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”.
In a tribute to television, TV academy chairman Cris Abrego reminded audiences about Congress deciding to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which led to boos in the room. He added “at a time when division dominates the headlines, storytelling still has the power to unite us”.
After the controversial cancellation of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert won the Emmy for talk series and was met with the loudest cheers of the night. He thanked CBS for the opportunity and said he hopes the late-night tradition “continues long after we’re no longer doing this show”.
He said he had once hoped the show would be about love, but realised at a certain point it became about loss. “I have never loved my country more desperately,” he added.
Colbert was also given a standing ovation earlier in the night when he appeared on stage, joking, “Is anyone hiring?”. He claimed to have his resume with him and gave Harrison Ford his headshot to give to Steven Spielberg.
Apple’s second season of Severance also picked up two awards. Britt Lower beat out favourite Kathy Bates to take home best actress in a drama series for her role in the show. Her co-star Tramell Tillman also triumphed over White Lotus stars Walton Goggins and Jason Isaacs to win supporting actor in a drama series, becoming the first ever Black person to win the category.
“I am full, I am humbled, I am honored,” Tillman said in his speech.
There was also a surprise in the supporting actor in a comedy series with Jeff Hiller winning for under-the-radar HBO series Somebody Somewhere. He beat out Harrison Ford, a first-time nominee, Bowen Yang and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. There was a similar upset in the lead actress in a limited series category with Cristin Milioti winning for The Penguin. She was up against previous Emmy winner Michelle Williams, nominated for Dying for Sex.
There was a great deal of anticipation for the live variety special category, with Beyoncé’s Netflix half-time show up against Jay-Z’s production of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance. But both stars lost to Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary special.
John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight won two awards, for scripted variety series and writing, which now adds up to 32 wins for the show. Andor also won for best writing in a drama series. For the second year in a row, The Traitors was named best reality competition show and at last week’s Creative Arts Emmys, Alan Cumming again won for best host.
In an opening sketch about the creation of television, host Nate Bargatze referred to CBS, the channel airing the ceremony, as the Caucasian Broadcast System, and joked about the controversial designation of The Bear as a “laugh-out loud comedy” and said that TV shows are what people “watch while sitting on the toilet”.
Bargatze introduced a plan that he thought would help manage runtime, telling the audience that he would donate $100,000 to the Boys & Girls charity of America and every time a winner goes over their allotted 45 second speech, $1,000 would be taken off and for every second under, $1,000 would be added. The final tally was ultimately $350,000 with CBS and Bargatze adding to the number.
Nominated shows that came away empty-handed during the ceremony included The White Lotus, Only Murders in the Building, Abbott Elementary, The Bear and Paradise.
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