Michael Keaton just made awards season history by becoming the first male performer to sweep all five major TV awards by winning the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for his performance in .
Prior to Monday night, the 70-year-old actor won the same category at the Critics Choice Awards, Golden Globes, SAG Awards and Television Critics Association Awards. “You have about 90 of these, don't you?” Keaton quipped to presenter Oprah Winfrey while accepting his award onstage at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles during the 74th annual ceremony. «I have to tell you first of all, my face hurts so much from all the fake smiling I've been doing,» he joked. «Thanks to the great folks at Disney and Hulu and everybody at that table, this is one of the special projects I've ever worked on.
It means something, so thanks a lot. It's wonderful. I'm very, very grateful. When I was a little, little kid, very small, my Dad wins something at a raffle, and he brings it home and it's a little black and white TV, literally about that big.»«And sometimes people, neighbors would come down and actually watch it when I saw this thing, this was my face from age maybe 5 to 10 and I could not take my eyes off it, it was magic and I watched all of the cowboy shows and especially the comedies, the gangster shows I fell in love with it and I would go and I would reenact these scenes or create my own scenes,» he continued. «My parents and brothers and sisters would watch me out the window and to this day, they were never demeaning, they were never dismissive they never looked down upon it.»«They never made fun of me.
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