The 2023 Emmy Awards were its most diverse yet! The Emmys celebrated its 75th anniversary on Monday night after being pushed 4 months due to the dual writers and actors strikes. Appropriately falling on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the show handed out five of the 12 acting Emmys during the telecast to performers of color.
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00:03 The 2023 Emmy Awards were its most diverse yet. The Emmy celebrated its 75th anniversary on Monday
00:11 night after being pushed four months due to the dual writers and actor strikes. Appropriately
00:16 falling on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the show handed out five of the 12 acting Emmys during
00:21 the telecast to performers of color. The show made history with its first two awards of the night,
00:26 with wins for The Bears' Iowa Debrie and Abbott Elementary's Quinta Brunson,
00:30 marking the first time that the supporting and lead comedy actress Emmys both went to
00:34 black women in the same year. In addition, Brunson is only the second black woman ever to win for
00:40 lead actress in a comedy series after The Jeffersons' Isabel Sanford did in 1981.
00:52 Nisi Nash-Betts was the third black actress to win an Emmy on Monday night in Best Supporting
00:57 Actress in a Limited Series. "I accept this award on behalf of every black and brown woman who has
01:04 gone unheard yet over-policed." It was also a historic night for the AAPI community. Beef's
01:10 near-sweep in the limited series races meant Emmys for its lead performers, Stephen Yeun and Ali
01:15 Wong. Wong is the first Asian woman ever to earn an Emmy for a lead role. "To my beautiful daughters,
01:22 Mari and Nikki, you are my everything and thank you for inspiring me." In non-acting categories,
01:28 RuPaul's Drag Race host RuPaul extended his record for most decorated person of color in Emmys
01:34 history with 15 and counting. And Trevor Noah became the first person from the global majority
01:39 to front an Emmy-winning talk show. "We did it! We got rid of John Oliver!" For more on everything
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