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“Transparent” emerged as an early winner atSunday’s Emmy Awards, capturing a bestcomedy actor trophy for Jeffrey Tambor and a

directing award for its creator, and giving both winners achance to pay tribute to the show’s trangender themes.“I’d like to dedicate my performance and this award tothe transgender community. ... Thanks for letting us bepart of the change,” said Tambor, who plays a man jour-neying toward womanhood. Jill Soloway, who based theseries on her own father’s story, used her directing tro-phy acceptance speech to ask for equal rights for trans-gender individuals.

“It is legal in the majority of US states to refuse to rentto trans people,” she said, saying the country has a civilrights problem that must be addressed. The Emmysdidn’t give up their fondness for choosing the familiarover the groundbreaking. Past winners won again,including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, honored as best lead com-edy actress for “Veep” for the fourth time. Allison Janneyof “Mom” and Tony Hale of “Veep” were repeat winnersfor supporting comedy acting honors. Janney, who playsa dysfunctional parent, thanked series producer ChuckLorre for creating a deeply flawed character and “think-ing of me to play her.”

“This is nuts,” said Tony Hale, thanking his show’s writ-ers and lauding his fellow nominees: “You make melaugh hard.” Regina King won the trophy for best actressin a limited series or movie for “American Crime.” HostAndy Samberg kicked off the ceremony with a video inwhich he made elaborate fun of the overload of TV pro-grams available. “So many shows, so little,” he sang,before entering a “TV viewing bunker” to binge-view onall the nominated shows. A bearded, shaggy-hairedSamberg emerged to boast to contenders Jon Hammand Kerry Washington that he had them and everyoneelse covered.

Appearing on stage, groomed, Samberg touchedbriefly on the political scene. “Sure, Donald Trump seemsracist,” he said. “What else?” He also took note of what hecalled the most diverse group of nominees in Emmy his-tory. They include Viola Davis and Taraji P. Henson, whocould become the first non-white winner in the best dra-ma series actress category. “So congratulations,Hollywood, you did it. Racism is over! Don’t fact-checkthat,” Samberg said. “Game of Thrones,” this year’s topnominee overall, could make a notable showing with abest drama victory: It would become the second fantasyor sci-fi show to get the award, following “Lost” in 2005.

Its competition includes the final season of “MadMen,” poised to set a record as the most honored dramaseries ever with a fifth award. The cast hasn’t fared aswell, never winning despite repeated nods. Making alast stand are star Hamm, whose portrayal of troubledad man Don Draper has been nominated for each of thedrama’s eight seasons, along with best actress nomineeElisabeth Moss and supporting actress contenderChristina Hendricks. When it comes to ratings, Fox iscounting on more than the audience’s love of TV as theattraction. “Fox NFL Sunday” is broadcasting from thered carpet and the Philadelphia Eagles-Dallas Cowboystelecast precedes the awards. Having football as thelead-in to 2013’s Emmys made the ceremony a winnerfor CBS with 17.8 million viewers, the biggest audiencein eight years. Last year’s 15.6 million viewers was thesecond-highest total for the period. — AP

The cast and crew of “Game of Thrones”, winners of the award for outstanding drama series, pose in the press room at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. — AP/AFP photos

Emmy Awards snapped up by‘Games of Thrones’ and ‘Veep’

Peter Dinklage, winner of the awardfor outstanding supporting actor in adrama series for ‘Game of Thrones’.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, winner of theawards for outstanding lead actress ina comedy series and outstandingcomedy series for “Veep”.

Television personality Jon Stewart, winner of theOutstanding Variety Talk Series for “The Daily Showwith Jon Stewart.’

The cast and crew of “Veep”, winners of the award for outstanding comedy series. Armando Iannucci, center, and the cast and crew of “Veep” accept the award for outstand-ing comedy series.

DB Weiss, left, and David Benioff accept the award for outstanding drama series for‘Game Of Thrones’.

Jon Stewart and the cast and crew, winners of the award for outstanding variety talkseries for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”.

Actress Frances McDormand, winnerof the award for Outstanding LeadActress in a Limited Series or Moviefor ‘Olive Kitteridge’ and the award forOutstanding Limited Series for ‘OliveKitteridge’.

Actress/writer Amy Schumer accepts Outstanding VarietySketch Series award for ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ on stage.

Francis McDormand, left, and the cast of “Olive Kitteridge” accepts the awardfor outstanding limited series for ‘Olive Kitteridge’.

Chuck O’Neil accepts the award for outstanding directingfor a variety series for ‘The Daily Show With Jon Stewart’.