TV veteran Sandra Oh — you know, the beloved actress from Grey’s Anatomy and Killing Eve — has been nominated for an Emmy 14 times but it took a little known Hulu movie called Quiz Lady for her to finally get a much-deserved attagirl by the TV Academy.
Sadly, Oh wasn’t there to receive her award at the Creative Arts Emmys Sunday for producing Quiz Lady. But her fellow co-star/producer Awkwafina as well as the movie’s writer/producer Jen D’Angelo were astonished to learn backstage that Oh has never won the golden girl — until now. They were straight-up gobsmacked when a reporter told them.
No one had the chance to check in with Oh before collecting the final Emmy of the night. Apparently, Oh is in Canada so she missed how the film — about a game-show-obsessed woman and her estranged sister work together to help cover their mother’s gambling debts — won the final prize on night 2 of the Creative Arts Emmys.
Oh’s other Emmy noms in the past have been for Killing Eve, SNL, and Grey’s.
Quiz Lady, which also stars Will Ferrell, Holland Taylor and Jason Schwartzman, had its world premiere at TIFF last year. It was picked up by Hulu, which debuted it last November.
“It was such a surreal experience,” recalled D’Angelo about TIFF after Sunday’s show. “We were all so proud that the movie got in there and was able to screen there, but it was during the strike, so none of us were able to go except for [director] Jessica Yu. We were so sad to miss out on that. But that’s sort of the story of Quiz Lady. We’ve gone through a lot of stuff. We shot during Covid, we premiered during the strike, and we just sort of like kept going. We were the original comedy that could and it’s just been so wonderful to be able to share it with the world and to be able to have nights like tonight to celebrate it.”
