At which ceremony did Benedict Cumberbatch win an Emmy for playing Sherlock Holmes?

Benedict Cumberbatch won an Emmy at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards for playing Sherlock Holmes. He received the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie award for “His Last Vow.”

The episode, written by Steven Moffat, is the third and final episode of Sherlock’s third series. It places Sherlock against Charles Augustus Magnussen, a powerful information broker, and features a major confrontation involving John Watson and Mary Watson.

The award is sometimes described as a win for a television drama series because Sherlock is commonly called a series. The relevant Emmy category was for a miniseries or movie, reflecting the programme’s feature-length classification at that time.