At the Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday night, Michael Keaton won the Outstanding Actor in a Limited Series, Movie or Anthology award for his performance in the Hulu series Dopessick. This is Keaton’s first Emmy win after his previous nomination in 2004 for his work on the documentary Fred Rogers: America’s Favorite Neighbor. Keaton also won the Golden Globe and the SAG Award for his Dopessick roll this year.
The other nominees in that category were Colin Firth for HBO’s The stairs; Andrew Garfield for FXs Under the banner of heaven; Oscar Isaac for HBOs Scenes from a wedding; Himesh Patel for HBOs Eleven Station; and Sebastian Stan for Hulu’s Pam & Tommy.
“I’ve seen all the cowboy shows, especially the comedies, and all the gangster shows, and I fell in love with them,” Keaton said in his acceptance speech. THR. “I would go and I would act out the scenes, or create my own scenes, and my parents and my siblings would look at me out the window. And to this day they were never humiliating. They were never dismissive. They never looked down on it. They never ridiculed me. And basically they asked me to re-enact scenes for them.”
Keaton went on to thank his family for that support, adding: “I want to thank them. I just want to thank all those people in my family because they never made me feel like a fool, because I’ve done that myself several times.” And that’s the thing about feeling foolish and fooling yourself and making mistakes There’s tremendous power and merit in that And I’m glad I’ve fooled myself over and over again And yet something I want to say: Over the years we’ve all been through some rough times. There are some doubters. I’ve had some doubters. You know what? We’re cool.”
At one point, Keaton blew, even though the actor had reportedly said, “I love you the fuck.”
Michael Keaton returns as Batman in The Flash
It is widely known that Michael Keaton will reprise his role as Batman from the Tim Burton movies for The flash, which will hit theaters next year. He had also returned as Batman for the HBO Max movie batgirl, but fans won’t get to see this return as the film was controversially canceled by Warner Bros. Discovery. Speak with Deadline warm from his Emmy win, Keaton spoke of the demise of batgirl and attributed it to a business decision.
“I think it was a business decision,” he said. “It was a movie, it was a good one.”
When we were supposed to see his Batman again, Keaton replied, “Oh, a little later tonight. No, I’m kidding. I don’t know. I really have no idea.”
You can watch Keaton in Dopessick by finding the series streaming on Hulu. He will also return as Batman in The flash which hits theaters on June 23, 2023.