LOS ANGELES (AP) – “Shogun” had a historic win in its first 18-Emmy season, “Hacks” earned the best comedy in what was still a four-award night. for “The Bear” and “Baby Reindeer” had a holiday at the Emmys that had some surprising trends.
“Shogun,” the FX series about power struggles in Japan, won best drama series, Hiroyuki Sanada won best actor in a drama, and Anna Sawai won best actress. Sanada became the first Japanese actress to win an Emmy. just seconds later.
“‘Shogun’ taught me that when we work together, we can do miracles,” Sanada said in his acceptance speech from the stage of the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
Along with the 14 Emmys it claimed at the inaugural Creative Arts Emmys, it had an unprecedented streak of 18 in total for a single season.
“Hacks” was the surprise winner of its first comedy series, topping “The Bear,” which many expected to take after the big wins. earlier in the evening.
Jean Smart won her third best actress in a comedy award for the third season of Max’s “Hacks,” in which her stand-up comedian Deborah Vance tries to make it in late-night TV. Smart has six Emmys in total.
Despite missing out on the night’s biggest comedy award after winning it for its first season at the January premiere, FX’s “The Bear” star Jeremy Allen White won best comedian of the year the second in a row, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach repeated. as a great support player.
And Liza Colón-Zayas was the best supporting actress winner in a competition that included Meryl Streep, becoming the first Latina to win in the category.
“To all the Latinos who are looking at me,” he said, his eyes brimming with tears. “keep believing, and vote.”
Netflix’s dark “Baby Reindeer” has won a limited series. Creator and star Richard Gadd won for best actor and writing and Jessica Gunning, who plays her tormentor, won best supporting actress.
In accepting the award for the series, Gadd encouraged television producers to take chances.
“The only thing that drives any success in television is telling good stories,” he said. So take risks, push the boundaries. Assess the discomfort. Dare to fail in order to achieve.”
“Baby Reindeer” is based on another stage show in which Gadd describes sexual abuse and other emotional problems.
Accepting the award, he said, “no matter how bad it gets, it always gets better.”
The Associated Press does not release the names of people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward like Gadd.
Jodie Foster won her first Emmy to go along with her two Oscars when she took home the best actress in the limited series “True Detective: Night Country”.
Foster played a salty police chief investigating a mass murder in the darkness of an Alaskan winter on the HBO show. Although her co-star Kali Reis failed to become the first Native actress to win an Emmy in the supporting category, Foster praised her, and the show’s engagement with Native American fans.
Foster said: “Inupiaq and Inuit people in northern Alaska who told us their stories, and they let us listen to them.” “That was just a blessing. It was love, love, love, and when you feel that, something amazing happens. “
Greg Berlanti, producer and writer of shows including “Dawson’s Creek” and “Everwood,” received the Television Academy Governors Award for his long-term contributions to improving LGBTQ representation on television. He talked about his childhood when there was such little visibility.
“There weren’t a lot of gay characters on television back then, and I was a closeted gay kid,” Berlanti said. It’s hard to describe how lonely it was at that time.
Traditional television’s long decline in the Emmys continued, with nothing between the four broadcast networks.
In one opening speech on ABC radio, Dan Levy, who hosted his father and “Schitt’s Creek” co-star Eugene Levy, called the Emmys “a great night for of TV for honoring movie stars on streaming services.”
Although without Foster, the movie stars did not go well. Fellow Oscar winners Streep and Robert Downey Jr. they were among the beloved, but they came up empty.
“Robert Downey Jr. I have your poster in my house!” said Lamorne Morris, who beat Downey for best supporting actor in a limited series, said from the stage as he accepted his first Emmy.
The evening was able to meet many expectations but included many methods such as the victory of “Hacks”.
“We were very surprised,” Hacks co-creator Jen Statsky, who also won writing, said after the show. “We were really surprised.”
And “Shogun” got off to a quiet start, missing out on early wins and not getting his first trophy until the middle half.
However, it broke the Emmys record for one season previously held by the 2008 limited series “John Adams” in 2008. And its acting success would be difficult to thinks before the series becomes a popular phenomenon.
Sanada is a 63-year-old longtime star whose name is unknown outside of Japan, despite his face in Hollywood films such as “The Last Samurai” and “John Wick Chapter 4. ” Sawai, 32, who was born in New Zealand and moved to Japan as a child, is not well known in the U.S. She wept as she accepted the best actress award.
“When you see me crying on stage, it’s probably the 12th time I’ve cried today,” Sawai said backstage. “It was just mixed feelings, wanting everyone to win all those things. I might cry again now.”
“The Bear” would finish second with 11 Emmys overall, including guest wins at the Creative Arts ceremony for Jamie Lee Curtis and Jon Bernthal.
The Levys in their opening speech mocked the show as a comedy club.
“In honor of ‘Bear’ we’re not going to make jokes,” Eugene Levy said, laughing.
Elizabeth Debicki took home best supporting actress in a drama for playing Princess Diana at the end of her life in the sixth and final season of “The Crown.”
“Playing this role, based on this incomparable, amazing person, has been my greatest privilege,” Debicki said at the reception. “It’s been a gift.
Several awards have been presented by established groups in TV history, including sitcom fathers George Lopez, Damon Wayans and Jesse Tyler Ferguson and TV mothers Meredith Baxter, Connie Britton, and Susan Kelechi Watson.
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