Netflix’s breakout drama Adolescence has triumphed at this year’s Emmys, winning six awards.
The series, which became the streamer’s second most-watched show ever, won for limited series, directing and writing and also picked up three acting awards.
Owen Cooper became the youngest ever winner of the award for best supporting actor in a limited series. In his speech, the 15-year-old called the experience “just so surreal”. Erin Doherty won best supporting actress in a limited series.
Stephen Graham won two awards for writing and as lead actor in a limited series, beating out Colin Farrell and Jake Gyllenhaal. “This kind of thing doesn’t usually happen to a kid like me,” he said, calling it the “utmost humbling thing I could ever imagine in my life”.
Apple TV+ comedy The Studio, about a fictional Hollywood studio, became the most awarded comedy ever in a single year at the Emmys and with the awards won at last week’s Creative Arts Emmys, it also broke the record for most wins in a first season with 13 trophies. On Sunday, the show was named best comedy series while Seth Rogen won best actor, writer and director for a comedy series.
“I’m legitimately embarrassed by how happy this makes me,” Rogen said on stage.
Medical drama The Pitt won three awards, including best drama series and two acting awards, with Noah Wyle named best lead actor in a drama, his first ever Emmy win after multiple nominations for ER. “What a dream this has been,” he said on stage before devoting his award to hospital workers.
His co-star Katherine LaNasa was the surprise winner of supporting actress in a drama, beating The White Lotus stars Parker Posey and Carrie Coon.
Jean Smart won the best comedy actress award for Hacks for the fourth time beating out Kristen Bell and Ayo Edebiri. “Be good to each other, let’s just be good to each other,” she said at the end of her speech.
Smart’s co-star Hannah Einbinder won the supporting actress in a comedy series award for the first time. On the red carpet, she revealed that Hacks would be ending with the fifth season which is currently in production.
Einbinder ended her speech on stage saying, “Fuck Ice and free Palestine” and when asked about it backstage, she added: “It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel.”
On the red carpet, Javier Bardem, who was nominated for his role in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, also spoke about Israel’s “apartheid regime” while Hacks actor Meg Stalter carried a bag with the word “ceasefire!” attached.
Bardem, Einbinder and Stalter were among the 3,900 names in Hollywood who, this week, joined a pledge not to work with Israeli film institutions they say are “implicated in genocide”.
Source: The Guardian
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