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91ƵShogun91Ƶ 91Ƶ with a record haul 91Ƶ and 91ƵHacks91Ƶ win top series Emmy Awards

91ƵThe Bear91Ƶ and 91ƵBaby Reindeer91Ƶ honoured 4 times apiece
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Hosts Eugene Levy, left, and Dan Levy speak during the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

91ƵShogun91Ƶ had historic wins in an epic 18-Emmy first season, 91ƵHacks91Ƶ scored an upset for best comedy on what was still a four-trophy night for 91ƵThe Bear,91Ƶ and 91ƵBaby Reindeer91Ƶ had a holiday at an .

91ƵShogun,91Ƶ the FX series about power struggles in feudal Japan, won best drama series, Hiroyuki Sanada won best actor in a drama, and Anna Sawai won best actress. Sanada was the first Japanese actor to win an Emmy. Sawai became the second just moments later.

91Ƶ91ƵShogun91Ƶ taught me when we work together, we can make miracles,91Ƶ Sanada said in his acceptance speech from the stage of the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.

Along with 14 Emmys it , it had an unmatched performance with 18 overall for one season.

91ƵHacks91Ƶ was the of its first best comedy series award, topping 91ƵThe Bear,91Ƶ which most had expected to take it after big wins earlier in the evening.

Jean Smart won her third best actress in a comedy award for the third season of Max91Ƶs 91ƵHacks,91Ƶ in which her stand-up comic character Deborah Vance tries to make it in late-night TV. Smart has six Emmys overall.

Despite losing out on the night91Ƶs biggest comedy prize after winning it for its first season at January91Ƶs strike-delayed ceremony, FX91Ƶs 91ƵThe Bear91Ƶ star Jeremy Allen White won best actor in a comedy for the second straight year, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach repeated as best supporting actor.

And Liza Colón-Zayas was the surprise best supporting actor winner over competition that included Meryl Streep, becoming the first Latina to win in the category.

91ƵTo all the Latinas who are looking at me,91Ƶ she said, her eyes welling with tears. 91Ƶkeep believing, and vote.91Ƶ

Netflix91Ƶs darkly quirky 91ƵBaby Reindeer91Ƶ won best limited series. Creator and star Richard Gadd won for his lead acting and his writing and Jessica Gunning, who plays his tormentor, won best supporting actress.

Accepting the series award, Gadd urged the makers of television to take chances.

91ƵThe only constant across any success in television is good storytelling,91Ƶ he said. 91ƵGood storytelling that speaks to our times. So take risks, push boundaries. Explore the uncomfortable. Dare to fail in order to achieve.91Ƶ

91ƵBaby Reindeer91Ƶ is based on a one man-stage show in which Gadd describes being sexually abused along with other emotional struggles.

Accepting that award, he said, 91Ƶno matter how bad it gets, it always gets better.91Ƶ

The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they have been sexually abused unless they come forward publicly as Gadd has.

Jodie Foster won her first Emmy to go with her two Oscars when she took best actress in a limited series for

Foster played a salty police chief investigating a mass killing in the round-the-clock dark of an Alaskan winter on the HBO show. While her castmate Kali Reis missed out on becoming the first Indigenous actor to win an Emmy in the supporting category, Foster praised her, and the show91Ƶs collaboration with Indigenous contributors.

91ƵThe Inupiaq and Inuit people of northern Alaska who told us their stories, and they allowed us to listen,91Ƶ Foster said. 91ƵThat was just a blessing. It was love, love, love, and when you feel that, something amazing happens.91Ƶ

Greg Berlanti, a producer and writer on shows including 91ƵDawson91Ƶs Creek91Ƶ and 91ƵEverwood,91Ƶ received the Television Academy91Ƶs Governors Award for his career-long contributions to improving LGBTQ visibility on television. He talked about a childhood when there was little such visibility.

91ƵThere wasn91Ƶt a lot of gay characters on television back then, and I was a closeted gay kid,91Ƶ Berlanti said. 91ƵIt91Ƶs hard to describe how lonely that was at the time,91Ƶ

The long decline of traditional broadcast TV at the Emmys continued, with zero wins between the four broadcast networks.

In the monologue that opened the ABC telecast, , who hosted with his father and 91ƵSchitt91Ƶs Creek91Ƶ co-star Eugene Levy, called the Emmys 91Ƶbroadcast TV91Ƶs biggest night for honoring movie stars on streaming services.91Ƶ

Though other than Foster, movie stars didn91Ƶt fare too well. Her fellow Oscar winners Streep and Robert Downey Jr. had been among the favorites, but came up empty.

91ƵRobert Downey Jr. I have a poster of you in my house!91Ƶ said Lamorne Morris, who beat Downey for best supporting actor in a limited series, said from the stage as he accepted his first Emmy.

The evening managed to meet many expectations but included several swerves like the win for 91ƵHacks.91Ƶ

91ƵWe were really shocked,91Ƶ 91ƵHacks co-creator Jen Statsky, who also won for writing, said after the show. 91ƵWe were truly, really surprised.91Ƶ

And 91ƵShogun91Ƶ got off to a quiet start, missing on early awards and not getting its first trophy until past the halfway point.

Still, it shattered the record for Emmys for one season previously held by the 2008 limited series 91ƵJohn Adams91Ƶ in 2008. And its acting wins would have been hard to imagine before the series became an acclaimed phenomenon.

Sanada is a 63-year-old longtime screen star whose name is little known outside Japan, even if his face is through Hollywood films like 91ƵThe Last Samurai91Ƶ and 91ƵJohn Wick Chapter 4.91Ƶ Sawai, 32, who was born in New Zealand and moved to Japan as a child, is significantly less known in the U.S. She wept when she accepted best actress.

91ƵWhen you saw me cry on stage, it was probably the 12th time I cried today,91Ƶ Sawai said backstage. 91ƵIt was just mixed emotions, wanting everyone to win all that. I may cry again now.91Ƶ

91ƵThe Bear91Ƶ would finish second with 11 overall Emmys, including guest acting wins at the Creative Arts ceremony for Jamie Lee Curtis and Jon Bernthal.

The Levys in their opening monologue mocked the show being in the comedy category.

91ƵIn honor of 91ƵThe Bear91Ƶ we will be making no jokes,91Ƶ Eugene Levy said, to laughs.

Elizabeth Debicki took best supporting actress in a drama for playing Princess Diana at the end of her life in the sixth and final season of 91ƵThe Crown.91Ƶ

91ƵPlaying this part, based on this unparalleled, incredible human being, has been my great privilege,91Ƶ Debicki said in her acceptance. 91ƵIt91Ƶs been a gift.91Ƶ

Several awards were presented by themed teams from TV history, including sitcom dads George Lopez, Damon Wayans and Jesse Tyler Ferguson and TV moms Meredith Baxter, Connie Britton, and Susan Kelechi Watson.





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