The Emmys bounty of miniseries Big Little Lies was a given, according to the executive producer's mother, who's more worried about her favourite AFL team winning this year's flag.
Maria Papandrea watched the awards ceremony while babysitting her daughter Bruna's twins at her US home before later joining her at the HBO afterparty.
"I'm so very proud," she told ABC Radio Adelaide's Breakfast program.
"My granddaughter got very upset because she saw mummy on stage but couldn't see daddy and kept saying, 'Where's daddy?'" Ms Papandrea said with a laugh.
Fully confident in her daughter's chances of success, Ms Papandrea said she was more nervous about the Adelaide Crows winning the premiership.
"I'm a nervous wreck already thinking about [it]."
Strength through determination
"Bruna was always very smart and very headstrong," Ms Papandrea said.
"Bruna's twin I lost a day after birth, and to this day I still think that Bruna has her strength."
Ms Papandrea said her daughter always powered through challenges.
She grew up one of three children in a single-parent household, living in a housing trust home in Elizabeth in Adelaide's northern suburbs.
Ms Papandrea said her daughter dabbled in drama and acting in high school, but originally studied journalism at university in Melbourne.
"After a few months she didn't want to do that and from then on she did it all on her own."
Big Little Lies a success in strong stories for women
After working in television commercial production and writing, Bruna set her sights on film in the late '90s.
In 2012, with actress Reese Witherspoon, Pacific Standard was born — a Beverly Hills-based production company developing strong, complex roles and productions for women.
Though the two ended the partnership in 2016, one of their final projects together was Big Little Lies.
"It stars seven women, and Nicole Kidman and Reese are in it. It's really exciting," Bruna told The Daily Telegraph in 2015.
That same year she received the Australians In Film international award and told audiences at a Screen Australia conference she wanted to be the next Baz Luhrmann.
Ms Papandrea said she hoped her daughter would return to Elizabeth in the near future and maybe take her Emmy for a tour around her hometown.
