The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards, which recognises the best television shows and performances of the year, will be hosted by The Late Show host Stephen Colbert.

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Emmys long-standing records
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With the 2017 Emmy Awards around the corner, we are taking a moment to look back at some of the long-standing records from its previous ceremonies.

  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus has won five times in a row for Veep (no other actor has won consecutively)
  • Game of Thrones is the most-awarded drama series with 38 wins
  • The Simpsons is the most-awarded animated series with 85 nominations and 32 wins
  • Most awards won by a single show: Saturday Night Live (42 awards)
  • The biggest winner for the most Emmys won by a writer/producer is James L Brooks, who has 17 Emmys, for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-offs, The Tracey Ullman Show, and finally The Simpsons.
  • Roots has won 37 nominations in a single year
  • Louie star/creator Louis CK was nominated for nine different awards, ranging from writing to performing to directing to producing to editing to hosting Saturday Night Live.
  • Viola Davis made history as the first black actress to win Oustanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
  • Mr Robot's Rami Malek is the first non-white actor to win the Emmys' Best Actor in a Drama Series category in 18 years. It also makes Malek the first Egyptian-American to win an Emmy acting award. 
  • ER's pilot "Love's Labor Lost" took home several trophies for writing, directing, editing, and sound editing and mixing (and was nominated for multiple acting awards): five Emmys for a single episode.

The 69th Primetime Emmy Award ceremony will be aired live on September 17 at 8 pm ET/ 5 pm ET on CBS.

You can also watch it live (in India) exclusively on Star World, Star World HD and Star World Premiere HD at 5 am on September 18 with a primetime repeat at 8 pm.

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