2021 Broady Awards Winners

Best Drama Series: "This Is Us" (NBC)
This is the third win in this category for "This Is Us" (2018, 2019)

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Best Comedy Series: "black-ish" (ABC)  
This is the third win in this category for "black-ish" (2016, 2017)

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Best Variety/Talk Series: "Late Show with Stephen Colbert" (CBS)
This is the third win in this category for "Late Show with Stephen Colbert" (2018, 2019)

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Best New Drama Series: "Clarice" (CBS)
"Clarice" received three Broady nominations for its first season (Best New Drama, Best Actress in a Drama, Best Drama Episode)

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Best New Comedy Series: "Mr. Mayor" (NBC)
"Mr. Mayor" received five Broady nominations for its first season (Best Comedy, Best New Comedy, Best Actor in a Comedy, Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy and  Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy

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Best Actor in a Drama: Justin Hartley (This Is Us)
This is Justin Hartley's second Broady win. He won Best Supporting Actor in a Drama last year for "This Is Us." 

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Best Actress in a Drama: Mandy Moore (This Is Us)
This is Mandy Moore's third win in this category (2018, 2019). 

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Best Actor in a Comedy: Anthony Anderson (black-ish)
This is Anthony Anderson's second win in this category (2017). 

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Best Actress in a Comedy: Sara Gilbert (The Conners)
This is Sara Gilbert's first win in this category. It's her third Broady nomination. 

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Best Supporting Actor in a Drama: Neil Brown Jr. (SEAL Team)
This is Neil Brown Jr.'s first win in this category. It's his third Broady nomination. 

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Best Supporting Actress in a Drama: Allison Miller (A Million Little Things) 
This is Allison Miller's first win in this category. It's her third Broady nomination. 

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Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy: Kenan Thompson (Saturday Night Live) 
This is Kenan Thompson's first win in this category. It's his fourth Broady nomination. 

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Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy: Lecy Goranson (The Conners)
This is Lecy Goranson's second straight win in this category. 

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Best Guest Actor in a Drama: Griffin Dunne (This Is Us)
This is Griffin Dunne's second straight win in this category. 

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Best Guest Actress in a Drama: Jennifer C. Holmes (This Is Us)
This is Jennifer C. Holmes' first Broady win on her first nomination. 

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Best Guest Actor in a Comedy: Dave Chappelle (Saturday Night Live)
This is Dave Chappelle's first win in this category. It's his second Broady nomination. 

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Best Guest Actress in a Comedy: Maya Rudolph (Saturday Night Live)
This is Maya Rudolph's first win in this category and her second Broady win overall. She previously won Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy in 2012 for NBC's "Up All Night."

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Best Drama Episode: "Birth Mother" (This Is Us)
This is the third win in this category for "This Is Us" (2017, 2019). "Birth Mother" was directed by Kay Oyegun and written by Eboni Freeman and Kay Oyegun. 

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Best Comedy Episode: Season 46, Episode 6 - Host: Dave Chappelle (Saturday Night Live) 
This is the second straight win in this category for "Saturday Night Live." The head writers for "Saturday Night Live" are Michael Che, Anna Drezen, Colin Jost and Kent Sublette. The show is directed by Don Roy King. 

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Hall of Fame Legend: Norman Lear 
Norman Lear not only shaped the television landscape with his groundbreaking sitcoms like “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons” and “Maude,” he was a pioneer for reflecting modern culture. Sitcoms like “Leave it to Beaver” and “The Brady Bunch,” while entertaining, portrayed an idyllic family-life where the biggest problems centered around a lost watch or a broken nose. Yes, escapism is important in television. But some TV shows have a greater calling -- to educate the audience about the “other” that they may not be faced with in their own life. The “other” could be issues of race, war, poverty, equal rights. We give more access to TV characters into our living rooms and lives than most will ever give to strangers. It’s why moments like music icon Sammy Davis Jr. kissing TV’s bigoted Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) on the cheek matter. When reality can be depicted on the small or big screen, it can have a lasting impact on how we view each other in society. Lear’s style is echoed in any modern sitcom that takes a “risk” in what they portray. He didn’t just change TV, he changed the hearts and minds of viewers with a backdrop of laughter. - Aprille Hanson-Spivey​

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Hall of Fame Show: Gunsmoke
In the late ‘50s through the mid-‘60s network television’s primetime was dominated by Westerns. “Gunsmoke” was the most successful of this period and did so well it lasted 20 seasons from 1955-1975 on CBS. The show featured James Arness as Marshall Matt Dillon, deputies played by Dennis Weaver and Ken Curtis at different times during the run, Milburn Stone as Doc Adams and Amanda Blake as barmaid Kitty Russell, but what was really interesting about the show is it would often push the cast to the backburner for many episodes and essentially act as an anthology series telling the story of different characters featuring a litany of guest stars. Unlike a lot of television series from its era episodes of “Gunsmoke” still hold up today and this anthology-like aspect of the show leads to things not getting boring overtime – which is important as the show aired a record for a primetime drama 635. When “Gunsmoke” ended in 1975 it was eulogized by Los Angeles Times critic Cecil Smith with: “’Gunsmoke’ was the dramatization of the American epic legend of the West. Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from standard elements of the dime novel and the pulp Western as romanticized by [Ned] Buntline, [Bret] Harte and [Mark] Twain. It was ever the stuff of legend.” 

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