The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards (2018 TV Special)

Ryan Murphy: Self - Winner

Quotes 

• Himself - Winner: Outstanding Directing for A Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special & Outstanding Limited Series : I'm so shocked. Thank you. Thank you to my guys, David and Logan Forty. I want to thank Dana Walden and Peter Rice and Gary Newman and John Landgraf and Joe Coen and Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane. I would not be here without Brad Falchuk and Brad Simpson and Nina Jacobson and Alexis Martin Woodall. Tom Smith, I would definitely not be here without your brilliant script. I want to thank my beautiful cast, Darren Criss, Penelope Cruz, Judith Light, Edgar, Ricky, Finn, Cody. And most of all, I just want to thank all of the women in my life who have supported me from day one. Julia and Gwyneth and Sarah Paulson, I love you. And Angela Bassett and Kathy Bates, I do not deserve you. I work hard for you. I love you. I'm very shocked. Thank you so much.

• Himself - Winner: Outstanding Directing for A Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special & Outstanding Limited Series : Thank you so much. Thank you to the Academy. None of us would be here without the brilliant writing of Tom Rob Smith, who wrote every one of our episodes. Thank you, Tom. Thank you to Alexis, to Brad Simpson, to Nina Jacobson, to Dana Walden, *Gary Newman, John Landgraf, Peter Rice. The Assassination of Gianni Versace is about a lot of things. It's about homophobia, internalized and externalized. It's about a country that allows hatred to grow unfettered and unchecked. One out of the every four LGBTQ people in this country will be the victim of a hate crime. We dedicate this award to them. We dedicate this award to awareness, to stricter hate crime laws. And mostly, this is for the memory of Jeff and David and Gianni and for all of those taken too soon. Thank you very much.