
Game of Thrones conquers Emmy Awards, sets new record
GAME of Thrones has taken out the top gong at today's Primetime Emmy Awards.
The popular fantasy drama series, currently filming its sixth season, was named Most Outstanding Drama Series at the 67th annual awards in Los Angeles.
The HBO show also set a new Emmys record for the most wins, 12, in a single year by a TV series previously held by West Wing.
Author George RR Martin was in attendance alongside many of the show's stars including Lena Headey, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams and Peter Dinklage, who took home the award for Most Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama.

Viola Davis also made history by becoming the first African American woman to be named Most Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama.
She used the opportunity to highlight the women battling racial and gender inequalities in the industry.
"You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there," she said.
"So here's to all the writers, the awesome people… who have redefined what it means to be beautiful, sexy, to be a leading women, to be black."
Mini-series Olive Kitteridge and comedy Veep were the other big winners of the night, winning six and four awards respectively.
Retired The Daily Show host Jon Stewart was also commended for his final season at the helm of the long-running satirical news show, which was named Most Outstanding Variety Talk Series. The show also took home the awards for Most Outstanding Writing and Directing of a Variety Series.
Jon Hamm also finally won his first Emmy for his starring role in the final season of the period drama Mad Men.
Actor Tracey Morgan also received a standing ovation for his first public appearance since recovering from a horrific car crash which left him in a coma for eight days.
2015 Emmy Awards winners
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
Better Call Saul
Downton Abbey
Game of Thrones*
Homeland
House of Cards
Mad Men
Orange is the New Black
OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
Louie
Modern Family
Parks and Recreation
Silicon Valley
Transparent
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Veep*
LEAD ACTOR, DRAMA
Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
Kyle Chandler, Bloodline
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards
Jon Hamm, Mad Men*
Jeff Daniels, The Newsroom
Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan
LEAD ACTRESS, DRAMA
Taraji P. Henson, Empire
Claire Danes, Homeland
Viola Davis, How to Get Away with Murder*
Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Robin Wright, House of Cards
LEAD ACTOR, LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Timothy Hutton, American Crime
Ricky Gervais, Derek Special
Adrien Brody, Houdini
David Oyelowo, Nightingale
Richard Jenkins, Olive Kitteridge*
Mark Rylance, Wolf Hall
LEAD ACTRESS, LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Felicity Huffman, American Crime
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story
Queen Latifah, Bessie
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Honorable Woman
Frances McDormand, Olive Kitteridge*
Emma Thompson, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
LEAD ACTOR, COMEDY
Anthony Anderson, black-ish
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Will Forte, The Last Man On Earth
Louis CK, Louie
William H. Macy, Shameless
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent*
LEAD ACTRESS, COMEDY
Lisa Kudrow, The Comeback
Lily Tomlin, Grace And Frankie
Amy Schumer, Inside Amy Schumer
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Amy Poehler, Parks And Recreation
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep*
REALITY-COMPETITION SERIES
The Amazing Race
Dancing With The Stars
Project Runway
So You Think You Can Dance
Top Chef
The Voice*
VARIETY TALK SERIES
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart*
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Late Show With David Letterman
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
LIMITED SERIES
American Crime
American Horror Story: Freak Show
The Honorable Woman
Olive Kitteridge*
Wolf Hall
VARIETY SKETCH SERIES
Drunk History
Inside Amy Schumer*
Key & Peele
Portlandia
Saturday Night Live
TELEVISION MOVIE
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Curtain, Poirot's Last Case
Bessie*
Grace of Monaco
Hello Ladies: The Movie
Killing Jesus
Nightingale
SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA
Jonathan Banks, Better Call Saul
Ben Mendelsohn, Bloodline
Jim Carter, Downton Abbey
Peter Dinklage, Game Of Thrones*
Alan Cumming, The Good Wife
Michael Kelly, House Of Cards
SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA
Joanne Froggatt, Downton Abbey
Lena Headey, Game Of Thrones
Emilia Clarke, Game Of Thrones
Christine Baranski, The Good Wife
Christina Hendricks, Mad Men
Uzo Aduba, Orange Is The New Black*
GUEST ACTOR, DRAMA
Alan Alda, The Blacklist
Michael J Fox, The Good Wife
F Murray Abraham, Homeland
Reg E Cathey, House of Cards*
Beau Bridges, Masters Of Sex
Pablo Schreiber, Orange Is The New Black
GUEST ACTRESS, DRAMA
Margo Martindale, The Americans*
Diana Rigg, Game of Thrones
Rachel Brosnahan, House Of Cards
Cicely Tyson, How To Get Away With Murder
Allison Janney, Masters Of Sex
Khandi Alexander, Scandal
SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY
Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Adam Driver, Girls
Keegan-Michael Key, Key & Peele
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Tony Hale, Veep*
SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY
Mayim Bialik, The Big Bang Theory
Niecy Nash, Getting On
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Allison Janney, Mom*
Kate McKinnon Saturday Night Live
Gaby Hoffmann, Transparent
Jane Krakowski, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Anna Chlumsky, Veep
GUEST ACTOR, COMEDY
Mel Brooks, The Comedians
Paul Giamatti, Inside Amy Schumer
Bill Hader, Saturday Night Live
Louis CK, Saturday Night Live
Bradley Whitford, Transparent*
Jon Hamm, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
GUEST ACTRESS, COMEDY
Christine Baranski, The Big Bang Theory
Gaby Hoffmann, Girls
Pamela Adlon, Louie
Elizabeth Banks, Modern Family
Joan Cusack, Shameless*
Tina Fey, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
SUPPORTING ACTOR, LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Richard Cabral, American Crime
Denis O'Hare, American Horror Story: Freak Show
Finn Wittrock, American Horror Story: Freak Show
Michael Kenneth Williams, Bessie
Bill Murray, Olive Kitteridge*
Damian Lewis, Wolf Hall
SUPPORTING ACTRESS, LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Regina King, American Crime*
Sarah Paulson, American Horror Story: Freak Show
Angela Bassett, American Horror Story: Freak Show
Kathy Bates, American Horror Story: Freak Show
Mo'Nique, Bessie
Zoe Kazan, Olive Kitteridge
HOST, REALITY OR REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM
Tom Bergeron, Dancing with the Stars
Jane Lynch, Hollywood Game Night*
Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn, Project Runway
Cat Deeley, So You Think You Can Dance
Anthony Bourdain, The Taste
STRUCTURED REALITY PROGRAM
Antiques Roadshow
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
MythBusters
Property Brothers
Shark Tank*
Undercover Boss
UNSTRUCTURED REALITY PROGRAM
Alaska: The Last Frontier
Deadliest Catch*
Intervention
Million Dollar Listing New York
Naked And Afraid
Wahlburgers
WRITING FOR A VARIETY SERIES
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart*
Inside Amy Schumer
Key & Peele
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
WRITING FOR A COMEDY SERIES
Veep*
Episodes
The Last Man on Earth
Louie
Silicon Valley
Transparent
WRITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
David Benioff and DB Weiss, Game of Thrones*
Joshua Brand, The Americans
Gordon Smith, Better Call Saul
Semi Chellas and Matthew Weiner, Mad Men
Matthew Weiner, Mad Men
WRITING FOR A LIMITED SERIES, MOVIE
Jane Anderson, Olive Kitteridge*
John Ridley, American Crime
Dee Rees, Christopher Cleveland, Bettina Gilois and Horton Foote, Bessie
Stephen Merchant, Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, Hello Ladies: The Movie
Hugo Blick, The Honorable Woman
Peter Straughan, Wolf Hall
DIRECTING FOR A COMEDY SERIES
Jill Soloway, Transparent*
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, Last Man on Earth
Louis CK, Louie
Mike Judge, Silicon Valley
Amanda Iannuci, Veep
DIRECTING FOR A LIMITED SERIES, MOVIE
Lisa Cholodenko, Olive Kitteridge*
Ryan Murphy, American Horror Story: Freak Show
Dee Rees, Bessie
Hugo Blick, The Honorable Woman
Uli Edel, Houdini
Tom Shankland, The Missing
Peter Kosminsky, Wolf Hall
DIRECTING FOR A VARIETY SERIES
Chuck O'Neil, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart*
James Hoskinson, The Colbert Report
Amy Schumer and Ryan McFaul, Inside Amy Schumer
Jerry Foley, Late Show with David Letterman
Dave Diomedi, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
DIRECTING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
David Nutter, Game of Thrones*
Tim Van Patten, Boardwalk Empire
Jeremy Podeswa, Game of Thrones
Lesli Linka Glatter, Homeland
Steven Soderbergh, The Knick