The winners of the Primetime Emmy Awards were revealed at a ceremony in Los Angeles on Monday evening, and Sally Field took home a trophy for her performance in a television movie based on a bestselling novel.
Field won the award for outstanding lead actress in a limited anthology series or movie for her role as Tova Sullivan in Remarkably Bright Creatures, the film adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt’s 2022 novel. Van Pelt’s book, published by Ecco, tells the story of Sullivan, a cleaner at an aquarium who befriends an octopus named Marcellus and a young man named Cameron.
In her acceptance speech, Field said, “I loved this project from page one; it’s this lovely novel by Shelby Van Pelt, whatever her name is. Anyway, she knows what it is. It’s the story of an old woman, a young man, and an octopus. Doesn’t come around a lot.”
The film also won the Emmy for outstanding movie at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmys, which were held earlier this month.
Saul Metzstein won the Emmy for outstanding directing for a drama series for Slow Horses, based on Mick Herron’s Slough House series of spy novels.
A full list of this year’s winners is available at the Emmys website.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
