Game of Thrones rules Emmy again with 12 awards

Popular television series Game of Thrones dominated the 68th edition of the Emmy Awards Sunday night, for the second year running, with 12 awards, including for Best Drama Series.

Game of Thrones, with its dragons, epic battles, magic and fantasy, not only equaled its own record of most awards in a single edition (12) that it created last year, but also overtook Frasier as the television series with the most number of awards (38) overall.

The fantasy series, inspired by the novels of George R.R. Martin, was grand winner of the evening, along with Veep, which won Best Comedy for the second year running, and The People v. O.J. Simpson, which won the Limited Series.

Game of Throne’s big win also included Best Director and Best Writing in a Drama series, besides nine others in technical categories, although none of its actors Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke and Maisie Williams, who competed in the Best Supporting role categories won.

Another big winner of the evening was The People v O.J. Simpson, a critically acclaimed production that walked away with nine awards, including Best Limited Series, Best Actor (Courtney B. Vance), Best Actress (Sarah Paulson) and Best Supporting Actor (Sterling K. Brown).

Rami Malek, who plays the introverted and elusive hacker in Mr. Robot, was crowned Best Actor in a Drama Series, against stalwarts such as Kevin Spacey (House of Cards) and Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul).

However, the surprise of the evening was when Tatiana Maslany, who was up against stiff competition from Viola Davis (How to Get Away With Murder), Taraji P. Henson (Empire) o Robin Wright (House of Cards), won the Best Actress in a Drama Series, for her role in Orphan Black.

Julia LouisDreyfus won her fifth consecutive Emmy as Best Actress in a Comedy Series and Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent) won the best comic actor.

The show was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, whose jokes centered around inequality and diversity in Hollywood and Republican candidate for the U.S. Presidential elections Donald Trump.

The show also featured a surprise intervention, in the form of a prerecorded comic tape, by Republican politician Jeb Bush, and Matt Damon making fun of Kimmel. EFE