Emmy Awards 2024: Succession Dominates, Kan Khajura Celebrates, and Historic Wins for Diversity

TWO-PATH SWEEP

The Emmy-winning family drama Succession, which concluded its fourth and final season with much fanfare last year, carried on with its incredible run. The HBO series, which received nominations in an unprecedented 27 categories, went on to win six of them, including the top three awards for Outstanding Drama Series, Lead Actor— Drama Series for Kieran Culkin, Lead Actress— Drama Series for Sarah Snook, and Supporting Actor— Drama Series for Matthew MacFadyen.

Six golden prizes were also won by The Bear, a touching and sad story of tenacity and suffering. These included Comedy Series, Best Comedy Lead Actor (Jeremy Allen White), Best Comedy Supporting Actor (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), Best Comedy Supporting Actress (Ayo Edibri), and Best Comedy Writing and Directing (both Christopher Storer). Thirteen categories saw nominations for the FX series.

With his Emmy for Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for The Bear, Jeremy Allen White
With his Emmy for Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for The Bear, Jeremy Allen White

Beef, the highly anticipated Netflix road rage dark comedy, delivered on its promise as well, taking home five awards, including Best Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Ali Wong and Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Steven Yeun.

With her award for Best Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Film for Beef, Ali Wong

HOORAY FOR VARIATION

At the 2024 Emmy Awards, Niecy Nash-Betts, Ayo Edebiri, Quinta Brunson, and other notable figures delivered stirring remarks. The evening saw unprecedented victories for individuals of color. Accepting her trophy "on behalf of every Black and brown woman who has gone unheard yet overpoliced," Nash, who won Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series for her role as Glenda Cleveland in Netflix's Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, undoubtedly gave one of the best speeches in Emmy history. "I want to thank myself — for believing in me and doing what they said I could not do," she said, expressing gratitude to herself. And I want to tell myself, "Go on, girl, with your bad self," in front of all these gorgeous people. That's what you did.

Niecy Nash-Betts

Not all of them were like Nash. Quinta Brunson won an Emmy for Lead Actress in a Comedy, becoming her the second Black woman to do so in over 30 years. The television icon Carol Burnett gave her the award for ABC's Abbott Elementary. With tears in her eyes, Brunson said that she was "so happy" to "live my dream and act out comedy." "I know I say that all the time, but I just love comedy so much that I'm thrilled to be able to get this," she said.

Quinta Brunson

With her award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance in The Bear, Ayo Edebiri became one of the many Black women who made history at the 75th Emmy Awards. The young actress thanked her parents, saying, "Thank you so much for loving me and letting me feel beautiful and Black and proud of all of that." Her victory and Brunson's went noted in history as the first-ever wins of Best Lead Actress and Supporting Actress in Comedy by Black women in Emmy history.

It was even more remarkable that the accomplishment happened on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The legendary "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King was a wonderful way to round off the evening.

RuPaul has a history of winning the Outstanding Reality-Competition Program Emmy. With a moving statement, he accepted his fifth trophy for RuPaul's Drag Race and said, "We are so honored to have this award." He said, "Hey, you guys are just so beautiful for honoring our show and recognizing all these queens." "Hundreds of gorgeous drag queens have been unleashed into the wild. We thank you on their behalf everybody. "Listen to a drag queen if she wants to read you a story at the library. Knowledge is power, and anyone who tries to deny you access to it is only trying to frighten you," RuPaul said. Between 2018 and 2021, the judge and executive producer had previously won the title four times in a row.

ELTON's EGOT

Elton John in Elton John Live: From Dodger Stadium with fond memories

After receiving an Emmy on Monday night for his Disney+ special Elton John Live: Farewell From Dodger Stadium, Elton John became the newest member of the exclusive EGOT club. With this, the 76-year-old great joins the ranks of celebrities like Jennifer Hudson, Mel Brooks, John great, Whoopi Goldberg, Audrey Hepburn, and more, and holds the unusual distinction of being an EGOT, the abbreviation for people who win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, or Tony.

RE-ENACTING MEMORY

The Ally McBeal cast celebrates their Emmys reunion with a dance.

Due to the Hollywood writers' and performers' strikes, the Emmy Awards were held in September instead of September as planned. As an homage, the historic year of the awards produced various throwback TV program reunions. Recreated versions of several well-known productions from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, the location of this year's Emmy Awards, were featured in this.

Calista Flockhart, Gil Bellows, Peter MacNicol, and Greg Germann, the stars of Ally McBeal, got back together. From the toilet set, the performers came out to dance to Barry White's You're the First, the Last, My Everything. Ellen Pompeo, James Pickens Jr., Chandra Wilson, Katherine Heigl, and Justin Chambers, along with other new and old cast members of Grey's Anatomy, convened at a temporary hospital room. Heigl remarked, "Yes, there have been some changes over the years, but the one thing that has remained a constant is the fanbase."

The Martin cast reunited on the show's recreated set, eliciting some of the loudest applause and shouts. Carl Anthony Payne II was perplexed as to why they were on their "visit." Payne exclaimed, "We're getting our Emmy tonight," prompting his fellow series alumni Martin Lawrence, Tisha Campbell, and Tichina Arnold to concede that the Fox comedy had never received an Emmy nomination in its five seasons.

Grey's Anatomy's ensemble, both past and present, increased the nostalgia factor.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the quick-witted comedy duo, presented the Emmy for Best Live Variety Special while sitting at a set that was modeled like Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update desk, where they used to co-host the NBC sketch show's mock news section. Fey made a joke on singer Rihanna's Super Bowl halftime performance when introducing the nominees, joking, "The concert was so good, it got us all pregnant!"

GO OFF, MOMMA!

Following presenter Jo Koy's terrible performance at the Golden Globes the previous week, Emmys host Anthony Anderson mostly maintained order. During his opening monologue, he played a medley of iconic TV theme music in his "living room" as an homage to series like Miami Vice, The Facts of Life, and Good Times. Travis Barker of Blink-182 made a surprise cameo on the drums.

Anderson (as well as the Emmy team) made the divisive decision to designate his mother Doris Bowman as "the Emmy's playoff momma." Stated differently, Bowman was the focal point of attention and would yell from her audience seat if a winner's speech ran longer than the allotted time. Even while that made many chuckle, talk show host John Oliver said he would stay until Bowman played him off when he won his trophy. Following his expressions of gratitude, he began by enumerating each player on Liverpool's soccer squad along with their position. After he had gone through three players, Bowman got up and interrupted him, saying, "Baby," in a dissatisfied tone. As directed, he hurriedly thanked Jesus and his family and left. On social media, a lot of fans, meanwhile, thought the gimmick was inconsiderate to the victors.

GOODBYE...

As the names of people who had died away in the previous year were read out during the "In Memoriam" portion, there was rarely a dry eye in the audience. Entertainer Charlie Puth delivered a poignant homage with his song See You Again. When the AV shifted to Matthew Perry, who passed away in October, it played a replayed rendition of the Friends theme song, I'll Be There for You.

Charlie Puth — Charlie Puth

PRIZE HONOURS

Best Comedy Series: FX's The Bear

Excellent Dramatic Series: HBO's Succession

Superb Limited or Anthology Series: Netflix's Beef

Best Reality-Competition Show: MTV's RuPaul's Drag Race

Excellent Talk Show: Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Outstanding HBO Scripted Variety Series: John Oliver's Last Week Tonight

Excellent Live Variety Special: Dodger Stadium Farewell with Elton John (Disney+)

Award for Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: The Bear (FX), Jeremy Allen White

Quinta Brunson from Abbott Elementary (ABC) wins an award for best lead actress in a comedy series.

Best Leading Actor in a Dramatic Series: Kieran Culkin, HBO's Succession

Top Lead Actress in a Dramatic Series: Sarah Snook, from HBO's Succession

Steven Yeun, "Beef" (Netflix): Best Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Film

Ali Wong, "Beef" (Netflix): Best Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Film

Best Comedy Series Supporting Actor: Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear (FX)

Ayo Edebiri, The Bear (FX): Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Outstanding Comedy Series Supporting Actor: Matthew Macfadyen, Succession (HBO)

Jennifer Coolidge, "The White Lotus" (HBO): Best Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series

Paul Walter Hauser, "Black Bird" (Apple TV+): Best Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Motion Picture

Niecy Nash-Betts, Dahmer, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Netflix): Best Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Film

Christopher Storer (FX) for "The Bear: "Review" — Best Comedy Series Directing

Remarkable Dramatic Series Directing: Succession: "Connor's Wedding" — Mark Mylod (HBO)

Best directing for a limited-run or anthology film or television show: Netflix feud: "Figures of Light" — Lee Sung Jin

Christopher Storer (FX) for "System," "The Bear: Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series"

Jesse Armstrong, "Connor's Wedding," Succession: "Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series" (HBO)

Excellent Writing for a Single-Item or Anthology Series or Motion Picture: Netflix original song "The Birds Don't Sing, They Screech in Pain" is a source of contention.

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