters Of Sex”
Khandi Alexander, “Scandal”SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY
Andre Braugher, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
Adam Driver, “Girls”
Keegan-Michael Key, “Key & Peele”
Ty Burrell, “Modern Family”
Tituss Burgess, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”
WINNER Tony Hale, “Veep”SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY
Mayim Bialik, “The Big Bang Theory”
Niecy Nash, “Getting On”
Julie Bowen, “Modern Family”
WINNER Allison Janney, “Mom”
Kate McKinnon “Saturday Night Live”
Gaby Hoffmann, “Transparent”
Jane Krakowski, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”
Anna Chlumsky, “Veep”GUEST ACTOR, COMEDY
Mel Brooks, “The Comedians”
Paul Giamatti, “Inside Amy Schumer”
Bill Hader, “Saturday Night Live”
Louis C.K., “Saturday Night Live”
WINNER Bradley Whitford, “Transparent”
Jon Hamm, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”GUEST ACTRESS, COMEDY
Christine Baranski, “The Big Bang Theory”
Gaby Hoffmann, “Girls”
Pamela Adlon, “Louie”
Elizabeth Banks, “Modern Family”
WINNER Joan Cusack, “Shameless”
Tina Fey, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”SUPPORTING ACTOR, LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Richard Cabral, “American Crime”
Denis O’Hare, “American Horror Story: Freak Show”
Finn Wittrock, “American Horror Story: Freak Show”
Michael Kenneth Williams, “Bessie”
WINNER Bill Murray, “Olive Kitteridge”
Damian Lewis, “Wolf Hall”SUPPORTING ACTRESS, LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
WINNER Regina King, “American Crime”
Sarah Paulson, “American Horror Story: Freak Show”
Angela Bassett, “American Horror Story: Freak Show”
Kathy Bates, “American Horror Story: Freak Show”
Mo’Nique, “Bessie”
Zoe Kazan, “Olive Kitteridge”