Mad Men's Matthew Weiner delivering his winning speech in the Emmy Awards 2009

Teary Winners and Funny Speeches

In the part 2 of the Emmy Coverage we bring you all the winners of the 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 2009.

The winning started with the Best Supporting Actress, Comedy which was given to Kristin Chenoweth, for the ABC cancelled show “Pushing Daisies”, who came on stage and gave the winning speech howling away. She thanked Emmy for giving this award to a show that is over. She also made it clear that she was unemployed and wanted to work in shows like “Mad Men”, “30 Rock” and “The Office”.

The next award went to Two and half Men supporting actor Jon Cryer who was overjoyed with the win. Emotionally he declared that before winning the award he thought that award ceremonies were “shallow tokens of momentary popularity” but now he believed that “they are the only true measure of a person’s worth as a human being”. Personal comment: Talk about every person who didn’t win! Feeling sorry for Harris actually!

Toni Collete (”United States of Tara”) and Alec Baldwin (”30 Rock”) were adjudged the Best Leading Actress and Actor for a Comedy show. Rob Lowe who was on stage to give away the award to the Best Leading Man got to play the supporting role in Alex Baldwin’s gag – “I’d trade this (award) to look like him (Lowe)”!

“The Office” won the Best Directing, Comedy (Jeffrey Blitz). The Best Guest Stars, Comedy were taken away by Tina Fey and Justin Timberlake for Saturday Night Live. Best Writing award went to the episode “Reunion” of “30 Rock” (Matt Hubbarb). 30 Rock also won the award for the Outstanding Comedy Series.

In the Reality category, the Best Reality Show host was given to Jeff Probst for “Survivor”. He gave a little speech which ended with a nice moral – “The adventure you are ready for is the one you get. You only live once, go for it!”. The Best Reality Competition Show went to “The Amazing Race” which was it’s 7th consecutive time.

In the Miniseries category, Little Dorritt swept away maximum awards – Best Miniseries, Director (Dearbhal Walsh) and Writer (Andrew Davis). The Best TV movie was won by Grey Gardens, that also got their hands on the Best Lead Actress (Jessica Lange), Supporting Actor (Ken Howard). In her speech Jessica Lange thanked quite a few people among which included co-star Drew Barrymore who laughed and cried and applauded for her down from her seat in the audience. Brendan Gleeson won the Best Actor in this category for his role of Winston Churchill in “Into the Storm” and the Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashil took away the award for the Best Supporting Actress for “House of Saddam”.

Finally coming to the Drama catergory, the Best Leading Actress, Drama was won by Glenn Close (again!!) for the show “Damages”. Close was close to tears accepting the award and says that this character (of a hard-hitting lawyer) is “the character of my lifetime”.

Bryan Cranston won the Best Actor award for his role in “Breaking Bad” on AMC.

The show’s last award for the Best Drama Series was given to 2 times winner “Mad Men” of the private channel AMC. Accepting the award, creator Matthew Weiner stated that he must be the “only person in the room with complete creative freedom”.

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