LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Widow’s Bay” stormed the Emmy Awards on Monday night, breaking a record for a comedy series with 14 awards including best comedy series and three acting wins.
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The first-season horror comedy created by Katie Dippold about a New England island community reckoning with a centuries-old curse spoiled the going-away party for “Hacks,” which had gotten the most comedy nominations of any show in its fifth and final season.
It broke the comedy record set last year by “The Studio” when it won 13.
Star Matthew Rhys won best actor, Stephen Root won best supporting actor and Kate O’Flynn won best supporting actress. Dippold won for writing.
“The Pitt” won the Emmy Award for best drama series for the second straight year on Monday night, along with best actor for star Noah Wyle.
HBO Max’s 24-hours-in-the-life-of-an-emergency-room series created by R. Scott Gemmill has now won for each of its first two seasons.
The series has sought to merge elements of network television from its 1990s peak with streaming-era prestige, and it has paid off with critical acclaim, cultural relevance, and awards like the biggest prize on TV’s biggest night. It won its first best drama Emmy as a rookie upstart and takes its second as a revered favorite, beating fellow nominees including “Pluribus,” “Paradise” and “The Diplomat.”
The Apple TV horror comedy “Widow’s Bay” rode into the night on a wave of buzz. It had already won eight Emmys at an earlier ceremony and added four more, including supporting actress for breakout star Kate O’Flynn and supporting actor for Stephen Root.
Rhys also won best actor in a limited series for “The Beast in Me,” becoming the first man to win two leading actor categories in the same year.
“The celebrations will be long, varied, and I hope at times wild,” Rhys said backstage while holding both Emmys.
It also won for directing for Hiro Murai and for writing for its creator Dippold, a first-time Emmy winner and first-time nominee who was previously best known for an old viral tweet showing her dressed as “The Babadook.”
Jean Smart won her fifth best actress award in an unprecedented sweep for the fifth and final season of “Hacks.” No actor had won an Emmy every year for a series that lasted more than three seasons until she did it Monday.
“What a ride this has been,” an emotional Smart said after getting a standing ovation.
The 75-year-old Smart has won eight Emmys overall in a career that was already more than respectable when she landed her defining role of Deborah Vance, a brash stand-up comic pushing back against age, obscurity and sexism in the HBO Max series.
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Wyle won the Emmy for the second season of “The Pitt,” HBO Max’s real-time emergency room drama, for playing Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch, a role that brought him a major career revival after starring in “ER” in the 1990s.
“I grew up in LA, I’m a Hollywood kid. I was raised on a television, and movie theaters were my place of worship,” Wyle said in his acceptance. “This is all I’ve ever wanted to do, and this is the only club I’ve ever wanted to join.”
Rhea Seehorn won best actress in a drama for playing the lone central character on Apple TV’s “Pluribus.”
The 54-year-old had been nominated twice without winning for her breakthrough role on “Better Call Saul,” a show from “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan, who put Seehorn at the center of “Pluribus.” Gilligan won his fifth career Emmy for his writing on the show.
It was the first Emmy for both O’Flynn and Root.
O’Flynn, a 40-year-old British actor whose previous acclaim came mostly for her work in theater, plays Patricia Moyer, a city worker and social outcast dealing with a demonic darkness on “Widow’s Bay.”
“This is the role of a lifetime,” O’Flynn said from the stage. “This is for all the Patricias out there.”
Root, one of the most ubiquitous character actors of the last few decades, beat out Harrison Ford, who many thought would get his first major competitive Hollywood award for his role on “Shrinking.”
“Thank you, sir, for all your many years of great, great, great acting,” Root said to Ford during his acceptance.
Root, 74, is the oldest person to win the category.
Sally Field, 79, became the oldest woman to win best actress in a limited or anthology series or TV movie for “Remarkably Bright Creatures.”
‘The Pitt’ tops the drama nominees but loses key categories
“The Pitt” was the top overall nominee, but it lost in both supporting acting categories despite having four nominees in one of them and three in the other.
Allison Janney won best supporting actress in a drama over Katherine LaNasa from “The Pitt,” who won last year, and three of her castmates. Janney joined Smart as an eight-time Emmy winner.
Tom Pelphrey won supporting actor in a drama for “Task.”
“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” taken off the air by CBS, won best variety series. It‘s one of six Emmys the show has won this year after the show was cancelled for what the network said was economic reasons while many believe it was his criticism of the Trump administration.
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“If you like the comedy tonight, my old writers wrote it,” Colbert said.
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Carrie Coon, “The Gilded Age”
Chase Infiniti, “The Testaments”
Keri Russell, “The Diplomat”
WINNER — Rhea Seehorn, “Pluribus”
Zendaya, “Euphoria”
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Sterling K. Brown, “Paradise”
Gary Oldman, “Slow Horses”
Mark Ruffalo, “Task”
Rufus Sewell, “The Diplomat”
WINNER — Noah Wyle, “The Pitt”
Outstanding Supporting Actress in Drama Series
Taylor Dearden, “The Pitt” (HBO Max)
Fiona Dourif, “The Pitt” (HBO Max)
WINNER — Allison Janney, “The Diplomat” (Netflix)
Katherine LaNasa, “The Pitt” (HBO Max)
Sepideh Moafi “The Pitt” (HBO Max)
Julianne Nicholson, “Paradise” (Hulu)
Karolina Wydra, “Pluribus” (Apple TV+)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in Drama Series
Patrick Ball, “The Pitt”
Billy Crudup, “The Morning Show”
Shawn Hatosy, “The Pitt”
Gerran Howell, “The Pitt”
Jack Lowden, “Slow Horses”
WINNER — Tom Pelphrey, “Task”
Carlos Manuel Vesga, “Pluribus”
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
Brittany Allen, “The Pitt”
Tal Anderson, “The Pitt”
Tina Ivlev, “The Pitt”
Miriam Shor, “Pluribus”
Merritt Wever, “The Gilded Age”
WINNER — Shailene Woodley, “Paradise”
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
Colman Domingo, “Euphoria”
WINNER — Ernest Harden Jr., “The Pitt”
Jeff Hiller, “Pluribus”
Jeff Kober, “The Pitt”
Jonathan Pryce, “Slow Horses”
Bradley Whitford, “The Diplomat”
Comedy Categories
Outstanding Comedy Series
“Abbott Elementary”
“The Bear”
“Hacks”
“Margo’s Got Money Troubles”
“Nobody Wants This”
“Only Murders in the Building”
“Shrinking”
WINNER — “Widow’s Bay”
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary”
Ayo Edebiri, “The Bear”
Elle Fanning, “Margo’s Got Money Troubles”
Lisa Kudrow, “The Comeback”
WINNER — Jean Smart, “Hacks”
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Yahya Abdul Mateen II, “Wonder Man”
Steve Carell, “Rooster”
WINNER — Matthew Rhys, “Widow’s Bay”
Jason Segel, “Shrinking”
Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building”
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Dale Dickey, “Widow’s Bay”
Hannah Einbinder, “Hacks”
Janelle James, “Abbott Elementary”
WINNER — Kate O’Flynn, “Widow’s Bay”
Michelle Pfeiffer, “Margo’s Got Money Troubles”
Megan Stalter, “Hacks”
Jessica Williams, “Shrinking”
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Colman Domingo, “The Four Seasons”
Paul W. Downs, “Hacks”
Harrison Ford, “Shrinking”
Nick Offerman, “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” (Apple TV+)
WINNER — Stephen Root, “Widow’s Bay” (Apple TV+)
Michael Urie, “Shrinking” (Apple TV+)
Tyler James Williams, “Abbott Elementary” (ABC)
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
Leslie Bibb, “Hacks”
Jamie Lee Curtis, “The Bear”
WINNER — Betty Gilpin, “Widow’s Bay”
Cherry Jones, “Hacks”
Laurie Metcalf, “Hacks”
Kaitlin Olson, “Hacks”
Lauren Weedman, “Hacks”
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
Michael J. Fox, “Shrinking”
Brett Goldstein, “Shrinking”
Hamish Linklater, “Widow’s Bay”
Christopher McDonald, “Hacks”
WINNER — Rob Reiner, “The Bear”
Connor Storrie, “Saturday Night Live”
Limited Series, Anthology or TV Movie Categories
Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series
“All Her Fault”
“The Beast In Me”
“Beef”
WINNER — “DTF St. Louis”
“Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette”
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Claire Danes, “The Beast In Me”
WINNER — Sally Field, “Remarkably Bright Creatures”
Carey Mulligan, “Beef, Season 2”
Sarah Pigeon, “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette”
Sarah Snook, “All Her Fault”
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Riz Ahmed, “Bait”
Jason Bateman, “Black Rabbit”
Charlie Hunnam, “Monster: The Ed Gein Story”
Oscar Isaac, “Beef”
WINNER — Matthew Rhys, “The Beast in Me”
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
WINNER — Linda Cardellini, “DTF St. Louis”
Dakota Fanning, “All Her Fault”
Laurie Metcalf, “Monster: The Ed Gein Story”
Joy Sunday, “DTF St. Louis”
Youn Yuh-jung, “Beef”
Constance Zimmer, “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette”
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Jason Bateman, “DTF St. Louis”
Richard Gadd, “Half Man”
WINNER — David Harbour, “DTF St. Louis”
Richard Jenkins, “DTF St. Louis”
Charles Melton, “Beef”
Nick Offerman, “Death by Lightning”
Outstanding TV Movie
“Heads of State”
“Miss You, Love You”
“People We Meet on Vacation”
WINNER — “Remarkably Bright Creatures”
“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War”
Variety, Nonfiction and Reality TV Categories
Outstanding Variety Series
“The Daily Show” (Comedy Central)
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (ABC)
“Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” (HBO Max)
WINNER — “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (CBS)
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC)
Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-recorded)
“Dave Chappelle: The Unstoppable” (Netflix)
WINNER — “The Muppet Show” (Disney+)
“Nikki Glaser: Good Girl” (Hulu)
“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour — The Final Show” (Disney+)
“Wicked: One Wonderful Night” (NBC)
Outstanding Variety Special (Live)
WINNER — “The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Starring Bad Bunny” (NBC)
“83rd Annual Golden Globes” (CBS)
“68th Annual Grammy Awards” (CBS)
“The Oscars” (ABC)
“78th Annual Tony Awards” (CBS)
Outstanding Reality Competition Program
“Dancing With the Stars” (ABC)
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” (MTV)
“Survivor ” (CBS)
“Top Chef” (Bravo)
WINNER — “The Traitors” (Peacock)
Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series
“The American Revolution” (PBS)
WINNER — “Mr. Scorsese” (Apple TV)
“The Yogurt Shop Murders” (HBO Max)
“Rafa” (Netflix)
“Sean Combs: The Reckoning” (Netflix)
Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special
“John Candy: I Like Me” (Amazon Prime Video)
“Marty, Life Is Short” (Netflix)
“Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!” (HBO Max)
WINNER — “My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay” (HBO Max)
“Ocean With David Attenborough” (National Geographic)
Best Structured Reality Program
WINNER — “Antiques Roadshow” (PBS)
“Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” (Food Network)
“Love Is Blind” (Netflix)
“Queer Eye” (Netflix)
“Shark Tank” (ABC)
Best Unstructured Reality Program
“America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders” (Netflix)
WINNER — “Love on the Spectrum” (Netflix)
“RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked” (MTV)
“Summer House” (Bravo)
“Welcome to Wrexham” (FX)
Host for a Reality/Competition Program
RuPaul Charles, “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
WINNER — Alan Cumming, “The Traitors”
Kristen Kish, “Top Chef”
Ariana Madix, “Love Island USA”
Jeff Probst, “Survivor”
Animated Program
“Bob’s Burgers” (Fox)
“Rick and Morty” (Adult Swim)
“The Simpsons” (Fox)
“Smiling Friends” (Adult Swim)
WINNER — “South Park” (Comedy Central)
“Star Wars: Visions” (Disney+)
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