The stars of the TV series attended Sunday from their living room or their room at the evening of the Emmy Awards, equivalent of the Oscars for the small screen in the United States, during which the team of
Schitt's Creek
, crowned best comedy series, as expected received its remote reward, pandemic obliges.
Catherine O'Hara, crowned "best actress" in a comedy series for
Schitt's Creek
, was thus given the golden statuette from the hands of a man wearing a full body suit of biological protection.
Followed Eugene Levy "best comic actor" then his son Daniel Levy distinguished for the screenplay and the best supporting role ... Schitt's Creek won the grand slam, winning the first seven awards given on Sunday evening.
Unlike most of the other contenders, the Canadian Series team was able to come together for a private event in Toronto.
All had been tested for Covid-19 and then placed in solitary confinement.
A Canadian comedy about a family of privileged fallen reduced to living in a dilapidated motel, the series went almost unnoticed for its first four seasons before becoming a success by being broadcast on Netflix.
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The 72nd edition of the Emmy Awards had to take up the challenge of a 100% virtual show, with comedian Jimmy Kimmel alone at the helm in a deserted Los Angeles room, without red carpet or flashy evening wear.
"Hi, and welcome to PandEmmys!"
, he said to kick off the evening.
For this unprecedented edition, cameras were sent home to the 130 or so candidates, who were invited to compete with inventiveness in their speeches, or even to put on pajamas.
“For years, audience scores have been at half mast for award ceremonies.
This is the opportunity or never to change the situation, to have a ceremony that is unlike any other, ”
said Libby Hill, television awards specialist at the editorial staff of the IndieWire site.
“Even if Sunday night turns out to be a disaster, at least it will be an interesting disaster.
And that's really all we can ask for in 2020, ”she
adds.
Call to vote on November 3
The
Watchmen
mini-series
is the favorite with 26 nominations in its category, and its dark and chaotic universe perfectly reflects the era of time.
Focused on the massacre of several hundred black residents of the city of Tulsa (Oklahoma) in 1921 by white rioters,
Watchmen
plunges into the heart of racist violence and police brutality, themes which are cruelly topical in the United States. United since the end of May.
With the end of the hit series
Game of Thrones
, also produced by HBO, the competition is finally more open this year in the category of drama series.
"It is a chance for HBO to have
Succession
which arrives at the right time"
, according to Pete Hammond, of the specialized site Deadline.
This dark comedy about the heartbreak of a powerful family to take control of a media empire won an Emmy Award for its first season last year.
She was featured 18 times this time around, on par with
Netflix-produced
Ozark
.
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With
Schitt's Creek
, the video-on-demand giant, which was selected 160 times this year, has finally managed to land an Emmy Award in a major category.
In ambush, Sunday we will find
The Crown
, dedicated to the British royal family, and
The Mandalorian
, the first series from the
Star Wars
universe
, which has already earned the new platform Disney + five Emmy Awards in technical categories awarded earlier during the week.
Among the hundred nominations for actors and actresses, black artists represent more than a third of the contingent in 2020, a new record.
In this list, Regina King, main actress in Watchmen was distinguished and took the opportunity to call on all spectators to mobilize for the presidential election on November 3.
“You have to vote.
I would be unworthy not to mention that, as a member of a show as visionary as
Watchmen,
”
said the actress.
Regina King wore a t-shirt with the effigy of Breonna Taylor, a black American killed by the police and become one of the symbols of "Black Lives Matter", protest movement present in the minds of most of the stars of Hollywood this year.
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