The Pitt wins top Emmy, The Studio breaks comedy record
Andrew Dalton |
Seth Rogen and The Studio turned the Emmys into a wrap party, winning best comedy series and breaking a genre record for victories in a season with 13, while Noah Wyle and The Pitt took the top drama prize.
The evening also brought meaningful wins for Jean Smart, Stephen Colbert and 15-year-old Owen Cooper, whose Netflix series Adolescence dominated the limited series categories.
“I’m legitimately embarrassed by how happy this makes me,” The Studio co-creator Seth Rogen said with his signature giggle, surrounded by cast and crew from the Apple TV+ movie-business romp after it won best comedy. Rogen personally won four, including best actor.
The Pitt from HBO Max completed a sentimental journey with its win for best drama series, at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theatre in a show hosted by Nate Bargatze on Sunday night, US time.
The character-driven medical drama won over viewers and gained emotional momentum during a season whose drama prizes once seemed destined to go to Severance.
Wyle won best actor in a drama for playing a worn-down, grizzled supervising doctor, getting his first Emmy after five nominations with no victories in the 1990s for playing a scrubbed young cub doctor on ER.
“What a dream this has been,” Wyle said. “Oh my goodness.”
Katherine LaNasa, whose nurse is perhaps the show’s most beloved character, was a surprise winner of best supporting actress in a drama, over three women of The White Lotus on a night when every acting Emmy but one went to a first-time victor.
The first-timers included Britt Lower, who won best actress in a drama, and Tramell Tillman, who won best supporting actor, in the night’s two biggest moments for Severance, the Apple TV+ Orwellian workplace satire.
Along with its creative arts wins, it ended up with eight for its acclaimed second season.
Cristin Milioti won best actress in a limited series for The Penguin.
Jean Smart bucked the rookie trend, winning her fourth Emmy for best actress in a comedy for Hacks and her seventh Emmy overall. At 73, she extended her record for oldest winner in the category.
The six wins for Netflix’s acclaimed Adolescence, the story of a 13-year-old in Britain accused of a killing, included best limited series, best actor and best writing for its co-creator Stephen Graham, and best supporting actor for Cooper, who became the youngest Emmy winner in over 40 years.
Cooper said in his acceptance that he was “nothing three years ago”.
“It’s just so surreal,” Cooper said. “Honestly, when I started these drama classes a couple years back, I didn’t expect to be even in the United States, never mind here.”
Best supporting actress went to Erin Doherty, who played a therapist opposite Cooper in a riveting episode that, like all four Adolescence episodes, was filmed in a single shot.
The Studio came into the evening having won nine Emmys already during last weekend’s Creative Arts ceremony.
On Sunday night it added four more, which all went to Rogen. Along with the comedy series award, he won best directing with Studio co-creator and longtime collaborator Evan Goldberg, and best writing with Goldberg and others.
Stephen Colbert may have been the night’s most popular winner, taking best talk series for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert for the first time.
The win may have been something of protest vote and tribute to its host, weeks after its cancellation by the network. Jimmy Kimmel, who was among his competitors, campaigned for Colbert to win.
“Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it,” Colbert said in his acceptance.
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