LOS ANGELES — “The Bear” came back for seconds in a big way at the Emmys, scoring repeat wins Sunday night four times including best actor, best supporting actor and best supporting actress in a comedy.
But “Hacks” was the winner of the award for best comedy series, which “The Bear” had claimed at the previous, strike-delayed Emmys in January.
The star of the Chicago-based series, Jeremy Allen White, won best actor in a comedy for the second straight year, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach repeated as best supporting actor.
A surprise came when Liza Colón-Zayas, who plays Tina, won best supporting actor over major competition.
“How could I have thought it would be possible to be in the presence of Meryl Streep and Carol Burnett,” Colón-Zayas said as tears welled in her eyes as she accepted the award on the stage of the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
She is the first Latina to win in the category.
“To all the Latinas who are looking at me,” she said, “keep believing and vote.”
White shouted out two acting wins the show had already scored at last weekend’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards, when Jamie Lee Curtis won best guest actress in a comedy for playing his mother, and Jon Bernthal won best guest actor for playing his big brother.
And the show’s creator, Christopher Storer, won best directing of a comedy series, an award handed out by reunited “Happy Days” co-stars Ron Howard and Henry Winkler.
While the third season of “The Bear,” made by FX to stream on Hulu, has already dropped, this year’s awards are for its second season, in which White’s chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto attempts to turn his family’s grungy Chicago sandwich shop into an elite restaurant.
The father-son hosting duo of Eugene and Dan Levy in their monologue at the top of the show mocked the very dramatic “The Bear” being in the comedy category.
“In the true spirit of ‘The Bear,’ we will not be making any jokes,” Eugene Levy said, to laughs.
Jean Smart won best actress in a comedy for “Hacks.” She has won for all three seasons of “Hacks,” and has six Emmys overall.
She beat nominees including Ayo Edebiri, who as co-star of “The Bear” moved from supporting actress, which she won in January, to lead actress.
The lead drama acting awards went to two stars of “Shogun”: Veteran screen star Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai became the first Japanese actors to win Emmys. The FX series won the best drama series trophy.
Elizabeth Debicki took best supporting actress in a drama for playing Princess Diana at the end of her life in the sixth and final season of the show.
“Playing this part, based on this unparalleled, incredible human being, has been my great privilege,” Debicki said. “It’s been a gift.”
Billy Crudup won best actor in a drama for “The Morning Show.”
Streep wasn’t the only Oscar winner trumped by a little-known name. Robert Downey Jr., the reigning best supporting actor winner for “Oppenheimer,” was considered the favorite to win best supporting actor in a limited series for “The Sympathizer,” but that award went to Lamorne Morris for “Fargo.”
“Robert Downey Jr., I have a poster of you in my house!” said Morris, who grew up on Chicago’s South Side and in Wheaton.
Another Academy Award winner, Jodie Foster, got her first Emmy for best actress in a limited series for “True Detective: Night Country.”
Netflix’s darkly quirky British show “Baby Reindeer” scored big wins in the limited series category, including best series, best lead actor and best writing for the show’s creator and star Richard Gadd, and best supporting actress for Jessica Gunning, who plays his tormentor.
“Baby Reindeer” is based on a one man-stage show in which Gadd describes being sexually abused along with other emotional strugles.
“Ten years ago, I was down and out, I never ever thought I could get my life together,” Gadd said through tears as he accepted. “Here I am, just a decade later picking up one of the biggest writing awards in television.”
He added, “no matter how bad it gets, it always gets better.”