69th Annual Emmys hosted by Stephen Colbert at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The awards show aired live on CBS 8 pm, est. as thousands watched live and at home in anticipation of who would take that coveted award. Highlights of the night include musical skits by Stephen Colbert himself as well as multiple Emmy’s for shows including the infamous Saturday Night Live, HBO’s Big Little Lies, FX’s Atlanta and Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale. For the complete recap, see below…
- Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series goes to John Lithgow for The Crown.
- Outstanding Supporting Actress in a comedy Series goes to Kate McKinnon for Saturday Night Live.
- Outstanding Supporting actress in a limited series or movie goes to Laura Dern for Big Little Lies.
- Outstanding Directing in a comedy series goes to Donald Glover for Atlanta- “BAN”.
- Outstanding Variety sketch series goes to Saturday Night Live
- Outstanding Writer for drama series goes to Bruce Miller for The Handmaid’s Tale.
- Outstanding Supporting actor in a comedy series goes to Alec Baldwin for Saturday Night Live.
- Outstanding Directing for a limited series or movie goes to Jean-Marc Vallee for Big Little Lies.
- Outstanding Supporting Actor in a limited series or movie goes to Alexander Skarsgard for Big Little Lies.
- Outstanding Writing for a Variety series goes to the team from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
- Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama series goes to Ann Dowd for The Handmaid’s Tale.
- Outstanding writing for a comedy series goes to Lena Waithe and Aziz Anazari for Master of None.
- Outstanding reality competition program goes to The Voice.
- Outstanding directing for a drama series goes to Reed Morano for The Handmaid’s Tale.
- Outstanding Writing for a limited series or movie goes to Charlie Brooker for Black Mirror: San Junipero.
- Outstanding director for a variety series goes to Don Roy King for Saturday Night Live.
- Outstanding Variety Talk Series goes to Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy series goes to Donald Glover for Atlanta.
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy series goes to Julia Louis Dreyfus for Veep.
- Outstanding Comedy series goes to Veep.
- Outstanding Lead Actor in a limited series or movie goes to Riz Ahmed for The Night Of.
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a limited series or movie goes to Nicole Kidman for Big Little Lies.
- Outstanding TV movie goes to Black Mirror: San Junipero.
- Outstanding limited series goes to Big Little Lies.
- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series goes to Sterling K Brown for This is Us.
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama series goes to Elizabeth Moss for The Handmaid’s Tale.
- And Emmy winner Oprah Winfrey gave out the final Emmy of the night to the Outstanding Drama series, The Handmaid’s Tale, making a total of five Emmy’s tonight.
The Emmy are hand selected by a team of The Television Academy Foundation professionals.