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Emmy Awards 2022: These are the big winners of the awards ceremony
As in the previous year, the football series “Ted Lasso” won the Emmy Award for best comedy of the year. At the award ceremony in Los Angeles, leading actor Jason Sudeikis (photo) was also awarded the most important television prize in the world.
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In year two after the pandemic, the Emmys are returning to normal: tried-and-true glamor at the awards ceremony and many winners familiar from previous years.
A discussion has been brewing in the US entertainment industry for months: Who should actually watch all this? With hundreds of broadcast and cable channels and half a dozen streaming providers from Netflix, Hulu, and HBO to Disney, Apple, and Amazon, many believe viewers are long lost. The 74th Emmy Awards on Monday night in Los Angeles gave the industry a chance to reset its inner compass. But at the end of the three-hour ceremony, one thing is certain: the almost 20,000 voters at the Television Academy do not currently have a clear fixed point – and they find it difficult to appreciate something new. Instead, the winners are widely spread and often well-known.
“Succession” Wins Emmy for Best Drama
In the most important categories of the evening, series won that have already won before: The black humorous media and family satire “success” won as in 2020 as best drama, the warm-hearted football series “Ted Lasso” Like in 2021, it received the Emmy for best comedy. They prevailed against newer and often bolder material – for example, with the gloomy South Korean social criticism “Squid Games” win a non-English language drama for the first time. Also for the comedy ratings hit “Abbott Elementary” about life in an underfunded school, there were ultimately more consolation prizes in script and supporting actor categories.
Jason Sudeikis Awarded for Ted Lasso Title Role
Three of the four leading actor awards also went to stars who were allowed to put these awards on the shelf for their roles: Jason Sudeikis in the “Ted Lasso” title role as a US football coach who takes charge of a British team, and Jean Smart as an aging comedienne in “Hacks” had already won in 2021. Also zendaya, still a newcomer at the age of 26, had already won the leading role Rue in the relentless teenage drama “Euphoria” in 2020. Only the South Koreans Lee Jung-jae Best Actor in “Squid Game” was a surprise – impossible to know if co-nominated “Succession” actors Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong stole each other’s voices.
“The White Lotus” clears away in a big way
Was in the last increasingly important division with awards for miniseries and television films “The White Lotus” the big winner and picked up ten awards – more than any other format this year. The holiday satire about a murder and many special requests from the super-rich at a luxury resort in Hawaii took home awards for Best Miniseries, Best Director and Best Screenplay in a Miniseries, as well as Best Supporting Actor Murray Bartlett and Jennifer Coolidge.
“Saturday Night Live” remains the all-time winner
There were well-known winners in many other subcategories: JohnOliver won Best Entertainment Talk Show for his sketch news program “Last Week Tonight” for the seventh year in a row. And against permanent winners “Saturday Night Live” The “Black Lady Sketch Show” couldn’t do anything: “SNL” won the category for the best entertainment sketch series, which was only introduced in 2015, for the sixth time in a row. According to the IMDB database, the live comedy, which has been running since 1975, now has 87 Emmys with more than 300 nominations.
The three-hour award ceremony was also slowed down by lengthy self-advertising for productions by the broadcasting US broadcaster NBC, an excessive amount of prescribed chatter by the laudators and a car advertisement announced as a sketch clip. Also, on more than one occasion, the decision to have the stars seated around round tables rather than in rows meant that there was no camera footage of the nominees’ immediate reactions to winning or losing.
The audience in the hall gladly accepted every offer of a breath of fresh air. singer and presenter Lizzo won the prize for the best competition program and prevailed against the favorite “Ru Paul’s Drag Race”. Her show “Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls” is about 13 overweight women who are struggling to become professional dancers.
“The stories they share with us aren’t that special, they just don’t get a platform,” Lizzo said while accepting her Emmy, adding, “All I wanted as a little girl was a girl like me in the media see. Fat like me. Black like me. Beautiful like me.” The Emmy Awards 2022 only very sporadically fulfilled this desire for diversity.