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"The Handmaid's Tale" wins Outstanding Drama Series

With "Game of Thrones" out of the running, "The Handmaid's Tale" won the Emmy award for Outstanding Drama Series.

The Hulu series won the award at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards, which took place at the Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017.

"The Handmaid's Tale" was nominated alongside "Better Call Saul," "House of Cards," "Stranger Things," "The Crown," "This is Us" and "Westworld."

Accepting the award, showrunner Bruce Miller said the award “really belongs to three women: Reed Morano, who directed the pilot episode of The Handmaid’s Tale. To Margaret Atwood, who scared the living crap out of my when I was in college. And to Lizzie Moss, who leaves me speechless.”

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"Handmaid's Tale" also earned Elisabeth Moss an Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama win, an Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama for Ann Dowd, Outstanding Writing for a Drama for Miller and an Outstanding Directing for a Drama for Reed Morano.

"The Handmaid's Tale" is an American television series based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.

Set in a dystopian future, it tells the story of a woman who is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

The show is the first streaming series to ever win the Emmys’ coveted prize.

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