“Television. The most powerful medium ever created, seen by billions of people in the world.” With that poster, to give way to a sketch Humor, Emmy Awards started, which honor the best of American television. Perhaps today that maxim is debatable, with the arrival of the Internet, but tonight in Sunday, in the United States, he was right and relevant again.
With permission from the Palestinian handkerchief of Javier Bardem, he left three clear winners. As miniseries, with six awards of seven, making it clear that this is no longer at all a minor category. The Pitt (HBO Max) Separation (Apple TV+), its competitor, thanks to three awards, against two. “To our team, actors, Noah Wyle, our friends, family … to all health workers and emergency services: respect them, protect them, trust them,” said those responsible on stage., Among them the best series in comedy category. “I’m ashamed of how happy this does to me,” said Seth Rogen when collecting the prize. He dedicated it to dozens of people, including Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, among the public. But, to disappoint the most coffee growers, not to Sal Saperstein.
At the gala, the first to appear on the stage was the applauded Stephen Colbert. With and with, the presenter started with a “Are you any one hiring?”, And he went on to show his curriculum, with a photo so old that he was in black and white. “Harrison Ford, do you care to give it to Spielberg?” He asked the actor, to take the curriculum. There was not so much to complain: then he would win.
Colbert gave him the first prize of the night, the best actor of comedy, to Seth Rogen, for The Studio. The following, best comedy actress, was given another star of it, Jennifer Coolidge. “Among us, I hoped to be nominated for The Pitt”, He joked. He took it, again, that he received it while he was among the bambaline. At 74 years and with a knee problem, he said that one of the best things to receive the award, the seventh of his career and the fourth for the same character, it was to be able to thank all the great people who work with her. Change, debuted as a winner, despite being nominated year after year.
In comedy, the surprise came with the best cast actor. Jeff Hiller took him by Somebody Somewhereunexpectedly. “Thanks to HBO for putting ourselves on the same platform as the sexy adolescents of Euphoria“I said excitedly.” Thanks to my friends and my husband for never laughing at me. “
As for drama, an excited Noah Wyle took him by The Pittin front of a hard competition. He dedicated it to the entire team of the series, his children, his parents, his stepfather, his wife. “And to all those who are on duty tonight, who go out or who are going to enter, who are there for everyone for all,” he said in reference to all hospital workers. As a cast actress, Katherine Lanasa took her for her human role of. He dedicated it to the whole family of the series and his partner Wyle, excited to the tears. The one that ended was The White Lotuswhich had four nominees among the six cast actresses and three in a cast actor, but finally went empty.
Separation He also took two for his actors. The until now almost unknown Britt Lower, who plays the complex Helly R. in the fiction of Apple TV+, won the best main actress and dedicated it to his own and the team: “Thank you for Helly R., thanks for choosing me,” he said, without finishing creating it, and with a nod to his role: in the note where he had written his speech, he read his speech, “Get me out of here.” Delivery actor went to his partner Tramell Tillman. “Mom, you were there when no one was. Your love and love are with me,” he dedicated to his mother, his first coach of action, in the public. He was the first black man to win in his category.
As for miniseries, as expected, . “This was a great collaboration, of a beautiful family,” said Stephen Graham, its creator, screenwriter and protagonist, highlighting how in production everyone had been treated equally. “If you are the guy who cleans the bathrooms or prepares the bagelswe are all equal. ”
It was his second time on stage, because he also collected the best leading actor. Graham’s fine and very hard work as Eddie Miller, the father who carries the weight of the first and last chapter of the series, was recognized. “There are many people to thank him,” he said, citing his classmates, his friends, his family and his wife, who cried in the armchair: “You are my rock, you are my soulmate, without you I would be dead.”
“Three years ago, I was nobody,” said Owen Cooper, just 15 years old, the winner for best younger cast actor in the history of the Emmy, in fact, the minor man to win from the awards. “Nothing is impossible.” In addition, also Erin Doherty, the psychologist of the third chapter, won the best cast actress.
He only escaped from the overwhelming lane of the awards Adolescence una emocionada , y se lo dedicó a su familia, amigos, HBO, agentes, compañeros… “¡Os amo, amo actuar, aaaahhhhhhhhhh!“, gritó sobre el escenario, arrugando el papel donde llevaba su discurso.
The awards for better address and script were also awarded, more distributed. In comedy direction, Seth Rogen came up again for The Studio. In a better direction of a limited series, there were six candidates, five women and one man … who took it. It was for Philip Barantini by Adolescence. The surprise gave it, in drama, Adam Randall, for the second season of Slow Horses. Gary Oldman himself, protagonist of the spy series, applauded slowly, disheveled from surprise.
The best script awards were also varied. The best drama script took Dan Gilroy for Andor; The comedy, again, to The Studioand the limited series, Adolescence.
After years behind him, finally Stephen Colbert took the Emmy for better talk series, Uploading to the stage of their collaborators and under the ovation of all present. “Sometimes you know how much you love something when you are about to lose it,” he said about his program. “I love my country,” he said. “If the elevator wants to send you down, squeeze the upper floor button.”
He won the Emmy for the best variety program; The Traitorsthe best reality show of competition. The Bob Hope Honor Prize went to Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, actors and marriage for 30 years, for their contribution to protection to various causes, such as children and oceans. “My father was an archaeologist and he always told me that this life is not only about ourselves,” Danson said. “Be useful helping, with organizations,” Steenburgen asked.
In addition to the in memorywhere it was remembered ,,, or, the other two best moments were thanks to tributes to nostalgia. The first, by Gold girls, With several American singers singing the main theme, Thank You for Being a Friendin the classic kitchen of the series, which meets four decades. The second, the one that was made to Gilmore girlswith its protagonists, Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel, together on stage and on the porch of his famous house in the series to present an award.
Cris Abrego, the president of the Television Academy, advocated public television, explaining that many small local chains have been lost due to the lack of the financing of Congress, with boos to it by the public. “Television and its artists shape our culture,” said the first Latino to preside over the academy. “At times like these, neutrality is not enough. We must have empathy. Because we know that culture does not go down, but from the bottom up,” he said. “With diversity the strength and imagination arrive to move forward. Let’s continue creating history. Let us make sure that culture is not a platform for privileged.” It was one of the few political speeches of the night.
The gala as such was devoid of surprises and bright moments. What highlighted the show presented by Nate Bargatze was an accountant to prevent the winners from speaking more than 45 seconds: from the outset, he had $ 100,000 that would go to a children’s association. But if on stage someone passed over time, the money was discounted: one thousand dollars less per second. Despite live contributions, it ended up falling up to $ 60,000. In the end, he traced the 350,000, with donations from the presenter and the CBS chain. Because, in the end, what counts is the show.
