Mike White

The White Lotus creator won for Outstanding Directing and Outstanding Writing For a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, and again for Outstanding Limited ...

For Outstanding Directing, he beat out Danny Strong for Dopesick, John Wells for Maid, Hiro Murai for Station Eleven, and Michael Showalter and Francesca Gregorini for The Dropout. For Outstanding Writing, The White Lotus triumphed over Dopesick, Impeachment: American Crime Story, Maid, Station Eleven, and The Dropout. Over the course of a week, they manage to antagonize various hotel workers, rip band-aids off their personal wounds, and spend a lot of time thinking about sex and death. Later in the night, he returned to the stage for his third win for Outstanding Limited Series. "On Survivor, the way to stay in the game is you lower your threat level," White said. But when White ran back on stage to accept his second award, he was in high spirits as he took it back to

At the 74th Emmy Awards on September 12, White won Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, Outstanding Writing for a Limited or ...

“I was on Survivor, and on Survivor the way you stay in the game is to lower your threat level,” said White after winning the award for writing. At the 74th Emmy Awards on September 12, Mike White won Outstanding Directing of a Limited Series or Movie, Outstanding Writing of a Limited Series or Movie, and Outstanding Limited Series or Movie for his HBO miniseries. Mike White, a man who has — since [getting second place](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpb9hMyqOHg) on [Survivor](https://www.vulture.com/tv/survivor/) in 2018 – been on a hot streak including creating [The White Lotus](https://www.vulture.com/tv/the-white-lotus/) can now add winning three Emmys to that.

Mike White, after winning Emmys for writing and directing 'The White Lotus,' pleas for Hollywood not to "vote him off the island."

Season 2, set in Sicily, is expected to premiere in October. White filmed season 2 of The White Lotus in Italy. I love my parents. “Now, I feel like I’ve raised my threat level and it’s like I just want to stay in the game. In the earlier speech he became choked up after referencing his father, Mel (father and son competed together on a season of The Amazing Race over a decade ago). “I just wanted to say, I was on Survivor, and on Survivor the way to stay in the game is you lower your threat level,” he noted.