Emmy Awards: 'The Bear' wins three awards for its actors
LOS ANGELES — “The Bear” came back for seconds at the Emmys, scoring repeat wins Sunday night for best actor, best supporting actor and best supporting actress in a comedy.
The star of the Chicago-based show, Jeremy Allen White, won best actor in a comedy for the second straight year, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach repeated as best supporting actor.
A surprise came when Liza Colón-Zayas, who plays Tina, won best supporting actor over major competition.
“How could I have thought it would be possible to be in the presence of Meryl Streep and Carol Burnett,” Colón-Zayas said as tears welled in her eyes as she accepted the award on the stage of the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
She is the first Latina to win in the category.
“To all the Latinas who are looking at me,” she said, “keep believing and vote.”
“The Bear,” made by FX to stream on Hulu, could easily repeat the performance it had at the January strike-delayed Emmys, when it won six including most of the top categories in comedy.
While the third season of FX’s “The Bear” has already dropped, the trio won their Emmys for its second, in which White’s chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto attempts to turn his family’s grungy Chicago sandwich shop into an elite restaurant, with Moss-Bachrach’s Richard “Cousin Richie” Jerimovich going from foul-mouthed ruffian to mindful maître d’.
The father-son hosting duo of Eugene and Dan Levy in their monologue at the top of the show mocked the very dramatic “The Bear” being in the comedy category.
“In the true spirit of ‘The Bear,’ we will not be making any jokes,” Eugene Levy said, to laughs.
Jean Smart won best actress in a comedy for “Hacks.” She has won for all three seasons of “Hacks,” and has six Emmys overall.
She bested nominees including Ayo Edebiri, who as co-star of “The Bear” moved from the supporting actress category, which she won in January, to lead actress.
Coming into the show the big story was another FX show, “Shogun,” which had already taken the most Emmys for a show in a single season with 14 at the precursors Creative Arts Emmys.
“Shogun” lost its first chance at winning on the main show Sunday when Billy Crudup of "The Morning Show" took best supporting actor in a drama over Tadanobu Asano.
“Shogun,” the FX series about lordly politicking in feudal Japan, can still win as many as five more Emmys, including best actor in a drama, best actress in a drama and best drama series.
Veteran screen star Hiroyuki Sanada, up for best actor, and Anna Sawai, up for best actress, are in position to become the first Japanese actors to win Emmys.
If it faces any competition at all for the best drama prize, it could come for the sixth and final season of “The Crown,” the only show among the nominees that has won before in a category recently dominated by the retired “Succession.”
Elizabeth Debicki took best supporting actress in a drama for playing Princess Diana at the end of her life in the sixth and final season of the show.
“Playing this part, based on this unparalleled, incredible human being, has been my great privilege," Debicki said. "It’s been a gift.”