Regina King kicks off Watchmen’s Emmy winning streak

Watchmen, the most-nominated show at this year’s unique Emmy awards celebration, picked up an impressive pile of hardware in major categories like Outstanding Limited Series, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series. Regina King kicked off the winning streak for the HBO series, a show in which she stars as a masked hero/vigilante trying to survive in a dystopian alternate reality, the impetus of which is the real-life 1921 Tulsa massacre.With a total of 26 noms from Television Academy voters, it was almost a sure thing that Watchmen, based on a comic book series written by Alan Moore, would get some love at the Emmys (once the Schitt's Sweep finally ended). And so it did, with King breaking the Canadian winning streak with her Best Actress in a Limited Series triumph (and fresh off of her highly acclaimed directorial debut at TIFF, too). Wearing a ‘Say Her Name’ t-shirt with Breonna Taylor’s face on it, King thanked her fellow nominees, Kerry Washington, Octavia Spencer, Shira Haas and Cate Blanchett. “It’s an honour to be in this category with you,” said King, before shouting out showrunner (and Outstanding Writing award winner) Damon Lindelof for leading his cast on a journey where they could use “art to speak truth to power.”