Emmys 2017: Who won last year?

Last year’s Emmys featured a certain miniseries dominating its categories, a show that isn’t nominated this year, and more taking home the hardware.

If you’re trying to make Emmy predictions, it’s not the worst idea to look at who won the votes of the Television Academy last year to try and see where the trend winds are blowing.

On the drama side of things, science fiction and fantasy television swept a good chunk of the awards, including Orphan Black‘s Tatiana Maslany winning the Outstanding Lead Actress category and Rami Malek taking the Outstanding Lead Actor nod for Mr. Robot, while Game of Thrones took home the directing, writing, and overall series wins.

And, in a score for period pieces, Maggie Smith won for Downton Abbey. Looking at this year’s nominations, that might bode well for Westworld or Stranger Things, but it could also mean that the pendulum could swing the other way.

Then again, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, as we noted in our dark horse predictions, basically always wins for Veep, so the idea of repeating things doesn’t seem quite as anathema to the Television Academy as it might at first glance. (Besides, Game of Thrones isn’t around this year.)

Comedy itself was a bit more all over the board, though, with Veep and Transparent tying with two wins each, while Saturday Night Live, Baskets and Master of None split the other three victories. All but Master of None are in pretty heavy contention once again.

Finally, Ryan Murphy’s The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, owned the bulk of the limited series hardware. Feud: Bette and Joan is taking ACS‘ place as the Ryan-Murphy FX show this year, but doesn’t have quite the same number of nods anyway, including nothing in the lead actor category. (We might have to wait for 2018 and American Crime Story‘s return to see that kind of dominance again.)

Next: A batch of Emmy upset predictions

It’ll all shake out tonight, Sept. 17, on CBS. Check here on Culturess for all the latest from the Emmys.