The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards have been trending furiously on the internet. It was the second year in a row that the much-awaited award show was held during the coronavirus pandemic. While last year’s Emmys were virtual, this year, the celebrities returned to the red carpet. The best dressed included The Crown actress Emma Corrin, The Queen’s Gambit star Anna Taylor Joy, Ted Lasso star Anna Waddingham, and actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.
The Crown swept the award show, scooping seven prizes. The Netflix show won Best Drama Series and fetched Olivia Coleman and Josh O’Connor the Outstanding Actress and Outstanding Actor (Drama) award. The Crown also won prizes for best actors in supporting roles. Ted Lasso won Best Comedy Series. Kate Winslet won lead actress in a limited series or movie for her role in “Mare of Easttown”.
Here’s the full list of winners:
• Best Drama Series – The Crown
• Best Comedy Series – Ted Lasso
• Best Limited Series – The Queen’s Gambit
• Best Comedy Actor – Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso
• Best Comedy Actress – Jean Smart, Hacks
• Best Drama Actress – Olivia Colman, The Crown
• Best Drama Actor – Josh O’Connor, The Crown
• Best Supporting Actress In Drama – Gillian Anderson, The Crown
• Best Supporting Actor In Drama – Tobias Menzies, The Crown
• Best Supporting Actor In Comedy – Brett Goldstein, Ted Lasso
• Best Supporting Actress In Comedy – Hannah Waddingham, Ted Lasso
• Best Actress, Limited Series or Movies – Kate Winslet, Mare Of Easttown
• Best Actor, Limited Series or Movie – Ewan McGregor, Halston
• Best Supporting Actress, Limited Series or Movie – Julianne Nicholson, Mare of Easttown
• Best Supporting Actor, Limited Series or Movie – Evan Peters, Mare of Easttown
We leave you with plenty of interesting facts about television’s most happening event.
1. The first Emmy Awards ceremony was held on January 25, 1949, and there were only six awards handed over during the ceremony.
2. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is the first First Lady to win an Emmy. The fashion icon won the award for the Tour of the White House aired on CBS in 1962.
3. The Emmys statuette was designed after the Emmy award founder Syd Cassyd rejected 47 design proposals. The final statuette is modelled after a TV engineer Louis McManus’s wife.
4. Immy was the original name of this award. Director Harry Lubcke came up with the name Immy, a nickname for the early image-orthicon camera. The name was later changed, as the statuette was modelled after a woman.
5. Shirley Dinsdale, a ventriloquist, was awarded the first-ever Emmy at the inaugural Emmys in 1949. Shirley won the award with her puppet sidekick, Judy Splinters, the Outstanding Television Personality.
6. The youngest ever Emmy Award winner was 14-year-old Roxana Zal. She had also won the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Special category for her performance in Something About Amelia. The oldest-ever winner was 88-year old Betty who won five Emmys for her roles in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls.
7. Kelsey Grammer was the only performer to be nominated for an Emmy for the same character on three different shows. He had played Dr Frasier Crane on ‘Wings’, ‘Cheers’ and ‘Frasier.’
8. The Golden Emmy award statue is not pure gold but a mix of copper, nickel, silver and gold. It weighs six pounds and 12 ounces.
9. Did you know? There are two names inscribed on every Emmy trophy awarded to actors and actresses. The statue has the name of the winning actor/actress etched on it as well as the character they played.
10. Angela Lansbury has got the most nominations at the Emmys but has never won an award. She had garnered 17 nominations for the Murder & She Wrote.
11.On Emmy’s night, not only did actors and television shows win an Emmy, but the yellow first-down line seen on NFL broadcasts won an Emmy. It had won two Emmys for technical achievement in the year 1998.
