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Emmys 2018 – Game Of Thrones and Maisel win big and finally some love for The Americans

HBO and Netflix tied for awards hauls, while network TV was almost entirely frozen out

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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 American’s Matthew Rhys with his Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor

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.

Rachel Brosnahan adds an Emmy to her list of awards for The Marvellous Mrs Maisel

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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