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<p>Here’s the sweetest moment of the Emmys ceremony.</p> <p id="SYENCq">Late in the <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/12/17850344/emmys-2018-nominations-winners-highlights">Emmys</a> telecast, during the portion of the show that often tends to drag, a hero stepped forward to make us all sit up and take notice for a moment. While accepting his Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special, Glenn Weiss took the moment to address his girlfriend, Jan Svendsen. </p>
<p id="uAilCS">He began by talking about his mother, who died just two weeks before the ceremony. But she would want him to focus on the sunshine in his life, Weiss said, and so he turned to his own “sunshine,” Svendsen. </p>
<p id="1ueShk">“You wonder why I don’t like to call you my girlfriend?” Weiss asked. “Because I want to call you my wife.”</p>
<p id="YPkOvv">Svendsen gasped, bursting into tears and nodding frantically, and the crowd exploded into applause. And at home, viewers were united as one in thinking: How nice! Also, who are these people? Also, public proposals sure are tricky, aren’t they?</p>
<p id="y7qfA7">Never fear. We are here to answer your questions.</p>
<h3 id="Zi0n5u">Who are these people?</h3>
<p id="Gtlpya">Glenn Weiss won this year’s Directing for a Variety Special trophy for directing the 2018 Oscars telecast. It was actually his 11th Emmy — he’s won the category (or its earlier iteration, Directing for a Variety Series) almost every year since 2003, usually for directing either the Oscars or the Tonys. That means he’d already had 10 tries to get his acceptance speech right, which might explain why he was willing to spend a whole speech on a proposal. </p>
<p id="xIFgRw">The Jan Svendsen to whom he just got engaged is <em>not</em> <a href="https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sv/jan-svendsen-1.html">former Olympic athlete Jan Svendsen</a>, although shoutout to that lady and her shot-put skills. Weiss’s now-fiancée Svendsen <a href="http://www.playbill.com/person/jan-svendsen-vault-0000123147">works in marketing on Broadway</a>, and given Weiss’s frequent direction of the Tonys telecast, it makes sense that they might form a connection. </p>
<h3 id="VE93Ay">Public proposals sure are tricky, aren’t they?</h3>
<p id="0PwMuY">Public proposals can be heartwarming, but there’s also always the weird sense that maybe the person being proposed to feels compelled to say yes because they don’t want to make a big scene in front of an audience. (There are a lot of compilations out there of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/28/five-worst-public-marriage-proposals">public proposals gone horribly wrong</a>.) In this case, people seem mostly okay with Weiss’s proposal — Svendsen seemed more surprised to be getting proposed to <em>at the Emmys</em> than getting proposed to at all — but in general, it’s a tricky move to pull off without feeling coercive.</p>
<p id="bSCm5o">Weiss did nicely flip one script, though: At the Rio<strong> </strong>Olympics two years ago, there was a weird mini trend of <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37083739">men proposing to their girlfriends while they accepted their Olympic medals</a>, in a move that was either incredibly romantic or creepily taking control of the woman in question during her moment of professional triumph, depending on whom you ask. But Weiss made his proposal during <em>his</em> moment of professional triumph, sharing the spotlight instead of stealing it, and that’s a change we’re all here for.</p>
<p id="bNXzjb">And not everyone is put off by a public proposal. For some, Weiss’s move was nothing less than an astonishing display of true love.</p>
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<p id="8vRGln">“The man that’s gonna be with me, he’s gonna propose to me on the Emmys,” declared <em>Saturday Night Live</em>’s Leslie Jones on Twitter. “If you don’t do that, then you ain’t serious about our love.” </p>
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<p>We sat through the red carpet so you didn’t have to.</p> <p id="RxCN81">The <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/17/17870008/emmy-winners-2018-list">Emmys</a> are traditionally a bit of a snoozefest, fashion-wise. Most of TV’s biggest stars tend to want to play it safe on the red carpet, so they generally wear conservative pretty gowns and look pretty in an unremarkable way.</p>
<p id="OijKnu">But every year, there are a few brave souls who dare to risk the ire of fashion bloggers across the web and wear something that’s not quite so safe. This is a space to salute those heroes of the red carpet. For the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/17/17870008/emmy-winners-2018-list">2018 Emmy Awards</a>, here are the fashion moments worth talking about. </p>
<h3 id="cWTRxW">Tiffany Haddish</h3>
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<p id="aqxnl3">This year, Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series winner Tiffany Haddish continued her trend of paying homage to her late father’s Eritrean heritage at awards shows. At the Oscars earlier this year, she <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/05/africa/tiffany-haddish-honours-eritrea-at-the-oscars/index.html">wore a traditional Eritrean zuria</a> on the red carpet, and her Emmys gown was <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/17/17872250/tiffany-haddish-emmys-rainbow-dress-eritrean-flag">rendered in the colors of the Eritrean flag</a>. Besides being a fun reference to her heritage, it’s a joyous, playful gown, and she clearly had a ball twirling it across the carpet. (It’s worth noting, though, that the dress’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/2/15/16995962/prabal-gurung-fashion-pregnancy-me-too">designer, Prabal Gurung, has been accused of creating a hostile workplace for his female employees</a>.) </p>
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<p id="09diqw"><em>Black-ish</em>’s Tracee Ellis Ross is one of the few TV stars consistently willing to go avant-garde on the red carpet, and bless her for it. This one is Valentino couture, and it’s the kind of gown made out of pure shape and color that can be hard to wear lest you find yourself getting worn by it: It’s like it’s turning Ross’s body into a single giant mauve ruffle. But Ross has the kind of unstoppable presence that lets her wear the dress instead of the other way around.</p>
<h3 id="HLbsI6">Leslie Jones</h3>
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<p id="PQvnKg">Jones’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/17/17871178/emmy-awards-2018-aidy-bryant-leslie-jones">iridescent Easter egg of a suit</a> is a perfect balance between festive and sober: That playful, joyous fabric would be on the verge of overly sweet or even twee in a gown, but the dapper cut of the suit is just businesslike enough to make it work for Jones.</p>
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<p id="BCWjQV">Part of what makes the <em>Queer Eye</em> ensemble so fun to watch at awards shows is how on-brand everyone’s outfits are. From right, we have Karamo looking dashing and heroic and take-charge; Antoni doing just enough to avoid being accused of being basic but being so handsome he can carry it off anyway; Tan going fierce as fuck in a statement pattern; Bobby, bless him, being slightly dull in a blue suit, but after all, he probably built an entire house earlier today and didn’t have time to pick up anything too special; and finally, Jonathan, working the hell out of his sheer high-necked peach blouse with his mustache curled to perfection. It is all pitched so exactly in sync with the show that I am reflexively tearing up just looking at it. </p>
https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/17/17872162/emmy-awards-2018-fashion-red-carpet-tiffany-haddish-queer-eye-leslie-jones-tracee-ellis-rossConstance Grady2018-09-18T08:34:56-04:002018-09-18T08:34:56-04:00Michael Che and Colin Jost open the 2018 Emmys to lukewarm laughs
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<p>The audience reactions were the best part of the pair’s Emmys monologue.</p> <p id="oYRxcz">After a <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/17/17872322/2018-emmys-diversity-song">lively opening number</a> (featuring fellow NBC comedic<strong> </strong>stable members Kate McKinnon and Kenan Thompson) that only served to drive home <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/17/17861648/michael-che-colin-jost-emmys-2018-backlash">what a strange choice</a> they are as Emmy hosts, Michael Che and Colin Jost kicked things off with a comparatively stiff monologue that mostly scored lukewarm laughs. </p>
<p id="axShBy">Though their jokes tackled the expected timely topics — sexual harassment, <em>Roseanne</em>, representation — they were delivered with an offhand lightness that robbed them of their deserved weight, and thus dulled their comedic impact. Jost noted that the audience members were allowed to drink in their seats, joking about “losing inhibitions at a work function” before launching into quips about getting calls from Ronan Farrow (who wrote on the Harvey Weinstein allegations for the New Yorker as well as reporting on misconduct allegations against <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/10/17841636/les-moonves-cbs-stock-shari-redstone">Les Moonves</a>).</p>
<p id="WpccGM">Che continued by saying that Roseanne Barr, recently fired from her own show for racist statements, had “had a rough year” — notably a sentiment last expressed (and walked back) <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/12/17850248/norm-macdonald-hollywood-reporter-metoo-donald-trump-roseanne-barr-louis-ck">by Norm Macdonald</a> — and gave a sarcastic congratulations to Laurie Metcalf for her supporting actress nomination for the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/5/29/17406406/abc-cancels-roseanne">infamously canceled <em>Roseanne </em>revival</a>. He and Jost also joked about the subject of that opening number,<strong> </strong>representation, calling out <em>ER</em> for having no Filipino nurses and guessing that one day there’d be an all-white reboot of <em>Atlanta</em>. </p>
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<p id="HfeNkT">Nonetheless, the monologue seemed to lose more air as it continued, lending a whiff of sympathy to Jimmy Kimmel’s entreaty to applaud as he presented the next award. (“Let’s have a hand for Michael and Colin, weren’t they great?”) At least we’ll always have that opening number.</p>
https://www.vox.com/2018/9/17/17872394/emmy-awards-2018-monologue-che-jostKaren Han2018-09-18T08:34:47-04:002018-09-18T08:34:47-04:00The Emmys’ opening musical number was a wry nod to Hollywood’s (lack of) diversity
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<p>“We solved it!” (They didn’t solve it.)</p> <p id="GFkwbh">The <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/12/17850344/emmys-2018-nominations-winners-highlights">Emmys</a> kicked off Monday night with a tongue-in-cheek nod to diversity in Hollywood by an ensemble of nominees performing a jaunty musical number. Its title? “We Solved It.” (Spoiler alert: They didn’t solve it.)</p>
<p id="sK1pUq"><em>Saturday Night Live</em>’s Kate McKinnon and Kenan Thompson led a host of fellow actors including Sterling K. Brown, Tituss Burgess, and Kristen Bell in the show’s opening skit, which saw the group celebrating having “solved” the entertainment industry’s ongoing efforts to diversify. The number contained a wide range of pop culture references, from <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/5/29/17406210/roseanne-canceled-abc-valerie-jarrett-roseanne-barr">Roseanne Barr’s downfall</a> to the #MeToo movement to Cynthia Nixon’s failed New York gubernatorial primary run. </p>
<p id="98Lf52">“This room is so diverse,” they joked, “from Democrat to liberal Democrat!” </p>
<p id="1La9x0">The song also got a (literal) drop-in from Andy Samberg, who pondered, “is there any room in this song for a straight white guy like me?” (There wasn’t.) Appearances from Ricky Martin, RuPaul, and John Legend kept things lively, though the number set a somewhat awkwardly self-effacing tone for the rest of the evening. </p>
<p id="vb4wg3">Though this year’s Emmy nominees are the most diverse bunch in the history of the awards — as McKinnon and Thompson announced at the start of the number — the point that Hollywood still has a long way to go was clear. Adding to the mixed mood was the fact that as soon as the musical number ended and the “One of Each” dancers had all cleared the stage, the mic was handed over to the evening’s two hosts, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/17/17861648/michael-che-colin-jost-emmys-2018-backlash">Colin Jost and Michael Che</a>, whose humor has come under fire for being regressive in the past. And <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/17/17872394/emmy-awards-2018-monologue-che-jost">their opening monologue</a> didn’t really do much to alleviate the awkwardness.</p>
<p id="ozmUa1">Still, while the Emmys may not have solved the problem of representation and diversity onscreen, the show addressed the issue in the most Hollywood way possible: with a cheesy song-and-dance routine and a lot of hand-waving. </p>
https://www.vox.com/2018/9/17/17872322/2018-emmys-diversity-songAja Romano2018-09-18T08:29:25-04:002018-09-18T08:29:25-04:00Here’s who won at the 2018 Emmy Awards
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<p><em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</em> dominated the comedy categories, <em>Game of Thrones</em> reclaimed the Outstanding Drama Series crown, and <em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em> went home empty-handed.</p> <p id="Ml7JBi">On Monday, the <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/12/17850344/emmys-2018-nominations-winners-highlights">70th annual Primetime Emmy Awards</a> honored the past year’s greatest achievements in television. The night crowned a new comedy queen and reminded us that the show with the dragons is still pretty good. </p>
<p id="uNfEuy">Headed into the ceremony, one big question was which show would replace <em>Veep </em>as the winner of the Outstanding Comedy Series trophy. <em>Veep</em>, which has won the award since 2015, was not eligible this year as its production was delayed while star <a href="https://ew.com/tv/2018/08/16/veep-season-7-julia-louis-dreyfus-cancer-treatment/">Julia Louis-Dreyfus </a>underwent treatment for breast cancer. </p>
<p id="jB3dPS">Enter <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/11/30/16715280/marvelous-mrs-maisel-amazon-review"><em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</em></a><em>. </em></p>
<p id="34K7k2"><em>Mrs. Maisel</em> began the night with Alex Bornstein’s win in the Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series category, then saw Amy Sherman-Palladino win for both writing and directing, and closed out the evening with Rachel Brosnahan winning Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and the show winning Outstanding Comedy Series. <em>Mrs. Maisel</em>’s triumph made history for Amazon, which celebrated its <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/emmys-amazon-nabs-first-series-win-marvelous-mrs-maisel-1144306">first series Emmy win</a>. The series took home five Emmys on Monday for a total of seven overall, as it was recognized for casting and single-camera editing at the previously awarded <a href="https://www.emmys.com/news/awards-news/2018-creative-arts-awards-saturday">Creative Arts Emmys</a>. </p>
<p id="QdIj1E">Elsewhere in the comedy field Henry Winkler and Bill Hader took home the Supporting Actor in a Comedy and Lead Actor in a Comedy Emmys, respectively, for their performances on HBO’s dark comedy <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/5/20/17366104/barry-hbo-finale-recap-chapter-eight-know-your-truth"><em>Barry</em></a>. Winkler’s win was especially notable because it was his first, and it came <a href="https://ew.com/tv/2018/09/17/henry-winkler-wins-first-emmy/">42 years after his very first Emmy nomination</a>, which he received in 1976 for playing Fonzie on <em>Happy Days</em>.</p>
<p id="oKieWe">In the drama categories, there was a comeback story of sorts. <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/17/17870884/emmys-2018-predictions-drama-comedy-game-of-thrones"><em>Game of Thrones</em></a>, which went into the night <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/17/17870884/emmys-2018-predictions-drama-comedy-game-of-thrones">as the most-nominated drama with 22 nods</a>, won Outstanding Drama Series after sitting out 2017 for eligibility reasons. Peter Dinklage was also recognized for the show, winning Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. <em>Game of Thrones</em> won <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/emmys-game-thrones-wins-9-awards-1143518">nine awards</a> in total, including seven trophies from the previously awarded <a href="https://www.emmys.com/news/awards-news/2018-creative-arts-awards-saturday">Creative Arts Emmys</a>.</p>
<p id="ks0mKU">The other drama winners were more spread out, with Matthew Rhys winning Lead Actor in a Drama for <em>The Americans</em>, Thandie Newton taking home Supporting Actress in a Drama for <em>Westworld</em>, and Claire Foy winning Lead Actress in a Drama for <em>The Crown</em>. Additionally, <em>The Crown</em>’s Stephen Daldry won for directing, and <em>The Americans</em>’ Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg won for writing.</p>
<p id="8URMhJ">Here’s the full list of the night’s televised winners:</p>
<h3 id="gg52t0"><strong>Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series</strong></h3>
<p id="HAihin">Brian Tyree Henry, <em>Atlanta</em></p>
<p id="X05mPf"><strong>WINNER: Henry Winkler, </strong><em><strong>Barry</strong></em></p>
<p id="i1Czmk">Louie Anderson, <em>Baskets</em></p>
<p id="pCio8Q">Alec Baldwin, <em>Saturday Night Live</em></p>
<p id="ilqZvB">Kenan Thompson, <em>Saturday Night Live</em></p>
<p id="ZXCvsP">Tony Shalhoub, <em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</em></p>
<p id="Pn0CAF">Tituss Burgess,<em> Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt</em></p>
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<h3 id="him3Ms"><strong>Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series</strong></h3>
<p id="HACIZs">Zazie Beetz, <em>Atlanta</em></p>
<p id="5HKOv6">Laurie Metcalf, <em>Roseanne</em></p>
<p id="XACR1I">Betty Gilpin, <em>GLOW</em></p>
<p id="qxWOOx">Aidy Bryant, <em>Saturday Night Live</em></p>
<p id="68FEel">Leslie Jones, <em>Saturday Night Live</em></p>
<p id="EARRCf">Kate McKinnon, <em>Saturday Night Live</em></p>
<p id="iNOSOn"><strong>WINNER: Alex Borstein, </strong><em><strong>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</strong></em></p>
<p id="ct2tUJ">Megan Mullally, <em>Will & Grace</em></p>
<p id="wETQz5"></p>
<h3 id="pS31uw"><strong>Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series</strong></h3>
<p id="qv27KN"><strong>WINNER: Amy Sherman-Palladino, </strong><em><strong>The</strong></em><strong> </strong><em><strong>Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</strong></em><strong>, “Pilot”</strong></p>
<p id="IVGtb9">Donald Glover, <em>Atlanta</em>, “Alligator Man”</p>
<p id="uTZsU5">Stefani Robinson, <em>Atlanta</em>, “Barbershop”</p>
<p id="ck7m1m">Alec Berg and Bill Hader, <em>Barry</em>, “Chapter One: Make Your Mark”</p>
<p id="XmkkvZ">Liz Sarnoff, <em>Barry</em>, “Chapter Seven: Loud, Fast, and Keep Going”</p>
<p id="WfCnWI">Alec Berg, <em>Silicon Valley</em>, “Fifty One Percent”</p>
<p id="ZGIgtu"></p>
<h3 id="2O0NkB"><strong>Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series</strong></h3>
<p id="kmSDVZ"><strong>WINNER: Amy Sherman-Palladino, </strong><em><strong>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</strong></em><strong>, “Pilot”</strong></p>
<p id="n2ZqtL">Donald Glover, <em>Atlanta</em>, “Fubu”</p>
<p id="hQ1CAY">Mark Cendrowski, <em>The Big Bang Theory</em>, “The Bow Tie Asymmetry”</p>
<p id="4BkGWk">Jesse Peretz, <em>GLOW</em>, “Pilot”</p>
<p id="dg96oO">Hiro Murai, <em>Atlanta, </em>“Teddy Perkins”</p>
<p id="gGGjUG">Mike Judge, <em>Silicon Valley</em>, “Initial Coin Offering”</p>
<p id="zDUWhl">Bill Hader, <em>Barry</em>, “Chapter One: Make Your Mark”</p>
<p id="J6O6mt"></p>
<h3 id="OcxKuy"><strong>Lead Actress in a Comedy Series </strong></h3>
<p id="KbKrwC">Pamala Adlon, <em>Better Things</em></p>
<p id="AIHFC9"><strong>WINNER: Rachel Brosnahan, </strong><em><strong>The Marvelous Ms, Maisel</strong></em></p>
<p id="NSyEON">Allison Janney, <em>Mom</em></p>
<p id="aTvqd3">Issa Rae<em>, Insecure</em></p>
<p id="u4IwPV">Tracee Ellis Ross,<em> Black-ish</em></p>
<p id="hr3LC3">Lily Tomlin, <em>Grace and Frankie</em></p>
<p id="sbRdle"></p>
<h3 id="jBE6uf"><strong>Lead Actor in a Comedy Series</strong></h3>
<p id="SRUk5R">Anthony Anderson, <em>Black-ish</em></p>
<p id="7WyO42">Ted Danson, <em>The Good Place</em></p>
<p id="1sX1MZ">Larry David, <em>Curb Your Enthusiasm</em></p>
<p id="szpaQo">Donald Glover, <em>Atlanta</em></p>
<p id="i8CuNq"><strong>WINNER: Bill Hader, </strong><em><strong>Barry</strong></em></p>
<p id="9Hw4hl">William H. Macy, <em>Shameless</em></p>
<p id="3LfkLz"></p>
<h3 id="3X3LKn">Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series</h3>
<p id="xHlITj">Adina Porter,<em> American Horror Story: Cult</em></p>
<p id="v6z1rS">Letitia Wright, <em>Black Museum: Black Mirror</em>”</p>
<p id="2jgaaW"><strong>WINNER: Merritt Wever, </strong><em><strong>Godless</strong></em></p>
<p id="Y0Pt1P">Sara Bareilles, <em>Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert</em></p>
<p id="vI6Xs8">Penélope Cruz, <em>The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story</em></p>
<p id="oXKDjU">Judith Light, <em>The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story</em></p>
<p id="8IAYM8"></p>
<h3 id="KQLOXo">Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie </h3>
<p id="yGjnyB"><strong>WINNER: Jeff Daniels, </strong><em><strong>Godless</strong></em></p>
<p id="FB0pwD">Brandon Victor Dixon, <em>Jesus Christ Superstar: Live in Concert</em></p>
<p id="jlLGST">Ricky Martin, <em>The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story</em></p>
<p id="GBJCIr">Edgar Ramírez, <em>The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story</em></p>
<p id="c928Jy">Finn Wittrock, <em>The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story</em></p>
<p id="SWxeEv">Michael Stuhlbarg, <em>The Looming Tower</em></p>
<p id="VjpsMw">John Leguizamo, Waco</p>
<p id="MVDEHi"></p>
<h3 id="EmujU8">Writing for a Limited Series, TV Movie, or Special</h3>
<p id="40z249">Kevin McManus and Matthew McManus, <em>American Vandal</em> (“Clean Up”)</p>
<p id="BkWmrm">Scott Frank, <em>Godless</em></p>
<p id="be3GCl">David Nicholls, <em>Patrick Melrose</em></p>
<p id="yLMO8H">Tom Rob Smith, T<em>he Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story</em> (“House By The Lake”)</p>
<p id="bdShQT">David Lynch and Mark Frost, <em>Twin Peaks</em></p>
<p id="ftk0TH"><strong>WINNER: William Bridges and Charlie Brooker, “USS Callister: Black Mirror”</strong></p>
<p id="U1Dyor"></p>
<h3 id="h3N34c">Directing for a Limited Series</h3>
<p id="uty3i8">Scott Frank, <em>Godless</em></p>
<p id="fwigQG">David Leveaux (director) and Alex Rudzinski (Live Television Director),<em> Jesus Christ Superstar: Live In Concert</em></p>
<p id="eZxK0H">Barry Levinson, <em>Paterno</em></p>
<p id="kTvpRM">Edward Berger, <em>Patrick Melrose</em></p>
<p id="4HCgHg"><strong>WINNER: Ryan Murphy, </strong><em><strong>The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story</strong></em><strong> (“The Man Who Would Be Vogue”)</strong></p>
<p id="ifXMWV">Craig Zisk, <em>The Looming Tower</em> (“9/11”)</p>
<p id="zIopsH">David Lynch, <em>Twin Peaks</em></p>
<p id="p4vW0E"></p>
<h3 id="q6tACP">Lead Actress in a Limited Series</h3>
<p id="PFU1R9">Jessica Biel, <em>The Sinner</em></p>
<p id="ikkvIr">Laura Dern, <em>The Tale</em></p>
<p id="VvvGD4">Michele Dockery, <em>Godless</em></p>
<p id="JxsI0M">Edie Falco, <em>Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Brothers</em></p>
<p id="sDDMu0"><strong>WINNER: Regina King, </strong><em><strong>Seven Seconds</strong></em></p>
<p id="1HQZOx">Sarah Paulson, <em>American Horror Story: Cult</em></p>
<h3 id="NOc5D8"></h3>
<h3 id="HxQlKo"><em>Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie</em></h3>
<p id="nUOSk1">Antonio Banderas, <em>Genius: Picasso</em></p>
<p id="IsGn9x"><strong>WINNER: Darren Criss, </strong><em><strong>The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story</strong></em></p>
<p id="OinsGD">Benedict Cumberbatch, <em>Patrick Melrose</em></p>
<p id="JzsweX">Jeff Daniels, <em>The Looming Tower</em></p>
<p id="ZTQBjS">John Legend,<em> Jesus Christ Superstar</em></p>
<p id="KUjlu6">Jesse Plemons, <em>Black Mirror: USS Callister</em></p>
<h3 id="WV9TZA"></h3>
<h3 id="VMiwgu"><em>Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special </em></h3>
<p id="9Ctv2T"><strong>WINNER: John Mulaney, </strong><em><strong>Kid Gorgeous</strong></em></p>
<p id="AABmEl"><em>Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Presents: The Great American* Puerto Rico (*It’s Complicated)</em></p>
<p id="8MyGq1"><em>Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady</em></p>
<p id="ssWHxi"><em>Patton Oswalt: Annihilation</em></p>
<p id="Qld20g"><em>Steve Martin & Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life</em></p>
<p id="cy1CXd"></p>
<h3 id="YIXYhO">Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special</h3>
<p id="pyMynP"><em>Dave Chappelle: Equanimity</em></p>
<p id="2TXa7b"><em>Jerry Seinfeld: Jerry Before Seinfeld</em></p>
<p id="0uxO2Z"><em>Steve Martin & Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life</em></p>
<p id="CTzi6N"><em>Super Bowl LII Halftime Show Starring Justin Timberlake</em></p>
<p id="rE2kWF"><strong>WINNER: Glenn Weiss, </strong><em><strong>The Oscars</strong></em></p>
<p id="KldbQT"></p>
<h3 id="qwNkQa">Supporting Actor in a Drama Series</h3>
<p id="LCgICS">Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, <em>Game of Thrones</em></p>
<p id="Y5UiEH"><strong>WINNER: Peter Dinklage, </strong><em><strong>Game of Thrones</strong></em></p>
<p id="sQRx6S">Mandy Patinkin, <em>Homeland</em></p>
<p id="VWcd6P">David Harbour, <em>Stranger Things</em></p>
<p id="8QhSb6">Matt Smith, <em>The Crown</em></p>
<p id="oFLG9U">Joseph Fiennes, <em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em></p>
<p id="yjp8rN"></p>
<h3 id="3qSaAf">Supporting Actress in a Drama Series</h3>
<p id="lEBHr0">Lena Headey, <em>Game of Thrones</em></p>
<p id="0eROEJ">Millie Bobby Brown, <em>Stranger Things</em></p>
<p id="FoyIvw">Vanessa Kirby, <em>The Crown</em></p>
<p id="6lGXGX">Yvonne Strahovski, <em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em></p>
<p id="ohj39c">Alexis Bledel, <em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em></p>
<p id="23Ishk">Ann Dowd, <em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em></p>
<p id="Ek0sSc"><strong>WINNER: Thandie Newton, </strong><em><strong>Westworld</strong></em></p>
<h3 id="A4SlM6"></h3>
<h3 id="UldzrH">Writing for a Drama Series</h3>
<p id="bMuERY">David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, <em>Game of Thrones</em> (“The Dragon and the Wolf”)</p>
<p id="4MleYE">Phoebe Waller-Bridge, <em>Killing Eve</em> (“Nice Face”)</p>
<p id="EFtX4w">The Duffer Brothers, <em>Stranger Things </em>(“Chapter Nine: The Gate”)</p>
<p id="tERCuK"><strong>WINNER: Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, </strong><em><strong>The Americans </strong></em><strong>(“Start”)</strong></p>
<p id="izoXGe">Peter Morgan, <em>The Crown</em> (“Mystery Man”)</p>
<p id="dtxdQ7">Bruce Miller, <em>The Handmaid’s Tale </em>(“June”)</p>
<p id="sqaKE0"></p>
<h3 id="kYXFZx">Directing for a Drama Series</h3>
<p id="1mmMJ2">Alan Taylor, <em>Game Of Thrones</em> (“Beyond The Wall”)</p>
<p id="4deEe1">Jeremy Podeswa, <em>Game Of Thrones</em> (“The Dragon And The Wolf”)</p>
<p id="5oEXAA">Jason Bateman, <em>Ozark</em> (“The Toll”)</p>
<p id="mkNYCh">Daniel Sackheim, <em>Ozark</em> (“Tonight We Improvise”)</p>
<p id="OtfEyZ">The Duffer brothers, <em>Stranger Things</em> (“Chapter Nine: The Gate”)</p>
<p id="ipsUvC"><strong>WINNER: Stephen Daldry, </strong><em><strong>The Crown</strong></em><strong> (“Paterfamilias”)</strong></p>
<p id="H7LUaR">Kari Skogland, <em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em> (“After”)</p>
<p id="ajCkfs"></p>
<h3 id="mYqEPj">Lead Actor in a Drama Series</h3>
<p id="s8kdoP">Jason Bateman, <em>Ozark</em></p>
<p id="MnCFdo"><strong>WINNER: Matthew Rhys, </strong><em><strong>The Americans</strong></em></p>
<p id="dFlRRP">Sterling K. Brown, <em>This Is Us</em></p>
<p id="M3wlAW">Milo Ventimiglia, <em>This Is Us</em></p>
<p id="nOgyFk">Ed Harris, <em>Westworld</em></p>
<p id="qX9NI4">Jeffrey Wright, <em>Westworld</em></p>
<p id="PyqUdN"></p>
<h3 id="fZX9PI">Lead Actress in a Drama Series</h3>
<p id="5Mdpg4">Sandra Oh, <em>Killing Eve</em></p>
<p id="1RcOH8">Tatiana Maslany,<em> Orphan Black</em></p>
<p id="VUYY1p">Keri Russell,<em> The Americans</em></p>
<p id="Z79CZ8"><strong>WINNER: Claire Foy, </strong><em><strong>The Crown</strong></em></p>
<p id="PaYVjc">Elisabeth Moss, <em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em></p>
<p id="wzsJDI">Evan Rachel Wood, <em>Westworld</em></p>
<p id="3pKxS0"></p>
<h3 id="qyf7kF">Outstanding Reality Competition Series</h3>
<p id="81sgdA"><em>The Amazing Race</em></p>
<p id="FwK4fX"><em>American Ninja Warrior</em></p>
<p id="GvPXT4"><em>Project Runway</em></p>
<p id="vwU077"><strong>WINNER: </strong><em><strong>RuPaul’s Drag Race</strong></em></p>
<p id="Qpg9jC"><em>Top Chef</em></p>
<p id="jPfkSC"><em>The Voice</em></p>
<p id="4nl7gW"></p>
<h3 id="6agSWy">Outstanding Variety Sketch Series</h3>
<p id="4XJRlB"><em>At Home With Amy Sedaris</em></p>
<p id="l0XXwt"><em>Drunk History</em></p>
<p id="jyF7oj"><em>I Love You America </em>with Sarah Silverman</p>
<p id="StbJ9L"><em>Portlandia</em></p>
<p id="0CrZ0o"><strong>WINNER:</strong><em><strong> Saturday Night Live</strong></em></p>
<p id="Rbp5DW"><em>Tracey Ullman’s Show</em></p>
<p id="cAqSdI"></p>
<h3 id="mTc4O8">Outstanding Variety Talk Series</h3>
<p id="lz152f"><em>The Daily Show </em>with Trevor Noah</p>
<p id="gHggKI"><em>Full Frontal </em>with Samantha Bee</p>
<p id="lyjQEe"><em>Jimmy Kimmel Live</em></p>
<p id="2KxQmH"><strong>WINNER</strong><em><strong>: Last Week Tonight </strong></em><strong>with John Oliver</strong></p>
<p id="hSwal9"><em>The Late Late Show</em> with James Corden</p>
<p id="MuCuj3"><em>The Late Show</em> with Stephen Colbert</p>
<p id="vnLgHQ"></p>
<h3 id="zZNlXz">Outstanding Limited Series</h3>
<p id="6v6cYY"><em>The Alienist</em></p>
<p id="ivi5Fd"><strong>WINNER</strong><em><strong>: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story</strong></em></p>
<p id="rXL9aM"><em>Genius: Picasso</em></p>
<p id="OPRs1W"><em>Godless</em></p>
<p id="CHVrI0"><em>Patrick Melrose</em></p>
<p id="z5L3cO"></p>
<h3 id="pHBzoN">Outstanding Comedy Series</h3>
<p id="CoZQLK"><em>Atlanta</em></p>
<p id="ucBFJZ"><em>Barry </em></p>
<p id="odUyDE"><em>Black-ish</em></p>
<p id="HUJBIa"><em>Curb Your Enthusiasm</em></p>
<p id="1xCIWz"><em>GLOW</em></p>
<p id="KbU86T"><strong>WINNER</strong><em><strong>: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</strong></em></p>
<p id="6MmiD0"><em>Silicon Valley</em></p>
<p id="1N9zhA"><em>Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt</em></p>
<p id="RJDE0i"></p>
<h3 id="cS8TKZ">Outstanding Drama Series</h3>
<p id="YylAem"><em>The Americans</em></p>
<p id="zYCohv"><em>The Crown</em></p>
<p id="e2WPRc"><strong>WINNER</strong><em><strong>: Game of Thrones</strong></em></p>
<p id="WTJLZq"><em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em></p>
<p id="8rNyn4"><em>Stranger Things</em></p>
<p id="ILtMm1"><em>This Is Us</em></p>
<p id="EU24fN"><em>Westworld</em></p>
<p id="0j6alp"></p>
https://www.vox.com/2018/9/17/17870008/emmy-winners-2018-listAlex Abad-Santos2018-09-18T08:29:06-04:002018-09-18T08:29:06-04:008 winners and 5 losers from the 2018 Emmy Awards
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<p>Winners: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Netflix, and old people. Losers: Atlanta and The Handmaid’s Tale.</p> <p id="sqeJF5">The 2018 Emmys were at once enthralling and utterly anticlimactic. </p>
<p id="VKXBO8">You could feel it in the way <a href="http://www.vox.com/the-americans">FX’s <em>The Americans</em></a> won for writing and lead actor (Matthew Rhys), while <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/12/9/16748048/the-crown-season-2-review">Netflix’s <em>The Crown</em></a> won for directing and lead actress (Claire Foy) ... only for both to founder on the rocks of boring ol’ <a href="http://www.vox.com/game-of-thrones"><em>Game of Thrones</em></a> winning its third Emmy for drama series.</p>
<p id="tzmaoy">Of course, taking one step forward and five steps back is an Emmy tradition, so nobody should be too surprised when previous winners keep raking in trophies. And the evening’s presentation of trophies was mostly an enjoyable, even sprightly time.</p>
<p id="EsBFWc">And yet that <em>Game of Thrones</em> win was the perfect way to cap the evening. After a couple of years in which it felt like the Emmys were shaking off some of their bad habits, the 2018 awards were here to remind you they could never quite shake off all of them. For every cool winner, there have to be three or four winners that make you roll your eyes just a little.</p>
<p id="OIwjXx">So here, then, are eight winners and five losers from the 2018 Emmy Awards.</p>
<h3 id="bPVVOo">Winner: Amazon, <em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,</em> and Amy Sherman-Palladino</h3>
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<p id="jSHP7g">Two weeks ago, Amy Sherman-Palladino had no Emmy awards. The <em>Gilmore Girls</em> creator was a prior nominee (for her writing on <em>Roseanne</em> way back in 1992), but she hadn’t been back as a nominee since that ceremony, despite the high praise for her earlier WB series.</p>
<p id="uzYHM4">Now, after the Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday, September 8, and tonight’s primetime awards, Sherman-Palladino has <em>four</em> Emmys for her new <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/11/30/16715280/marvelous-mrs-maisel-amazon-review">Amazon series <em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</em></a> — for music supervision, writing, directing, and comedy series. It was the sort of night that makes one go from, “Oh, it’s awful that she doesn’t have an Emmy!” to, “Doesn’t she have too many awards already? Let someone else win some!” in about five seconds. Indeed, Sherman-Palladino became the first person <em>ever</em> to win the comedy writing and directing Emmys in the same night.</p>
<p id="BBqppx">But <em>Maisel</em> won awards beyond its behatted showrunner. It roped in prizes for two of its stars (Alex Borstein for supporting actress and Rachel Brosnahan for lead actress). It won awards at the Creative Arts Emmys for casting and editing. It won eight awards in total, right behind <em>Game of Thrones</em> (which won nine across both ceremonies), but without the sorts of big special effects sequences that lead to so many of <em>Thrones</em>’ wins.</p>
<p id="kakJdS">The wins were also a big moment for the show’s beleaguered network, Amazon Prime Video, which has had a rough go of it in recent years and has seemed to fall behind both Netflix and Hulu in the battle for buzz. Yet <em>Maisel</em> becomes just the second streaming series to win one of the big three series awards, after <em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em> won for drama last year. <em>Maisel</em> didn’t put Amazon on the map, but it helped keep it there.</p>
<p id="8XG94B">Now, you could quibble that a series about standup comedians in ’50s New York is pretty much custom-designed to win Emmys, and you wouldn’t be wrong. Still, it’s a big victory for Amazon and perhaps a bigger one for Sherman-Palladino.</p>
<aside id="K1W8Yn"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel may be set in 1958, but its witty, angry heroine is timeless","url":"https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/11/30/16715280/marvelous-mrs-maisel-amazon-review"}]}'></div></aside><h3 id="hqSltg">Winners (but also kind of losers): Netflix and HBO</h3>
<p id="LO5lDq">It made headlines when <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/7/12/17564922/emmy-nominations-2018-winners-losers-snubs-surprises">Netflix finally dethroned HBO</a> as the most nominated network at this year’s awards, and heading into tonight’s ceremony, post-Creative Arts awards, HBO had just one more win than Netflix.</p>
<p id="jO9fJg">That reversed over the course of the program, until, heading into Drama Series, the final category of the night, Netflix now had one more win than HBO across both ceremonies. And then <em>Game of Thrones</em> won, and the two networks ended up exactly tied — with 23 wins apiece at both ceremonies.</p>
<p id="4FvCbf">Now, on the one hand, this is a huge victory for Netflix, which went from having almost no nominations to very nearly garnering the most nominations <em>and</em> the most wins in less than a decade. (Remember: The service’s first original series, <em>House of Cards</em>, only launched in 2012.) On the other hand, a win for Comedy Series, Drama Series, or Limited Series remains out of Netflix’s grasp, when both Hulu and Amazon (its chief streaming competitors) have won a series prize by this point.</p>
<p id="E2I4gU">And while HBO managed to claw its way back to a level playing field with Netflix, it had to do so without the sort of Emmy dominance it showed as recently as 2015 (when it won basically every competitive category at the primetime awards). It’s going to slip behind Netflix inevitably — and probably sooner rather than later.</p>
<p id="rjVjbu">So it’s not hard to see it as a big night for both networks — and at the same time imagine they’re feeling just a twinge of disappointment at how everything ultimately turned out.</p>
<h3 id="ufbvfH">Winner: Glenn Weiss</h3>
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<p id="AEEr6D">Yes, Glenn Weiss won an Emmy, but <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/17/17872634/emmy-awards-2018-proposal-engagement-glenn-weiss-jan-svendsen">we’re talking about that proposal</a>! While accepting the award for outstanding directing for a variety special — his 11th Emmy overall — Weiss took the opportunity to propose to his girlfriend Jan Svendsen. </p>
<p id="ojnLr3">He began his speech by paying tribute to his late mother, saying, “Mom always believed in finding the sunshine in things, and that’s why she adored my girlfriend, Jan.” He continued on to gasps from the crowd, “Jan, you are the sunshine in my life. And mom was right: Don’t ever let go of my sunshine. You wonder why I don’t like to call you my girlfriend? Because I want to call you my wife.”</p>
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<h3 id="qbChh5">Winner: FX (sort of)</h3>
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<p id="hKZRXQ">Lurking right behind HBO and Netflix, in a strong third place for most wins at this year’s Emmys, is FX, which won 12 categories total and an impressive five at the primetime awards. FX’s big contender was supposed to be its comedy series <em>Atlanta </em>(more on that in a second). Instead, <em>Atlanta</em> won three Creative Arts awards and then won <em>none</em> of the eight primetime awards it was nominated for, getting swept away by the <em>Maisel</em> flood. </p>
<p id="EJK0QY">Instead, FX patched together its showing via <em>The Assassination of Gianni Versace</em>, which won Limited Series, Directing, and Lead Actor (Darren Criss), along with four Creative Arts Emmys; and <em>The Americans</em>, which somewhat unexpectedly won its first major competitive primetime awards, pulling in Emmys for writing and Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Matthew Rhys).</p>
<p id="i2ZHd2">It’s a showing that FX has to be incredibly proud of ... but the network has yet to win the big Drama or Comedy Series prize, despite numerous attempts. <em>Atlanta</em>’s 16 nominations should have given it the edge. If only it had some ’50s standup comedians. Speaking of which...</p>
<h3 id="MBmfef">Losers: <em>Atlanta</em> and <em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em>
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<p id="GffXZJ">Both <em>Atlanta</em> and <em>Handmaid’s Tale</em> entered the night with three Creative Arts wins to their name, as well as eight nominations at the primetime awards. Both series were considered major contenders for their respective series prizes, and if that didn’t happen, well, they’d surely get an acting win or two, right?</p>
<p id="vaVqYd">Nah. In a pretty severe awards show slump (unmerited, in this writer’s opinion!), both shows were completely blanked. <em>Atlanta</em>’s multi-hyphenate Donald Glover lost writing and directing to Sherman-Palladino, then lost actor to <em>Barry</em>’s Bill Hader, while <em>Handmaid’s</em> band of actors couldn’t beat out <em>Thrones</em>’ Peter Dinklage, <em>Westworld</em>’s Thandie Newton, or <em>The Crown</em>’s Claire Foy.</p>
<p id="fr5vAD">Both series will surely be back the next time they’re Emmy-eligible. But boy, that Emmy night must have taken the wind out of their sails, just a bit.</p>
<h3 id="DIByux">Winner: old people</h3>
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<p id="NM3VhP">Henry Winkler and Betty White were among the honorees of the night, with Winkler taking home the Emmy for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for <em>Barry</em> and White making a speech during a segment honoring her long career.</p>
<p id="AMWbVT">This is Winkler’s first acting win, after five nominations for his role as the Fonz on <em>Happy Days</em>. “If you stay at the table long enough, the chips come to you,” Winkler said in his speech. “Tonight, I got to clear the table.” To a similar effect, White marveled at how long she’d been working, saying, “Little did I dream [when I started] that I would be here. It’s incredible that I’m still in this business and you’re still putting up with me.” Both moments were sweet little testaments to longevity in an industry where that’s frequently hard to come by.</p>
<p id="4u14Yl">And just to be clear, we don’t mean “old people” disparagingly here — the term also includes all of us delighted that the ceremony ended on time so we could all go to bed.</p>
<h3 id="UY3uOB">Losers: the crowd</h3>
<p id="dslhzl">Clapping and cheering and just generally making a ruckus, this might have been the loudest Emmy crowd in recent memory, and they were <em>not</em> shy about making their preferences among the Emmy nominees known. Get some better seat fillers, Academy!</p>
<h3 id="sAxXzl">Winner: <em>RuPaul’s Drag Race</em>
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<p id="3QyL75">RuPaul’s venerable reality competition series <em>RuPaul’s Drag Race</em> has been kicking around long enough for it to be called “venerable,” but it’s only in the past few years that the Emmys have started to take notice of the phenomenon — mostly its eponymous host, who’s won Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program for the past three years, 2018 included. </p>
<p id="LNaeAL">But this year, <em>Drag Race</em> also managed to break open one of the Emmys’ most impenetrable categories, Outstanding Reality Show Competition, which since its introduction in 2003 has been absolutely dominated by <em>The Amazing Race</em> and, to a lesser extent, <em>The Voice. </em>The former has won 10 times, the latter four, while <em>Top Chef </em>managed to squeeze its way in there for a single win in 2010. </p>
<p id="QhgPlA">All three of those shows were also nominated in the category this year, making <em>Drag Race</em>’s victory an even bigger upset — and a testament to the increasingly mainstream acceptance of a revolutionary cult hit.</p>
<aside id="DTYh7r"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"11 moments that took RuPaul’s Drag Race from scrappy underdog to pop culture behemoth","url":"https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/3/22/17144202/rupauls-drag-race-history-season-10"}]}'></div></aside><h3 id="ledqlU">Losers: Michael Che and Colin Jost</h3>
<p id="TRkSIn">Throughout the night, hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost were largely overshadowed by the presenters around them. Following a <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/17/17872394/emmy-awards-2018-monologue-che-jost">lukewarm monologue</a> and similarly flat bits throughout the ceremony, Che and Jost generally came off as stiff and indifferent to being at the Emmys, an air that only played worse in light of how peppy everyone else seemed to be. </p>
<p id="BMEF3l">Though they attempted to spice things up by bringing on Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen to play clueless Emmy historians, the pair were surrounded by more dead air than most, and it seemed like Che and Jost’s ambivalence <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/colin-jost-michael-che-tease-political-emmys-2018-plans-1143401">leading up the ceremony</a> as to whether they’d tackle more political material stranded them in a bit of a dead middle ground.</p>
<h3 id="Lc1U0u">Winner: Lorne Michaels</h3>
<p id="cvh5KY">Che and Jost might not have been the best hosts, but the pace of this Emmy show was surprisingly brisk, and when Kenan Thompson announced <em>Game of Thrones</em> had won Drama Series, there was still plenty of time left for a speech and to get the show in on time. And if you’ve ever watched an awards show, you know that’s an accomplishment.</p>
<p id="6x1gtm">Credit goes to producer Lorne Michaels, who had clearly drilled everybody involved to keep things moving. He didn’t even have to resort to the sorts of tricks other awards show producers do to keep the show on track. Right up until the end, every category had its clips package, so viewers could see the nominated work. </p>
<p id="qDKakS">And the cherry on the top? Michaels won his umpteenth (technically his 16th) Emmy for <em>Saturday Night Live</em>, which pulled out the win in the variety-sketch category. Congratulations to you, Lorne Michaels, an unheralded showbiz figure!</p>
<h3 id="3RNpQa">Winner: presenters</h3>
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<p id="SMA3J7">Though occasionally accompanied by some truly baffling choices of walking music (loser: classical music), the presenters for the night were mostly great. Aidy Bryant and Bob Odenkirk, Tiffany Haddish and Angela Bassett, the new <em>Queer Eye</em> Fab Five — though the night failed to bring any real surprises (except maybe <em>Godless</em>’s two wins), it was still a mostly charming time thanks to well-curated (and brief) presentation bits. </p>
<p id="KGRSDl">One of the standout presenters was <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/7/5/17527478/hannah-gadsby-nanette-comedy"><em>Nanette</em>’s Hannah Gadsby</a>, who joked that she’d gotten the gig because she didn’t like men. “That’s a joke, of course,” she quickly said. “Just jokes, fellas, calm down. #NotAllMen — but a lot of them.” She followed up that bit by noting, “Nobody knows what jokes are — especially not men. Am I right, fellas? That’s why I’m presenting alone.”</p>
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<h3 id="TRI2rp">Loser: first-time winners</h3>
<p id="nBxC1u">Okay, sure, the show eventually got a fair number of first-time winners — like Rhys, Foy, and Newton — but for a shockingly long amount of time, every single winner of the evening already had an Emmy from some previous ceremony.</p>
<p id="ZsLkzx">To be sure, a couple of those people (Sherman-Palladino and Borstein) had Emmys from last week’s Creative Arts awards — so more of a technicality than anything — while Winkler’s other Emmys are Daytime Emmys (which shouldn’t count, obviously). But then you had folks like Dinklage or 14-time winner Glenn Weiss or three-time winner Regina King (who won Lead Actress in a Limited Series for her “blink and you missed it” Netflix show <em>Seven Seconds</em>).</p>
<p id="IIgYY9">The Emmys love people who’ve previously won Emmys. We know that. But <em>this much</em>? We look forward to rejoining you in 2019, when <em>Game of Thrones</em> mops up 22 trophies for its final season.</p>
<h3 id="VOdHkP">Loser: “Diversity”</h3>
<p id="ciTANR">The disparity between the night’s lively <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/17/17872322/2018-emmys-diversity-song">opening number</a> — which joked about Hollywood having “solved diversity” because the nominee pool was the most diverse it’s ever been —and Che and Jost’s lifeless opening monologue proved to be something of a harbinger for the night to come, as efforts to celebrate diversity ended up flopping in practice. </p>
<p id="KrHgkM">Despite wins for stars like Regina King and Thandie Newton, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/17/17870008/emmy-winners-2018-list">the Emmy winners list</a> doesn’t quite reflect the diversity of the pool of nominees, a sentiment best expressed in a post-ceremony tweet by John Leguizamo (who was nominated for his work in <em>Waco</em>):</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">What can I say? I tried to represent for 20 million Latinxs and I failed! I’m sorry! Underrepresentation is a bitch of a burden! <a href="https://t.co/bk4Ld0lloR">pic.twitter.com/bk4Ld0lloR</a></p>— John Leguizamo (@JohnLeguizamo) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnLeguizamo/status/1041894997362999296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2018</a>
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<p id="fqV931">The Academy isn’t hopeless on diversity — for the first time ever, all four guest acting winners were black performers, and Sherman-Palladino’s triumph is groundbreaking for women in comedy — but the overwhelmingly white slate of winners in 2018 pales slightly in comparison to previous years, when actors like Sterling K. Brown and Donald Glover took home trophies in topline categories. So yes, TV has definitely made some strides — but there’s still clearly a long way to go.</p>
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<p>At the 2018 Emmys, the Saturday Night Live stars wore Christian Siriano and Tanya Taylor, to great effect.</p> <p id="jUEemv">Out of several <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/17/17872162/emmy-awards-2018-fashion-red-carpet-tiffany-haddish-queer-eye-leslie-jones-tracee-ellis-ross">memorable looks</a> from the <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/12/17850344/emmys-2018-nominations-winners-highlights">2018 Primetime Emmy Awards</a>, two of the standouts came from <em>Saturday Night Live</em> players Leslie Jones, in a hypnotizing iridescent suit by Christian Siriano, and Aidy Bryant, who wore a whimsical Tanya Taylor dress <a href="https://people.com/style/aidy-bryants-emmys-2018-dress-tanya-taylor/">dotted with 3,500 yellow and pink sequins</a>. The praise on Twitter was <a href="https://twitter.com/PandiBear31/status/1041867626685771776">immediate</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/DutchDelights13/status/1041855806088523776">resoundingly enthusiastic</a>. </p>
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<p id="nD7JNW">It’s not at all surprising that Jones and Bryant chose to work with Siriano and Taylor, respectively, on custom Emmys looks. Like fellow actresses <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/05/why-no-one-would-make-an-oscar-dress-for-melissa-mccarthy-despite-her-bridesmaids-success/?utm_term=.9855381d88e7">Melissa McCarthy</a> and <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/emmys-2012-mad-men-star-christina-hendricks-might-wear-atelier-versace-awards-351879">Christina Hendricks</a>, both women have both been vocal about the fact that designers are reluctant or flat-out unwilling to work with celebrities who don’t fit into sample-size clothing — that is, generally, a size 0 to 4. In navigating that reality, Jones and Bryant have formed ongoing relationships with two designers who have extended their sizing in recent years.</p>
<p id="cvqnQ4">The prevailing dynamics of red-carpet dressing strongly favor actresses who fit into sample sizes. When you see a celebrity wearing a designer piece that’s fresh off the runway, one that hasn’t even gone into production yet, it’s often because they’re literally wearing the same piece of clothing that walked down the runway. (Rachel Brosnahan of <em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</em>, for example, wore a days-old <a href="https://fashionsizzle.com/2018/09/18/rachel-brosnahan-in-oscar-de-la-renta-2018-emmy-awards/">Oscar de la Renta dress</a> to <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/17/17870008/emmy-winners-2018-list">pick up her Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy</a> on Monday night.)</p>
<p id="69OtPf">For plus-size actresses, and for those <a href="https://www.racked.com/2016/7/14/12060482/in-between-plus-sample-size-8-10-12-14">among the millions of women between sample size and plus size</a>, red-carpet dressing isn’t as simple as convincing a brand that they’re the next big thing.</p>
<h3 id="cT1LU3">Jones and Bryant have had to be deliberate with their fashion choices</h3>
<p id="K9xwQv">In June 2016, Leslie Jones made headlines when she <a href="https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/747839493386928128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E747839493386928128%7Ctwgr%5E373939313b73706563696669635f73706f7274735f616374696f6e&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnylon.com%2Farticles%2Fleslie-jones-ghostbusters-tweet">tweeted</a> about her struggle to find a designer who would lend her a dress for the premiere of <em>Ghostbusters</em>, writing, “It’s so funny how there are no designers wanting to help me with a premiere dress for movie. Hmmm that will change and I remember everything.”</p>
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<p id="maAalF">According to the Hollywood Reporter, Jones <a href="https://www.racked.com/2016/7/14/12060482/in-between-plus-sample-size-8-10-12-14">wears a size 8 or 10</a>, which puts her below the plus-size range (plus generally starts at a size 14) but still leaves her wildly underserved by designers and stylists alike.</p>
<p id="jk9mtG">Christian Siriano, the precocious season four winner of <em>Project Runway </em>who established his namesake brand in 2008, tweeted back at Jones with a little waving-hand emoji. The rest is history: Siriano designed <a href="https://people.com/style/christian-siriano-confirms-that-leslie-jones-is-a-pretty-woman-at-the-ghostbusters-premiere/">an elegant red evening gown</a> for Jones to wear at the movie’s premiere and went on to dress the <em>SNL</em> star in a <a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/leslie-jones-emmys-2017-christian-siriano-gown">glittering black dress for the 2017 Emmys</a>. When he made Time’s 100 Most Influential People list in 2018, <a href="http://time.com/collection/most-influential-people-2018/5217553/christian-siriano">Jones wrote his bio</a>.</p>
<p id="CHq9Wq">Tanya Taylor and Aidy Bryant, meanwhile, were <a href="https://www.glamour.com/story/aidy-bryant-tanya-taylor?mbid=partner_pubexchange_article_fashionista">set up by Glamour magazine</a> in early 2017 — because, the magazine says, it was hoping to start a virtually nonexistent conversation between high-fashion designers and plus-size celebrities. At that point, Glamour reported, no high-end designer had offered to make a dress in Bryant’s size (18) — though she had <a href="https://mic.com/articles/154751/aidy-bryant-is-done-with-having-to-beg-designers-to-dress-her-curvy-figure#.unyyAMVkJ">collaborated with Eloquii</a> on her 2016 Emmys dress — nor had Taylor ever created plus-size clothing.</p>
<p id="dHWlQQ">The result of that collaboration was a navy dress with floral embellishments running across the hem and sleeves, which Bryant wore for an appearance on <em>Late Night With Seth Meyers</em> in January 2017.</p>
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<h3 id="ROJSrf">Adding plus-size options has fundamentally changed the designers’ businesses</h3>
<p id="ZfF1sO">Unlike many high-end designers, Christian Siriano has a reputation for inclusiveness. Such was the case when he and Jones started working together.</p>
<p id="aiu5j8">“The most important thing to know about Siriano, who has styled himself as the designer for every woman since the day he started his company, is that for better or worse, he will be there,” wrote the fashion critic Eric Wilson in a <a href="https://www.instyle.com/news/christian-siriano-inclusive-fashion-celebrities">profile of the designer</a> for InStyle earlier this month. “For richer, for poorer, for thinner, for fatter, for older, for younger, for cisgender, for transgender, for famous, for not so famous, for just might be famous someday, he will be there.”</p>
<p id="0idZWA">The simple willingness to dress any woman who walks through his door has meant big business for Siriano. In June, he said that <a href="https://www.elle.com/fashion/celebrity-style/a21529009/christian-siriano-tripled-his-business-by-adding-plus-sizes/">extending the sizing of his collection tripled his revenue</a>, and that plus-size clothing accounted for 50 percent of his sales.</p>
<p id="MhCYt1">Meanwhile, working with Bryant <a href="https://fashionista.com/2017/06/aidy-bryant-tanya-taylor-plus-size-collection">motivated Taylor</a> to offer sizing up to a 22 in future collections, though <a href="https://observer.com/2017/06/tanya-taylor-plus-size-aidy-bryant/">only for selected pieces</a>. (Judging from <a href="https://www.tanyataylor.com/collections/extended-sizes">her website</a>, that still seems to be the case.) Though Taylor has dressed Michelle Obama, her brand is only six years old and far from a behemoth in the fashion landscape. Extending her sizing opens up her brand to an entirely new customer base.</p>
<p id="C4QA86">“Either you’re for inclusiveness and diversity, or you’re against it,” <a href="https://www.glamour.com/story/aidy-bryant-tanya-taylor?mbid=partner_pubexchange_article_fashionista">Bryant told Glamour</a>. “And being passive means you’re against it.” </p>
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/17/17871178/emmy-awards-2018-aidy-bryant-leslie-jonesEliza Brooke2018-09-17T20:48:11-04:002018-09-17T20:48:11-04:00Black-ish’s Jenifer Lewis wore Nike on the Emmys red carpet to support Colin Kaepernick
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<p>“I am wearing Nike to applaud them for supporting Colin Kaepernick and his protest against racial injustice and police brutality,” Lewis said.</p> <p id="Mcr0Yt">On an <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/12/17850344/emmys-2018-nominations-winners-highlights">Emmys</a> red carpet filled with designer gowns and dashing tuxedos, Broadway and <em>Black-ish</em> star Jennifer Lewis opted to wear Nike.</p>
<p id="4Argyj">“I am wearing Nike to applaud them for supporting <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/4/17818148/nike-boycott-kaepernick">Colin Kaepernick</a> and his protest against racial injustice and police brutality,” <a href="https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/jenifer-lewis-nike-emmys-red-carpet-colin-kaepernick-1202944993/">Lewis told Variety</a> during her red-carpet interview before the ceremony. She described her thought process in coming up with the idea to wear Nike as asking herself, “What can I do? What can I do that’s meaningful? I’ll wear Nike. I’ll wear Nike to say thank you. Thank you for leading the resistance! We need more corporate America to stand up also.”</p>
<p id="xi4QPm">The athletic brand started a national conversation over Labor Day weekend when it revealed that Kaepernick would be one of the faces for the 30th-anniversary celebration of its “Just Do it” slogan. </p>
<aside id="ED06KL"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"The Nike boycott over Colin Kaepernick, explained","url":"https://www.vox.com/2018/9/4/17818148/nike-boycott-kaepernick"}]}'></div></aside><p id="8X9XGX">So far, Kaepernick has<strong> </strong>appeared in a print ad and a televised commercial. The ad features a black-and-white close-up of his face with the words, “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything” — a reference to Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem when he was a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. </p>
<p id="4dh1vE">Kaepernick was kneeling in protest of police brutality against black people, and when many of his fellow NFL players began to kneel as well, the protests kicked off a national conversation and debate that eventually drew the ire of President Donald Trump. Kaepernick hasn’t played in two seasons and is currently bringing a <a href="https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2018/8/30/17801870/colin-kaepernick-nfl-collusion-lawsuit-summary-judgement">lawsuit against the NFL and its owners</a> for allegedly colluding to keep him out of the league. </p>
<aside id="rujLrG"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"2 years of NFL protests, explained","url":"https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17619122/kaepernick-trump-nfl-protests-2018"}]}'></div></aside><p id="M8sakZ">A <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/5/17823804/nike-kaepernick-nfl-commercial-boycott">longer Nike commercial</a>, which aired during the NFL’s season opener, also highlights Kaepernick’s “sacrificing everything” motto. </p>
<p id="nLdaKR">The ads have spurred a <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/4/17818148/nike-boycott-kaepernick">boycott against Nike</a>, predominantly spearheaded by conservatives who believe Kaepernick’s protests were disrespectful of the American flag. Some boycott participants have also destroyed Nike merchandise they have already purchased and posted videos and photos of the act on social media. </p>
<p id="LkujE4">Lewis is just one of <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/celebrities-show-their-support-colin-kaepernicks-nike-ad-1104236">myriad celebrities</a> who have shown support for Kaepernick and his protest of police killings. But there is likely an extra layer of significance to Lewis’s decision to wear Nike on the Emmys red carpet, after it was revealed earlier this year that <a href="https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/abc-shelves-blackish-political-1202722980/">ABC shelved an episode of <em>Black-ish</em></a> that addressed the NFL kneeling protests. ABC reportedly decided not to air the episode due to “creative differences.” </p>
<p id="1b6VJ6">“Thank you, Colin. Thank you for all that you do. Thank you for being brave. Thank you for being courageous. Thank you for taking a knee,” Lewis said.</p>
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