With just one week to go before the 77th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, the television industry started the festivities with the Creative Arts Emmys, two nights of awards for technical and artistic excellence behind-the-scenes of the year’s best shows. Night one honored key players in narrative fiction (though the results don’t hint obviously at next week’s big winners), and night two shifts to reality, variety, nonfiction, and documentary programming.
The September 7 presenters included Jennifer Affleck (“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives”), Mikey Day (“Saturday Night Live”), Nyle DiMarco (“Deaf President Now!”), Amaya Espinal (“Love Island USA”), Danielle Fishel (“Pod Meets World”), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (“Finding Your Roots”), Edwin Lee Gibson (“The Bear”), Harvey Guillén (“Mickey Mouse Funhouse”), actor David Hoffman (“LiMu Emu & Doug”), Iris Kendall (“Love Island USA”), Jordan Klepper (“The Daily Show”), Whitney Leavitt (“Secret Lives of Mormon Wives”, “Dancing with the Stars”), Thomas Lennon (“Rock, Paper, Scissors”), Joe Manganiello (“Nonnas”), Marlee Matlin (“Family Guy”), Atsuko Okatsuka (“Comic”), Sarah Silverman (“PostMortem”), Tanner Smith (“Love on the Spectrum”), Connor Tomlinson (“Love on the Spectrum U.S.”), and Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”; “Sly Lives!”). The ceremony will air on FXX Saturday, September 13, the day before the Primetime Emmy Awards take place at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles and live on CBS and Paramount+.
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Keep reading for a running list of night two’s Creative Arts Emmy winners.
OUTSTANDING SHORT FORM COMEDY, DRAMA OR VARIETY SERIES
“The Daily Show,” Desi Lydic, Foxplains; Jennifer Flanz, Ramin Hedayati, Jocelyn Conn, Matt Negrin, Jason O. Gilbert
OUTSTANDING SHORT FORM NONFICTION OR REALITY SERIES
“Adolescence,” “The Making of Adolescence”
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A VARIETY SPECIAL
The Oscars: Misty Buckley, Alana Billingsley, John Zuiker, Margaux Lapresle
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A VARIETY OR REALITY SERIES
“Saturday Night Live”: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Raywood, Joe DeTullio, Andrea Purcigliotti, Patrick Lynch, Sara Parks
CHOREOGRAPHY FOR VARIETY OR REALITY PROGRAMMING
The Grammy Awards, Robbie Blue
MUSIC DIRECTION
Kendrick Lamar, Tony Russell
MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A DOCUMENTARY SERIES OR SPECIAL
“Chef’s Table,” Duncan Thum, David Bertok
SOUND EDITING FOR A NONFICTION OR REALITY PROGRAM
“Music by John Williams,” Dmitri Makarov, Tim Farrell, Richard Gould, Ramiro Belgardt
SOUND MIXING FOR A NONFICTION PROGRAM
“Beatles ’64,” Josh Berger, Giles Martin
SOUND MIXING FOR A VARIETY SERIES OR SPECIAL
“SNL 50: The Anniversary Special,” Robert Palladino, Ezra Matychak, Frank Duca, Doug Nightwine, Christopher Costello, Caroline Sanchez, Josiah Gluck, Jay Vicari, Tyler McDiarmid, Geoffrey Countryman, Devin Emke, Teng Chen
SOUND MIXING FOR A REALITY PROGRAMMING
“Welcome to Wrexham,” Mark Jensen
CASTING FOR A REALITY PROGRAM
“Love on the Spectrum” Cian O’Clery, Sean Bowman, Emma Choate
EMERGING MEDIA PROGRAM
“SNL 50 Special: Immersive Experience,” Lorne Michaels, Michael DeProspo, Michael Scogin, Rick Rey, Matthew Celia
INNOVATION IN EMERGING MEDIA PROGRAMMING
“White Rabbit”
WRITING FOR A NONFICTION PROGRAM
“The Daily Show Presents,” Jordan Klepper
WRITING FOR A VARIETY SPECIAL
“SNL 50: The Anniversary Special”
HOST FOR A GAME SHOW
Jimmy Kimmel, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”
GAME SHOW
“Jeopardy!”
MAKEUP FOR A VARIETY, NONFICTION OR REALITY PROGRAMMING
“SNL 50,” Louie Zakarian, Jason Milani, Amy Tagliamonti, Rachel Pagani, Young Bek, Stephen Kelley, Joanna Pisani
HAIRSTYLING FOR A VARIETY NONFICTION OR REALITY PROGRAM
“SNL 50,” Jodi Mancuso, Cara Hannah, Inga Thrasher, Amanda Duffy Evans, Chad Harlow, Gina Ferrucci, Brittany Hartman, Katie Beatty
COSTUMES FOR VARIETY, NONFICTION OR REALITY PROGRAMMING
Beyoncé Bowl
