Emmys 2017:
Best Drama Series
The Handmaid’s Tale
** author Margaret Atwood joined the cast onstage. She was recently at the Toronto Film Festival for the premiere and press conference for another adaptation of one of her books, “Alias Grace” .
BEST COMEDY SERIES
Veep
LIMITED SERIES
Big Little Lies
TV MOVIE
Black Mirror: San Junipero
The episode’s stars Mackenzie Davis and Gugu Mbatha Raw
LEAD ACTOR, DRAMA
Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us
*Sterling’s speech was cut off and he gamely stood on stage as if by merely standing there they would stop playing him off, but it didn’t work. But in the press room he was given a chance to complete his speech where he thanked the show’s creator Dan Fogelman in length and his wife/costar Ryan Michelle Bathe and their kids.
With Sterling’s “This is Us” when, that show was the only network show this year to win at the Emmys. Everything else was cable or streaming platforms.
This is Them
LEAD ACTOR, COMEDY
Donald Glover, Atlanta
LEAD ACTRESS, DRAMA
Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale
Elisabeth Moss in Prubal Gurang
**Moss is a Scientologist; something former MSNBC host and son of Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra Woody Allen Ronan Farrow wants people to forget.
LEAD ACTRESS, COMEDY
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
LEAD ACTOR, TV MOVIE/LIMITED SERIES
Riz Ahmed, The Night Of
*”The Night Of” was based on the UK’s “Criminal Justice”. Ben Whishaw was nominated for the role Ahmed played.
And while it was a historic night for Donald Glover being the first African American to win for Directing a Comedy and Lena Waithe for being the first African American to win for Writing, Riz Ahmed was he first Asian to win an in acting category.
LEAD ACTRESS, TV MOVIE/LIMITED SERIES
Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies
*In Kidman’s speech she thanked her two children with Keith Urban which left people online feeling a kinda way. Yes, she has two children with Tom Cruise but what can she do when they’ve exiled her from their life? It’s not biological kids vs. adopted kids situation it’s a ‘my kids view me as a suppressive because of their sci-fi religion” situation.
SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA
John Lithgow, The Crown
SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY
Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live
with wife Hilaria
SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA
Ann Dowd, The Handmaid’s Tale
SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY
Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live
SUPPORTING ACTOR, TV MOVIE/LIMITED SERIES
Alexander Skarsgard, Big Little Lies
SUPPORTING ACTRESS, TV MOVIE/LIMITED SERIES
Laura Dern, Big Little Lies
*Dern thanked her children (with musician Ben Harper) Ellery and Jayna.
VARIETY TALK SERIES
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
VARIETY SKETCH SERIES
Saturday Night Live
*Mind you NONE of the cast members pictured here are responsible for the good season SNL has had.
REALITY COMPETITION SERIES
The Voice
Directing for a comedy series
Donald Glover, Atlanta
*Donald and brother Stephen who is also a writer on “Atlanta”.
Directing for a drama series
Reed Morano, The Handmaid’s Tale
Directing for a limited series, movie or dramatic special
Jean-Marc Vallee, Big Little Lies
Directing for a variety series
Don Roy King, Saturday Night Live
WRITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
Bruce Miller, The Handmaid’s Tale
WRITING FOR A COMEDY SERIES
Aziz Ansari, Lena Waithe, Master of None
Writing for a limited series, movie or dramatic special
Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror: San Junipero
Writing for a variety series
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Yvonne Strahovski in Julien Macdonald
Priyanka Chopra
Sofia Vergara in Mark Zunino
*Sofia brought her son Manolo Gonzalez Vergara to the ceremony. Manolo is an actor and great at social media.
Sarah Hyland
Mandy Moore
*I don’t like the contrasting color. It would have worked as all black. The white is too distracting.
Judith Light in a leg off with Ariel Winter
Ariel Winter
Felicity Huffman in Tony Ward
Jenifer Lewis
Rita Moreno and her “One Day at a Time” costar Justine Machado
Rachel Bloom in Gucci
*Does she not have mirrors where she lives? This doesn’t even fit.
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Millie Bobby Brown in Calvin Klein
Edie Falco
Carrie Coon in Delpozo
*Hate the haircut. At the very least she could’ve done an updo with it to go with the dress.
Samantha Bee
Anika Noni Rose
Anna Chlumsky in Sachin & Babi
Julianne Hough in Marchesa
*It looks like she got into a bird fight.
Jane Fonda in Brandon Maxwell
*So cute, so youthful. I love it.
Dreams do come true: A “9 to 5” reunion
Carrie Bronstein
*The side zipper already makes me love this dress.
Angela Sarafyan (Westworld)
Ellie Kemper in Jenny Packham
*While I’m against short dresses at award shows, I would have preferred that over the misguided sheer hem overlay.
Leslie Jones in Cristian Sirano
*Leslie recently celebrated her 50th birthday making her the oldest castmember on SNL.
Eff it up, birthday girl!
Click to viewKerri Russell and Matthew Rhys
Samira Wiley and wife Laura Morelli
Laura is a lucky woman. Samira is gorgeous
Debra Messing
*Looking one of “Dexter”s bloodied killclothes.
Yara Shahidi
Yvette Nicole Brown
*She always looks so pretty.
Viola Davis in Zac Posen
Chrissy Metz
Justin Hartley
*YES, SMALLVILLE’S OLIVER QUEEN IS AT THE EMMYS!!!!! And not the Daytime Emmys, the real one!
Susan Keletchi Watson
Claire Foy in Oscar dela Renta
*Surprising to me is that Foy has been cast as Lisabeth Salander in the sequel to “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, a role played by Noomi Rapace and Rooney Mara.
Vanessa Bayer (Saturday Night Live)
Tessa Thompson
*How many episodes of “Westworld” was she even in to get an invite?
Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade
* A double knockout! They both look sensational.
Tracee Ellis Ross in Chanel
*Her mother is Diana Ross. You would think she would have a better sense of style.
Sarah Paulson in Caroline Herrera
**Paulson is remaining in the Ryan Murphy business. She is currently in “American Horror Story: Cult” and she will star in Murphy’s “Nurse Rachid” orgins story series.
Uzo Aduba in Sally LaPointe
Tatiana Maslany and beau Tom Cullen
Heidi Klum
*She looks like one of Charles Manson’s followers. But it’s fine, it’s Heidi.
Tracey Ullman
Gina Rodriguez
Laverne Cox in Naeem Khan
Now her after-Emmy party dress is hot!
Gillian Anderson
*The only misstep is her hair.
Thandie Newton in Jason Wu
Evan Rachel Wood in Moschino
*Evan and her fiancé/ bandmate recently split as her ex-husband Jaime Bell wed the less weird Mara sister, Kate during the summer.
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Emmy Rossum
Amanda Crew
Reese Witherspoon in Stella McCartney
*Complete departure for an awards ceremony but it works. I love cobalt blue, as well.
While Reese is having a deserved moment, her ex Ryan Phillippe is being a thot on Instagram.
**Ryan busted up his leg which caused a shortened season for his series “Shooter”.
Susan Sarandon in Zac Posen, Jessica Lange in Gucci
B.D Wong
Kiernan Shipka in Miu Miu
Chris Sullivan (This is Us)
*At the DGA S1 “This is Us” Finale one of the mods commented on his flair for fashion and he said it’s because he doesn’t have a publicist. Nah, I think he really likes showboating…and it’s great!
Allison Janney
Kathryn Hahn
*I love her bedhead but not this shapeless sack of a dress.
Angela Bassett killing the game!
Lea Michele
*I absolutely love this plum dress. If only the waist wasn’t cinched.
Jackie Hoffman
*Hoffman, up for best supporting in FEUD lost and began jokingly tweeting disparaging remarks about the winners but because tone is hard to convey online people thought she was serious and being a sore loser.
Regina King
Jessica Biel
Rashida Jones
Zoe Kravitz
She needs to examine why she always dates creepy and/or weirdo men
Jane Krakowski
Michelle Pfeiffer
Issa Rae
Robin Wright (with daughter, Dylan Penn)
Pamela Adlon
Miss Cicely Tyson
*Gorgeous color and design. And if she stumbled a bit in her introduction it’s okay-she’s 92 years old.
Shailene Woodley
Tituss Burgess
Jimmi Simpson
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Hilarie Burton
*The couple are expecting their second child.
O.T Fagbenle (The Handmaid’s Tale)
Matt Bomer
*Matt is back on the unemployment line. His very recent Amazon series “The Last Tycoon” was not picked up for a second season. It is just the latest cancellation by Amazon joining the other F. Scott Fitzgerald centered series “Zelda” starring Christina Ricci.
David Harbour
**An image of Harbour as Hellboy for the upcoming reboot hit the interwebs.
The production was tangled up in controversy when Ed Skrein (Deadpool, Game of Thrones) was hired to play a character that is of Asian descent in the comics. With a few weeks Skrein announced he was leaving the role due to the belief it should be cast appropriately. Daniel Dae Kim late of “Hawaii Five 0” is replacing him.
Joel Kinnaman and wife Chloe
Joel chilling with fellow Swede Alexander Skarsgard
Liev Schreiber with son Kai
*Since his split with Naomi Watts, Liev has been taking his sons to awards shows. The last one he took eldest son Sasha.
Brian Tyree Henry
Zach Galifinakis
*Really keeping that weight off.
**Let’s see if Jonah Hill can do the same.
Billy Eichner
*Is the reason I don’t see Chris Isaaks anywhere anymore is that Billy Eichner took over his body?
The male cast of “Stranger Things
Shannon Purser (Stranger Things)
Deon Cole (black-ish)
