The fantasy show and political comedy Veep are the biggest winners at television's equivalent to the Oscars.
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| Game Of Thrones Named Best TV Drama |
After five years on air Game Of Thrones has been named the best television drama series at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.
The fantasy series, which airs on Sky Atlantic in the UK, won some of the top awards of the night after being nominated for a huge 24 prizes.
The show also took home awards for writing, directing and for supporting actor Peter Dinklage.
Dinklage embraced his co-star Lena Headey before collecting his statuette and told the packed crowd in the Microsoft Theatre: "I was chewing gum, I wasn't prepared because the other actors in my category awe me with their performances."
"Thank you HBO for believing in dragons," co-creator David Benioff said.
The night belonged to US shows with Washington comedy series Veep ending Modern Family's reign after being named best comedy series.
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| Jon Hamm fell over as he went to collect his prize |
Its star Julia Louis-Dreyfus won best comedy actress for the fourth time for playing the egotistical Selina Meyer, while Tony Hale, who plays her bag man, was again named comedy supporting actor.
Veep also clinched the comedy writing statuette for British writers Simon Blackwell, Amando Iannucci, Tony Roche.
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| Dinklage Unprepared For Emmy Win |
Viola Davis became the first African-American to win a drama lead actress Emmy for her role as a defence lawyer in How To Get Away With Murder.
"The only thing that separates women of colour from anyone else is opportunity," Davis said. "You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there."
Jon Hamm finally snared an Emmy for his lead role as Don Draper in the now-finished Mad Men, winning a standing ovation from the audience.
The actor tripped up as he collected his award from Tina Fey but after composing himself said: "There has been a terrible mistake clearly. It is impossible to named with all those extraordinary gentlemen, it's impossible to be up here and to have done this show with these incredible people.
"It's incredible and impossible for me personally to be standing here so I want to thank the people I owe an incredible debt, families who have chosen for some reason to take me in and be nice to me. Thank you to everybody who watched the show and thank you for this."
Frances McDormand kept things succinct when she scored outstanding lead actress in a limited series or a film for her performance in the title role of Olive Kitteridge.
She said: "We are all here because of the power of a story well told and sometimes that is enough."
Bill Murray won outstanding supporting actor in a limited series or a film for his role in the show but was not there to collect the gong.
The programme won six awards in total.
But it was a disappointing night for British programmes, with Downton Abbey walking away empty-handed despite being named in three categories.
Source : skynews