Atkins, Baldwin, Close, Giamatti, Ivanek, Linney, Piven, Smart, Wiest, et al. Win Emmy Awards

The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 21 at the new NOKIA Theatre in Los Angeles and aired live on ABC-TV.

Jeremy Piven, who won his third consecutive Emmy for his work as agent Ari Gold on HBO’s Entourage, flew in from rehearsals of the upcoming Broadway revival of David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow. Dianne Wiest, who is currently starring in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, won for her role as a therapist on HBO’s In Treatment, but could not attend the ceremony.

Other theater veterans who won Emmys included Dame Eileen Atkins (Cranford), Alec Baldwin, (30 Rock), Glenn Close (Damages), Paul Giamatti (John Adams), Zeljko Ivanek (Damages), Laura Linney (John Adams), and Jean Smart (Samantha Who?).

At last week’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards, the 61st Annual Tony Awards was named Outstanding Special Class Program, Cynthia Nixon won for her guest turn on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Glynn Turman won for his guest spot on HBO’s In Treatment, and Keith David won for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for narrating PBS The War: A Necessary War; Live from Lincoln Center’s presentation of New York City Opera’s Madame Butterfly won for Outstanding Special Class, Classical or Dance Program; and HBO’s Autism: The Musical won for Outstanding Special.

The Primetime Emmys featured appearances by Christina Applegate, Wayne Brady, Kristin Chenoweth, Dana Delany, America Ferrera, Sally Field, Laurence Fishburne, Neil Patrick Harris, Felicity Huffman, Steve Martin, Mary Tyler Moore, Sandra Oh, William Petersen, Brooke Shields, Christian Slater, Lily Tomlin, Vanessa Williams, Oprah Winfrey, and JoAnne Worley, among many others. In addition, Josh Groban performed a medley of well-known television themes.

For more information, visit www.emmys.org.