67th Primetime Emmy Awards

67th Primetime Emmy Awards
Promotional poster
Date	September 20, 2015[1] (Ceremony) September 12, 2015[1] (Creative Arts Awards)
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
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The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in U.S. 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 surrealist 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 criteria 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 and highlighted in bold:^{[13][14][15][16]}

Jeffrey Tambor, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series winner

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series winner

Jon Hamm, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series winner

Viola Davis, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series winner

Richard Jenkins, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie winner

Frances McDormand, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie winner

Tony Hale, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series winner

Allison Janney, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series winner

Peter Dinklage, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series winner

Uzo Aduba, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series winner

Bill Murray, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie winner

Regina King, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie winner

Programs[]

Acting[]

Lead performances[]

Supporting performances[]

Directing[]

Writing[]

Most major nominations[]

By network^{[note 1]}

• HBO – 37
• Comedy Central – 14
• ABC / FX / Netflix – 13
• AMC – 10
• PBS / Showtime – 9
• CBS / NBC – 7
• Fox – 6
• Amazon – 5
• Sundance TV – 4
• History – 2

By program

• American Horror Story: Freak Show (FX) – 8
• Game of Thrones (HBO) / Olive Kitteridge (HBO) – 7
• American Crime (ABC) / Bessie (HBO) / Mad Men (AMC) / Veep (HBO) – 6

Most major awards[]

By network^{[note 1]}

• HBO – 14
• Comedy Central – 4
• ABC / Amazon – 2

By program

• Olive Kitteridge (HBO) – 6
• Game of Thrones (HBO) / Veep (HBO) – 4
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central) – 3
• Transparent (Amazon) – 2

Notes

Presenters and performers[]

The awards were presented by the following:^[17][18]

Presenters[]

Performers[]

In Memoriam[]

The In Memoriam segment featured the song "Over the Rainbow" by Eva Cassidy:^[19]

References[]

External links[]

• Emmys.com list of 2015 Nominees & Winners
• Academy of Television Arts and Sciences website
• 67th Primetime Emmy Awards at IMDb