Special Correspondent Luc
The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony was held on the 15th. "Succession" swept 6 awards including Best Drama Series, Director, and Best Actor and Actor. In the comedy category, "Bear's Diner" also won almost all the best drama series and all acting awards. In the best limited series/miniseries/TV movie, the biggest winner was, without any surprise, "The Furious Life". The two Asian actors American actors Ali Huang and Steven Yeun received acting honors respectively. In addition, this year's Emmy Awards awarded the best talk show to "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah", the best competition program to "RuPaul's Drag Race", and the best variety show to "Last Week Tonight" , the best live program was legendary British singer Elton John's "Farewell Show at Dodger Stadium".
's biggest hit "Succession"
"After several months of postponement, the biggest event in television has finally started." The "Hollywood Reporter" commented, "The finalists are the outstanding talents from June 2022 to May 2023. program, and the final awards will also go to everyone.” From the perspective of award ownership, there are strong seed contestants in the three major categories of this year's Emmy Awards. After experiencing previous trends such as the Golden Globe Awards and Critics' Choice Awards, there is not much suspense about the final ownership, and there is not even a dark horse.
"Succession" is the biggest favorite at this year's Emmy Awards. It led the way with 27 nominations before the awards were awarded, and finally won the best drama series, best director, best screenwriter, best actor, and best actress. It won 6 awards for Best Supporting Actor and 6 awards, with only one for Best Supporting Actress missing. Best Supporting Actress went to Jennifer Coolidge for "White Lotus Resort." The fourth season of "Succession" is the final season of the series, and it can be regarded as a successful ending by winning the Emmy Award again this year.
"Succession" produced by HBO has been well received since its launch in 2018. The plot revolves around the international media giant Roy family and tells the story of how his children grasped the opportunity when the old father Logan is about to retire. The opportunity to inherit a media empire, the plot combines the business wars and grudges of wealthy families in the new media era, and is full of various intrigues. Although this is a fictional series, it is generally believed to be an allusion to international media tycoons Rupert Murdoch or Redstone. In the final season, when the media empire is about to be sold, members of the Roy family are also falling into division and anxiety in the turmoil. The finale is very emotional.
Asian themes have been extended to the television field.
In the comedy awards, "Bear's Restaurant" won 6 awards for Best Drama Series, Director, Screenwriter, Best Actor, Leading Actress and Supporting Actress, only Best Actress. Separated from Quinta Brunson in Elementary School. The play tells the story of Kami, a young chef who once worked in the fine dining world and returns to Chicago to run his family's sandwich shop. Jeremy White's performance in the film is impressive, and the trio he partners with Ebon Moss-Bachragh and Ayo Adweli have won many awards during the recent awards season, and also Let this comedy with a small format gain more audience love.
Also in the limited series category, "A Life of Anger", which features an Asian creator and also shows the life of Asian Americans, won the award without any pressure. Talk show star Huang Ali, who plays a middle-class woman in the film, became the first to win an Emmy Award. An Asian woman with the title of Leading Actress. In addition to the two leading actors who "sparked" in the play, Li Chengzhen, as a director and screenwriter, also received Emmy Award recognition. Through this unique work, he showed ethnic minorities, especially Asians, to mainstream American culture. The cultural alienation and psychological anxiety behind the lives of Asian Americans can be said to be the extension of Asian themes in the television field after "The Universe" won the Oscar last year. It is expected to inspire Hollywood to continue to create similar works and once again increase the attention of the Asian community. .
"The Hollywood Reporter" commented, "Is this Emmy Award the spiritual inheritance of Martin Luther King, or a sign of the times? Among the 12 acting awards, a total of 5 actors of color received honors, tying the A record set in 1991. The African-American actresses in "The Bear's Diner" won the Best Actress and Supporting Actress in a Comedy categories, and the Asians in "The Big Brother" were also much more eye-catching than in 1991.However, compared with African Americans and Asians, Latinos, the largest minority in the U.S. population, performed bleakly at this Emmy Awards."
"Better Call Saul" sets a "tragic record"
Emmy The awards were held in September in previous years. However, due to a strike by Hollywood screenwriters and actors last year, this year's Emmy Awards were postponed to early January, behind the Golden Globe Awards, which also made the award less suspenseful. Some people are happy about this Emmy Awards Some people are worried that "Football Coach", which received 21 nominations, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" which received 14 nominations, and "Better Call Saul" which has "successfully failed" all returned with regret.
As "Breaking Bad" "Better Call Saul", the prequel, has received a total of 53 nominations since its launch in 2015, but has never won an award, which can be regarded as a "tragic record" in the history of the Emmy Awards. ▲
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