'Game of Thrones' wins top award at the Emmys
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Phil McCarten/Invision/Shutterstock (10421184fq) Alfie Allen, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke, Gwendoline Christie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Carice van Houten. Alfie Allen, from left, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke, Gwendoline Christie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Carice van Houten appear onstage at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles 71st Primetime Emmy Awards - Show, Los Angeles, USA - 22 Sep 2019
Medieval drama Game of Thrones and British comedy Fleabag took top honours at the Emmy awards on Sunday on a night of upsets that often rewarded newcomers over old favorites.
Pose star Billy Porter, was named best dramatic actor, while British newcomer Jodie Comer took the Emmy for her lead actress role as a psychotic assassin in quirky drama Killing Eve.
In an upset, Fleabag actress and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge also took the trophy for best comedy actress, beating frontrunners Julia Louis-Dreyfus for Veep and Rachel Brosnahan for The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. Waller-Bridge also won the Emmy for comedy writing on the Amazon Studios show.
Bill Hader won his second Emmy for playing a hitman who turns to acting in comedy Barry, while Peter Dinklage took home the only acting trophy for Game of Thrones for his supporting role as Tyrion Lannister.
Already the most-awarded series in Emmy history with 38 wins, HBO’s Game of Thrones went into Sunday’s awards show as the clear front runner, despite a fan uproar over the conclusion of the series.
In the closely contested limited series category, the Television Academy spread its honors among wrenching social justice drama When They See Us, Soviet nuclear accident tale Chernobyl and Fosse/Verdon, starring Michelle Williams as Broadway singer and dancer Gwen Verdon.
Newcomer Jharrel Jerome was named best actor for When They See Us, the Netflix dramatisation of the men known as the Central Park Five who were wrongly accused and imprisoned for rape in 1980s New York.
Jerome dedicated his honour to “the men we know as the exonerated five,” and the five men, seated in the audiences, stood and pumped their fists.
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