65th Primetime Emmy Awards
Promotional poster
Date	September 22, 2013[1] (Ceremony) September 15, 2013[1] (Creative Arts Awards)
Location	Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles,California
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Hosted by	Neil Patrick Harris
Highlights
Most awards	Major:Behind the Candelabra (3) All:Behind the Candelabra (11)
Most nominations	Breaking Bad (8)
Outstanding Comedy Series	Modern Family
Outstanding Drama Series	Breaking Bad
Outstanding Miniseries or Movie	Behind the Candelabra
Outstanding Reality-Competition Program	The Voice
Outstanding Variety Series	The Colbert Report
Website	http://www.emmys.org/
Television/radio coverage
Network	CBS[1]
Produced by	Ken Ehrlich
Directed by	Louis J. Horvitz
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The65th Primetime Emmy Awards, honoring the best inprime time television programming from June 1, 2012, until May 31, 2013, were held on Sunday, September 22, 2013, at theNokia Theatre inDowntown Los Angeles,California, where 26 awards were presented.CBS televised the ceremony within the United States. ActorNeil Patrick Harris hosted the Primetime Emmys for the second time. TheCreative Arts Emmy Awardsceremony was held on September 15.^[1]

Breaking Bad wonOutstanding Drama Series for the first half of itsfifth season, whileModern Family wonOutstanding Comedy Series for the fourth consecutive time.

Netflix made history by earning the firstPrimetime Emmy Award nominations for original online onlystreaming television. Three of itsweb series,Arrested Development,Hemlock Grove, andHouse of Cards, earned a total of 14 nominations.^[2] Netflix also made history with three wins, includingOutstanding Directing for a Drama Series for thepilot episode, "Chapter 1", ofHouse of Cards, as well as a pair of Creative Arts Emmy Awards, making "Chapter 1" the first Primetime Emmy Award-winningwebisode.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

Winners are listed first and highlighted inbold:^[8]

The Television Academy was alerted to an issue with "hanging episodes" byStarz. The channel has numerous series with multiple "hanging episodes". "Hanging episodes" are episodes broadcast after the Academy's deadline for consideration that are part of a season that began before the deadline. For instance, in 2012, Starz'sMagic City andAMC'sMad Men both ended their seasons in June, after the May 31 deadline. These episodes were allowed to be webcast for award consideration prior to their telecast should that telecast air after the submission period has closed. The Academy had prior rules stipulating that eligible episodes be presented on the same platform as the episodes that qualify the series.^[9]

Notes

The awards were presented by the following:^[10][11][12]

Prior to theIn Memoriam segment:

• Robin Williams presented a tribute toJonathan Winters
• Rob Reiner presented a tribute toJean Stapleton
• Jane Lynch presented a tribute toCory Monteith
• Michael J. Fox presented a tribute toGary David Goldberg
• Edie Falco presented a tribute toJames Gandolfini

A video was then presented paying tribute to the TV stars and well known behind-the-scenes workers who had died since the previous Primetime Emmy Awards broadcast, including:

The reviews for the ceremony were mostly negative. Brian Lowry ofVariety panned the show, writing: "By the time the show was over, it was hard not to think we could have done with at least one less musical number, or one less memorial tribute, in order to let the winners — including high-profile ones in major categories — actually deliver an acceptance speech without hearing piano music kick in just as they started warming up."^[13] Melisa Maerz ofEntertainment Weekly also gave the ceremony a negative review, writing: "All of which begged the question: What does the Emmys really offer us, anyway, that we can't get elsewhere? Witty banter? (There was more of that online.) Red-carpet gawking? (Nothing here that you can't see onInstagram.) Exclusive access to the Mani Cam? If you're only tuning in to see which under-appreciated shows to add to yourDVR queue, well,Twitter can tell you that better than the Emmys, especially when amediocre season ofModern Family wins againstLouie,Girls, andVeep. The one thing the Emmys is still very good at? Creating consensus. But maybe that's the problem. This year, the consensus was that the Emmys were bad."^[14]

The broadcast received 17.63 million viewers, the largest audience in total viewers since 2005.^[15]

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• Academy of Television Arts and Sciences website
• 65th Primetime Emmy Awards atIMDb
• 2013 Emmy Nominating Ballots

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