The 72nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards took place on September 20, 2020.
This year’s ceremony was presented from an eerily empty Staples Center in Los Angeles by Jimmy Kimmel, with only a few guest presenters joining him in the studio.
Here are the major winners and nominees:
Outstanding comedy series
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Dead to Me
- The Good Place
- Insecure
- The Kominsky Method
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- WINNER: Schitt’s Creek
- What We Do in the Shadows
Outstanding drama series
- Better Call Saul
- The Crown
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- Killing Eve
- The Mandalorian
- Ozark
- Stranger Things
- WINNER: Succession
Outstanding limited series
- Little Fires Everywhere
- Mrs. America
- Unbelievable
- Unorthodox
- WINNER: Watchmen
Lead actor in a comedy series
- Anthony Anderson, Black-ish
- Don Cheadle, Black Monday
- Ted Danson, The Good Place
- Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method
- WINNER: Eugene Levy, Schitt’s Creek
- Ramy Youssef, Ramy
Lead actress in a comedy series
- Christina Applegate, Dead to Me
- Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Linda Cardellini, Dead to Me
- WINNER: Catherine O’Hara, Schitt’s Creek
- Issa Rae, Insecure
- Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish
Supporting actor in a comedy series
- Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- William Jackson Harper, The Good Place
- Alan Arkin, The Kominsky Method
- Sterling K. Brown, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Tony Shalhoub, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Mahershala Ali, Ramy
- Kenan Thompson, Saturday Night Live
- WINNER: Dan Levy, Schitt’s Creek
Supporting actress in a comedy series
- Betty Gilpin, GLOW
- D’Arcy Carden, The Good Place
- Yvonne Orji, Insecure
- Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Marin Hinkle, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live
- Cecily Strong, Saturday Night Live
- WINNER: Annie Murphy, Schitt’s Creek
Lead actor in a drama series
- Jason Bateman, Ozark
- Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us
- Steve Carell, The Morning Show
- Brian Cox, Succession
- Billy Porter, Pose
- WINNER: Jeremy Strong, Succession
Lead actress in a drama series
- Jennifer Aniston, The Morning Show
- Olivia Colman, The Crown
- Jodie Comer, Killing Eve
- Laura Linney, Ozark
- Sandra Oh, Killing Eve
- WINNER: Zendaya, Euphoria
Supporting actor in a drama series
- Giancarlo Esposito, Better Call Saul
- Bradley Whitford, The Handmaid’s Tale
- WINNER: Billy Crudup, The Morning Show
- Mark Duplass, The Morning Show
- Nicholas Braun, Succession
- Kieran Culkin, Succession
- Matthew Macfadyen, Succession
- Jeffrey Wright, Westworld
Supporting actress in a drama series
- Laura Dern, Big Little Lies
- Meryl Streep, Big Little Lies
- Helena Bonham Carter, The Crown
- Samira Wiley, The Handmaid’s Tale
- Fiona Shaw , Killing Eve
- WINNER: Julia Garner, Ozark
- Sarah Snook, Succession
- Thandie Newton, Westworld
Lead actor in a limited series or movie
- Jeremy Irons, Watchmen
- Hugh Jackman, Bad Education
- Paul Mescal, Normal People
- Jeremy Pope, Hollywood
- WINNER: Mark Ruffalo, I Know This Much Is True
Lead actress in a limited series or movie
- Cate Blanchett, Mrs. America
- Shira Haas, Unorthodox
- WINNER: Regina King, Watchmen
- Octavia Spencer, Self Made
- Kerry Washington, Little Fires Everywhere
Supporting actor in a limited series or movie
- Dylan McDermott, Hollywood
- Jim Parsons, Hollywood
- Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
- WINNER: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Watchmen
- Jovan Adepo, Watchmen
- Louis Gossett Jr, Watchmen
Supporting actress in a limited series or movie
- Holland Taylor, Hollywood
- WINNER: Uzo Aduba, Mrs. America
- Margo Martindale, Mrs. America
- Tracey Ullman, Mrs. America
- Toni Collette, Unbelievable
- Jean Smart, Watchmen
Outstanding reality competition series
- The Masked Singer
- Nailed It
- WINNER: RuPaul’s Drag Race
- Top Chef
- The Voice
Outstanding variety talk series
- Daily Show with Trevor Noah
- Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
- Jimmy Kimmel Live
- WINNER: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Outstanding variety sketch series
- A Black Lady Sketch Show
- Drunk History
- WINNER: Saturday Night Live
Outstanding television movie
- American Son
- WINNER: Bad Education
- Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings: These Old Bones
- El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. The Reverend
Writing for a comedy series
- WINNER: Daniel Levy, Schitt’s Creek
- David West Read, Schitt’s Creek
- Michael Schur, The Good Place
- Tony McNamara, The Great
- Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil, What We Do In The Shadows
- Paul Simms, What We Do In The Shadows
- Stefani Robinson, What We Do In The Shadows
Writing for a drama series
- Thomas Schnauz, Better Call Saul
- Thomas Schnauz,
- Gordon Smith, Better Call Saul
- Peter Morgan, The Crown
- Chris Mundy, Ozark
- John Shiban, Ozark
- Miki Johnso, Ozark
- WINNING: Jesse Armstrong, Succession
Writing for a limited series, movie or drama
- Tanya Barfield, Mrs. America
- Sally Rooney and Alice Birch, Normal People
- Susannah Grant, Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon, Unbelievable
- Anna Winger, Unorthodox
- WINNER: Damon Lindelof and Cord Jefferson, Watchmen
Director for a comedy series
- Matt Shakman, The Great
- Amy Sherman-Palladino, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Daniel Palladino, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Gail Mancuso, Modern Family • Finale Part 2
- Ramy Youssef, Ramy
- WINNER: Andrew Cividino and Daniel Levy, Schitt’s Creek
- James Burrows, Will & Grace
Directing for a drama series
- Benjamin Caron, The Crown
- Jessica Hobbs, The Crown
- Lesli Linka Glatter, Homeland
- Mimi Leder, The Morning Show Mimi Leder,
- Alik Sakharov, Ozark
- Ben Semanoff, Ozark
- WINNER: Andrij Parekh, Succession
- Mark Mylod, Succession
Directing for a limited series
- Lynn Shelton, Little Fires Everywhere
- Lenny Abrahamson, Normal People
- WINNER: Maria Schrader, Unorthodox
- Nicole Kassell, Watchmen
- Steph Green, Watchmen
- Stephen Williams, Watchmen
