Sunday marked not only the first day of fall, but more importantly, the beginning of this years award season. The 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards aired on Sunday on CBS and was hosted by the current king of Award Shows, Neil Patrick Harris. In case you missed it, here are the major award winners:
Best Drama: Breaking Bad, AMC
Best Comedy: Modern Family, ABC
Lead Actor (Drama): Jeff Daniels- The Newsroom, HBO (yay!!)
Lead Actress (Drama): Claire Danes- Homeland, Showtime
Lead Actor (Comedy): Jim Parsons- The Big Bang Theory, CBS
Lead Actress (Comedy): Julia Louis-Dreyfus- Veep, HBO
But, I know you didn’t come to HerCampus to learn something you could Google. You came for ‘The Spill’ (aptly named, I thought). The highest honor of the night didn’t even go to award winners. Most of the attention went to 4 performers who had died in the last year that outshone even the cast of Behind the Candelabra.
These four stars included James Gandolfini (The Sopranos), Corey Montieth (Glee), Gary David Goldberg (Family Ties), comedian Jonathan Winters and Jean Stapleton (All in the Family). All these stars got special tributes separate from the tradional “In Memoriam” segment that also played later in the show. This gave the entire show a feeling of a funeral rather than a celebration of “the golden age of television,” as many of the award winners kept saying.
Another interesting twist with the Emmys was with the orchestra conductor. Apparently he was really eager, because every time a winner opened their mouth, they were played off. Except Merritt Weaver who won Best Supporting Actress (Comedy) for her role in Showtime’s Nurse Jackie. Weaver was being credited with the best acceptance speech ever and it went like this: “Thanks so much. Um. Thank you so much. Um. I gotta go. Bye.” It obviously wasn’t long enough for the conductor to play her off the stage.
In other Emmy news, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ win, she has officially tied Lucille Ball for most Emmy wins by a woman in a Comedy role with 4 total Emmy’s. In conclusion I say, 4 for you, JLD, you go JLD!!