RuPaul accepts the Emmy Award for “Best Reality Competition Series”
It was a great night for LGBT-themed entertainment last night at the 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards as RuPaul’s Drag Race and the FX series The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story took home top honors in their categories.
Making Emmy Award history, RuPaul’s Drag Race won for “Best Reality Competition Series” and RuPaul took home his own Emmy for “Best Host of a Reality Competition Series.” This is the first time one series has won both awards in the reality category in the same year.
Accepting the honor for the series, RuPaul thanked all those who have supported and contributed to the success of the show, as well as, “all of the dreamers out there.”
The ‘Supermodel of the World’ closed his thanks by reminding folks, “If you can’t love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else.”
In the “Best Limited Series” category, The Assassination of Gianni Versace garnered three Emmys last night, adding to the two won last week at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
In addition to the “Best Limited Series” trophy, Darren Criss, who turned in a star turn as gay serial killer Andrew Cunanan, won for “Best Actor in a Limited Series.”
And uber-gay creator and producer of the show, Ryan Murphy, won the award for Directing for the Gianni Versace episode, “The Man Who Would Be Vogue.”
In accepting the award for “Best Limited Series,” he dedicated the moment to the LGBTQ community.
Ryan Murphy dedicates his #Emmys win to the LGBTQ community. “We dedicate this award to awareness. To stricter hate crime laws.” (via THR) pic.twitter.com/Wh8Svi2GCT
In this week’s podcast: While ‘Sex and the City’ star Cynthia Nixon fell short in her bid to become the Democratic nominee for governor in New York state, she did change the election’s trajectory. Plus…
• A Pennsylvania university will not let a gay man take his last two classes for his degree.
• A new study shows same-sex couples are getting married at an older age than heterosexuals.
• RuPaul and the Fab Five celebrated at this year’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
All that and more in this episode of The Randy Report.
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Fourteen years after winning the Emmy Award for “Outstanding Reality Program,” the new reboot of Queer Eye has snatched another Emmy.
The title of the award is now called “Outstanding Structured Reality Program,” but the cast and crew of the ‘make better’ show celebrated the big win all the same.
The nominations for the 70th Emmy Awards are out this morning and there’s great news for LGBTQ artists and projects.
Looming large was the gay-centric mini-series The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story with 16 nominations including one for “Outstanding Limited Series” plus two nods for out uber-producer/director Ryan Murphy.
“Of course it’s thrilling to see this series attract so much recognition, and I am forever grateful to Tom Rob Smith for his brilliant take, to my producing partners Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson and Brad Falchuk for their collaboration and friendship, and to our talented cast who breathed such humanity into these characters. This was a heartbreaking story to tell, made more so by the fact that we continue as a culture to grapple with homophobia and shame and intolerance.”
Ricky Martin also scored his first Emmy nod in the “Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie” category for his work in the series. Martin gushed via Twitter:
Yes yes yes!!!!!! I’m so happy and humbled about this nomination. I think my head is about to explode. Joy joy joy THIS IS CRAZY!!! Thank you @MrRPMurphyhttps://t.co/GZvYKlVQ2l
RuPaul’s Drag Race received 10 nominations including one for “Outstanding Reality Competition” and a third-in-a-row nod to Mama Ru for “Outstanding Host for a Reality Competition.”
Plus, RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked was honored with two nominations including “Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program.”
“Making RuPaul’s Drag Race is a labor of love. The fact that members of the Television Academy have recognized that passion by nominating us for 12 Emmy’s is a true honor. It takes a village, people. I want to recognize the hard work and dedication of my partners at VH1 and World of Wonder, our dedicated cast and crew, and most of all, the amazing queens that help us celebrate the heart and soul of drag. Condragulations to our fellow nominees.”
The return of NBC’s Will & Grace was graced with 5 nominations including Megan Mullally for “Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series” and Molly Shannon for “Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series.”
Also in the “Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series” are Wanda Sykes (Black-ish) and Jane Lynch (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel).
Lynch was also honored in the “Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality-Competition Program” category for Hollywood Game Night as was Ellen DeGeneres (Ellen’s Game of Games).
Out actress Lily Tomlin was nominated for her work on Grace & Frankie, as well as Sarah Paulson for her performance in American Horror Story: Cult. Cherry Jones got a nod for her role in the much-lauded The Handmaid’s Tale.
Kate McKinnon was nominated for “Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series” for her work on Saturday Night Live.
Evan Rachel Wood celebrates her nomination in “Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series” for her work on HBO’s Westworld.
Out actor Titus Burgess received an nom for “Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series” in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Netflix’s reboot of Queer Eye received 4 nominations including “Outstanding Structured Reality Program.”
For Broadway musical lovers, you’ll be happy to know the rapturous Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert received 13 well-deserved nominations.
Surprisingly, FX’s Pose was completely snubbed receiving zero nominations. This writer was hoping to see both transgender director/writer Janet Mock and out actor Billy Porter get some Television Academy love for their powerful work on the ground-breaking, LGBTQ-centric series set in the 1980s.
The 70th annual Emmys Awards will air Monday, September 17, on NBC. For more information, head over to the Emmy Awards official website here.
Here’s the list of this year’s nominees:
Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie: Antonio Banderas (“Genius: Picasso”) Darren Criss (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”) Benedict Cumberbatch (“Patrick Melrose”) Jeff Daniels (“The Looming Tower”) John Legend (“Jesus Christ Superstar”) Jesse Plemons (“USS Callister”)
Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie: Laura Dern (“The Tale”) Jessica Biel (“The Sinner”) Michelle Dockery (“Godless”) Edie Falco (“The Menendez Murders”) Regina King (“Seven Seconds”) Sarah Paulson (“American Horror Story: Cult”)
Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Donald Glover (“Atlanta”) Bill Hader (“Barry”) Anthony Anderson (“Black-ish”) William H. Macy (“Shameless”) Larry David (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”) Ted Danson (“The Good Place”)
Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: Pamela Adlon (“Better Things”) Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) Tracee Ellis Ross (“Black-ish”) Allison Janney (“Mom”) Lily Tomlin (“Grace and Frankie”) Issa Rae (“Insecure”)
Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Jason Bateman (“Ozark”) Sterling K. Brown (“This Is Us”) Ed Harris (“Westworld”) Matthew Rhys (“The Americans”) Milo Ventimiglia (“This Is Us”) Jeffrey Wright (“Westworld”)
Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Claire Foy (“The Crown”) Tatiana Maslany (“Orphan Black”) Elisabeth Moss (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) Sandra Oh (“Killing Eve”) Keri Russell (“The Americans”) Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”)
Reality Competition: “The Amazing Race” “American Ninja Warrior” “Project Runway” “RuPaul’s Drag Race” “Top Chef” “The Voice”
Variety Sketch Series: “Saturday Night Live” (NBC) “Portlandia” (IFC) “Drunk History” (Comedy Central) “Tracey Ullman’s Show” (HBO) “At Home with Amy Sedaris” (TruTV) “I Love You, America” (Hulu)
Variety Talk Series: “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” “Jimmy Kimmel Live” “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” “Late Late Show with James Corden Late Show with Stephen Colbert”
Limited Series: “The Alienist” “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” “Genius: Picasso” “Godless” “Patrick Melrose”
Comedy Series: “Atlanta” (FX) “Barry” (HBO) “Black-ish” (ABC) “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (HBO) “GLOW” (Netflix) “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon) “Silicon Valley” (HBO) “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (Netflix)
Drama Series: “The Handmaid’s Tale” “Game of Thrones” “This Is Us” “The Crown” “The Americans” “Stranger Things” “Westworld”
Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (“Game of Thrones”) Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”) Joseph Fiennes (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) David Harbour (“Stranger Things”) Mandy Patinkin (“Homeland”) Matt Smith (“The Crown”)
Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Alexis Bledel (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) Millie Bobby Brown (“Stranger Things”) Ann Dowd (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) Lena Headey (“Game of Thrones”) Thandie Newton (“Westworld”) Yvonne Strahovski (“The Handmaid’s Tale”)
Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Louie Anderson (“Baskets”) Alec Baldwin (“Saturday Night Live”) Tituss Burgess (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”) Tony Shalhoub (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) Kenan Thompson (“Saturday Night Live”) Henry Winkler (“Barry”)
Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Zazie Beetz (“Atlanta”) Alex Borstein (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) Aidy Bryant (“Saturday Night Live”) Betty Gilpin (“GLOW”) Leslie Jones (“Saturday Night Live”) Kate McKinnon (“Saturday Night Live”) Laurie Metcalf (“Roseanne”) Megan Mullally (“Will & Grace”)
Television Movie: “Fahrenheit 451” (HBO) “Flint” (Lifetime) “Paterno” (HBO) “The Tale” (HBO) “Black Mirror: USS Callister” (Netflix)
Structured Reality Program “Antiques Roadshow” (PBS) “Fixer Upper” (HGTV) “Lip Sync Battle” (Paramount) “Queer Eye” (Netflix) “Shark Tank” (ABC) “Who Do You Think You Are?” (TLC)
Unstructured Reality Program: “Born This Way” (A&E) “Deadliest Catch” (Discovery) “Intervention” (A&E) “Naked and Afraid” (Discovery Channel) “RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked” (VH1) “United Shades of America With W. Kamau Bell” (CNN)
Host for Reality/Reality Competition Program: W. Kamau Bell (“United Shades of America With W. Kamau Bell”) Ellen DeGeneres (“Ellen’s Game of Games”) RuPaul Charles (“RuPaul’s Drag Race”) Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn (“Project Runway”) Jane Lynch (“Hollywood Game Night”)
Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie: Jeff Daniels (“Godless”) Brandon Victor Dixon (“Jesus Christ Superstar”) John Leguizamo (“Waco”) Ricky Martin (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”) Edgar Ramirez (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”) Michael Stuhlbarg (“The Looming Tower”) Finn Wittrock (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”)
Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie: Sara Bareilles (“Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert”) Penelope Cruz (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”) Judith Light (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”) Adina Porter (“American Horror Story: Cult”) Merritt Wever (“Godless”) Letitia Wright (“Black Museum” (Black Mirror)
Guest Actor in a Drama Series: F. Murray Abraham (“Homeland”) Cameron Britton (“Mindhunter”) Matthew Goode (“The Crown”) Ron Cephas Jones (“This Is Us”) Gerald McRaney (“This Is Us”) Jimmi Simpson (“Westworld”)
Guest Actress in a Drama Series: Viola Davis (“Scandal”) Kelly Jenrette (The Handmaid’s Tale”) Cherry Jones (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) Diana Rigg (“Game of Thrones”) Cicely Tyson (“How to Get Away With Murder”) Samira Wiley (“The Handmaid’s Tale”)
Guest Actor in a Comedy Series: Sterling K. Brown (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) Bryan Cranston (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”) Donald Glover (“Saturday Night Live”) Bill Hader (“Saturday Night Live”) Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”) Katt Williams (“Atlanta”)
Guest Actress in a Comedy Series: Tina Fey (“Saturday Night Live”) Tiffany Haddish (“Saturday Night Live”) Jane Lynch (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) Maya Rudolph (“The Good Place”) Molly Shannon (“Will & Grace”) Wanda Sykes (“Black-ish”)
At last night’s Emmy Awards, folks were flabbergasted when former White House press secretary Sean Spicer rolled out onstage via podium during the opening sequence to announce, “This will be the largest audience to witness an Emmys, period — both in person and around the world.”
At first, you saw people in the audience try to figure out, “Is that really Sean Spicer?”
And then, folks thought it was funny that the producers were able to get the gag to happen.
But right after that you kind of realized that this was the “normalization” of Sean Spicer. The guy who stood at the White House press room podium and lied to the American public over and over again.
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer got a turn on one of Hollywood’s glitziest stages Sunday night. And he used it to laugh about the falsehoods he told the American people in an attempt to rehabilitate his image.
I’m all for a good laugh. And I’ll add up front that there are political issues on which people have extremely strong feelings and unfortunately can’t see the other side — we all have blind spots and should be mindful of that. But inherent in Spicer’s appearance Sunday night was an acknowledgment that he sold the American people a bill of goods from the White House lectern. He essentially admitted to blatantly misrepresenting President Trump’s inauguration crowd size, and he and those assembled all had a good laugh at it.
Hey remember that time when Sean Spicer blatantly lied from behind the White House podium? It's now a punch line…that he is in on!— Matt Viser (@mviser) September 18, 2017
I’m not ready to laugh “with” Sean Spicer. I think he is an evil, opportunistic liar that hurt our country.
Sean Spicer may be gone from the White House, we’ll always have Melissa McCarthy’s hysterical, over the top portrayal of the former White House press secretary on Saturday Night Live to relish.
And just to show “Spicey” is the gift that keeps giving, McCarthy must be relishing her new Emmy Award she picked up last night at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. That statue sitting on McCarthy’s mantle was for her hosting gig on SNL including her performance as the manic, unhinged press secretary.
You’ll recall the portrayal got so much attention Trump pulled Spicey from press briefing duties and sent Sarah Huckabee Sanders in his place.
At the time of McCarthy’s appearances as “Spicey,” Sean attempted to blow off the jabs with faux good sportsmanship. But his true colors showed when he commented that SNL had “gone from being funny to just bad.”
This is McCarthy’s second Emmy win having previously won for CBS’ Mike & Molly. I’m not surprised to learn she has been nominated for all five of her hosting gigs on SNL.
The Creative Arts Emmys took place Sunday in Los Angeles.
The main Emmy broadcast will air Sunday, Sept. 17 on CBS.
But for now, let’s take a trip on the “way back machine” and enjoy McCarthy’s brilliant, no-holds barred performance below.
Last night, RuPaul won his second consecutive Emmy Award for Outstanding Host of a Variety, Nonfiction Or Reality Program for RuPaul’s Drag Race.
The reality competition was nominated for 7 Emmys. In addition to Outstanding Host, the show took home the awards for Outstanding Costumes (duh) and Picture Editing.
Still to come – the Primetime Emmy Awards show on September 17 on CBS where Drag Race is up for Best Reality Competition Series.
This follows the most successful season yet for Drag Race after moving from LOGO to VH1.
From the floor of the DragCon convention, Ru expressed his gratitude and thanks closing with “Thank you, Television Acedemy. You make this queen so proud! Mwah!”
was nominated for a total of seven Emmys—taking home awards for Outstanding Costumes and Picture Editing. The show is also up for Best Reality Competition Series at the Primetime Emmys, airing September 17 on CBS.
The 2017 Emmy Award nominations were announced this morning and lots of good news for LGBT programming.
• Outstanding Actress and Actor nods for Transparent’s Judith Light and Jeffrey Tambor
• 8 nominations for RuPaul’s Drag Race, including Outstanding Reality Competition and Reality Competition Host for RuPaul, which he won last year.
• Out actors Kate McKinnon and Tituss Burgess each received nominations in the comedy supporting categories.
• LGBT fave Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl Halftime Show can celebrate six nominations.
• Gone but not forgotten, Carrie Fisher received a posthumous Emmy nomination for her work as “Mia” on Catastrophe Season 3.
A short list of the major category nominations are below, you can read the full list of nominees here.
The 69th Primetime Emmys will air Sept. 17 on CBS, hosted by Stephen Colbert.
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series
Kerry Russell, The Americans Claire Foy, The Crown Elizabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale Robin Wright, House Of Cards Viola Davis, How To Get Away With Murder Evan Rachel Wood, Westworld
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan Matthew Rhys, The Americans Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us Milo Ventimiglia, This Is Us Anthony Hopkins, Westworld
Outstanding Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
Carrie Coon, Fargo Felicity Huffman, American Crime Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies Reese Witherspoon, Big Little Lies Jessica Lange, Feud: Bette & Joan Susan Sarandon, Feud: Bette & Joan
Outstanding Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
Riz Ahmed, The Night Of Robert DeNiro, The Wizard of Lies Ewan McGregor, Fargo Geoffrey Rush, Genius John Turturro, The Night Of Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep Lily Tomlin Grace and Frankie Jane Fonda, Grace and Frankie Ellie Kemper, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish Allison Janney, Mom Pamela Adlon, Better Things
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent William H. Macy, Shameless Anthony Anderson, Black-ish Aziz Ansari, Master of None Donald Glover, Atlanta Zach Galifianakis, Baskets
Outstanding Comedy Series
Modern Family Silicon Valley Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Veep Master of None Black-ish Atlanta
Outstanding Drama Series
Better Call Saul House of Cards The Handmaid’s Tale The Crown This Is Us Stranger Things Westworld
Outstanding Reality Competition Program
The Voice Top Chef The Amazing Race Project Runway American Ninja Warrior RuPaul’s Drag Race
Outstanding Variety Talk Series
Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Jimmy Kimmel Live Last Week Tonight With John Oliver The Late, Late Show With James Corden The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Real Time with Bill Maher
Hit animated series Family Guy trolls White House counselor Kellyanne Conway and her patriotic outfit from Trump’s inauguration in campaigning for Emmy Award votes.
In a new for-your-consideration mailer that was sent to Emmy voters this week, Peter Griffin is doing his best impression of White House counselor and Anderson Cooper eyeroll recipient Kellyanne Conway, dressed in the $3600 red, white, and blue Gucci coat that she wore to President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
