67th Primetime Emmy Awards

The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in US prime time television programming from June 1, 2014, until May 31, 2015, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The ceremony was held on Sunday, September 20, 2015, at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California, where 26 awards were presented, and was broadcast in the U.S. by Fox. Andy Samberg hosted the show for the first time. The nominations were announced on July 16, 2015.
The Creative Arts Emmy Awards 67th Primetime [Creative Arts Emmy Awards|ceremony] was held on September 12 and was broadcast by FXX on September 19.
The Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards ceremony was held on October 28, 2015, at the Loews Hollywood Hotel.
The ceremony became notable for breaking two major milestones: Game of Thrones set a new record by winning 12 awards, the most for any show in a single year, up to this date, while Viola Davis became the first African-American woman in Emmy history to win Primetime [Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series|Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series] for her performance as Annalise Keating in How to Get Away with Murder.
This year also saw for the first time, two Streaming service networks win four Acting awards: Netflix, with Uzo Aduba in Orange Is the New Black and Reg E. Cathey in House of Cards; and Amazon Studios, with Jeffrey Tambor for Transparent and Bradley Whitford for the same show.
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series went to the HBO political satire Veep, which not only broke Modern Familys five-year hold on the award but became the second time a premium channel won Outstanding Comedy Series.

Rule changes

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced new rule changes for the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards. These new rules are:

All voters eligible for a category's nominations are now eligible to vote in that category, providing that they have seen the submitted material and attest to no specific conflicts of interest.
The number of nominees in the Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Comedy Series categories will expand from six nominees to seven, due to the increase in series production.
To clarify the difference between a Comedy series and a Drama series, any show where episodes average a length of 30 minutes is eligible to enter as a comedy and series with episodes that average a length of 1 hour is eligible as a drama. There may be exceptions to the rules, however: producers may formally petition to a new Academy panel to have the show be considered for the alternative category. This panel, consisting of five industry leaders appointed by the Academy chairman and four appointees from the Board of Governors, will vote on a decision. A two-thirds vote was required for the show to be considered for the alternative category. So far, three petitions have been successful: Glee, Jane the Virgin, and Shameless were voted as eligible for "Outstanding Comedy Series".
The Outstanding Miniseries was renamed as "Outstanding Limited Series". A "Limited Series" is defined as a program consisting of two or more episodes totaling 150 minutes as a whole, tell a complete, non-recurring story, and do not have an ongoing storyline and/or main characters in subsequent seasons.
A "Guest Actor" is now defined as a performer appearing in less than 50% of the program's episodes. Only performers that fit this criterion are allowed to submit.
The Outstanding Variety Series category has been split into two separate categories: "Outstanding Variety Talk" and "Outstanding Variety Sketch".
Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger. For simplicity, producers who received nominations for program awards, as well as nominated writers for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series, have been omitted.

Programs

Acting

Lead performances

Supporting performances

Directing

Writing

Most major nominations

Program	Category	Network	No. of Nominations
American Horror Story: Freak Show	Limited	FX	8
Game of Thrones	Drama	HBO	7
Olive Kitteridge	Limited	HBO	7
American Crime	Limited	ABC	6
Mad Men	Drama	AMC	6
Veep	Comedy	HBO	6
Bessie	Movie	HBO	5
Transparent	Comedy	Amazon	5
Wolf Hall	Limited	PBS	5
Better Call Saul	Drama	AMC	4
The Honorable Woman	Limited	Sundance TV	4
House of Cards	Drama	Netflix	4
Inside Amy Schumer	Variety Sketch	Comedy Central	4
Louie	Comedy	FX	4
The Colbert Report	Variety Talk	Comedy Central	3
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart	Variety Talk	Comedy Central	3
Downton Abbey	Drama	PBS	3
Homeland	Drama	Showtime	3
Key & Peele	Variety Sketch	Comedy Central	3
The Last Man on Earth	Comedy	Fox	3
Modern Family	Comedy	ABC	3
Silicon Valley	Comedy	HBO	3
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Comedy	Netflix	3
Bloodline	Drama	Netflix	2
Episodes	Comedy	Showtime	2
The Good Wife	Drama	CBS	2
Houdini	Limited	History	2
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	Variety Talk	HBO	2
Late Show with David Letterman	Variety Talk	CBS	2
Orange Is the New Black	Drama	Netflix	2
Parks and Recreation	Comedy	NBC	2
Saturday Night Live	Variety Sketch	NBC	2
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Variety Talk	NBC	2

Most major awards

Program	Category	Network	No. of Awards
Olive Kitteridge	Limited	HBO	6
Game of Thrones	Drama	HBO	4
Veep	Comedy	HBO	4
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart	Variety Talk	Comedy Central	3
Transparent	Comedy	Amazon	2

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Presenters and performers

The awards were presented by the following:

Presenters

Performers

''In Memoriam''

The In Memoriam segment featured the song "Over the Rainbow" by Eva Cassidy: