Succession and The Bear were the biggest winners at the 75th Emmy Awards in the US, scooping six awards each.
Succession, the drama about a media mogul and his dysfunctional family’s battle for power over his empire, took the prestigious best drama series awards, as well as gongs for writing and directing.
Meanwhile, actors from the show hoovered up the individual awards. Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin won best leading drama actress and actor for playing Shiv and Roman Roy respectively. Culkin beat fellow Succession stars Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong, who had also been nominated in the category. Matthew Macfadyen, who played Shiv’s husband, Tom, picked up a supporting actor award.
It showed that the drama, created and written by UK writer Jesse Armstrong, went out at the top, as it concluded last year after four immensely popular seasons. “The bar was set so high and that was what spurred us on,” said Snook during her acceptance speech.
Elsewhere, The Bear dominated the comedy categories. The show – about a chef who returns to his home town to run his family’s sandwich shop – won acting awards for its star Jeremy Allen White, as well as supporting actors Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.
In the limited series category, Netflix’s road rage drama Beef cleaned up, including its stars, Ali Wong and Steven Yeun, being named best actress and actor in a limited series respectively.
This edition of the Emmys should have taken place in September 2023, but was postponed because of the writers’ and actors’ strikes in Hollywood.
Given it was the 75th edition of the Emmys, which were presented by actor and comedian Anthony Anderson, there were several reunions of casts of big-winning shows of the past, including Cheers, the 80s comedy set in a Boston bar – which saw the first appearance of Frasier Crane – and mobster drama The Sopranos.
