And that's a wrap
What a night. Anthony Anderson was an amiable and game host, shepherding a charming telecast celebrating TV’s history that managed to cram in some heartwarming cast reunions – Martin, Ally McBeal, Grey’s Anatomy, The Sopranos, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, All in the Family and more – along with a whopping 27 awards. (Golden Globes, take note!)
Tonight was the rare show where the presenting bits hit above average, thanks to some beloved line-ups: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Meredith Grey and Izzie Stevens, the remaining cast of Cheers – all conjured TV nostalgia and chemistry rather than the usual stilted and awkward fare.
On the awards front, there weren’t many surprises, just excited delights. Succession, The Bear and Beef rode into the night with awards momentum from the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice awards, and the Emmys continued the love. The final season of Succession took home six awards, as did the premiere season of The Bear (the second season will be eligible next year). Beef, meanwhile, took home five awards during the three-hour telecast; star Ali Wong became the first woman of Asian descent to ever win a lead acting Emmy.
And that’s it from us! Thanks for joining us on television’s biggest night.
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My colleague Benjamin Lee has a full rundown of tonight’s happenings:
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Full footage of that very full kiss between exuberant The Bear co-stars Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Matty Matheson:
Matty Matheson and Ebon Moss-Bachrach share a kiss on stage after #TheBear wins the award for Outstanding Comedy Series at the #Emmys pic.twitter.com/lHT3Iu8ffd
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 16, 2024
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Here’s Kieran Culkin’s full, jubilant speech, if you’re still clinging to Succession:
Kieran Culkin accepts the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) January 16, 2024
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There were a number of tributes to television history tonight, some better than others (that celebratory montage with a clip of 9/11 felt … jarring). Here’s one of the better ones from the end of tonight:
Natasha Lyonne and Tracee Ellis Ross pay tribute to "I Love Lucy" at the #Emmys. https://t.co/SiaGD3jesB pic.twitter.com/7Br5UMcWm6
— Variety (@Variety) January 16, 2024
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And here’s our full list of winners this evening:
So many awards tonight, and also there was fashion! Here’s a look at all the outfits this evening:
The dominance of Succession in the past few years has cost some series dearly, in terms of awards – after six seasons and 53 Emmy nominations, Better Call Saul ends its run with zero wins. Nothing for star Bob Odenkirk, nor heralded co-star Rhea Seehorn. Tough luck.
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Elton John has released a statement on his newly minted Egot status: “I am incredibly humbled to be joining the unbelievably talented group of EGOT winners tonight,” he wrote, after winning best live variety special for Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium.
“The journey to this moment has been filled with passion, dedication, and the unwavering support of my fans all around the world,” he added. “Tonight is a testament to the power of the arts and the joy that it brings to all our lives. Thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout my career, I am incredibly grateful.”
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WINNER: Succession — best drama series
Honestly, a great nostalgia play by having Peter Dinklage present the night’s final award, best drama series, to the Game of Thrones theme song. But in a surprise to no one, GoT successor House of the Dragon didn’t get this award. This was always Succession’s night, and the final season gets its sixth award of the evening – after 75 all time nominations (!) – and its fourth straight win in the category.
Creator Jesse Armstrong thanked HBO – “this wasn’t necessarily an easy show to commission at the beginning” – and shouted out the absent star Jeremy Strong, who is making a movie, and writer Lucy Prebble, “who made a baby”.
And in a final send-off, Armstrong acknowledged the show “about a family, but it’s also about when partisan news coverage gets intertwined with divisive right-wing politics”.
“That’s a problem we have now fixed,” he joked. “We’re so honored.” Goodbye, Succession at the Emmys, I miss you already.
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WINNER: The Bear — best comedy series
No surprise here, The Bear nearly swept the comedy awards tonight, and takes home a sixth Emmy for best series (and this is for season 1!)
Star and real-life chef/restaurateur Matty Matheson accepts for the cast and crew, and shouts out “restaurants as a whole” before getting cut off by a massive kiss from Cousin Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach).
Matheson eventually got to restart: “It’s really beautiful, and we get to make people feel good or feel anxiety-triggered, it seems,” he said. (This is accurate.) As Matheson says: “RESTAURANTS FOREVER!”
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Quinta Brunson and Ayo Edebiri, the first time two Black actresses won both comedy acting awards, remain delightful:
“Bitch, what the fuck???” is so precious lmao pic.twitter.com/aTeiWcBTs6
— Joi Childs (@jumpedforjoi) January 16, 2024
WINNER: Sarah Snook (Succession) — actress in a drama series
More Succession! Sarah Snook, more than deserving of some awards recognition FINALLY for her performance as Shiv Roy, wins for best drama actress.
Snook seemed more genuinely excited for Culkin’s win than her own, but is still nearly breathless in celebrating the teamwork from the Succession crew – “from every department, we all gave it our best.”
The biggest thank you, however, went to her very young daughter – “I carried her with me in this last series, and really it was her carrying me,” she said, adding: “the proximity of her life growing inside gave me the strength” to play Shiv through, you know, takeovers and betrayal and such.
WINNER: Kieran Culkin (Succession) — actor in a drama series
This award was never not going to go to a Succession actor, and Kieran Culkin is the lucky winner tonight for everyone’s least favorite middle child Roman Roy. He went up against fellow cast mates Jeremy Strong and Brian Cox (who got a kiss on his way to the stage).
Culkin thanked Jesse Armstrong – “thank you for Succession, thank you for everything” – and then switched to the personal, and to tears. “I have to thank my mom for giving me life and my childhood,” he said, with shouts to his manager of 29 (?!) years. And to cap it all off, he told his wife he wants more kids. OK!
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Worth noting – with her win for best actress in a limited series, Beef’s Ali Wong becomes the first woman of Asian descent to ever win an Emmy for a leading role.
Here’s her full speech:
Ali Wong gives a kiss to Bill Hader after winning the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for #Beef pic.twitter.com/tQK7TmAJkG
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 16, 2024
Charlie Puth (where my Puthers at?!) leads the in memoriam segment with a strings and choir rendition of See You Again, the Wiz Khalifa collab from the Fast and Furious franchise in honor of the late Paul Walker. As someone who routinely hears this song blasted from speakers outside my window – this is the best version it could possibly be.
The tributes – for Peewee Herman, Harry Belafonte, Angela Lansbury, Angus Cloud and so many more – kick off with Norman Lear, the television titan who died last month at 101.
And then Puth and duo the War and Treaty switch into a mournful version of the Friends theme song, for Matthew Perry, oof.
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Governors award: Glaad
Hannah Waddingham and Colman Domingo present a Governors award to Glaad (the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), a non-profit which has, for 40 years, advised television shows on LGBTQ+ representation and depiction.
Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of the organization, accepted the honor with a speech optimistically underscoring the power of media to fight discrimination against LGBTQ+ people. “What the world sees on TV influences how we treat each other and the decisions that we make in living rooms, schools, in our work and at the ballot box,” she said.
She did not mince words on the targeting of transgender people: “The world urgently needs culture-changing stories about transgender people. More people say they have seen a ghost than know a transgender person. When you don’t know people, it’s easy to demonize them.”
“Sharing stories is the antidote,” she concluded, “and now is the time to take action to support everyone in the LGBTQ community.”
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To celebrate 75 years of the Emmys Awards, the Television Academy picked 75 moments from TV history that, in their estimation, changed the world. This includes such varied tones as the end of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the groundbreaking abortion storyline from Maude, MLK’s I Have A Dream Speech and … 9/11. In other words, a quick spin through TV legends with one very dark real-life note.
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We’re more than two hours in (whew, time has flown), with around an hour left, but only a few awards remain: drama actor and actress, best comedy series and best drama series. Still ahead: the in memoriam segment and a tribute to All in the Family.
WINNER: Beef — best limited or anthology series
A foregone conclusion, given that it’s nearly swept the limited series awards. Creator Lee Sung Jin accepts on behalf of the Netflix hit with a quick note on the show’s dark themes. “A lot of the suicidal ideation in this show was based on stuff that I and some of the folks up here struggled with over the years,” he said, calling it “life-affirming” to hear people respond to the show with their own struggles. As evidenced three times tonight, he’s good at this awards show thing, ending with a request to the FDA to speed up a canine anti-aging pill because he loves his three dogs.
WINNER: Ali Wong — actress in a limited series or TV movie
And just like that, Yeun’s co-star Ali Wong is the best actress in a limited series (with a kiss from new beau Bill Hader). “I wouldn’t be standing here without my parents,” she says, particularly her “hilarious” father “who I so wish was alive” to experience this award with her. Short and sweet, and just enough emotional.
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WINNER: Steven Yeun (Beef) — actor in a limited series or TV movie
No shock here – Steven Yeun, already a Golden Globe winner for the much-nominated Beef, wins best actor in a limited series for his road rage-fueled Danny.
That character could be difficult to live with, he notes – “there were days when it was difficult to live in Danny’s skin. Sometimes I wanted to judge him, sometimes I wanted to make fun of him.”
“Judgment and shame is a lonely place,” he adds, “but compassion and grace is where we can all meet.”
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Here’s one of those cast reunion bits that have gone down so well this evening – the cast of Martin, which ran from 1992 until 1997.
The cast of "Martin" got together to present an award at the #Emmys pic.twitter.com/vYu52Kwk1v
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) January 16, 2024
WINNER: Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium — live variety special
Ben Winston, producer of The Late Late Show With James Corden and the Grammys (and close friend of Harry Styles), accepts the award for Elton John, who is not present owing to knee surgery, apparently. The Emmy gets John into the elite Egot club, but arguably the real prize is getting presented by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey in a SNL Weekend Update reunion, the best presenting bit of the night so far.
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WINNER: Mark Mylod (Succession) — directing for a drama series
A third win for Succession tonight, by director (and producer) Mark Mylod for that pivotal episode. He brought his fellow Succession nominees in the category, Lorene Scafaria and Andrij Parekh, onstage to accept the award with him.
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Quinta Brunson and Ayo Edebiri made history with the first two awards of the night, which Anthony Anderson just referred to as the “chocolate Emmys”.
Never in the history of the Emmys have Black women won for Best Lead Actress AND Supporting in Comedy in the same year. #Emmys2024 pic.twitter.com/VD1xlKyB4n
— Kellee Terrell (@kelleent) January 16, 2024
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WINNER: Lee Sung Jin (Beef) — writing for a limited series or TV movie
Another win for Beef, which is far and away the favorite for all the limited series awards. Writer and creator Lee Sung Jin has “gotta do the thanking-my-reps thing” and he does. “This is crazy,” he concludes.
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WINNER: Jesse Armstrong (Succession) — writing for a drama series
Jon Hamm (Mad Men, I miss you) presents the drama writing award to – no surprise – Jesse Armstrong, Succession’s creator and writer of that final season episode. You know the one, that I won’t spoil if you’re one of the few Emmys viewers who hasn’t seen it.
Armstrong thanks “the wider sort of creative community in the US.” Coming from the UK, “we’ve always been met with generosity and good faith and that’s a part of America’s tradition of being welcoming to outsiders.”
And here’s Niecy Nash-Betts’s full speech for her first Emmys win (on her fifth nomination) – it rightfully drew a standing ovation:
Niecy Nash-Betts wins the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) January 16, 2024
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Fox sadly bleeped out Pedro Pascal’s joke about Kieran Culkin breaking his arm, a rejoinder to Culkin’s Golden Globes speech last weekend, so here ya go:
“A lot of people have been asking about my arm… Kieran Culkin beat the shit out of me,” - Pedro Pascal
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) January 16, 2024
See the full winners list: https://t.co/0y5evx8xak pic.twitter.com/56P9yne076
WINNER: Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird) — supporting actor in a limited series or TV movie
Presented by some of the original cast of Grey’s Anatomy (including Katherine Heigl!) in a mock emergency room, the award for supporting actor in a limited series goes to Paul Walter Hauser for his performance as a real-life serial killer on the Apple TV+ series.
“That’s a talent pool if I ever saw one,” he says of his fellow nominees while loudly smacking gum (?) before reading out his rhyming speech from his phone, which includes the line “to the Rolex Ray Liotta, we’re down here wearing fossils”. He also shouts out Jesus.
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WINNER: Lee Sung Jin (Beef) — directing for a limited series or TV movie
Photograph: Ashley Landis/AP
The first win of the night for Netflix’s breakout limited series Beef, based on a real-life road rage incident for creator and now best director Lee Sung Jin.
He sweetly recalls a time when he first arrived in LA and deposited $1 into his back account to avoid overdraft fees. Oh how things have significantly improved since then.
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WINNER: The Daily Show With Trevor Noah — best talk series
It’s the first time in eight year that the late-night shows have competed without Last Week Tonight, and winner Trevor Noah knows what good luck that is. “I told you we would beat John Oliver if he wasn’t in our category!” he exclaims before thanking the team of the show he departed at the end of 2022 (I know, time is a construct with this year’s Emmys).
“It’s been so long, it’s been so crazy, it’s been so wonderful,” he says, as well as a note to Daily Show predecessor Jon Stewart – “Thank you for calling me up.”
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WINNER: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver – writing for a variety series
Last Week Tonight almost never loses an Emmy – the show has 28 wins – and picks up another one for best writing, with its head writer shouting out all the support they received during the writers’ strike – “The strike felt long, it did not feel lonely,” she said.
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WINNER: RuPaul's Drag Race — reality competition program
RuPaul, the most awarded host in Emmys history, accepts Drag Race’s fifth win for reality competition series (and elicits and very enthusiastic cheer from Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham).
Joined by a legion of the show’s drag queens on stage, RuPaul alludes to the wave of anti-LGBTQ+ laws sweeping the country: “If a drag queen wants to read you a story at a library, listen to her, because knowledge is power, and if someone tries to restrict your access to power, they’re trying to scare you.”
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WINNER: Christopher Storer (The Bear) — writing for a comedy series
The Bear is basically sweeping the comedy awards at this point. Just a reminder that this is just for the first season; the (superior) second season, which aired last summer, is eligible only for the 2024 Emmy awards that will air … in a matter of months.
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WINNER: Christopher Storer (The Bear) — directing for a comedy series
It’s really shaping up to be The Bear’s night – a fourth award for the series, this time to director and creator Christopher Storer, who is not in attendance (the cast of Cheers accepted on his behalf).
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I agree with this take from Variety’s TV critic Alison Herman – the vintage sets constructed for some of these presenting bits (The Sopranos, Martin, Cheers) are giving much more than just cast reunions.
production note: it's so much more fun and evocative to resurrect the *sets* of vintage shows than just reunite the cast and call it a day. and pays homage to more kinds of craft than acting alone
— Alison Herman (@aherman2006) January 16, 2024
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WINNER: Niecy Nash-Betts (Dahmer) — supporting actress in a limited series or TV movie
This is a bit of a surprise! Niecy Nash-Betts takes home the first limited series award for her role as a grieving, relentless mother on Netflix’s serial killer series I can’t watch. “I’m a winner, baby!” she exclaims in tears.
It’s an emotional, defiant speech: “I wanna thank me, for believing in me, and doing what they said I could not do,” she adds, accepting the award on behalf of “every Black and brown woman who has gone unheard and over-policed.”
WINNER: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver — variety scripted series
No surprise again, John Oliver’s weekly show wins its eighth consecutive Emmy in the new variety scripted series category – sorry, Saturday Night Live!
Oliver thanked his staff and, importantly, “our lawyers, who are angry with us all the time”, as well as his children before successfully listing Liverpool players until he got shooed off by Anderson’s mom, who’s making a full bit out of her attendance here.
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WINNER: Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) — actor in a comedy series
Continuing this year’s theme of reuniting beloved casts, the stars of Martin, a long-syndicated yet under-appreciated (by the Emmys) 90s sitcom, riffed for a few minutes before presenting best actor in a comedy series to The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White. That’s three already tonight – all of the comedy acting awards except best actress – for the breakout FX on Hulu show which, again, feels spiritually more drama than comedy (and, regardless, is fantastic).
White keeps it short and sweet: “I love this show so much. It filled me up. It set a passion and a fire in me,” he says, as well as thanking “all those who stayed close to me, especially in this past year” and his two young daughters.
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WINNER: Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear) — supporting actor in a comedy series
The second win of the night already for The Bear, and the energy is high – Ebon Moss-Bachrach (my beloved Cousin Richie) hugs star Jeremy Allen White on the way to the stage. “This job is such a gift,” he says, looking genuinely surprised and openly appreciative of the show’s Chicago-based crew.
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The full speech from the always delightful Jennifer Coolidge, which really must be watched and not summarized:
#TheWhiteLotus star Jennifer Coolidge thanks "all the evil gays" during her acceptance speech for winning Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 75th #Emmys pic.twitter.com/nxTPEHUBCJ
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 16, 2024
An Emmys reunion for The Sopranos! It’s been a funny old week for that show …
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WINNER: Matthew Macfadyen (Succession) — supporting actor in a drama series
No surprise here, Golden Globe winner Matthew Macfadyen aka Tom Wambsgans takes home the first of surely many awards tonight for Succession, thanking his two onscreen wives – Sarah Snook (Shiv) and Nicholas Braun (Cousin Greg) in the process.
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WINNER: Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus) — supporting actress in a drama series
In the first of what is surely to be more to come for The White Lotus, Jennifer Coolidge once again wins an Emmy for her absurd creation of Tanya McQuoid.
“I still don’t have the strength,” she says, putting down the statue for one of her standard freewheeling bits. “He says I’m definitely dead, so I’m going along with it,” she adds of creator and friend Mike White.
“I want to thank all the evil gays,” she says, knowing her audience, before getting playfully shooed off by Anderson’s mom, mic’ed up in the audience with a clock sign.
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WINNER: Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary) — actress in a comedy
What an honor to be presented by the still funny legend Carol Burnett – Quinta Brunson, star and creator of Abbott Elementary, is emotional accepting the award for best comedy actress and also “the Carol Burnett of it all”.
“I’m so happy to be able to live my dream and act out comedy,” she said through tears. “I didn’t prepare anything because I just didn’t think … ” before thanking her family, husband and cast, voice breaking.
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WINNER: – Ayo Edebiri (The Bear) — supporting actress in a comedy series
The first award of the night goes to the ever-charming Ayo Edebiri from breakout “comedy” The Bear. Breathless, she shouted our her parents – “I’m making them sit kinda far away from me because I’m a bad kid” for their support. “Probably not a dream to immigrate to this country and have your child be like ‘I wanna do improv’ – you’re real ones,” she said.
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Here we go
The lights are up, the stars are seated and we are underway at the 75th annual Primetime Emmy awards. Host Anthony Anderson, an 11-time Emmy nominee himself for Black-ish, kicks things off with a jovial spoof of Mister Rodgers’ Neighborhood, the first sign that his Emmys would celebrate not just the Successions of the world, but the foundational series of TV.
Anderson’s musical introduction – he brought out a church choir – definitely seems to be going down better than Jo Koy’s limp, defensive monologue at last weekend’s Golden Globes. Aided by a piano, Anderson shouted out the series that shaped the world and, more important, himself – Good Times, The Facts of Life and Miami Vice (with drum assistance on Phil Collins’s In The Air Tonight by Travis Barker).
His jokes, however, were dismissed, quite endearingly, by Anderson’s mother, who stood up in the audience and told him to “cut to the chase”. So off to the first award we go!
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Hannah Waddingham schools Laverne Cox on how to say her name pic.twitter.com/80sfzpocbx
— celebitchy (@celebitchy) January 15, 2024
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If you want to briefly pretend to be a dizzy TV star:
A 360 degree look inside tonight's #Emmys venue pic.twitter.com/0eMSTqT0ge
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 16, 2024
A quick reminder here of who is fighting it out for the big prizes with just 10 minutes until the show starts (rumours suggest best supporting actress in a comedy will be first).
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There are going to be some cast reunions at tonight’s Emmys to help celebrate its 75th anniversary, which will bring together stars from shows such as Cheers, Ally McBeal, Martin, The Sopranos and Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update. The latter is essentially just an excuse to bring Amy Poehler and Tina Fey to the stage – which is never a bad thing. Remember this?
The Bear star has been grabbing the internet’s attention in recent times in a Calvin Klein ad campaign, while his red carpet look at the Golden Globes featured a sheer shirt under a suit. Tonight, from the bow tie to the cream Giorgio Armani tux, Jeremy Allen White seems to be serving up a more traditional Hollywood menswear look.
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One of tonight’s success stories is sure to be the second season of The White Lotus with 12 nominations (the last season picked up a ton). News is coming out thick and fast for season three, including this rather exciting cast update at the start of the month:
As Shiv Roy she wore an awful many shades of what is often called “neutrals”, from oyster grey to cappuccino brown to cream, cream and more cream, and so it is understandable that Sarah Snook would decide to go for one of the strongest colours dominating red carpets this years. This red Vivienne Westwood dress is a brilliantly bold choice.
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Important Succession news from earlier today:
Apparently this is Princess Poppy from RuPaul’s Drag Race (nominated for best competition program) wearing one of the most … striking outfits of the evening.
does anyone have any intel about the goblin at the emmys pic.twitter.com/i0diknoLm2
— Palmer Haasch (@haasch_palmer) January 16, 2024
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She wore cut-out tops and cat-eye sunglasses to seduce at the Sicilian resort where The White Lotus is set, but tonight Simona Tabasco is dressed as a bouquet, of sorts, complete with dahlias, violets and the odd kitten peeping out. It’s a Marni look that is feminine, floral and intriguing.
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Last night saw the Critics Choice awards which, like the Globes before them, handed out the main TV trophies to Succession and The Bear. Here’s a closer look at who won what:
One of the big changes to this year’s show: the end of the variety sketch and variety talk categories, which have been dominated for the better part of a decade by Saturday Night Live and Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, respectively. Instead, the TV Academy has created two new categories: best talk series, for shows with “unscripted interviews or panel discussions between a host/hosts and guest celebrities or personalities”, and scripted variety series, for “programs that are primarily scripted or feature loosely scripted improv and consist of discrete scenes, musical numbers, monologues, comedy standups, sketches, etc”.
This solves two problems: the dominance of Last Week Tonight over its nightly late show peers, which will now compete without it, and the shrinking of the variety sketch competitors – SNL triumphed over only A Black Lady Sketch Show in 2022. But it also pits two very different styles – Oliver’s chagrined, morally concerned deep dives and SNL’s celebrity antics – against each other, with no clear sense (yet) of how to value one’s achievement over the other. (Although if we’re judging on writing and wit … John Oliver should get his eighth consecutive Emmy.)
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Loewe, with the help of some of TV and film’s most stylish women, is quietly dominating red carpets so far this year. This look on Aubrey Plaza follows several others, from Greta Lee at the Golden Globes in a similarly subtle yellow number to Past Lives director Celine Song, also in a Loewe look complete with an elegantly enormous knitting needle.
Plaza is tonight nominated for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series for her role as Harper in The White Lotus. Her character was all about stealth wealth – from Sandro basics to striped linen shirts. I would wager this look might be a little too fashion-forward for her tastes.
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The Bear star Ayo Edebiri’s bit as Jenny the donkey from The Banshees of Inisherin is the gift that keeps on giving – after the internet jokingly grouped her with Irish actors Andrew Scott, Barry Keoghan and Paul Mescal, she shouted out Ireland on the red carpet.
Ayo Edebiri shows support for Ireland at the #Emmys
— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) January 15, 2024
“Shout out to my people! Shout out to Derry! Shout out to Cork! Shout out to Killarney! Shout out to Dublin!”
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Nominated for outstanding lead actress in a limited or anthology series or movie for Beef, Ali Wong has gone from a floral Givenchy gown at last night’s Critics Choice awards to a custom Louis Vuitton dress tonight that pairs delicate florals with silver sequins and a sheer neckline. Add to that a pair of shoulder-length chandelier earrings. It is a clash in the way that salt and vinegar crisps and a chocolate bar are a clash – in other words, it really works.
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Because there are just so so so many Emmys to be handed out and because tonight’s three-hour telecast also needs time for montages, last weekend saw a separate Creative Arts Emmys. Here were some of the more prominent wins:
Outstanding guest actor in a comedy series: Sam Richardson, Ted Lasso
Outstanding guest actress in a comedy series: Judith Light, Poker Face
Outstanding actor in a short form comedy or drama series: Tim Robinson, I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson
Outstanding guest actress in a drama series: Storm Reid, The Last of Us
Outstanding guest actor in a drama series: Nick Offerman, The Last of Us
Outstanding television movie: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Outstanding short form comedy, drama or variety series: I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson
Outstanding narrator: Barack Obama, Working: What We Do All Day
Outstanding unstructured reality program: Welcome to Wrexham
Outstanding structured reality program: Queer Eye
Outstanding game show: Jeopardy!
Outstanding host for a game show: Keke Palmer, Password
Outstanding animated program: The Simpsons
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So while Anthony Anderson hasn’t technically hosted the Emmys before, in 2019 when there was no host, he stepped in for this bit, a hint of what we might expect tonight (probably without the help of Homer Simpson):
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Nominated for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series for The Bear, Ayo Edebiri here continues her run of stellar red carpet dressing with a 3-D Louis Vuitton leather dress. Anything but formulaic, she clearly enjoys dressing up for the occasion(s), pinballing between moods, designers and vibes.
Just last night, at the Critics Choice awards, she drew on menswear in an all-white suit and T-shirt from The Row. The look felt quite 80s and not at all kitchen-appropriate. Tonight’s look is Matrix meets Portuguese man o’ war jellyfish. Plus, crucially, it is practical – it would be easy to dust off the crisp dust after rustling up a Boursin omelette.
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Tonight’s host is 10-time Emmy nominee Anthony Anderson, best known for his role in Black-ish. He’s teased that some famous friends will be joining him throughout the night as well as his mother, whom he has collaborated with before (the pair are currently hosting the game show We Are Family).
Anderson might not have hosted the Emmys before but he’s been the emcee of other awards shows such as the NAACP Image awards. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Anderson hinted at a celebratory tone “paying homage” to 75 years of the Emmys but he also isn’t afraid of taking the odd jab.
… that’s what being a host of one of these shows is about – taking jabs at your friends, taking jabs at other actors and television shows … I will poke fun at people that are sitting in the audience, but it will be nothing personal. It will be all light humor to keep the show moving along and a smile on everyone’s face.
This elegant pink bejewelled gown is a far cry from the T-shirt that read “You Can Go Home Now” that Claire Danes wore as Rachel in Fleishman Is in Trouble, the television miniseries created by Taffy Brodesser-Akner based on her 2019 novel of the same name, for which Danes is nominated. Between the softly shaped hair and the bling, this vintage Balmain look is pure glamour.
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For my Succession fans out there, a nice little Gerri and Roman reunion on the red carpet.
"You really hate me, don't you?" Kieran Culkin interrupts J. Smith-Cameron's interview, and the two share a kiss at the #Emmys. https://t.co/9iw2qNxL1N pic.twitter.com/cO61wvnJ99
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Back in July when the nominations were announced, Stuart Heritage channeled his rage, shock and upset into this piece on the biggest snubs and surprises. Spoiler: he is a big Barry fan.
Nominated for Abbott Elementary, Brunson has tonight nailed crumpled chic courtesy of Dior couture. Surely, surely turning up to the red carpet in a look that on most people would signal a broken iron but on her looks elegant and refreshing is a power move of the highest order. Creases for the (relatable) win.
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Aaaaand this is how things were looking earlier:
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So the Emmys usually take place in September way before the thick of awards season, but due to the strikes it was postponed, landing it in a strange place (the week after the Globes, the night after the Critics Choice and the month before the Screen Actors Guild awards). It means, confusingly for viewers, that The Bear season one is competing for awards tonight just after The Bear season two swept the comedy categories at the Globes. It also means, annoyingly for awards publicists, that the next Emmys will take place in the same calendar year
Chef and The Bear actor Matty Matheson shows us just what is possible with a pair of socks and sandals on the red (grey) carpet. The look is reminiscent of the footwear on the Prada menswear catwalk in Milan yesterday. On-trend and fun to boot.
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To kick things off we have Padma Lakshmi, the 90s supermodel – Lakshmi was known as the world’s first supermodel of Indian descent – and star of food TV, in an elegantly expansive chartreuse frock. Leave it to a former supermodel to look simultaneously like a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis and the dancing lady emoji, if she switched from a red to a green dress for the day. That’s versatility.
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Hello, Ellie from the Fashion desk here, keeping an eye on the red carpet on what I hope will be a big night, style-wise, for the stars of many of our favourite TV shows of recent times.
The telly didn’t used to have the same glitzy appeal as the film world, but all that has changed. So it makes sense that we now expect big, cinematic things from the red carpet on TV’s big night.
And so far this awards season, the red carpet, which lay dormant for much of last year because of the actors’ strikes, has been serving up plenty of delights, from sparkles and sequins to sculptural forms and sharp cuts.
As tonight’s red carpet will play host to the stars of Succession, The Bear and The White Lotus, among others, I think we can safely expect some sartorial high drama, if not to match then at least to complement the fictional worlds of Chicago kitchens, Sicilian hotels and New York boardrooms that are being celebrated.
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Will Succession take home all of the major drama awards? Will The Bear or Abbott Elementary be the comedy champ? Earlier this week, Adrian Horton took a guess at who she thinks might win in the major categories and you can keep track of how well she picked here:
It's Emmys Time
Finally, after the writers’ and actors’ strikes delayed the usual September broadcast, TV takes center stage … in the middle of the film awards season. Host Anthony Anderson presides over the 75th Primetime Emmy awards in Los Angeles, which is, somewhat confusingly, celebrating excellence in the 2022-2023 television season.
Which means a lot of Succession, the HBO drama series which earned a night-leading 27 nominations for its fourth and final season. (That includes a whopping 14 acting nominations and a record three best actor nominees – for Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong.) It will compete for best drama with Andor, Better Call Saul, The Crown, House of the Dragon, Yellowjackets, The White Lotus and The Last of Us, which earned 24 nominations for its premiere season.
On the comedy side, Ted Lasso leads the way with 21 nominations for its (allegedly) final season. It goes head to head with new Emmys darling Abbott Elementary, Only Murders in the Building, Barry, Jury Duty, Wednesday, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel and The Bear, which basically swept the Golden Globes and Critics Choice awards in recent days (literally days – it’s a packed awards season this year). Netflix’s Beef and Dahmer lead the limited series pack with 13 nominations apiece.
It should be a show heavy on awards and cast reunions – stick with us for all the major moments.
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