The most surprising Emmy winners ever

The most surprising Emmy winners ever
Sometimes an Emmy win comes with zero surprise. Eventually Julia Louis-Dreyfus winning for “Veep” became inevitable, for example, and then she won a couple of more on top of that. That being said, sometimes an Emmy win does come as a shocker. Maybe the winner wasn’t that big of a show. Maybe it went to a show, or actor, that has faded into history. Here are the Emmy winners that have raised our eyebrows and dropped our jaws the most.

Julia Garner
The 2019 Emmys were in many ways a swan song for “Game of Thrones.” Despite complaints about the final season, it still won Outstanding Drama Series, and Peter Dinklage got another win. Four different “Game of Thrones” actresses were nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress, and yet none of them won. Instead, Garner rose above to sit on the Emmys’ throne for her turn in “Ozark.”

Alec Baldwin
Three former winners were up for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2016. The great Tituss Burgess was also nominated. And yet the winner was Baldwin for “Saturday Night Live,” a show on which he isn’t even a cast member. He won for doing a passable Donald Trump impression.

Ben Mendelsohn

Do you remember the show “Bloodline?” It was on Netflix for a couple of seasons but didn’t make a splash or really grab people. Mendelsohn still managed to win Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role in it in 2016 over notable names such as Jonathan Banks and Jon Voight. Plus, guys not named “Jon.”

Louie Anderson
Apparently 2016 was a big year for surprises. Let’s be clear, Anderson is great as Christine Baskets, the mother of Zach Galifianakis’ character on “Baskets.” Yes, we said mother. Anderson does the role in drag, but it isn’t played for laughs. The surprise is that this supremely weird, barely watched show got enough love to get Anderson an Emmy for Supporting Actor in a Comedy.