Colin Farrell secures Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series prize

Colin Farrell was awarded the honour for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series thanks to his starring role in the HBO drama ‘The Penguin’.

The 48-year-old actor came out on top in a category featuring Javier Bardem, Richard Gadd, Kevin Kline and Andrew Scott and gave a "cheesy" speech about the spirit of support and collaboration in Hollywood.

He said: "Thank you so much. It's so weird, it is weird, so many I grew up with watching you on television and film, so many I've worked with over the years and shared the spirit of collaborative curiosity and all the stuff that we fail at doing and we succeed at doing and none of it is ever quantifiable and that's the beautiful thing and the annoying thing about what we do. It's just unquantifiable, it's playtime, you don't get to fully grow up, you get to keep the dream of a child alive as you try and figure out what it is to be human. It's so much fun and - time is running out fast.

"I want to thank my fellow nominees. Richard, Andrew, Kevin, and Javier, my deepest respect and admiration.

"It sounds cheesy to say, it is cheesy, but we're all supporting actors, there's the big parts, the leads, the small parts, the extras and all that s*** but we all support each other, that's what we do. In the bringing alive of stories, we support. We support the writers and directors."