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She shows ruled the 69th primetime Emmy Awards

Nicole Kidman won her first Emmy (Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie) for her role of Celeste Wright in HBO mini-series Big Little Lies. Kidman spoke passionately about how this award would help shine the light on issues of domestic violence.

TT Bureau Published 19.09.17, 12:00 AM
Nicole Kidman won her first Emmy (Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie) for her role of Celeste Wright in HBO mini-series Big Little Lies. Kidman spoke passionately about how this award would help shine the light on issues of domestic violence.
The cast and crew of Big Little Lies took home the Outstanding Limited Series award at the Microsoft Theater, Los Angeles, on Sunday night. Big Little Lies actress and executive producer Reese Witherspoon was all about woman power: “Bring women to the forefront of their own stories and make them the hero of their own stories.” The HBO mini-series picked up eight Emmys including Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for Laura Dern and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for Alexander Skarsgard.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus created a record with her sixth consecutive award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Veep, and her eighth Emmy in total.
Donald Glover’s win for Atlanta (Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series) is the first for a black man in that category since 1985, and his award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series also made him the first black man to win that category.
Sterling K. Brown picked up his second Emmy, this time for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Randall Pearson in This Is Us.
Speaking of Donald Trump, Alec Baldwin picked up the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (Saturday Night Live) award for his turn as Trump. “I suppose I should say at long last, Mr. President, here’s your Emmy,” is what Baldwin had to say.
Aziz Ansari and Lena Waithe picked up an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for Master of None. Waithe is the first black woman to win an Emmy in this category.
Riz Ahmed created history becoming the first man of Asian descent to win an acting award at the Emmys. Riz picked up the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series Or Movie award for his role as Nasir “Naz” Khan in The Night Of. “I want to say it is always strange reaping the rewards of a story based on real world suffering. But if this show has shone a light on some of the prejudice in our societies, xenophobia, some of the injustice in our justice system, then maybe that is something,” he said in his acceptance speech.
The other big winner of the night was Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel. Elizabeth Moss (right) picked up the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series award for her turn as the womb slave Offred. Ann Dowd won in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series category. The show also picked up Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series award for Reed Morano, the first woman in 22 years to win for directing a drama series, as well as Outstanding Drama Series.
Our very own Priyanka Chopra made us proud as she stepped up to the stage to co-present the Outstanding Variety Talk Series award, with Black-ish actor Anthony Anderson, to John Oliver. The announcer pronounced her name wrong, going ‘Choppa’ instead of Chopra, and while PeeCee took it in her stride, Twitterverse sure was not happy.
We adore PeeCee’s post-Emmy tweet too, where she gave a shout out to fellow Asian actors Aziz Ansari and Riz Ahmed: What a night it’s been at the #Emmys... #ShimmyShimmying in @balmain. Big props to @rizmc @azizansari #represent!

 

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