The first Emmys in attendance since the start of the pandemic crown "The Crown": the fourth season of the award-winning saga about the British royal family won the award for the best drama series, giving Netflix its first statuette in the category.
To Ted Lasso the other crown for the comedy: the series with Jason Sudeikis about the American football coach with a big heart called to coach a British football team at perennial risk of relegation was the frontrunner of the eve in front of "Hacks" with Jean Smart , in turn winner in the category of the best comic actress with the part of a "comedian" in Las Vegas in the style of Joan Rivers. Heartbreaking and undecided until the last between "Queen of Chess" by Netflix, "I May Destroy You" by Michaela Coel and "Murder in Easttown" both by Hbo the race for the best limited series: the adventure has given checkmate of the chessboard genius orphan played by Anya Taylor-James, while Kate Winstel, in the part of the policewoman Mare,won best actress.
"The Crown" had already taken home four awards last weekend during the Creative Emmys and tonight has also made a lot of statuettes for its cast: they won Josh O'Connor (Carlo) for best actor in a series. dramatic and Olivia Colman (Queen Elizabeth) and then Gillian Anderson (Margaret Thatcher) and Tobias Menzier (Philip). Peter Morgan also honored for screenplay and director Jessica Hobbs.
Only one streaming service, Hulu, with Handmaids Tale four years ago, had ever won a Primetime Emmy in the prestigious category of Best Drama Series.
Netflix was the big Emmy winner a total of 44 trophies including ten in the Primetime awards ceremony.
They followed Hbo / Hbo Max with 19 statuettes and Disney + with 14, and then Apple TV with 11 including four for "Ted Lasso" tonight (in addition to the best comedy series, Sudeikis, Brett Goldstein and Hannah Waddingham were awarded). Conducted by home comedian Cedric the Entertainer at CBS, the ceremony took place in Los Angeles in a tent behind its traditional location, the Microsoft Theater: a few hundred guests sat at the table in Golden Globes style instead of the usual over seven thousand. Not all the candidates spoke in attendance: among them the cast of "The Crown", gathered in London to celebrate, as last year the cast of "Schitt's Creek" did in Toronto.
