Succession star Jeremy Strong won the drama actor trophy for his role as a potential heir to the throne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The virtual ceremony, with a hard-working Jimmy Kimmel as host, went smoothly despite producers\u2019 concerns that the plan to link 100-plus nominees remotely could result in glitches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although the rise of streaming services including Disney+ and\u00a0Apple<\/a>\u00a0TV+ dominates the TV landscape, it was Emmy stalwart HBO that stole the show, with winners including Succession and Watchmen making up for its now-departed awards giant Game of Thrones. ViacomCBS-owned Pop TV and its quirky comedy also proved unbeatable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Disney\u2019s Star Wars-derived The Mandalorian had to settle for technical awards, falling short in the best drama contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The awards for Pop TV\u2019s Schitt\u2019s Creek included best comedy series and trophies for its stars, including Catherine O\u2019Hara and father-son Eugene and Daniel Levy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is absolutely incredible. I think my dad said it best earlier this evening: it\u2019s a dream you don\u2019t want to wake up from, to be honest. What an absolutely unbelievable way to end our series,\u201d Daniel Levy said backstage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His character\u2019s comfortable pansexuality led to storylines that Levy called personally \u201ccathartic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his acceptance speech, he said the sitcom was about \u201cthe transformational effects of love and acceptance, and this is something we need more now than ever before,\u201d encouraging people to register and vote to achieve that goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other winners, including Watchmen star Regina King, made a point that the November 3 general election was near.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All the winners accepted their awards virtually in the pandemic-safe ceremony, including Catherine O\u2019Hara, but she wasn\u2019t alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThough these are the strangest of days, may you have as much joy being holed up in a room or two with your family as I had with my dear Roses,\u201d O\u2019Hara said from Canada, surrounded in a decorated room by mask-wearing co-stars who play the Rose family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eugene Levy called it \u201cironical that the straightest role I ever played lands me an Emmy for a comedy performance. I have to seriously question what I\u2019ve been doing\u201d for the past 50 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moments later, his son won the award for comedy writing for Schitt\u2019s Creek episode, then shared a directing award and captured the supporting actor comedy trophy. The supporting actress trophy went to his co-star Annie Murphy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Daniel Levy thanked his father and Catherine O\u2019Hara for teaching an extended \u201cmaster class\u201d in comedy. The show\u2019s sweep came for its much-acclaimed final season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n References to coronavirus<\/a> were an ongoing part of the ceremony, with essential workers \u2014 including a teacher and a UPS deliveryman \u2014 presenting awards and Jason Sudeikis ostensibly getting a COVID-19<\/a> test onstage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a year with a record number of Black nominees, 35, there was a notable lack of diversity in the show\u2019s early going. With Schitt\u2019s Creek gobbling up comedy awards, that left Insecure and creator Issa Rae empty-handed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That was also true of Ramy Youssef, creator-star of the semi-autobiographical comedy Ramy, about a young Muslim American\u2019s love and religious life. Yousef tweeted a video of a haz-mat suit-wearing person clutching an Emmy and waving goodbye after he lost in the comedy actor category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There was a sign of change with the drama awards, which came in the latter part of the ceremony, and Black actors ultimately won a record seven trophies. But there was a familiar pattern, with actors of colour doing exceptional work in limited series but not finding as much opportunity in ongoing shows, with Zendaya this year\u2019s exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Watchmen is a case in point. The graphic novel-adaptation, steeped in racial pain, was voted best limited series and King won lead actress for her work on the HBO show. She was showered by confetti as she accepted in an armchair, wearing a T-shirt that honoured police shooting victim Breonna Taylor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is so freaking weird,\u201d said King, who regained her composure and called on viewers to vote and, backstage, explained why she wore the message shirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe cops still haven\u2019t been held accountable,\u201d she said. \u201cShe represents just decades, hundreds of years of violence against Black bodies. Wearing Breonna\u2019s likeness and representing her and her family and the stories that we were exploring, presenting and holding a mirror up to on Watchmen, it felt appropriate to represent with Breonna Taylor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her co-star, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, won the Emmy for best supporting actor in a limited series. Uzo Aduba won the counterpart actress award for her portrayal of Shirley Chisholm in Mrs. America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anthony Anderson, a nominee for black-ish, came on stage to make his disappointment vigorously known, saying the awards should have been \u201cHoward University homecoming Black.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis isn\u2019t what it should have been. \u2026 But Black stories, Black performances and Black Lives Matter,\u201d he said, urging Jimmy Kimmel to shout with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tyler Perry, the actor turned media mogul and influential booster of African American talent, accepted the Governors Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Supporting drama awards went to Billy Crudup for The Morning Show and repeat winner Julia Garner for Ozark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last Week Tonight with John Oliver was again honoured as best variety-talk series, with David Letterman announcing the award after being abandoned roadside by an annoyed ride-share driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oliver joined the ranks of winners calling for Americans to vote, as did Mark Ruffalo, who won the limited series acting trophy for I Know This Much is True.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jimmy Kimmel opened the show with a monologue that appeared to be defiantly delivered in front of a packed, cheering theater \u2014 until it was revealed clips were played from past Emmy shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOf course I\u2019m here all alone. Of course, we don\u2019t have an audience,\u201d he said. \u201cThis isn\u2019t a MAGA rally. It\u2019s the Emmys.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n A minor gaffe marred Saturday\u2019s virtual creative arts Emmys for technical and other honours, when Jason Bateman\u2019s name was announced for a guest acting award that belonged to Ron Cephas Jones of \u201cThis Is Us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bateman was one of the few people on hand at the Staples Center for Monday\u2019s show, sitting in the audience during Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s opening monologue. The actor sat stone-faced amid a collection of cardboard cutouts, trading jokes with Kimmel after the host pointed out he was there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the cumulative awards handed out Sunday and at the creative arts events, HBO was the leader with 30 trophies, followed by Netflix with 21, Pop TV with 10 and Disney+ and NBC with eight each.<\/p>\n\n\n Succession was honoured as best drama series, and creator Jesse Armstrong used the opportunity to offer \u201cunthanks,\u201d including to President Donald Trump for what Armstrong called his \u201ccrummy\u201d handling of the pandemic. 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