LOS ANGELES, United States — Dysfunctional family saga “Succession” on Monday
took top honors for best drama at the Emmys, television’s biggest night of the
year, as “
Squid Game” made history when Lee Jung-jae was named best actor, a
first for a non-English-language performer.
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The South Korean
social satire about misfits and criminals competing for cash in twisted
versions of schoolyard games had also been in the running for the top prize,
but the Netflix hit was bested by HBO’s latest awards darling.
Accepting the best
drama award, “Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong noted it had been a big week
for successions — a reference to the death of
Queen Elizabeth II and the
ascension to the British throne of her son.
“Evidently
(there’s) a little bit more voting involved in our winning than Prince
Charles,” he quipped.
“Succession,” a
Shakespearean drama about a family betraying each other for control of a media
empire, led the nominations ahead of Monday’s gala with 25, winning four awards
overall.
Other big winners
on the night were fellow HBO stable mate “The White Lotus,” which won a total
of 10 Emmys including best-limited series, and Apple TV+ comedy favorite “Ted
Lasso,” again a winner for best comedy and best actor Jason Sudeikis.
“Lotus”, a stylish
satire on wealth and hypocrisy set in a luxury Hawaiian resort, scooped up two
acting prizes as well as directing and writing honors, plus other technical
awards.
The limited series
award caps contenders at a single season, although “The White Lotus” is
slightly bending the rules, having been recommissioned for a second go-around.
It beat out the
competition in the limited series category from shows recounting four real-life
scandals, including “Dopesick,” a hard-hitting look at the US opioid crisis,
and “The Dropout,” which recalls the Theranos fraud.
Michael Keaton and
Amanda Seyfried won acting awards for their respective turns on “Dopesick” and
“The Dropout”.
But Netflix’s
“Squid Game” made a statement with its six Emmys — beyond Lee, the series won
for best directing, best guest drama actress Lee Yoo-mi and three other technical
categories.
The wins cement
its place in the so-called Korean Wave of popular entertainment, with superstar
boy band BTS sweeping the charts and “Parasite” winning the top Oscar in recent
years.
‘Great deal of progress’
The high glamour gala was a return to business as usual in Hollywood as
the long awards season started with a bang for the first time in the stricter
COVID-19 era.
Host
Kenan Thompson opened the proceedings with a dance number set to a medley of hit TV
show themes, including “Friends” and “Game of Thrones,” before bringing on
talkshow legend Oprah Winfrey, who lauded “the most successful broadcast medium
in the world: television.”
There were few
surprises throughout the night, with trophies spread around the usual suspects.
Zendaya repeated
her feat as best actress in a drama for her turn in “Euphoria,” two years after
she became the youngest ever winner in the category for the first season of
HBO’s hard-hitting look at teenage life.
US actress Zendaya poses with the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series for “Euphoria” during the 74th Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California, on September 12, 2022.
Hitmaker Lizzo,
who made a serious fashion statement in a billowing red tulle dress, said her
victory for “Watch Out For The Big Grrrls” in the competition program category
represented a win for diversity.
“When I was a
little girl, all I wanted to see was me in the media,” she said, the emotion
clear on her face.
“Someone fat like
me. Black like me. Beautiful like me.”
Quinta Brunson
took home her first Emmy for writing for ABC sitcom hit “Abbott Elementary” and
co-star Sheryl Lee Ralph won for best supporting actress, celebrating with a
verse of Dianne Reeves’ “Endangered Species.”
The show was a
rare winner for traditional networks, along with perennial Emmys juggernaut
“Saturday Night Live.”
Geena Davis’
Institute on Gender in Media won the special Governors Award, and the veteran
actress took up Lizzo’s theme.
“Television can
often directly impact how people see themselves and judge their value in the
world,” she said.
“We’ve made a
great deal of progress, but still there’s more work to do.”
Monday’s ceremony
marked a return to normality after the COVID-19 crisis forced producers to get
creative with remote and socially distanced editions in 2020 and 2021.
The show at a downtown
Los Angeles theater was also the first major Hollywood awards ceremony since this
year’s extraordinary Oscars, when Will Smith stunned the world by slapping
Chris Rock over a joke about his wife.
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