65th Primetime Emmy Awards

65th Primetime Emmy Awards
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Date	September 22, 2013[1] (Ceremony) September 15[1] (Creative Arts Awards)
Location	Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles, California
Host	Neil Patrick Harris
Official website	www.emmys.org
Television/Radio coverage
Network	CBS[1]
Producer	Ken Ehrlich Neil Patrick Harris

The 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards honoring the best in American primetime television programming from June 1, 2012 until May 31, 2013, were held on September 22, 2013 at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, California. CBS televised the ceremony within the United States. Actor Neil Patrick Harris hosted the Primetime Emmys for the second time. The Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony was held on September 15.^[1]

Breaking Bad won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for the first part of its fifth season, while Modern Family won its fourth consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series.

Netflix made history by earning the first Primetime Emmy Award nominations for original online only web television. Three of its web series, Arrested Development, Hemlock Grove, and House of Cards, earned a total of 14 nominations.^[2] Netflix made history with three wins including David Fincher's Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for directing the pilot episode "Chapter 1" of House of Cards, as well as a pair of Creative Arts Emmy Awards, making "Chapter 1" the first Primetime Emmy-awarded webisode.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

Programs

Acting

Lead performances

Supporting performances

Choreography

Directing

Writing

Academy's "hanging episodes" rule

The Television Academy was alerted to an issue with "hanging episodes" by Starz. The channel has numerous series with multiple "hanging episodes". "Hanging episodes" are episodes broadcast after the Academy's deadline for consideration that are part of a season that began before the deadline. For instance, in 2012, Starz's Magic City and AMC's Mad Men both ended their seasons in June, after the May 31 deadline. These episodes were allowed to be webcast for award consideration prior to their telecast should that telecast air after the submission period has closed. The Academy had prior rules stipulating that eligible episodes be presented on the same platform as the episodes that qualify the series.^[8]

Most major nominations

By network

• HBO – 37
• NBC – 22
• Showtime – 17
• ABC – 16
• AMC – 15
• FX – 11
• CBS/Warner Channel – 10
• PBS – 7
• Netflix – 5
• Sundance Channel – 5
• Fox – 5
• USA Network – 3

By program^[9]

• 30 Rock (NBC) – 9
• Breaking Bad (AMC) / Modern Family (ABC) / Saturday Night Live (NBC) – 8
• Downton Abbey (PBS) / Homeland (Showtime) / Mad Men (AMC) – 7
• Behind the Candelabra (HBO) – 6
• American Horror Story: Asylum (FX) / Game of Thrones (HBO) / Louie (FX) / Phil Spector (HBO) / Top of the Lake (Sundance Channel) – 5
• Girls (HBO) / House of Cards (Netflix) / The Big Bang Theory (CBS) / The Good Wife (CBS) / Veep (HBO) – 4
• Political Animals (USA Network) – 3

Most major wins

• Behind the Candelabra (HBO) – 3
• Breaking Bad (AMC) / Homeland (Showtime) / Modern Family (American Broadcasting Company) / The Colbert Report (Comedy Central) / Veep (HBO) – 2

Presenters

In memoriam

Prior to the In Memoriam segment:

• Robin Williams presented a tribute to Jonathan Winters
• Rob Reiner presented a tribute to Jean Stapleton
• Jane Lynch presented a tribute to Cory Monteith
• Michael J. Fox presented a tribute to Gary David Goldberg
• Edie Falco presented a tribute to James Gandolfini

A video was then presented paying tribute to the TV stars and well known behind-the-scenes workers who had died since the previous Emmy Awards broadcast, including

Reception

Critical Reception

Reviews for the ceremony were mostly negative. Brian Lowry of Variety panned the show, writing: "By the time the show was over, it was hard not to think we could have done with at least one less musical number, or one less memorial tribute, in order to let the winners — including high-profile ones in major categories — actually deliver an acceptance speech without hearing piano music kick in just as they started warming up."^[13] Melisa Maerz of Entertainment Weekly also gave the ceremony a negative review, writing: "All of which begged the question: What does the Emmys really offer us, anyway, that we can't get elsewhere? Witty banter? (There was more of that online.) Red-carpet gawking? (Nothing here that you can't see on Instagram.) Exclusive access to the Mani Cam? If you're only tuning in to see which under-appreciated shows to add to your DVR queue, well, Twitter can tell you that better than the Emmys, especially when a mediocre season of Modern Family wins against Louie, Girls, and Veep. The one thing the Emmys is still very good at? Creating consensus. But maybe that's the problem. This year, the consensus was that the Emmys were bad."^[14]

Ratings

The broadcast received 17.63 million viewers, the largest audience in total viewers since 2005.^[15]

References

External links

• Academy of Television Arts and Sciences website
• Emmys on CBS
• 65th Primetime Emmy Awards at IMDb
• Emmys.com list of 2013 Nominees & Winners
• 2013 Emmy Awards at the Internet Movie Database