Emmy Awards Winners 2025: ‘Hacks’ star, Hannah Einbinder, won her first Emmy award at the 77th Primetime Awards. Taking home her golden trophy, Einbinder exceeded her 45-second speech time to address a pressing matter. Ending her speech with “Go Birds, f**k ICE and free Palestine,” Einbinder won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series category.

This comes just a week after nearly 4,000 personalities in Hollywood signed a pledge, including Einbinder herself. Following weeks of debate, they unanimously agreed not to work with Israeli film companies or organisations that are complicit in “genocide and apartheid.” On the other hand, the company broadcasting the Emmys 2025, Paramount+, the parent company of CBS, did not show support for the pledge. It opined that it was an attempt to silence “individual creative artists based on their nationality.”

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Einbinder’s acceptance speech

Hannah Einbinder has been in the television industry since her youth. Daughter of Saturday Night Live cast member, Laraine Newman, and director-writer Chad Einbinder, she is now an Emmy awardee. Calls herself a stand-up comic; she has also received a Critics’ Choice Television Award and three Golden Globe nominations.

As the hosts decided to put a 45-second cap on acceptance speeches, they also put a binding condition on it. After pledging $100,000 for charity, for every second exceeded, money would be deducted from the kitty. While it ended with $350,000 in the end, Einbinder claimed to cover what she exceeded.

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In her speech, she joked, “I was just really committed to the personal narrative that it was actually cooler to continue to lose.” Thanking the creators of the show, Jen Statsky, Paul W. Downs, and Lucia Aniello, she praised co-star Jean Smart, who also won in the Lead Actress in a Comedy Series category for ‘Hacks’.

After walking down from the stage, Einbinder completed her political message. “I thought it was important to talk about Palestine because it’s an issue that’s very dear to my heart,” she told reporters. Citing friends working as doctors in Gaza, she said, “Boycotting is an effective tool to create pressure on the powers that be. The boycott does not target individuals, only institutions complicit in the genocide.”