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Clash of the Titans: Emmy 2018 Winners

Clash of the Titans: Emmy 2018 Winners

by Yash Saboo September 27 2018, 3:36 pm Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins, 22 secs

The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards was a battle between two TV titans. On one side was established TV powerhouse HBO, which went into the evening with 29 Emmy nominations for shows like Westworld, Silicon Valley, Game of Thrones and Insecure. On the other side, with a whopping 37 total nominations, thanks to shows like Black Mirror, Stranger Things, GLOW and The Crown was Netflix.

But while HBO ultimately took home the top honour for Outstanding Drama Series for Game of Thrones, for much of the evening it seemed like another player had most of the momentum: Amazon, notes The Verge.


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Amazon started the evening with a blast by winning four of the first five awards presented, for its period comedy show The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The series won five different categories over the course of the evening, including writing and directing awards for series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, and acting awards for series stars Rachel Brosnahan and Alex Borstein. It ended the evening by taking home Outstanding Comedy Series, the top honour of the night for a comedy series.

Netflix didn’t stay quiet for long. The Crown won two awards — Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama for Claire Foy and Outstanding Directing for Stephen Daldry — but Netflix’s wins were ultimately piecemeal. It spoke to the power of the company’s strategy of producing such an immense amount of content. Even when no single show became a juggernaut in its own right, Netflix still racked up a respectable number of wins.


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Jeff Daniels and Merritt Wever won acting awards for their work in the Scott Frank’s Godless, William Bridges and Charlie Brooker won Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie for the Black Mirror instalment USS Callister, and actress Regina King won for her performance in the series Seven Seconds.

Another series that took home several awards was Ryan Murphy’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. The FX espionage drama The Americans too won a few. HBO’s Game of Thrones took the top prize even though it had only earned one other award over the course of the evening: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Peter Dinklage.

Here's the list of Emmy winners

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES

The Americans

The Crown

Game of Thrones

The Handmaid’s Tale

Stranger Things

This Is Us

Westworld

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES

Atlanta

Barry

black-ish

Curb Your Enthusiasm

GLOW

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Silicon Valley

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES

The Alienist

The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story

Genius: Picasso

Godless

Patrick Melrose

OUTSTANDING VARIETY TALK SERIES

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

The Late Show with James Corden

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

OUTSTANDING VARIETY SKETCH SERIES

At Home with Amy Sedaris

Drunk History

I Love You, America with Sarah Silverman

Portlandia

Saturday Night Live

Tracey Ullman’s Show

OUTSTANDING REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM

The Amazing Race

American Ninja Warrior

Project Runway

RuPaul’s Drag Race

Top Chef

The Voice

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

Keri Russell, The Americans

Claire Foy, The Crown

Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale

Sandra Oh, Killing Eve

Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black

Evan Rachel Wood, Westworld

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Matthew Rhys, The Americans

Jason Bateman, Ozark

Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us

Milo Ventimiglia, This Is Us

Ed Harris, Westworld

Jeffrey Wright, Westworld

OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A DRAMA SERIES

Stephen Daldry, The Crown - “Paterfamilias”

Alan Taylor, Game of Thrones - “Beyond The Wall”

Jeremy Podeswa, Game of Thrones - “The Dragon and the Wolf”

Kari Skogland, The Handmaid’s Tale - “After”

Jason Bateman, Ozark - “The Toll”

Daniel Sackheim, Ozark - “Tonight”

The Duffer Brothers, Stranger Things - “Chapter Nine: The Gate”

For the complete list: http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners




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