The 2018 Emmy Awards have concluded with Game of Thrones winning Best Drama Series, reclaiming its crown after a year of ineligibility, which allowed The Handmaid’s Tale to usurp its top spot last year. There was no love for The Handmaid’s Tale during the Primetime Emmys ceremony in 2018 (although it did scoop two awards at the Creative Arts Emmys ceremony the week before, with Samira Wiley winning Outstanding Guest Actress and Wendy Hallam Martin scoring Single-Camera Picture Editing).

The Crown’s Claire Foy won Best Actress in a Drama in her final year on the Netflix show, while The Americans’ Matthew Rhys won Best Actor for the FX series’ final season. On the comedy side, Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel swept its categories, winning Best Comedy and awarding star Rachel Brosnahan for Best Actress, Alex Borstein for Supporting Actress (in addition to her Creative Arts win for her voiceover work on Family Guy), and co-creator Amy Sherman-Palladino for Directing and Writing.

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Source: IGN.com Game of Thrones, Westworld and Every Other Winner from the 2018 Emmys