Mark Grassick 
Game Of Thrones took home the coveted Outstanding Drama Series award at this year’s Emmys. HBO’s fantasy juggernaut collected six awards in total for its penultimate season, including Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Peter Dinklage. The drama acting honours were otherwise evenly spread. Matthew Rhys took Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series for the final season of The Americans, although his co-star Keri Russell missed out on her last shot at Outstanding Actress, the award instead going to Claire Foy for her last season in The Crown. Thandie Newton took the supporting actress award for her work as Maeve in Westworld.
The major comedy categories were split between two first-season shows, HBO’s superb Barry and Amazon’s equally superb The Marvellous Mrs Maisel, which won for Outstanding Comedy Series. Barry’s Bill Hader took Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series, while his co-star Henry Winkler won for supporting actor, his first Emmy on his fifth nomination. Maisel’s Rachel Brosnahan followed her Golden Globe win with the Outstanding Actress award and her cohort Alex Borstein took Outstanding Supporting Actress. The show’s creator Amy Sherman-Palladino became the first woman to win the directing and writing awards in the comedy section. It was, however, a fallow year for last year’s big winner Atlanta, which missed out on all the major comedy awards for which it was nominated.
One of the show’s highlights was when Glenn Weiss, accepting an award for directing the Oscars telecast, proposed to his girlfriend Jan Svendsen on stage. Luckily for him, she said yes.
Here’s the full list of last night’s big winners:
Outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series
Louie Anderson, Baskets
Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live
Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Brian Tyree Henry, Atlanta
Tony Shalhoub, The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel
Kenan Thompson, Saturday Night Live
WINNER: Henry Winkler, Barry
Outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series
Zazie Beetz, Atlanta
WINNER: Alex Borstein, The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel
Aidy Bryant, Saturday Night Live
Betty Gilpin, GLOW
Leslie Jones, Saturday Night Live
Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live
Laurie Metcalf, Roseanne
Megan Mullally, Will & Grace
Outstanding lead actor in a limited series or TV movie
Antonio Banderas, Genius: Picasso
WINNER: Darren Criss, The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Benedict Cumberbatch, Patrick Melrose
Jeff Daniels, The Looming Tower
John Legend, Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert
Jesse Plemons, Black Mirror: USS Callister
Outstanding lead actress in a limited series or TV movie
Jessica Biel, The Sinner
Laura Dern, The Tale
Michelle Dockery, Godless
Edie Falco, Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders
WINNER: Regina King, Seven Seconds
Sarah Paulson, American Horror Story: Cult
Outstanding lead actor in a comedy series
Anthony Anderson, Black-ish
Ted Danson, The Good Place
Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Donald Glover, Atlanta
WINNER: Bill Hader, Barry
William H. Macy, Shameless
Outstanding lead actress in a comedy series
Pamela Adlon, Better Things
WINNER: Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel
Allison Janney, Mom
Issa Rae, Insecure
Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish
Lily Tomlin, Grace And Frankie
Outstanding supporting actress in a limited series or movie
Sara Bareilles, Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert
Penelope Cruz, The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Judith Light, The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Adina Porter, American Horror Story: Cult
WINNER: Merritt Wever, Godless
Letitia Wright, Black Mirror: Black Museum
Outstanding supporting actor in a limited series or movie
WINNER: Jeff Daniels, Godless
Brandon Victor Dixon, Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert
John Leguizamo, Waco
Ricky Martin, The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Edgar Ramirez, The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Michael Stuhlbarg, The Looming Tower
Finn Wittrock, The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Outstanding lead actor in a drama series
Jason Bateman, Ozark
Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us
Ed Harris, Westworld
WINNER: Matthew Rhys, The Americans
Milo Ventimiglia, This Is Us
Jeffrey Wright, Westworld
Outstanding lead actress in a drama series
WINNER: Claire Foy, The Crown
Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black
Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale
Sandra Oh, Killing Eve
Keri Russell, The Americans
Evan Rachel Wood, Westworld
Outstanding supporting actor in a drama series
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Game of Thrones
WINNER: Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
Joseph Fiennes, The Handmaid’s Tale
David Harbour, Stranger Things
Mandy Patinkin, Homeland
Matt Smith, The Crown
Outstanding supporting actress in a drama series
Alexis Bledel, The Handmaid’s Tale
Millie Bobby Brown, Stranger Things
Ann Dowd, The Handmaid’s Tale
Lena Headey, Game of Thrones
Vanessa Kirby, The Crown
WINNER: Thandie Newton, Westworld
Yvonne Strahovski, The Handmaid’s Tale
Outstanding reality/competition series
The Amazing Race
American Ninja Warrior
Project Runway
WINNER: RuPaul’s Drag Race
Top Chef
The Voice
Outstanding variety sketch series
At Home with Amy Sedaris
Drunk History
I Love You, America
Portlandia
WINNER: Saturday Night Live
Tracey Ullman’s Show
Outstanding variety talk series
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
WINNER: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Outstanding limited Series
The Alienist
WINNER: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Genius: Picasso
Godless
Patrick Melrose
Outstanding comedy series
Atlanta
Barry
Black-ish
Curb Your Enthusiasm
GLOW
WINNER: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Silicon Valley
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Outstanding drama series
WINNER: Game Of Thrones
The Handmaid’s Tale
Stranger Things
The Americans
This Is Us
Westworld
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