The Emmy Awards are held tonight its 73rd edition at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Awards that honor the excellence of the American television industry each year. Due to the increase in streaming platforms and the number of people, the ceremony is one of the great events of the year along with the Oscars and the Golden Globes . For this reason, we are going to tell you some of the anecdotes, curiosities and secrets that surely you still do not know about these prestigious awards. Surely you will be surprised by the most surprising data in the history of
the Emmy Awards.
How is the long-awaited statuette?
This important accolade was created in 1948 by engineer Louis McManus. Her slender figure represents a woman, whose wings symbolize art and the atom that she holds with her hands, science. Louis McManus took as a reference the figure of his wife. Each statuette is made of gold and nickel, and weighs around three kilos. Nails
proportions corresponding to an approximate price of $ 400. The same amount that the winners must pay if they want to return home in the company of the sculpture.
His origins
The Emmy Awards get their name from the cameras used on television during the 1940s. These were called the Orticon Image, commonly known as Immy. Another milestone in the history of the pageant corresponds to the first person to receive such a coveted tribute was Shirley Dinsdale, a ventriloquist who led the children’s program The Judy Splinters Show. At the opening of the Emmy in 1949 he received the award for the most outstanding television personality.
The Emmy Awards in numbers
The series that leads the ranking as the most awarded in the history of the Emmy Awards is Game of Thrones, which has so far obtained 38 awards and 128 nominations. Also the Saturday Night Live program has 44 awards and 199 nominations. Lorne Michael’s show received the award for best variety series, music and also comedy two years in a row, in 1976 and 1993. The legendary series Frasier has 108 nominations and 37 awards, throughout its 11 seasons, 1993 to 2004. The popular Cheers spinoff series also won an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series five times.
Politics is taboo
Despite the fact that in 2017 Donald Trump starred in all the jokes and jokes of the presenter, Stephen Colbert, it is rumored that politics is a taboo subject during the thank you speeches. In 2007, actress Sally Field used hers to vindicate her opposition to the war. A noble act that the FOX network blatantly censored. In the strange 2020 gala the trend was broken since it began marked by Covid-19, with frequent allusions to the pandemic, but also to the politics of the United States and the United Kingdom.
The power of streaming platforms
In 2014, House of Cards made history by becoming the first series to be nominated from a digital platform. In this case, Netflix. However, The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu’s star production, achieved the first digital fiction to win an Emmy Award in 2017. The awards of the series of digital platforms have multiplied the interest of the spectators for the ceremony.