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Gov Andrew M Cuo­mo is being award­ed an Emmy for his ‘mas­ter­ful’ COVID-19 press con­fer­ences which, the Emmys say, he used to ‘inform and calm peo­ple’ around the world. 

In a tweet, the orga­ni­za­tion said: ‘On Fri­day, the Emmy Awards tweet­ed: ‘Gov Cuo­mo of NY will receive the Inter­na­tion­al Emmy Founders Award in recog­ni­tion of his lead­er­ship dur­ing the Covid19 pan­dem­ic & his mas­ter­ful use of TV to inform & calm peo­ple around the world.’

Pre­vi­ous win­ner includes Steven Spiel­berg, Grey’s Anato­my cre­ator Shon­da Rhimes, and Down­ton Abbey cre­ator Julian Fel­lowes among oth­er TV and film legends.