The Canadian sitcom Schitt’s Creek won nine gold statuettes, including the award for best comedy series. The American television academy chose Succession, the best drama series, whose creator Jesse Armstrong took the opportunity to criticize US President Donald Trump for “miserably” managing the covid-19 epidemic in the United States.
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“No one will go home defeated because everyone is home,” his American presenter Jimmy Kimmel joked at the start of the gala evening. On camera, he also assured the audience that no one really was in the audience. “Of course we don’t have an audience. This is not a MAGA election meeting, it is an Emmy, “said Kimmel, referring to Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) election campaign.
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Some of the winners and the moderator also called on Americans to go to the polls. During the transmission, there were also references to the covidu-19 pandemic, in which the USA is the most affected country. For example, American actor Jason Sudeikis underwent a test for a coronavirus during the announcement of the results of the comedy series, which a nurse did on stage in a protective suit with a veil and a gloved nurse with a swab from his nose.
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Herec Jason Sudeikis
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Some recent laureates also recalled the reasons for this year’s protests against police violence and racial inequality in the USA. For example, American black actress Regina King, who received an Emmy for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Miniseries for the series Watchmen, and Uzo Aduba, awarded in a supporting role for the miniseries Mrs. America, paid tribute to black nurse Breonna Taylor. She was shot dead by police in March during a controversial attack on her apartment.
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Uzo Adubaová
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This year, the Emmy Awards were taken over virtually and their winners thanked them over the internet from the couches and armchairs of their apartments, but the creators of the Schitt’s Creek sitcom watched the awards together in veils in a lounge in Toronto. According to the AP, the ceremony took place in 130 places in ten countries.
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Regina King from the Rangers series
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Only a few celebrities appeared on the stage in the hall in Los Angeles, from where the ceremony was broadcast live, announcing the winners. Actress Jennifer Aniston was the first to do so, virtually presenting the Best Actress award in the Catherine O’Hara comedy series. For the sitcom about a bankrupt wealthy family forced to move to the remote town of Schitt’s Creek, its creators, father and son Eugene and Daniel Levy, also received an award for their leading and supporting male roles.
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The Emmy Awards for Creative Arts were presented last week. The Czech sound engineer Juraj Mravec was also nominated in the category of the best sound editor for a series or comedy in feature television, as a member of the sound team of another series of the biographical series The Crown. However, the award in this category was eventually won by the team of sound engineers of the mysterious series Stranger Things.
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