| 67th Primetime Emmy Awards | |
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 Promotional poster | |
| Date |
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| Location | Microsoft Theater, Los Angeles, California |
| Presented by | Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |
| Hosted by | Andy Samberg |
| Highlights | |
| Most awards | Olive Kitteridge (6) |
| Most nominations | American Horror Story: Freak Show (8) |
| Outstanding Comedy Series | Veep |
| Outstanding Drama Series | Game of Thrones |
| Outstanding Limited Series | Olive Kitteridge |
| Outstanding Competition Program | The Voice |
| Outstanding Variety Talk Series | The Daily Show with Jon Stewart |
| Website | http://www.emmys.com/  |
| Television/radio coverage | |
| Network | Fox[1] |
| Produced by | Don Mischer |
| Directed by | Louis J. Horvitz |
The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in US prime time television programming from June 1, 2014 until May 31, 2015, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The ceremony was held on Sunday, September 20, 2015 at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California, and was broadcast in the U.S. by Fox.[1] Andy Samberg hosted the show for the first time.[2] The nominations were announced on July 16, 2015.[3][4]
The Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony was held on September 12 and was broadcast by FXX on September 19.[5]
The Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards ceremony was held on October 28, 2015 at the Loews Hollywood Hotel.
The ceremony became notable for breaking two major milestones: Game of Thrones set a new record by winning 12 awards, the most for any show in a single year, up to this date (it was also the second HBO show, after The Sopranos, to win the Outstanding Drama Series award), while Viola Davis became the first African-American woman in Emmy history to win Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance as Annalise Keating in How to Get Away with Murder.[6][7][8]
This year also saw for the first time, two Streaming service networks win four Acting awards: Netflix, with Uzo Aduba in Orange Is the New Black and Reg E. Cathey in House of Cards;[9] and Amazon Studios, with Jeffrey Tambor for Transparent and Bradley Whitford[10] for the same show.
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series went to the HBO political satire Veep, which not only broke Modern Family's five-year hold on the award[11] but became the second time a premium channel won Outstanding Comedy Series (the first was for HBO's romantic comedy Sex and the City in 2001).[12]
Rule changes
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced new rule changes for the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards. These new rules are:
- All voters eligible for a category's nominations are now eligible to vote in that category, providing that they have seen the submitted material and attest to no specific conflicts of interest.
- The number of nominees in the Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Comedy Series categories will expand from six nominees to seven, due to the increase in series production.
- To clarify the difference between a Comedy series and a Drama series, any show where episodes average a length of 30 minutes is eligible to enter as a comedy and series with episodes that average a length of 1 hour is eligible as a drama. There may be exceptions to the rules, however: producers may formally petition to a new Academy panel to have the show be considered for the alternative category. This panel, consisting of five industry leaders appointed by the Academy chairman and four appointees from the Board of Governors, will vote on a decision. A two-thirds vote was required for the show to be considered for the alternative category. So far, three petitions have been successful: Glee, Jane the Virgin, and Shameless were voted as eligible for "Outstanding Comedy Series".
- The Outstanding Miniseries was renamed as "Outstanding Limited Series". A "Limited Series" is defined as a program consisting of two or more episodes totaling 150 minutes as a whole, tell a complete, non-recurring story, and do not have an ongoing storyline and/or main characters in subsequent seasons.
- A "Guest Actor" is now defined as a performer appearing in less than 50% of the program's episodes. Only performers that fit this criterion are allowed to submit.
- The Outstanding Variety Series category has been split into two separate categories: "Outstanding Variety Talk" and "Outstanding Variety Sketch".
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).[13][14][15][16][a] For simplicity, producers who received nominations for program awards, as well as nominated writers for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series, have been omitted.
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Programs
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Acting
Lead performances
Supporting performances
Directing
Writing
Most major nominations
| Network | No. of Nominations |
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| HBO | 37 |
| Comedy Central | 14 |
| ABC | 13 |
| FX | |
| Netflix | |
| AMC | 10 |
| PBS | 9 |
| Showtime | |
| CBS | 7 |
| NBC | |
| Fox | 6 |
| Amazon | 5 |
| Sundance TV | 4 |
| History | 2 |
| Program | Category | Network | No. of Nominations |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Horror Story: Freak Show | Limited | FX | 8 |
| Game of Thrones | Drama | HBO | 7 |
| Olive Kitteridge | Limited | ||
| American Crime | ABC | 6 | |
| Mad Men | Drama | AMC | |
| Veep | Comedy | HBO | |
| Bessie | Movie | 5 | |
| Transparent | Comedy | Amazon | |
| Wolf Hall | Limited | PBS | |
| Better Call Saul | Drama | AMC | 4 |
| The Honorable Woman | Limited | Sundance TV | |
| House of Cards | Drama | Netflix | |
| Inside Amy Schumer | Variety Sketch | Comedy Central | |
| Louie | Comedy | FX | |
| The Colbert Report | Variety Talk | Comedy Central | 3 |
| The Daily Show with Jon Stewart | |||
| Downton Abbey | Drama | PBS | |
| Homeland | Showtime | ||
| Key & Peele | Variety Sketch | Comedy Central | |
| The Last Man on Earth | Comedy | Fox | |
| Modern Family | ABC | ||
| Silicon Valley | HBO | ||
| Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt | Netflix | ||
| Bloodline | Drama | 2 | |
| Episodes | Comedy | Showtime | |
| The Good Wife | Drama | CBS | |
| Houdini | Limited | History | |
| Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | Variety Talk | HBO | |
| Late Show with David Letterman | CBS | ||
| Orange Is the New Black | Drama | Netflix | |
| Parks and Recreation | Comedy | NBC | |
| Saturday Night Live | Variety Sketch | ||
| The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Variety Talk |
Most major awards
| Network | No. of Awards |
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| HBO | 14 |
| Comedy Central | 4 |
| ABC | 2 |
| Amazon |
| Program | Category | Network | No. of Awards |
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| Olive Kitteridge | Limited | HBO | 6 |
| Game of Thrones | Drama | 4 | |
| Veep | Comedy | ||
| The Daily Show with Jon Stewart | Variety Talk | Comedy Central | 3 |
| Transparent | Comedy | Amazon | 2 |
- Notes
- ^ a b "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.
Presenters and performers
The awards were presented by the following:[17][18]
Presenters
Performers
| Name(s) | Performed |
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| Andy Samberg Will Forte | "I Watched Every Show!" |
| Eva Cassidy | "Over the Rainbow" |
In Memoriam
The In Memoriam segment featured the song "Over the Rainbow" by Eva Cassidy:[19]
- Mike Nichols
- Polly Bergen
- Jerry Weintraub
- B. B. King
- Wes Craven
- Gary Owens
- Clark Terry
- Anne Meara
- Taylor Negron
- Jack Rollins
- Martin Milner
- Bud Yorkin
- Stuart Scott
- Brandon Stoddard
- Merv Adelson
- Bob Simon
- Patrick Macnee
- Harris Wittels
- Glen A. Larson
- Stan Freberg
- James Best
- Jenna McMahon
- Harve Bennett
- Ed Sabol
- Ann Marcus
- Joan Rivers
- Ernest Kinoy
- Marty Pasetta
- Gilbert Lewis
- Albert Maysles
- Sam Simon
- Jack Carter
- Dick Van Patten
- Ian Fraser
- Jan Hooks
- Elizabeth Peña
- Howard Lipstone
- Frank Gifford
- Judy Carne
- Ray Charles
- Rod Taylor
- Donna Douglas
- Richard Dysart
- Joseph Sargent
- Edward Herrmann
- Jayne Meadows
- Alex Rocco
- Dean Jones
- Leonard Nimoy
Notes
- ^ The outlets listed for each program are the U.S. broadcasters or streaming services identified in the nominations, which for some international productions are different from the broadcaster(s) that originally commissioned the program.
References
- ^ a b c d "Emmys Returning to Sunday Night in 2015". Variety. February 4, 2015. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
- ^ Andreeva, Nellie (February 4, 2015). "Andy Samberg To Host 2015 Emmy Awards For Fox". Retrieved March 12, 2015.
- ^ "List: 2015 Primetime Emmy nominees". USA Today. July 16, 2015. Retrieved July 17, 2015.
- ^ "Game of Thrones set to dominate Emmys after netting 24 nominations". The Guardian. July 16, 2015. Retrieved July 17, 2015.
- ^ "67th Primetime Emmy Awards to Air Sept. 20 on FOX; Creative Arts Emmy Awards to Air on FXX". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. February 4, 2015. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
- ^ "Emmys 2015: winners and performances – as it happened". The Guardian. September 20, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
- ^ "Watch: Viola Davis makes history with Emmy win". USA Today. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
- ^ "Viola Davis made Emmys history and spoke truth to power in her speech". The Guardian. September 21, 2015. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
- ^ Cathey won the weekend earlier at the Creative Arts Emmys for guest performance
- ^ Whitford won the weekend earlier at the Creative Arts Emmys for guest performance
- ^ A. Lincoln, Ross (September 20, 2015). "Emmys: 'Veep' Wins Best Comedy Series, Ending 'Modern Family' Streak". Retrieved September 20, 2015.
- ^ "Emmys: Tim Goodman Breaks Down the Comedy Show Contenders". The Hollywood Reporter. June 13, 2013. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
- ^ "Emmy Awards 2015: The complete winners list". CNN. September 21, 2015. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
- ^ "Emmys 2015". The New York Times. September 21, 2015. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
- ^ "Emmy Awards 2015: Game of Thrones makes history". The Daily Telegraph. September 21, 2015. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
- ^ "Emmy Awards: The Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. September 20, 2015. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
- ^ "Final Presenters Announced for 67th Emmys". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. September 20, 2015. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
- ^ "Emmys: Viola Davis, Zachary Levi Among Final Group Of Presenters". Deadline Hollywood. September 18, 2015.
- ^ "67th Emmy Awards: In Memoriam". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. September 20, 2015. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
External links
- Emmys.com list of 2015 Nominees & Winners
- Academy of Television Arts and Sciences website
- 67th Primetime Emmy Awards at IMDb
