The winners for the 27th Annual OFTA Television Awards have been announced.
The Last of Us, which received a total of 13 awards, was the most honored program of the year. It won Best Drama Series, as well as citations for Pedro Pascal as Best Actor, Murray Bartlett and Nick Offerman (who tied) in Guest Actor, Picture Editing, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design, Makeup, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Special Visual Effects, and Main Title Design.
Other winners in the drama series categories were Sarah Snook and Matthew Macfadyen from Succession in Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor respectively. That series also won the Directing and Writing categories. Carol Burnett for Best Guest Actress for Better Call Saul and The White Lotus won for Best Casting & Ensemble.
On the comedy side, The Bear won awards for Comedy Series, Actor (Jeremy Allen White), Supporting Actress (Ayo Edebiri), Guest Actor (Jon Bernthal, Casting & Ensemble, and Directing. Last year’s winner, Abbott Elementary won awards for Best Actress (Quinta Brunson, which she shared with Rachel Brosnahan of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and Writing. Ted Lasso‘s Phil Dunster won Best Supporting Actor and Poker Face‘s Stephanie Hsu won Best Guest Actress.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story won Best Motion Picture while Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story won on the Limited or Anthology Series side. The latter also saw supporting actor Richard Jenkins take the award there while Claire Danes won the award for Supporting Actress for Fleishman Is in Trouble. Beef won the rest of the limited/anthology categories with stars Steven Yeun and Ali Won winning the lead acting categories and the series winning for Casting & Ensemble, Directing, and Writing.
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Hall of Fame
In addition to awarding the best in television across the past season, the members of the Online Film & Television Association annually select programs, performers, behind the scenes, theme songs, characters, and, new this year, episodes. The individual Hall of Fame category pages will be updated at a future date.
Below are the inductees:
Productions
- 30 Rock (2006-2013), 7 seasons
- Smallville (2001-2011), 10 seasons
- Inside The Actors Studio (1994-Present), 23 seasons
- Desperate Housewives (2004-2012), 8 seasons
- Dinosaurs (1991-1994), 4 seasons
- Pushing Daisies (2007-2009), 2 seasons
- Reading Rainbow (1983-2006), 16 seasons
- The A-Team (1983-1987), 5 seasons
- The Bernie Mac Show (2001-2006), 5 seasons
- Brothers & Sisters (2006-2011), 5 seasons
Actors
- LeVar Burton (Active: 1976-Present), 58 credits
- Viola Davis (Active: 1996-2022), 38 credits
- Diahann Carroll (Active: 1955-2014), 48 credits
- Jennifer Aniston (Active: 1990-Present), 11 credits
- James Earl Jones (Active: 1962-2022), 86 credits
- Richard Chamberlain (Active: 1959-2017), 54 credits
- Pat Sajak (Active: 1974-Present), 71 credits
- Patrick Stewart (Active: 1964-Present), 60 credits
- Shirley MacLaine (Active: 1971-2022), 15 credits
- Courteney Cox (Active: 1975-2022), 36 credits
Behind the Scenes
- Marc Cherry (Producing / Writing) (Active: 1989-2021), 15P, 25W credits
- Arthur Rankin Jr & Jules Bass (Producing / Directing) (Active: 1960 (Both)-2012 (Rankin) / 2020 (Bass)), 52 (Rankin) / 51 (Bass) credits
- Charles M. Schulz (Writing) (Active: 1966-2000), 43 credits
- William J. Bell (Producing / Writing) (Active: 1950s-2005), 2P, 6W, 4C credits
- Agnes Nixon (Producing / Writing / Creating) (Active: 1944-2013), 6 credits
Theme Songs
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990-1996), 6 seasons
- The Muppet Show (1976-1981), 5 seasons
- Full House (1978-1986), 8 seasons
- The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-1985), 7 seasons
- Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989-2013), 13 seasons
Characters
- Alex P. Keaton (Michael J. Fox) – Family Ties (1982-1989), 7 seasons
- Marge Simpson (Julie Kavner) – The Simpsons (1989-Present), 36 seasons
- Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) – Perry Mason (1957-1966), 9 seasons
- Det. Lenny Brisco (Jerry Orbach) – Law & Order (1991-2004), 13 seasons
- Miss Piggy (Frank Oz) – The Muppet Show (1976-1981), 5 seasons
Episodes
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show – Chuckles Bites the Dust (1975, Season 6, Episode 7)
- ER – Love’s Labor Lost (1995, Season 1, Episode 19)
- M*A*S*H – Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen (1983, Season 11, Episode 16)
- I Love Lucy – Lucy Does A TV Commercial (1952, Season 1, Episode 30)
- All in the Family – Meet the Bunkers (1971, Season 1, Episode 1)
- Seinfeld – The Contest (1992, Season 4, Episode 11)
- Sesame Street – Farewell Mr. Hooper (1983, Season 15, Episode 4)
- Breaking Bad – Ozymandias (2013, Season 5, Episode 14)
- Dallas – Who Done It (1980, Season 4, Episode 4)
- Lost – Pilot (2004, Season 1, Episode 1 & 2)
- All in the Family – Sammy’s Visit (1972, Season 2, Episode 21)
- The Sopranos – The Sopranos (1999, Season 1, Episode 1)
- Newhart – The Last Newhart (1990, Season 8, Episode 24)
- Friends – The One Where Everybody Finds Out (1999, Season 5, Episode 14)
- General Hospital – Luke and Laura’s Wedding (1981, Season , Episode )
- Will & Grace – Lows in the Mid-Eighties (2000, Season 3, Episode 8 & 9)
- Downton Abbey – Christmas at Downton Abbey (2011, Season 2, Episode Special)
- The West Wing – Pilot (1999, Season 1, Episode 1)
- Star Trek – The City on the Edge of Forever (1967, Season 1, Episode 28)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation – All Good Things…, Parts 1 & 2 (1994, Season 7, Episode 25 & 26)