We have a good feeling about this.
In an Emmy-night shocker, Somebody Somewhere star Jeff Hiller won the Best Comedy Supporting Actor statuette over Shrinking’s Harrison Ford. The Hollywood legend had won some of the best reviews of his career for playing therapist Dr. Paul Rhoades on the Apple TV+ comedy and was heavily favored to win for its second season.
Instead, Hiller’s name ended up being called for the third and final season of the HBO series, fending off a group of nominees that included The Studio’s Ike Barinholtz, aka the oft-thanked Sal Saperstein. And Hiller seemed as shocked to be accepting the award as everyone in the audience.
“I just want to say thank you to HBO for putting a show about sweaty, middle-aged people as the sexy teens of Euphoria,” Hiller said, going on to credit the show’s creators with making a series “about connecting and love in this time when compassion is seen as a weakness.”
The actor saved his final thinks for Somebody Somewhere star Bridget Everett. “You changed my life and you told so many people to believe in themselves and they do,” he remarked. Heading into the Emmys, Hiller had been in fifth place on Gold Derby’s leaderboard with Barinholtz in the top spot and Ford in second place.
Comedy Supporting Actor
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Ike Barinholtz
The Studio
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Ebon Moss-Bachrach
The Bear
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Bowen Yang
Saturday Night Live
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Jeff Hiller
Somebody Somewhere
Winner
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Colman Domingo
The Four Seasons
Speaking with Gold Derby on the red carpet ahead of the Emmys said he was in “awe” to be attending the ceremony and revealed that he had been particularly excited to meet Melissa Peterman from Reba. He also called us out for not believing that he would win, to which we say… mea culpa.
Had Ford won, it would have been his first-ever major acting award. The actor’s previous awards history includes a Best Actor nomination for Peter Weir’s acclaimed drama, Witness, at the 58th Academy Awards in 1986. Ford lost that statuette to William Hurt’s groundbreaking performance in Kiss of the Spider Woman. He was also nominated for Best Drama Actor at the Golden Globes for that same performance, but lost to Jon Voight in Runaway Train.
Ford was subsequently nominated for four additional Golden Globes, including a pair of Best Film Drama Actor nods for The Mosquito Coast in 1987 and The Fugitive in 1994, a Best Film Comedy/Musical Actor nod for Sabrina in 1996, and a Best Supporting Actor nod for Shrinking earlier this year. He received the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2002 Golden Globes, which was presented by his temporary replacement as Jack Ryan, Ben Affleck. “My luck is holding — I’m nominated in a category where the competition is dead,” he joked in his acceptance speech, acknowledging his unfortunate losing streak in awards races. That streak continues… for now.
Editor’s note: Golden Globes producer Dick Clark Productions is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between Eldridge and Penske Media Corporation, which owns Gold Derby.