Emmy Awards 2024 has been finally announced in downtown Los Angeles. It can be seen that Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin and Matthew Macfadyen all took home acting prizes for Succession, while the show also won the best drama series overall. The maker of Succession Jesse Armstrong said it was “a great sadness to end the show, but it was a great pleasure to do it”.
Also at the ceremony, Sir Elton John won his first Emmy Award thereby, joining the exclusive club of performers who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award. However, Sir Elton could not pick up the honour after having a knee operation. He wrote on Instagram that he was “on cloud nine” after the win.
Emmy Awards 2024 – Who are the winners?
Other winners on the night included The White Lotus and Abbott Elementary. Elsewhere, The Bear – a comedy-drama series about a chef who returns home to run his family’s sandwich shop – won three acting prizes, for its star Jeremy Allen White, and supporting actors Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.
Succession and The Bear won six prizes each in the drama and comedy categories at Emmy Awards 2024 respectively, while Netflix’s road rage-inspired series Beef dominated the limited series categories. Ali Wong and Steven Yeun, the show’s two stars, were named best actress and actor for the Beef series respectively.
Several winners of Emmy Awards 2024- including Snook, Culkin, Edebiri, White, Yeun and Wong – picked up their prizes just a week after winning equivalent trophies at the Golden Globes. Meanwhile, Quinta Brunson won the prize for best leading comedy actress for her role in the school-based series Abbott Elementary.
Jennifer Coolidge was named best supporting drama actress for her role in privilege satire The White Lotus.
Niecy Nash-Betts won best supporting actress in a limited series for Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
RuPaul’s Drag Race scored the prize for best reality competition programme. The ceremony also saw Charlie Puth perform the theme tune to Friends as the Emmy Awards remembered those who have died in the industry, including Matthew Perry.
As the ceremony was the 75th Emmys, several famous TV casts reunited on stage – including stars from The Sopranos, Cheers, and All in the Family.
