Congratulations William Shatner

[Takara_Soong 4]

WILLIAM SHATNER WINS

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR EMMY

 

From TrekToday:

 

William Shatner won his second Emmy Award for playing Denny Crane during a telecast in which the Captain Kirk actor performed the theme from the original Star Trek series with opera star Frederica von Stade.

 

Shatner won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Boston Legal, beating Oliver Platt for Showtime's Huff, Naveen Andrews and Terry O'Quinn for ABC's Lost and Alan Alda for NBC's The West Wing. Last year Shatner won Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for playing Denny Crane on The Practice, of which Boston Legal is a spinoff.

 

In his acceptance speech, Shatner joked that he had never had a full conversation with series creator David E. Kelley. He thanked the producer and his own wife as well as his co-star James Spader, who also went two-for-two with a win for portraying Alan Shore on Boston Legal after being named Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for The Practice last year.

 

CBS, which televised the show, allowed viewers to vote via their web site or text messaging on the favourite of four musical performances, which in addition to Shatner and von Stade's included Veronica Mars' Kristen Bell singing the theme song from Fame, singer Macy Gray and CSI's Gary Dourdan singing "Movin' On Up" from The Jeffersons, and The Apprentice's Donald Trump and Will and Grace's Megan Mullally singing the theme song from Green Acres. Shatner appeared to be shocked by his defeat by Trump and Mullally in viewer voting.

 

While Shatner recited the famous "Space, the final frontier..." voiceover and von Stade sang, images from the original Star Trek series were displayed on the giant screen at the Shrine Auditorium. Included were such scenes as the first interracial kiss on television between Shatner and Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), Kirk in the collar from "The Gamesters of Triskelion" and the Mugato attack.

 

The montage closed on photos of DeForest Kelley (McCoy) and James Doohan (Scotty), the two original series actors who are no longer living. The Emmys also had a memorial tribute to television entertainers who passed away in the past year, including Doohan, John Fiedler (Hengist), Frank Gorshin (Bele) and Brock Peters (Joseph Sisko/Admiral Cartwright).

[Kor37 9]

Congratulations to Shatner!..

 

Boston Legal is a great show and Shatner's character is hilarious.

[Jack_Bauer 1]

The Star Trek theme was fantastic and hilarious. I wasn't really pulling for anyone in particular in Shatner's category because I like Terry O'Quinn and Alan Alda. I was really surprised Shatner won because O'Quinn is fantastic as Locke but having another Lost actor (Naveen Andrews) in the same category probably split voters. Alda was great as Republican (the irony) presidential hopeful Senator Arnold Vinick on the West Wing but his appearances were infrequent. Never seen Huff so I can't comment on Platt, but he is usually a very good actor.

 

Other thoughts...Raymond probably won best comedy (and the actors who won for Raymond) because its over (I personally think Arrested Development is the best comedy on television)...Kiefer Sutherland shut out again for Best Actor, again, granted he didn't have many standout moments this year (that I can remember) but he is so consistently good it is hard to top...Shaloub deserves his Emmy, though I was pulling for Bateman...Lost as best drama is a fairly obvious choice, still wanted 24 to win.

[Matt 0]

Congratulations Shatner. I've only seen snippets of 'Boston Legal' but from what I've heard he well deserved it.

 

Oh and if any one could post what he did with the Star Trek theme tune I'd love to see it.

[deagletime 1]

Congratulations Shatner. I've only seen snippets of 'Boston Legal' but from what I've heard he well deserved it.

 

Oh and if any one could post what he did with the Star Trek theme tune I'd love to see it.

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if u missed it, shatners perfomance is available for download at this link

 

http://www.livejournal.com/community/ohnot...nt/3549609.html

Edited September 19, 2005 by deagletime

[Capt_Picard 0]

Way to go... he should have won this back 38 years ago I think.

[Matt 0]

Thanks deagletime.

[stvoyagerfan 1]

way to go shatner! totally cool! i was a bit surprised that he won but the emmy voters who ever they are must have liked him. they also like his costar james spader who won as well.

 

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