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