With Its Final Emmy Win, Game Of Thrones Officially Ends Its Watch

With Its Final Emmy Win, Game Of Thrones Officially Ends Its Watch




By Lauren Rearick


Game of Thrones capped off its recent series finale with a major accolade — a 2019 Emmy award for Outstanding Drama Series.


The HBO series, which wrapped in May soon after eight seasons, beat out fellow Emmy nominees including Better Call Saul, Killing Eve, Pose, Ozark, Succession, and This Is Us to win evening’s top prize.


However in spite of the fact that the show had gotten the most variety of 2019 Emmy nominations, it only walked away with the award for Outstanding Drama, plus a win for Peter Dinklage, who snagged Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, throughout the three-hour telecast. Though, added to the 10 Emmys the show procured at the Creative Arts Emmys last week, and that brings its total haul to 12 Emmys — tying the record for the most Emmys won by an individual season of any show. (The previous record was set by… Game of Thrones in 2015.)


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Overall, GoT is definitely no stranger to Emmy wins or nominations, and as Harpers Bazaar reported, the book series-turned-television show also holds the record for the most total Emmy wins in history.


While in their acceptance speech, the show’s creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss thanked the cast and crew, and called those involved “the hardest working crews in show business.” The pair went on to reveal one of the difficulties encountered in creating such a beloved series, and shared that filming a dragons’ sequence required 70 continuous nights of shooting in cold Belfast weather.


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obviously, the win wasn’t without reference to the show’s contentious final season. The Ringer tweeted a joke about those that disliked Season 8, and used a very appropriate Kit Harington GIF, while others tweeted, “We all kinda knew Game of Thrones would win ‘Best Drama’, however we all certainly know they didn’t deserve it soon following the final season” and “I love Game of Thrones nevertheless they shouldn’t win any damn awards for that last season. It was underwhelming.


A win for Game of Thrones wasn’t the only major highlight of the evening. Phoebe Waller-Bridge celebrated her first ever Emmy win, there was a historic win for Billy Porter, and Michelle Williams used her acceptance speech to address Hollywood's pay gap.









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