Clash of the Titans: Emmy 2018 Winners
by Yash Saboo September 27 2018, 3:36 pm Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins, 22 secsThe 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