‘Succession’ and ‘The Bear’ dominate Emmy awards
- Last updated: January 17, 2024 | 13:44
“Succession” secured its legacy with its third best drama series award, “The Bear” feasted as the night’s top comedy, and the two shows about squabbling families dominated the acting awards at Monday night’s Emmys.
Quinta Brunson of “Abbott Elementary” and Steven Yeun and Ali Wong of “Beef” also had historic wins at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards, in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day ceremony that was finally held four months late after a turbulent year of strikes in Hollywood.
“Succession,” the HBO saga of the dysfunctional generations of a maladjusted media empire, won the top prize for its fourth and final season. It also won best actress in a drama for Sarah Snook and best actor in a drama for Kieran Culkin.
“The Bear,” the FX dramedy about a contentious family and a struggling restaurant at the centre of the life of a talented chef, won best comedy series for its first season. It also made a meal of the comedy acting categories, with Jeremy Allen White winning best actor, Ayo Edebiri winning best supporting actress, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach taking best supporting actor.
All three were first-time nominees. Brunson won best actress in a comedy for the show she created, ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” becoming the first Black woman to win the award in more than 40 years and the first from a network show to win it in more than a decade.
“Succession” won six Emmys overall including best supporting actor in a drama for Matthew Macfadyen and best writing in a drama for show creator Jesse Armstrong. The only drama acting category it didn’t win was supporting actress, taken for the second time by Jennifer Coolidge of “The White Lotus.”
“The Bear” won in every category it was nominated for Monday night, and along with the four it had won previously at the Creative Arts EMMYs, took 10 overall, the most of any show.
“Beef” from Netflix won best limited series, while Yeun and Wong became the first Asian Americans to win in their categories - Yeun for best actor in a limited series and Wong for best actress. Creator Lee Sung won EMMYs for writing and directing. It had eight EMMYs overall after three wins at the Creative Arts EMMYs.
Brunson had won a writing Emmy for “Abbott Elementary,” her mockumentary about a predominantly Black and chronically underfunded grade school in Philadelphia, but this was her first for acting. Isabel Sanford of “The Jeffersons” was the only previous Black woman to win the category in 1981.
The show held on the King holiday saw three Black women win major awards: Brunson, Edebiri and Niecy Nash-Betts, who won best supporting actress in a limited series for “Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.” Snook took her first Emmy in three nominations for “Succession” for playing the family’s lone daughter Shiv Roy, and her show-husband Macfadyen won the second Emmy of his career for playing Tom Wambsgans, the son-in-law that began the HBO series as a hanger-on and ended it as the closest thing it had to a victor.
Associated Press
List of winners at the 75th Emmy Awards
BEST DRAMA SERIES‘Succession’
BEST COMEDY SERIES‘The Bear’
BEST LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE
‘Beef’
BEST COMEDY ACTOR
Jeremy Allen White, ‘The Bear’
BEST COMEDY ACTRESS
Quinta Brunson, ‘Abbott Elementary’
BEST DRAMA ACTOR
Kieran Culkin, ‘Succession’
BEST DRAMA ACTRESS
Sarah Snook, ‘Succession’
BEST ACTOR, BEST LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE
Steven Yeun, ‘Beef’
BEST ACTRESS, BEST LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE
Ali Wong, ‘Beef’
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA
Matthew Macfadyen, ‘Succession’
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA
Jennifer Coolidge, ‘The White Lotus’
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY
Ebon Moss-Bachrach, ‘The Bear’
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY
Ayo Edebiri, ‘The Bear’
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, LIMITED OR
ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE
Paul Walter Hauser, ‘Black Bird’
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, LIMITED OR
ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE
Niecy Nash-Betts, ‘Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’
BEST DIRECTING, DRAMA
Mark Mylod, ‘Succession’
BEST DIRECTING, COMEDY
Christopher Storer, ‘The Bear’
BEST DIRECTING, LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIELee Sung Jin, ‘Beef’
BEST WRITING, DRAMA SERIESJesse Armstrong, ‘Succession’
BEST WRITING, COMEDY
Christopher Storer, ‘The Bear’
BEST WRITING, LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIELee Sung Jin, ‘Beef’
BEST WRITING, VARIETY SERIES‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’
BEST TALK SERIES‘The Daily Show With Trevor Noah’
BEST SCRIPTED VARIETY SERIES‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’
BEST VARIETY SPECIAL (LIVE)‘Elton John Live: Farewell From Dodger Stadium’
BEST REALITY COMPETITION
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’
Reuters