(MENAFN- Arab Times) LOS ANGELES, Sept 15, (RTRS):
'Free Solo', 'Queer Eye', 'RuPaul's Drag Race' and 'Saturday Night Live' were
among the big winners Saturday after the first night of the Creative Arts Emmy
Awards at the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles.
'Free Solo', the National
Geographic feature documentary that already claimed the Oscar earlier this
year, lead the field on the night largely devoted to unscripted programming
with seven big wins. On Sunday, the remaining Creative Arts Emmys will be
handed out for shows largely in the scripted genre.
RuPaul earned his fourth
consecutive trophy as reality host for his work out front on VH1's 'RuPaul's
Drag Race'. Netflix's 'Queer Eye' nabbed four wins, including its second
consecutive trophy for structured reality program. 'The Simpsons' added more hardware
to its trophy case with the win for animated program. And the late Anthony
Bourdain earned two more Emmys for his CNN series 'Parts Unknown', which won
for informational series and also for writing.
TV
legend Norman Lear picked up another Emmy, a win that makes him the oldest
person to win an Emmy (at 97) in the variety special (live) category for ABC's
'Live in Front of a Studio Audience' special featuring new stagings of episodes
from 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons', produced by Jimmy Kimmel. Lear
wasn't the only nonagenarian to pick up a win on Saturday; Sir David
Attenborough, 93, won for narration for Netflix's 'Our Planet'.
When pressed backstage about the
live special connected with such a large audience, Lear said that the family and
relationship subjects that he probed in the 1970s are still relevant today.
'The shows reflect our common humanity. And that hasn't changed. We are as
misguided today as we were then in certain ways,' Lear said.
'Carpool Karaoke' had a good
night, winning short form variety series for the Apple incarnation of the
franchise that began on CBS' 'The Late Late Show with James Corden'. Last year,
Corden delivered a special extra-long edition with Paul McCartney' that became
an hourlong CBS primetime special 'Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney
Live From Liverpool', which took home the win for variety special (recorded).
Corden was effusive backstage
about the privilege of working in American television in a big way, as he has
since landing on 'Late Late Show' in 2015. 'We just want to be a place people
go to have a really nice time before or, let's be honest, while they fall
asleep,' Corden said of the show.
CNN's
'United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell' prevailed once again for
unstructured reality program, picking up its third consecutive trophy. Bell
used his moment on stage to call on the industry to embrace diversity and
inclusion at every level of the industry.
'I've
thanked my wife and my kids and the people I work with enough,' Bell told reporters
backstage. 'I not only have to call my team out, but I have to call the
industry out. I feel like if I'm going to be about it I have to talk about it.'
Fox's staging of 'Rent' earned
two trophies, for lighting design and production design.
HBO's
'Leaving Neverland' documentary was recognized for documentary special. CNN's
'RBG' and HBO's 'The Sentence' earned exceptional merit in documentary
filmmaking honors.
Among networks, Netflix emerged
with 15 wins (including a number of animation wins that were previously
announced), followed by National Geographic with eight; CNN and NBC with five
apiece; and Fox, HBO and YouTube with four apiece.
Winners
* Variety special (live): 'Live In Front Of
A Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All In The Family' And 'The Jeffersons'
(ABC)
* Variety
special (pre-recorded):
'Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From Liverpool' (CBS)
* Choreography for variety or reality programming:
Tessandra Chavez, 'World of Dance' (NBC)
* Production design for a variety special:
'Rent' (Fox)
* Production design for a variety, reality or
competition series: 'Saturday Night Live' (NBC)
* Structured reality program: 'Queer Eye' (Netflix)
* Short form variety series: 'Carpool
Karaoke: the Series' (Apple)
* Short form animated program: 'Love, Death
& Robots' (Netflix)
* Picture editing for a nonfiction program:
Bob Eisenhardt, 'Free Solo' (National Geographic)
* Narrator: Sir David Attenborough, 'Our
Planet' (Netflix)
* Music composition for a documentary series or
special (original dramatic score): Marco Beltrami, Brandon Roberts,
'Free Solo' (National Geographic)
* Music direction: Alex Lacamoire,
'Fosse/Verdon' (FX)
* Original music and lyrics: Adam
Schlesinger, Rachel Bloom, Jack Dolgen, 'Anti-depressants Are So Not a Big
Deal', 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' (CW)
* Creative achievement in interactive media within
an unscripted program: 'Free Solo' (National Geographic)
* Interactive program: 'NASA and SpaceX:
The Interactive Demo-1 Launch' (YouTube)
* Technical direction, camerawork, video control
for a special: 'Late Late Show Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special 2019'
(CBS)
* Technical direction, camerawork, video control
for a series: 'Last Week Tonight With John Oliver' (HBO)
* Short form nonfiction or reality series:
'Creating Saturday Night Live' (NBC)
* Writing for a variety special: Hannah
Gadsby, 'Nanette' (Netflix)
* Writing for a nonfiction program: Anthony
Bourdain, 'Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown' (CNN)
* Motion design: 'Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj'
(Netflix)
* Exceptional merit in
documentary film-making: (tie) 'RBG' (CNN); 'The Sentence' (HBO)
* Informational series or
special: 'Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown' (CNN)
* Documentary or
nonfiction special: 'Leaving Neverland' (HBO)
* Documentary or
nonfiction series: 'Our Planet' (Netflix)
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