By LYNN ELBER
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Succession” and “Ted Lasso” topped the Emmy Awards on Monday, in a ceremony that touted the affect of TV and prolonged honors to world sensation “Squid Game” and winners who delivered messages of empowerment.
The night’s uplifting tone, as voiced particularly by Zendaya, Lizzo and Sheryl Lee Ralph, was in distinction to the darkness that pervaded the storytelling of finest drama collection winner “Succession” and even comedy collection victor “Ted Lasso.”
“Thanks for making such a safe space to make this very difficult show,” stated Zendaya, claiming her second finest drama actress award for “Euphoria,” a few group of teenagers’ powerful coming-of-age.
“My greatest wish for “Euphoria’ was that it could help heal people. Thank you for everyone who has shared your story with me. I carry them with me, and I carry them with” Rue, her character, Zendaya stated.
“Succession,” a few media empire run by a greedy and cutthroat household, break up drama collection honors with “Squid Game,” the daring South Korean-set drama concerning the idle wealthy turning the poor into leisure fodder.
Lee Jung-jae of “Squid Game,” who performed the present’s ethical middle, grew to become the primary Asian to win the Emmy for finest drama collection actor.
“Thank you for making realistic problems we all face come to life so creatively on the screen,” Lee stated to “Squid Game” creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, who earned the Emmy for finest drama collection directing. In Korean, Lee thanked the viewers in his native nation for watching.
Backstage, Hwang stated this was “a major moment for us,” and Lee stated he anticipated the awards to open doorways for different Asian actors.
Jason Sudeikis and Jean Smart collected back-to-back appearing trophies, however a number of new Emmy winners had been minted, with Lizzo and Quinta Brunson and Sheryl Lee Ralph of “Abbott Elementary” gathering trophies.
Brunson, who created and stars within the freshman collection, received the Emmy for comedy collection writing. ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” additionally nominated for finest comedy, is a uncommon brilliant spot for community broadcasting within the age of streaming and cable dominance.
Sudeikis received his second consecutive trophy for taking part in the unlikely U.S. coach of a British soccer crew within the comedy “Ted Lasso,” with Smart matching that haul for her position as a veteran comic in “Hacks.”
Sudeikis gave a uncommon awards present shoutout to TV shoppers: “Thanks to the people who watch this show and dig it as much as we dig making it.”
There was a ripple of response within the theater when “Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong talked about Britain’s new king, Charles III, in accepting the present’s trophy, the forged standing alongside him.
“Big week for successions, new king in the U.K., this for us. Evidently a little bit more voting involved in our winning than Prince Charles,” Armstrong stated. “I’m not saying we’re more legitimate in our position than he is. We’ll leave that up to other people.”
Ralph stopped the Emmy Awards present by accepting one of the best supporting actress comedy award for “Abbott Elementary” with a quick however rousing track of affirmation.
“I am an endangered species, but I sing no victim song. I am a woman, I am an artist and I know where my voice belongs,” she belted out. She then inspired anybody doubting their dream “I am here to tell you this is what believing looks like.”
The viewers, together with Lizzo and lots of of tv’s largest stars, leapt to their toes to cheer on Ralph.
When Lizzo herself accepted the award for best-competition collection trophy for “Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls,” she supplied one other emotional pep discuss.
“When I was a little girl, all I wanted to see was me in the media. Someone fat like me, Black like me, beautiful like me,” the music artist stated.
There had been additionally cheers for presenter Selma Blair, who has mentioned her a number of sclerosis prognosis publicly and who used a cane on stage.
“Ted Lasso” co-star Brett Goldstein, received comedy supporting actors, whereas Matthew Macfadyen of “Succession” and Julia Garner of “Ozark” earned drama collection supporting actor honors.
“It’s such a a pleasure and privilege for me to play this bonkers gift of a role in this wonderful show,” Macfadyen stated in accepting the trophy for his position as a scheming member of a media empire household.
Garner was among the many winners who took benefit of overlaying all bases by thanking her husband and others in an on-screen message.
“The White Lotus” collected a number of honors, together with finest restricted or anthology collection.
The achievements of “Squid Game,” “Abbott Elementary” and some different reveals didn’t change the relative lack of range on this 12 months’s nominations, which included considerably fewer folks of shade than in 2021.
Host Kenan Thompson kicked off the Emmys with a tribute to TV, dismissing Tik-Tok as “tiny vertical television,” and a musical quantity saluting collection’ theme songs from “Friends” to “The Brady Bunch” to “Game of Thrones.”
Once the music stopped, Thompson supplied a mic drop second — asserting Oprah Winfrey as the primary presenter. Winfrey strutted onto the stage holding an Emmy statuette, declaring the evening “a party!” The evening’s first award went to Michael Keaton for his position in “Dopesick.” Winfrey and Keaton hugged earlier than she handed him his trophy.
“It means something,” Keaton stated of the award for taking part in a caring physician ensnared together with his sufferers by habit. He went on to recall the “magic” of being launched to TV when his dad received a set at a raffle and thanked his mother and father for not mocking his youthful makes an attempt at appearing.
Amanda Seyfried earned the limited-series lead actress trophy for “The Dropout,” during which she performed ill-fated Silicon Valley whiz child Elizabeth Holmes. She thanked an inventory of household and colleagues and even her canine, Finn.
Murray Bartlett received one of the best supporting actor award for “The White Lotus,” a tragicomedy set in a Hawaii resort. Jennifer Coolidge, who received finest supporting actress honors for the present, delighted the viewers by shimmying to the music meant to chop off her acceptance speech.
The award for finest selection discuss present went to “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” with stand-up particular “Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel” profitable for finest writing for a comedy particular.
“Good night, everybody. I’ma go home. I’m not like a sore winner, but I’m going to go home because I can’t top this right now,” an overcome Carmichael informed the viewers.
Glamour was again with some metallic sparkle and plenty of brilliant shade as an otherworldly Britt Lower, Old Hollywood Elle Fanning and their fellow stars posed for photographers.
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AP Writers Beth Harris and Jonathan Landrum Jr. contributed to this report.
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