The Handmaid's Tale won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 2017.
The series won at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards, held on September 17, 2017. Its victory was historically significant because it became the first streaming series to win Outstanding Drama Series, marking a major shift in television awards recognition.
The winning entry represented the show's first season, which was produced for Hulu. The season competed against established broadcast and cable dramas and helped demonstrate that a streaming original could lead television's most prestigious categories.
The award is sometimes confused with the ceremony year or the eligibility period. The ceremony took place in 2017, and The Handmaid's Tale won that year's award; it was nominated again in later years but did not win the category again.