71ST PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS 2020

  • 05 Oct - 11 Oct, 2019
  • Mag The Weekly
  • Awards


The Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California was brimming with Hollywood’s finest star-power last week, as the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards rolled out its red carpet, to honour and award the best in U.S. prime time television programming, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Fox followed in the Oscars footsteps and the Television Academy planned a host-less broadcast leaving plenty of time to present 27 categories. The awards offered up several pleasant surprises. And turned out to be a very English Emmys as Brits cleaned up at the Emmys on Sunday, winning many of the night’s biggest awards, including both top actress gongs, which went to Phoebe Waller-Bridge for Fleabag and Jodie Comer for Killing Eve. It was a historic night for Waller-Bridge’s Amazon show, which upset a pair of established American Emmy juggernauts in Veep and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel on the way to four primetime wins. John Oliver continued his dominance in the variety talk series category, in perhaps the least surprising news of a British triumph. The sight of Brits clutching Emmys was so ubiquitous by the end of the night that Succession creator Jesse Armstrong, himself English, commented on it during his writing-for-a-drama-series speech. “There’s quite a lot of British winners, maybe too many,” Armstrong said. Clearly there’s no such thing, as far as the Television Academy is concerned, and with the return of The Crown and Killing Eve in the coming months, British actors could well rule the Emmys once again in 2020. Many of the evening’s winners felt empowered to speak up and speak out, advocating for Trans rights, pay equity and other forms of representation and inclusion.


HERE’S A COMPLETE LIST OF WINNERS FROM THE BIG NIGHT. HAVE A LOOK.

Drama Series

Game of Thrones

Comedy Series

Fleabag

Limited Series

Chernobyl

Television Movie

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Billy Porter

Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Jodie Comer

Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

Bill Hader

Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie

Jharrel Jerome

Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie

Michelle Williams

Competition Program

RuPaul’s Drag Race

Variety Sketch Series

Saturday Night Live

Variety Talk Series

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Julia Garner

Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

Peter Dinklage

Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Alex Borstein

Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

Tony Shalhoub

Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie

Patricia Arquette

Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie

Ben Whishaw

Directing for a Comedy Series

Fleabag

Directing for a Drama Series

Ozark “Reparations”

Directing for a Limited Series or TV Movie

Chernobyl

Directing for a Variety Series

Saturday Night Live

Writing for a Comedy Series

Fleabag

Writing for a Drama Series

Succession, Nobody Is Ever Missing

Writing for a Limited Series or TV Movie

Chernobyl

Writing for a Variety Series

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

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