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Updated Live! PRIMETIME EMMYS 2016 Winners List!

Updated Live! PRIMETIME EMMYS 2016 Winners List!

Considering the percentage of any given year we spend watching television, we may as well let ourselves get invested in the small screen Superbowl that is the Primetime Emmys. At the dawn of every autumn, we look back on the bounty of home entertainment that has kept us enrapt over the past 12 months—the melancholy comedies, political intrigue-laden dramas, and Ryan Murphy-produced head trips that we’ve grown to love or simply hate-watch.

So now that we’ve all committed to watching the ceremony, what can we expect from the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards? Well, with dramas like Orphan Black and The Americans up for major awards, we can expect these series’ frenzied fan bases to get ever the more impassioned about a possible win as the night carries on. With comedies like Silicon Valley, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Black-ish up for their own prizes, we can expect a bevy of quotable speeches and GIF-worthy crowd moments. With Jimmy Kimmel hosting, we can expect his usual brand of deadpan pop culture snark, likely at the expense of Matt Damon. (Matt Damon’s probably got some reason to be at the Emmys, right?) All in all, our addictive personalities are sure to be satisfied by our most decadent vice, with every television show we know and love honored—or, hey, at least mercilessly mocked!—in one fell swoop.

And of course, we here at Nerdist will be live tweeting the whole thing. So hop over to Twitter to hear our take on the moment-to-moment of tonight’s Primetime Emmys, and check below for our live-updated winners list.

 

DIRECTING FOR A DRAMA

Downton Abbey, “Episode 9”
Winner: Game of Thrones, “Battle of the Bastards”
Game of Thrones, “The Door”
Homeland, “The Tradition of Hospitality”
The Knick, “This Is All We Are”
Ray Donovan, “Exsuscito”

SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA

Emilia Clarke, Game of Thrones
Lena Headey, Game of Thrones
Winner: Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Maura Tierney, The Affair
Maisie Williams, Game of Thrones
Constance Zimmer, UnReal

WRITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES

The Americans, “Persona Non Grata”
Downton Abbey, “Episode 8”
Winner: Game of Thrones, “Battle of the Bastards”
The Good Wife, “End”
Mr. Robot, “eps1.0_hellofriend.mov”
UnReal, “Return”

VARIETY SKETCH SERIES

Documentary Now
Drunk History
Inside Amy Schumer
Winner: Key & Peele
Portlandia
Saturday Night Live

DIRECTING FOR A VARIETY SPECIAL

58th Grammy Awards
Lemonade
Winner: Grease: Live!
Adele Live in New York City
Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo
The Kennedy Center Honors

VARIETY TALK SERIES

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Winner: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Real Time with Bill Maher
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

WRITING FOR A VARIETY SPECIAL

Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo
John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid
Winner: Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping
Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted
Triumph’s Election Special 2016

LIMITED SERIES

American Crime
Fargo
The Night Manager
Winner: The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Roots

TV MOVIE

A Very Murray Christmas
All the Way
Confirmation
Luther
Winner: Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

LEAD ACTOR, TV MOVIE/LIMITED SERIES

Bryan Cranston, All the Way
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Idris Elba, Luther
Cuba Gooding Jr., The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Tom Hiddleston, The Night Manager
Winner: Courtney B. Vance, *The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story*

LEAD ACTRESS, TV MOVIE/LIMITED SERIES

Kirsten Dunst, Fargo
Felicity Huffman, American Crime
Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
Lili Taylor, American Crime
Winner: Sarah Paulson, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Kerry Washington, Confirmation

SUPPORTING ACTOR, TV MOVIE/LIMITED SERIES

Winner: Sterling K. Brown, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Hugh Laurie, The Night Manager
Jesse Plemons, Fargo
David Schwimmer, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
John Travolta, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Bokeem Woodbine, Fargo

DIRECTING FOR A TV MOVIE/LIMITED SERIES

All the Way
Fargo, “Before the Law”
Winner: The Night Manager
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, “Manna From Heaven”
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, “From The Ashes of Tragedy”
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, “The Race Card”

SUPPORTING ACTRESS, TV MOVIE/LIMITED SERIES

Kathy Bates, American Horror Story: Hotel
Olivia Colman, The Night Manager
Winner: Regina King, American Crime
Melissa Leo, All the Way
Sarah Paulson, American Horror Story: Hotel
Jean Smart, Fargo

WRITING FOR A TV MOVIE/LIMITED SERIES

Fargo, “Loplop”
Fargo, “Palindrome”
The Night Manager
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, “From the Ashes of Tragedy”
Winner: The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia”
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, “The Race Card”

REALITY COMPETITION PROGRAM

The Amazing Race
American Ninja Warrior
Dancing with the Stars
Project Runway
Top Chef
Winner: The Voice

LEAD ACTOR, COMEDY

Anthony Anderson, Black-ish
Aziz Ansari, Master of None
Will Forte, The Last Man on Earth
William H. Macy, Shameless
Thomas Middleditch, Silicon Valley
Winner: Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent

LEAD ACTRESS, COMEDY

Ellie Kemper, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Winner: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Laurie Metcalf, Getting On
Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish
Amy Schumer, Inside Amy Schumer
Lily Tomlin, Grace and Frankie

DIRECTING FOR A COMEDY

Master of None, “Parents”
Silicon Valley, “Daily Active Users”
Silicon Valley, “Founder Friendly”
Winner: Transparent, “Man on the Land”
Veep, “Kissing Your Sister”
Veep, “Morning After”
Veep, “Mother”

SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY

Anna Chlumsky, Veep
Gaby Hoffmann, Transparent
Allison Janney, Mom
Judith Light, Transparent
Winner: Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live
Niecy Nash, Getting On

WRITING FOR A COMEDY SERIES

Catastrophe, “Episode 1”
Winner: Master of None, “Parents”
Silicon Valley, “Founder Friendly”
Silicon Valley, “The Uptick”
Veep, “Morning After”
Veep, “Mother”

SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY

Winner: Louie Anderson, Baskets
Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Tony Hale, Veep
Keegan-Michael Key, Key and Peele
Matt Walsh, Veep

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