Emmys 2019 announced their winners on the 22nd of September and there were a lot of suprises. Fleabag and Game of Thrones were the biggest winners!
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the Emmys 2019!
- The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in U.S. prime time television programming from June 1, 2018 until May 31, 2019
- As chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
- The ceremony was held on September 22, 2019
- It was held at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California
- It was broadcast in the U.S. by Fox
- It was preceded by the 71st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
- They were handed on September 14 and 15
- The show did not have a host for the fourth time in its history
- Following the telecasts in 2003 (when the awards show also aired on Fox), 1998 (on NBC), and 1975 (on CBS)
- The nominations were announced by D’Arcy Carden and Ken Jeong on July 16, 2019
- Game of Thrones led the nominations with fourteen
- Including nine for acting and three for directing
- Followed by When They See Us with eleven
- And Barry with nine
- Including its nominations at the Creative Arts Awards, Game of Thrones established a new record for most Emmy nominations received in the same year by any comedy or drama series
- It had 32
- Pop TV received its first Primetime Emmy nominations with Schitt’s Creek
- Fleabag won the most awards with four
- And Chernobyl won three awards
- On April 9, 2019, it was announced that American Horror Story: Apocalypse, the eighth season of the horror anthology series American Horror Story, and the second season of The Sinner would be ineligible for the Limited Series categories
- Unlike their previous seasons
- And instead be moved to Drama due to “continuing story threads, characters and actors reprising those same character roles from previous seasons”
- Therefore making the series less fit for an anthology format
- For similar reasons, the second season of American Vandal was moved from Limited Series to Comedy
- HBO had 34 wins across all TV series and shows
- Netflix had 27 wins
- Amazon had 15 wins
- The program with the most wins was Game of Thrones with 12
- Fleabag had the most wins of the night with four wins
- Chernobyl was the second show with the most wins, 10
