71st Primetime Emmy Awards

On April 9, 2019, it was announced that American Horror Story: Apocalypse, the eighth season of the horror anthology series American Horror Story, and the second season of The Sinner would be ineligible for the Limited Series categories unlike their previous seasons, and instead be moved to Drama due to "continuing story threads, characters and actors reprising those same character roles from previous seasons", therefore making the series less fit for an anthology format. For similar reasons, the second season of American Vandal was moved from Limited Series to Comedy. None of the shows were nominated.[15][16][17]

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold:[18][lower-alpha 1]

Bill Hader, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series winner

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series winner

Billy Porter, Outstanding Lead Actor in Drama Series winner

Jharrel Jerome, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie winner

Michelle Williams, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie winner

Tony Shalhoub, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series winner

Alex Borstein, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series winner

Peter Dinklage, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series winner

Julia Garner, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series winner

Ben Whishaw, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie winner

Patricia Arquette, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie winner

Thomas Lennon served as announcer for the "host-less" ceremony[19]

The ceremony took place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles with no host; comedian and actor Thomas Lennon served as an announcer for the ceremony, injecting with jokes and commentary as winners approached the stage to receive their Emmy.[20] Televised by Fox, the ceremony began with a ruse where Homer Simpson appeared in an augmented-reality stage to host the event, before an animated piano dropped from the ceiling to land on The Simpsons' character. With the event now "host-less", Anthony Anderson rushed on stage in a skit where he insisted that "We’re going to go without a host tonight!"[19] and pushed the first presenter Bryan Cranston to the stage to welcome the audience[21] and introduce a montage of video clips. The ceremony continued in such fashion with only Lennon and montages and clips filling the time between presenters.[19]

Several winners made notable "statement speeches" while accepting their awards. After winning the award for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Alex Borstein said:[21]

My grandmother was in line to be shot into a pit... she turned to a guard and she said "What happens if I step out of line?" and he said "I don't have the heart to shoot you but somebody will". And she stepped out of line, and for that I am here and for that my children are here, so step out of line ladies, step out of line.

The winner for outstanding supporting actress in a limited series or movie, Patricia Arquette (The Act), in her acceptance speech said "I'm grateful at 50 to be getting the best parts of my life" and paid tribute to her sister, Alexis Arquette, who had died in 2016.[21] Michelle Williams, after winning the award for outstanding lead actress in a limited series or movie for Fosse/Verdon, made references to the gender and racial wage gaps in the film industry, as well as the Time's Up movement:[21][22]

The next time a woman, and especially a woman of color—because she stands to make 52 cents on the dollar compared to her white, male counterpart—tells you what she needs in order to do her job, listen to her, believe her, because one day she might stand in front of you and say thank you for allowing her to succeed because of her workplace environment and not in spite of it.

In the In Memoriam presentation, a photograph of conductor Leonard Slatkin, who is alive and working in Ireland, was mistakenly used and captioned as André Previn, who died in February 2019.[23][24][25]

The telecast was watched by 6.9 million viewers in the United States, making it the lowest-rated Emmy broadcast in history, amounting to a 32% drop from the 2018 ceremony.[1]

• Emmys.com list of 2019 Nominees & Winners
• Academy of Television Arts and Sciences website
• 71st Primetime Emmy Awards at IMDb