Emmys: Diversity reigns over Trump as ‘Big Little Lies,’ ‘Handmaid’s Tale,’ ‘SNL’ dominate

Against the backdrop of President Donald Trump’s assaults on the media, women, and people of color, two feminist dramas and America’s most powerful platform for political satire dominated at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards, Variety.com reports.

HBO’s “Big Little Lies” took the award for best limited series and Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” won for best drama series, with both dominating most of the categories in their respective fields.

But NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” outperformed both, winning the most Emmys between Sunday night’s ceremony and the Creative Arts Emmys a week earlier. “SNL” took nine awards, one more than “Big Little Lies” and “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which tied for second place with eight each.

With Trump the subject of near constant onstage talk — from gentle ribbing to pointed defiance — women and people of color stood out as they accepted their awards, including Nicole Kidman, Sterling K. Brown, Elisabeth Moss, Donald Glover, Riz Ahmed, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Aziz Ansari, and Lena Waithe.

“Veep,” another political satire, won for best comedy series, its third straight award in the category. Since 2007, only three shows have won best comedy series — “30 Rock,” “Modern Family,” and “Veep.”

Laura Dern won the first “Big Little Lies” award of the night, for best supporting limited series-movie actress. Director Jean-Marc Vallee also won, as did Alexander Skarsgård, who took a best supporting actor, miniseries or movie Emmy.

Later in the show, Dern and Skarsgård’s castmate, Kidman, won best movie or limited-series drama actress.