96TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS
- 23 Mar - 29 Mar, 2024
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.
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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