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.
Many of the September 7 awards went to the HBO documentary “Pee-wee as Himself” (including director Matt Wolf) and NBC’s “SNL50” celebrating half a century of the iconic sketch comedy series. Ted Passon’s “Patrice” won the award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. “The Daily Show” picked up awards for writing and for specific segments, while “Love on the Spectrum” received accolades for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program and for its casting. The Grammys, Oscars, and Beyoncé Bowl all picked up awards, as did streaming favorites “Cunk on Life” and “The Traitors.”
Full Creative Arts Emmy Awards Night 2 winners list below.
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
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY FOR VARIETY OR REALITY PROGRAMMING
The Grammy Awards, Robbie Blue
OUTSTANDING MUSIC DIRECTION
Kendrick Lamar, Tony Russell
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A DOCUMENTARY SERIES OR SPECIAL
“Chef’s Table,” Duncan Thum, David Bertok
OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING FOR A NONFICTION OR REALITY PROGRAM
“Music by John Williams,” Dmitri Makarov, Tim Farrell, Richard Gould, Ramiro Belgardt
OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING FOR A NONFICTION PROGRAM
“Beatles ’64,” Josh Berger, Giles Martin
OUTSTANDING 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
OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING FOR A REALITY PROGRAMMING
“Welcome to Wrexham,” Mark Jensen
OUTSTANDING CASTING FOR A REALITY PROGRAM
“Love on the Spectrum” Cian O’Clery, Sean Bowman, Emma Choate
OUTSTANDING EMERGING MEDIA PROGRAM
“SNL 50 Special: Immersive Experience,” Lorne Michaels, Michael DeProspo, Michael Scogin, Rick Rey, Matthew Celia
OUTSTANDING INNOVATION IN EMERGING MEDIA PROGRAMMING
“White Rabbit”
OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A NONFICTION PROGRAM
“The Daily Show Presents,” Jordan Klepper
OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A VARIETY SPECIAL
“SNL 50: The Anniversary Special”
OUTSTANDING HOST FOR A GAME SHOW
Jimmy Kimmel, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”
OUTSTANDING GAME SHOW
“Jeopardy!”
OUTSTANDING MAKEUP FOR A VARIETY, NONFICTION OR REALITY PROGRAMMING
“SNL 50,” Louie Zakarian, Jason Milani, Amy Tagliamonti, Rachel Pagani, Young Bek, Stephen Kelley, Joanna Pisani
OUTSTANDING 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
OUTSTANDING COSTUMES FOR VARIETY, NONFICTION OR REALITY PROGRAMMING
Beyoncé Bowl
OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR VARIETY PROGRAMMING (SEGMENT)
“SNL 50,” Ryan Spears, Paul Del Gesso, Christopher Salerno, Daniel Garcia, Sean McIlraith, Rhyan McIlraith
OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR VARIETY PROGRAMMING
“Cunk On Life,” Damon Tai, Jason Boxall
OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR A NONFICTION PROGRAMMING
“Pee-wee As Himself,” Damian Rodriguez
OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR A STRUCTURED REALITY OR COMPETITION PROGRAM
“The Traitors,” Patrick Owen, Seddon-Brown
OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR AN UNSTRUCTURED REALITY PROGRAM
“Welcome to Wrexham”: Sam Fricke, Jenny Krochmal, Mohamed El Manasterly, Michael Oliver, Tim Roche, Matt Wafaie, Steve Welch, Tim Wilsbach
OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR A REALITY PROGRAM
“The Traitors,” Siggi Rosen-Rawlings, Matt Wright, Jack Booth, Alex Bruno, Ned Ellis-Jones, Ollie Green, Quin Jessop, Guy Linton, Joshua Montague, Paul Rudge, James Spencer, Matt Thomson, Alex Took, Melvin Wright
OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR A NONFICTION PROGRAM
“100 Foot Wave,” Michael Darrigade, Vincent Kardasik, Alexandre Lesbats, Laurent Pujol, Karl Sandrock, Chris Smith
OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY OR NONFICTION SERIES
“100 Foot Wave,” Vince Kardasik, Ryan Heller, Michael Bloom, Maria Zuckerman, Zachary Rothfeld, Joe Lewis, Chris Smith, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Bentley Weiner
OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY OR NONFICTION SPECIAL
“Pee-wee As Himself,” Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Matt Wolf, Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Paul Reubens, Candace Tomarken
OUTSTANDING NARRATOR
Barack Obama, “Our Oceans”
OUTSTANDING HOST FOR A REALITY OR REALITY COMPETITION PROGRAM
Alan Cumming, “The Traitors”
OUTSTANDING HOSTED NONFICTION SERIES OR SPECIAL
“Conan O’Brien Must Go” Conan O’Brien, Jeff Ross, Jose Arroyo, Jason Chillemi, Sarah Federowicz, Jessie Gaskell, Mike Sweeney, Aaron Bleyaert, Jordan Schlansky, Matthew Shaw
OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A REALITY PROGRAM
“The Traitors,” Ben Archard
OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A DOCUMENTARY/NONFICTION PROGRAM
“Pee-wee as Himself,” Matt Wolf
OUTSTANDING COMMERCIAL
“Brian Cox Goes To College,” Uber One for Students
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN/LIGHTING DIRECTION FOR A SERIES
“SNL,” Geoff Amoral, Rick McGuinness, William McGuinness, Trevor Brown, Tim Stasse, Frank Grisanti, Reginald Campbell
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN/LIGHTING DIRECTION FOR A SPECIAL
67th Annual Grammy Awards, Noah Mitz, Andy O’Reilly, Patrick Boozer, Ryan Tanker, Erin Anderson, Madigan Stehly, Will Gossett, Bryan Klunder, Hannah Kerman, Matt Benson, Matthew Cotter, Guy Jones, Kevin Faust
OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL DIRECTION AND CAMERA WORK FOR A SPECIAL
“SNL 50: The Anniversary Special”
OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL DIRECTION AND CAMERA WORK FOR A SPECIAL
“SNL 50,” Bill DiGiovanni, John Pinto, Paul Cangialosi, Anthony Tarantino, Dave Driscoll, Brian Phraner, Daniel Erbeck, Mike Knarre, Ansel Nunez, Rick Fox, Anthony Lenzo
OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL DIRECTION AND CAMERAWORK FOR A SERIES
“Saturday Night Live,” Bill DiGiovanni, John Pinto, Paul Cangialosi, Anthony Tarantino, Dave Driscoll, Brian Phraner, Daniel Erbeck
OUTSTANDING STRUCTURED REALITY PROGRAM
“Queer Eye”
OUTSTANDING UNSTRUCTURED REALITY PROGRAM
“Love on the Spectrum”
EXCEPTIONAL MERIT IN DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING
“Patrice: The Movie”
OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A VARIETY SPECIAL
“SNL 50,” Liz Patrick
OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A VARIETY SERIES
Jim Hoskinson, “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”
VARIETY SPECIAL (Pre-Recorded)
Conan O’Brien, The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
