67th Primetime Emmy Awards
The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in US prime time television programming from June 1, 2014 until May 31, 2015, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The ceremony was held on Sunday, September 20, 2015 at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California, and was broadcast in the U.S. by Fox. Andy Samberg hosted the show for the first time. The nominations were announced on July 16, 2015.
| 67th Primetime Emmy Awards | |
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| Location | Microsoft Theater, Los Angeles, California |
| Presented by | Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |
| Hosted by | Andy Samberg |
| Highlights | |
| Most awards | Olive Kitteridge (6) |
| Most nominations | American Horror Story: Freak Show (8) |
| Outstanding Comedy Series | Veep |
| Outstanding Drama Series | Game of Thrones |
| Outstanding Limited Series | Olive Kitteridge |
| Outstanding Competition Program | The Voice |
| Outstanding Variety Talk Series | The Daily Show with Jon Stewart |
| Website | http://www.emmys.com/ |
| Television/radio coverage | |
| Network | Fox |
| Produced by | Don Mischer |
| Directed by | Louis J. Horvitz |
The Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony was held on September 12 and was broadcast by FXX on September 19.
The Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards ceremony was held on October 28, 2015 at the Loews Hollywood Hotel.
The ceremony became notable for breaking two major milestones: Game of Thrones set a new record by winning 12 awards, the most for any show in a single year, up to this date (it was also the second HBO show, after The Sopranos, to win the Outstanding Drama Series award), while Viola Davis became the first African-American woman in Emmy history to win Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance as Annalise Keating in How to Get Away with Murder.
This year also saw for the first time, two Streaming service networks win four Acting awards: Netflix, with Uzo Aduba in Orange Is the New Black and Reg E. Cathey in House of Cards; and Amazon Studios, with Jeffrey Tambor for Transparent and Bradley Whitford for the same show.
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series went to the HBO political satire Veep, which not only broke Modern Family's five-year hold on the award but became the second time a premium channel won Outstanding Comedy Series (the first was for HBO's surrealist romantic comedy Sex and the City in 2001).