The winners of the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced at a televised ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday night.
Literary adaptations didn’t have the best night, with one exception: Adam Randall took home the Emmy for best directing for a drama series for Slow Horses, based on Mick Herron’s Slough House series of spy novels. The most recent book in the series, Clown Town, was published last week.
Slow Horses was also up for the best drama series award, which ended up going to The Pitt. Gary Oldman was nominated for best actor in a drama series, but lost to The Pitt star Noah Wyle.
Presumed Innocent, an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1987 novel, didn’t end up winning any of the four Primetime Emmy Awards for which it was nominated. Jake Gyllenhaal, Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, and Peter Sarsgaard had all earned nods for their work in the series.
Adaptations fared a little better at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which were announced earlier this month. Bridgerton, based on Julia Quinn’s historical romance series, won three Emmys, including outstanding character voiceover performance (Julie Andrews), outstanding period costumes, and outstanding period or fantasy/sci-fi hairstyling.
House of the Dragon, based on George R.R. Martin’s novel Fire & Blood, took home one Creative Arts Emmy, for outstanding period or fantasy/sci-fi makeup (non-prosthetic).
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
