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Bryan Cranston accepts the award for outstanding
lead actor in a drama series for “Breaking Bad’ at the 66th Emmy Awards at the
Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Monday, Aug. 25, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Credit: AP /
Vince Bucci)
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"Breaking Bad" emphatically sealed its claim
as one of the best series in TV history by winning its second consecutive Emmy
for outstanding drama series at Monday night's 66th annual Primetime Emmy
Awards, Newsday reports.
The AMC series also won for outstanding lead actor
(Bryan Cranston), supporting actress (Anna Gunn), supporting actor (Aaron Paul)
and writer (Moira Walley-Beckett).
Cranston won his fourth Emmy for a drama, which
amounted to one of the biggest surprises of the night.
"Oh wow," he said. "Even I voted for
Matthew [McConaughey]," who was widely considered a lock for this award.
"Modern Family" also made a pitch for Emmy
history by winning its fifth straight Emmy for best comedy. Only
"Frasier" — which won from 1994 to 1998 — has had a five-win streak. Next year's Emmys will be interesting
indeed.
Meanwhile, Julianna Margulies won her second best
actress in a drama for "The Good Wife" -- her first was in 2011. With
that victory she denied Kerry Washington a huge symbolic victory as the first
African-American actress to have won best actress in a drama.
Highlights
included:
MEYERS' OPEN. "Late Night's" Seth Meyers,
host of the show, had a potentially thankless job as host of the first Emmys
telecast on a Monday since 1976. His solution? The obvious one, of course. Make
fun of TV and Monday: "People don't remember the 1976 Emmys because they
were held on a Monday," while noting that all of the dramas selected for
an Emmy that year were cop shows. He also got off a good one concerning the
poor odds for survival for actors on "Game of Thrones": "If
you're an actor on 'Game of Thrones,' I imagine you wait for next week's script
the way most people wait for biopsy results." Voters "were voting for
best hat." Excellent open for Meyers.
COMEDY KING AND QUEEN. Jim Parsons and Julia
Louis-Dreyfus, a pair of the most honored actors in Emmy history, made another
big splash, winning respective outstanding lead actor and actress in a comedy,
but their winning style was notable to the point of remarkable. "Big Bang
Theory" star Parsons — who won his fourth Emmy, tying Michael J. Fox and
Kelsey Grammer for the most in history — thanked his late father, Mickey
Parsons. "Veep" star Louis-Dreyfus, who got her third win in a row,
got (and accepted) a long, languorous kiss from "Breaking Bad's"
Cranston. (She also won for "Seinfeld" and "The New Adventures
of Old Christine.")
DYNAMIC DUO. Woody Harrelson and McConaughey,
co-nominees as best actor for a drama in HBO's "True Detective,"
announced the winner for outstanding lead actor in a miniseries (Benedict
Cumberbatch of PBS' "Sherlock: His Last Vow"). But first, the jokes:
McConaughey said the little bit of advice, or "worldly Woody wisdom,"
he got from his co-star: " . . . just forget about it." (That was a
common refrain of Harrelson's character in the series.) Harrelson, in a cutting
and funny reference to online charges that "Detective" scribe Nic
Pizzolatto may have lifted lines from author Thomas Ligotti (denied by all
parties): "I'm grateful you had all of the plagiarized lines."
WEIRD,
WACKY STUFF. Weird Al Yankovic at the Emmys? Why not? In a musical number that
seemed to indicate the 66th annual Emmys were tilting toward either a drinking
game — or a smoking one — Al sang a medley of best drama title songs that
turned them (and their respective shows) into a Weird Al-alt universe of
strangeness and chemically altered misfires. (And who says the Emmys aren't up
to date?)
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