While the Primetime Emmy Awards are tonight, the Creative Arts Emmy Awards have been handed out over the past few days with some of the biggest winners announced last night.
Eddie Murphy won for hosting “Saturday Night Live” this past season, his first accolade from the Television Academy. Maya Rudolph also won for guest actress in a comedy for her SNL work this past year, and the show took home outstanding variety series.
Netflix’s baskeball doco “The Last Dance” won for documentary series while “The Cave” took the top documentary feature prize and “The Apollo” outstanding documentary special. “Bad Education” won best telemovie, “Rick and Morty” won best animated series, “The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance” and “We Are The Dream” tied for best children’s program, and “Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones” won for outstanding variety special along with writing & directing honors in that category,
“Watchmen” dominated limited series with best music, cinematography, editing, costuming, casting, sound mixing and sound editing. “The Mandalorian” was also a big winner for its cinematography, music score, production design, stunt co-ordination, visual effects and sound editing. “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” scored multiple nods for best cinematography, make-up, music supervision and sound mixing.
RuPaul snagged the best reality program host for “Drag Race” which also won in several categories. Other winners include “Hollywood,” “Big Mouth,” “Schitt’s Creek,” “Euphoria,” “Star Trek: Picard,” “Insecure,” “This is Us,” “Godfather of Harlem,” “Cheer,” “Shameless,” “The Crown,” “Mr. Robot,” “Stranger Things,” “Vikings,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Queer Eye,” “One Day at a Time,” “Black-ish,” “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” and “Succession”.
