Emmys: Maggie Smith Accepts Her Award With a Message for Jimmy Kimmel

Or maybe you didn’t know that and that’s cool too.

The Outstanding Actress for a Drama Series is Tatiana Maslany of “Orphan Black”.

He said: “This year for the first time ever, you must be present to win”.

Perhaps the evening’s biggest surprise was a cameo appearance by former USA presidential hopeful Jeb Bush, who appeared in the broadcast’s opening sketch as Louis-Dreyfus’ driver, explaining he was “between jobs”.

The complete list of nominees and winners is listed at the official Emmy Awards website.

The award went to Dame Maggie Smith, for her performance as the Dowager Countess Violet Crawley in the final series of Downton Abbey. “Right in the garbage”.

Congratulations to “Game of Thrones” for winning the top honor of the 68th annual Emmy Awards – Outstanding Drama Series – for a second year in a row, and breaking the record for the most Emmy wins of any primetime series. To be honest, I think a lot of us were mildly surprised Game of Thrones didn’t dominate this category after the unbelievable season they just had.

Its 12 awards at this year’s bash in Los Angeles included another nine in technical categories.

“We’re not mailing this award to her. Maggie, if you want this it’ll be in the lost and found, Kimmel joked”.

Calling the Downton Abbey star “Downton Absent”, the Emmys host took aim at the great Brit when she failed to show to collect her latest accolade, grabbing the award and telling her she could pick it up at the “lost and found”. But reply she did.

Veep had been up for 17 awards but took just three, including a fifth consecutive win for best lead actress in a comedy by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. “I feel the Emmys have been overly generous to me”, the 81-year-old said via the Masterpiece PBS Twitter account. “If Mr. Kimmel could please direct me to the lost and found office I will try and be on the next flight”.

Overnight, in a ridiculously sweet message posted to Twitter by Downton’s US Network Masterpiece PBS, Smith issued the ideal reply to Kimmel’s “come and get it” ultimatum.

It’s an amusing ending to an amusing story, but the question still stands. Some executives argue that it’s the cyclical nature of awards shows, which fall in and out of favor; others argue that consumer behavior is finally affecting big live event programming, which was supposed to be immune to an industrywide trend of declining ratings.

He ended his joke rant by stating, “I have a message for you “lame” Maggie Smith, if you’re even bothering to watch”.