The Emmys are back! With the red carpet hotter than ever before! The award show began in spectacular fashion as always by the red carpet event. Stars from all across the States and Britain were interviewed by E!News presenter Giuliana Rancic and Ryan Seacrest. What you wear on the red carpet is almost more than important than the award ceremony itself! E! Daily Ten presenter Catt Sadler said ‘Showing up on a best or worst dress list in this town somehow manages to have a more lasting impact than a statue!’Styles that were particularly prominent these years were metallics, and bright bold colours were very popular as seen on Brooke Shields in her fuchsia Badgley Mischka dress, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’s Mariska Hargitay. Black was surprisingly popular this year with Kate Walsh, America Ferrera, and Debra Messing all arriving in black dresses. The Emmys are the first award show of the season so there is even more importance within the fashion stakes as anything celebrities wear can be remembered and talked about for a long time. First presenters were Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, fresh from there work on the SNL spoof of Sarah Palin & Hilary Clinton, the pair looked glamorous as they presented the first award for ‘Outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series’.
It was all a far cry from the first show back in 1949, where the first award was given to Shirley Dinsdale for the Most Outstanding Television Personality.
1950 was the first national Emmy award show. Originally there was only one award show per year, this changed with the arrival of the Daytime Emmy, and the first daytime Emmy was given to The Doctors Best Show Daytime Emmy in 1972. Now that’s enough on the history! On to the red carpet – everyone’s’
favourite part!
The rest of last years award winners were:
Outstanding Drama Series –
Mad Men
Outstanding Comedy Series
30 Rock – Winner
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series –
Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series –
Glenn Close, Damages- Winner
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series –
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock - Winner
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series –
Tina Fey – 30 Rock
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie –
Paul Giamatti-John Adams
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series - Zeljko Ivanek, Damages
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series –
Dianne west – In Treatment
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series –
Jeremy Piven – Entourage
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series – Jean Smart – Samantha Who?
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie –
Tom Wilkinson – John Adams
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series –
Glynn Turman – In Treatment
Outstanding guest actress in a drama series –
Cynthia Nixon – Law and order : special victims unit
Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program –
Don Rickles, performer; Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Outstanding Reality-Competition Program –
The Amazing Race
Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program –
Jeff Probst – Survivor
Outstanding Miniseries
John Adams
Outstanding Made for Television Movie – Recount
Outstanding director for a variety, music, or comedy program
Louis.J.Horvitz
Outstanding writing for for a comedy variety or music show
Colbert Report
Oustanding directing for a miniseries movie or dramatic special
Jay Rooch – Recount
Outstanding writing for a miniseries , movie, or dramatic special
Kirk Ellis – John Adams
Outstanding writing for a drama series
Matthew Weiner – Mad Men – Smoke gets in your eyes
Surprisingly enough both Chandra Wilson and Sandra Oh missed out on ANOTHER Outstanding supporting actress in a drama series award for the third and fourth year running respectively. 30 Rock’s Tina Fey won three awards for Outstanding comedy series, Outstanding lead actress in a Comedy Series, and Outstanding writing for a Comedy Series. On top of her three wins, Fey also lost her purse! In a purple dress Fey accepted her awards, minus those famous glasses. This was rumoured to be because she wanted to distance herself from Sarah Palin for at least one night. The Hills start Lauren Conrad also made an appearance as a host, amid some criticism that she shouldn’t be giving out awards due to the fact she is not a ‘proper actress’
One of the highlights of the show was Veteran actor Don Rickles making an appearance with Kathy Griffin star of ‘My Life On The D-List’. Apparently Griffin was told not to go off script as she usually can be quite controversial, that was basically wasted as Rickles went off script for her. When Kathy Griffin asked people to stand up in honour of the legendary, Rickles then asked if it was a Jewish holiday. With the red carpet being so amazing, the overall show left a lot to be desired, as this was the 60th you would think that the organisers would have pulled out all the stops? But they didn’t hopefully next years will be more impressive!
E!’s presenter Catt Sadler commented ‘Overall, this year's 60th Anniversary of the Emmys lacked fire. It was rather boring. The ratings reflect that. TV shows in general suffered this past year because of the writer's strike and what have you... So the nominations and categories seemed somewhat lacklustre. Much respect to all of the nominees of course, but for the global viewing audience... I think it was a rather dull ceremony.’
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