Amazon have to be fairly glad after tonight’s primetime Emmy Awards, the place its reveals “Fleabag” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” dominated the comedy classes.
“Fleabag” did significantly nicely, profitable the massive award for Comedy Series, in addition to extra awards for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Phoebe Waller-Bridge, pictured above), Writing for a Comedy Series (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) and Directing for a Comedy Series (Harry Bradbeer).
Meanwhile, final yr’s Comedy Series winner “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” gained this yr’s awards for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (Alex Borstein) and Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (Tony Shaloub).
Netflix didn’t go dwelling empty handed, both. “Ozark” gained for Directing for a Drama Series (Jason Bateman) and Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (Julia Garner), whereas Jharrel Jerome was named the perfect Lead Actor in a Limited Series for his efficiency in “When They See Us.” And “Bandersnatch,” the interactive episode of “Black Mirror,” gained for Television Movie.
This was additionally an enormous evening for HBO, which retook the lead in Emmy nominations from Netflix, setting a brand new file for essentially the most nominations within the course of. And it went into the night having already gained 25 Creative Arts Emmy Awards (these are the technical awards that they don’t get included within the huge ceremonies), in comparison with Netflix’s 23.
That included taking the perfect Drama Series award for “Game of Thrones” (sure, that’s for the present’s controversial remaining season), which additionally gained Peter Dinklage his fourth Emmy for Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. “Chernobyl,” in the meantime gained three awards, together with Limited Series.
And for followers of HBO’s “Succession” (a.ok.a. most of my Twitter feed), I’ll notice that collection creator Jesse Armstrong the drama writing award for the season one finale.
You can see the complete record of winners right here.
