The ceremony, held at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater, will also see Hollywood names including Andrew Garfield (FX’s “Under the Banner of Heaven”), Elle Fanning (Hulu’s “The Great”) and Oscar Isaac (HBO’s “Scenes From a Marriage”) gunning for their first prizes. Here’s the play by play for TV’s biggest night:
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” once again won the award for best variety sketch series, which the show’s creator Lorne Michaels accepted alongside a tearful Thompson and Kate McKinnon, who recently left the series. Michaels acknowledged the challenges of putting on the show given the pandemic, but paid tribute to the cast and crew’s resilience. “There’s something in the DNA of the show,” Michaels said. “When it’s 11:30 at on Saturday night, we show up.”
Brett Goldstein took home his second Emmy for best supporting actor in a comedy for “Ted Lasso.” Accepting the award, the British actor recalled the “hardest part of being in ‘Ted Lasso'”: “trying not to ruin the take” because he’s too busy staring at his co-stars, “being like, ‘God, you’re good.’ ” He also got bleeped out by Emmy censors while thanking his family, after jokingly promising not to curse like he did last year.
