The 66th Emmy Awards represented a win for traditional television. Popular crime drama Breaking Bad won a total of five awards at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards on August 25. The series won its second consecutive prize for outstanding drama series, and also won the best lead actor and best supporting actress and actor. The […]
The 66th Emmy Awards represented a win for traditional television.
Popular crime drama Breaking Bad won a total of five awards at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards on August 25. The series won its second consecutive prize for outstanding drama series, and also won the best lead actor and best supporting actress and actor. The AMC series concluded its final season this year. AMC has won six of the last seven Emmy Awards for best drama series, a first for any network.
Online streaming service Netflix won only one award for its prison comedy, Orange Is the New Black. In fact, many called it a new golden age for television as good old television dramas picked up the top honours.
The 2014 Emmys showed how the lines between television and film had been blurring, especially as Hollywood stars increasingly took on television projects.
The Emmy Award for best comedy series went to the ABC sitcom Modern Family. The series tied Frasier for a record five consecutive wins. Julianna Margulies won the award for best actress in a drama series for her role in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife.
Jim Parsons, of CBSs most-watched comedy series on television, The Big Bang Theory, won the award for lead actor in a comedy series. The award for lead actress in a comedy series went to Julia Louis-Dreyfus for her performance as a fictional vice president in HBOs Veep.
