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Game of Thrones wins best drama, shatters Emmy record

Posted September 20 2015 — 10:43 PM EDT

Game of Thrones is the king of the Emmys.

The 67th Annual Emmy Awards crowned HBO’s fantasy hit with its highest honor Sunday night, with Thrones winning the award for outstanding drama series.

Not only did Thrones snap its drama category runner-up streak, but the series picked up Emmys for outstanding supporting actor (Peter Dinklage), writing (David Benioff and Dan Weiss) and direction (David Nutter) on Sunday night. With a total of 12 Emmys this year (including eight won at the previously held Creative Arts Emmys), Thrones broke a major record by surpassing The West Wing to take home more TV Academy awards in a single year than any other show. Thrones easily beat the White House drama’s 2000 record of nine wins in one year.

2011

For its first season, the show received 13 Emmy nominations at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards and picked up two wins including Outstanding Main Title Design and Peter Dinklage's first Emmy nomination and win for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama series.


2012

At the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards, the show's second season was nominated for 12 awards, the 13th most nominations of the year and 1 less than in 2011. However, it went on to triple its 2011 wins, taking 6 creative Emmys of the 9 for which it had been nominated, giving it the most wins of the event and beating out competition from shows with more nominations

2013


At the 11th annual Visual Effects Society awards, the show won four awards, the most of the TV shows nominated.[12] In June, the show was placed at number 40 on the list of the 101 best written shows of all time by the Writers Guild of America, assessing series from the previous 70 years.[13]

At the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, the show's third season was nominated for 17 awards. Emilia Clarke received her first Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama series for the episode "And Now His Watch Is Ended", alongside Dinklage's third Outstanding Actor nomination, and Diana Rigg's Outstanding Guest Actress nomination.[14][15][16]

The show won two Creative Emmy awards, down from six the previous year.[17] HBO had attempted to submit the show for a third consecutive Writers Guild Award for Best Drama Series, but a technical error during the process meant it was not submitted and the fault was discovered too late for the show to be entered.[18] Game of Thrones received its third consecutive Satellite Award nomination for Best TV Genre show, and Clarke and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau received Supporting Actor nominations.[19] The show also made its third consecutive appearance on the American Film Institute list of the top 10 programs of the year.

2014

Dinklage was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series in 2014, his first for the series, and eleventh individual award nomination for the show.

For the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards, Game of Thrones was nominated for 20 awards, the highest number of nominations that year, and an increase over the 17 nominations that it received in 2013. Actress Lena Headey received her first Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Cersei Lannister, alongside Dinklage's fourth Outstanding Actor nomination.

The episodes "The Lion and the Rose", "The Watchers on the Wall", and "The Children" were the most recognized of the show's fourth season, receiving three nominations each.[27][28][29] The show won four Creative Emmy awards, up from two the previous year, and the joint-fifth most wins of the event.[30] On December 26, 2014, TorrentFreak reported that the show was the most illegally downloaded show for the third year in a row, with 8.1 million downloads of the 2014 season finale, compared to 7.1 million TV viewers.[31]

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