The Oscars, ‘SNL’ and Billy Joel Special Win at Creative Arts Emmys
The 2024 version of the Oscars gained excellent selection particular (reside) on evening one of many Creative Arts Emmys. It’s the primary time the Oscars have gained the highest program Emmy in selection since 1991, when it gained in a predecessor class, excellent selection, music or comedy program. Before that, the Oscars gained the highest program award in 1979 and 1988.
In profitable excellent selection particular (reside), The Oscars prevailed over The Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show Starring Usher, The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady and the newest editions of the Grammys and the Tonys.
Raj Kapoor, Molly McNearney and Katy Mullan served as government producers of the Oscars. Jimmy Kimmel hosted for the fourth time.
The Creative Arts Emmys are being offered over two consecutive nights at the Peacock Theater at LA Live in in downtown Los Angeles. The first ceremony on Saturday (Sept. 7) centered on unscripted and documentary packages. Sunday’s ceremony will concentrate on scripted packages.
Rickey Minor gained excellent music course for his work on the Oscars. It’s his third win within the class, following wins for Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories That Changed America (2017) and the Kennedy Center Honors (2020).This yr’s win was a specific achievement as a result of Minor was competing with himself. He was additionally nominated for his work on The forty sixth Kennedy Center Honors.
The Oscars gained two different Creative Arts Emmys – excellent course for Hamish Hamilton and excellent manufacturing design for a range particular. These 4 awards convey the entire variety of Emmy Awards gained by the Oscars to 63. (The present was often known as the Academy Awards by way of 2012, when the present formally modified the title to the extra fan-friendly Oscars.)
Saturday Night Live was the massive winner on evening one of many Creative Arts Emmys with six wins. This brings the present’s tally of Primetime Emmy wins to 97, the report for a collection. The present is about to launch its fiftieth season this fall.
The present’s wins have been all in technical craft classes – directing; lighting design/lighting course; technical course and camerawork; manufacturing design; hairstyling; and make-up.
Blue Eye Samurai, Jim Henson Idea Man and The Oscars every gained 4 awards on Saturday. Billy Joel – The one centesimal Live at Madison Square Garden and Welcome to Wrexham every gained three. Girls State and Love on the Spectrum every gained two.
The Billy Joel particular gained three technical awards – sound mixing; lighting design/lighting course; and technical course and camerawork. But it misplaced the highest award in its subject, excellent selection particular (pre-recorded) to Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic. This is the second yr in a row that award went to a present celebrating a TV legend in his or her 90s. Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love gained final yr.
As the chief producer/performer of the MSG particular, Joel would have gained his first Primetime Emmy if this system had gained. He has gained 5 Grammys and a Tony.
Jim Henson: Idea Man, a Disney + program in regards to the genius creator of the Muppets, gained excellent documentary or non-fiction particular, the place it beat The Greatest Night in Pop, in regards to the recording session that produced “We Are the World,” in addition to separate docs about comedians Steve Martin and Albert Brooks and the Girl’s State occasion.
David Fleming gained excellent music composition for a documentary collection or particular (authentic dramatic rating) for his work on Jim Henson Idea Man. It’s his first Primetime Emmy. The present’s different awards have been excellent sound enhancing for a non-fiction or actuality program and excellent image enhancing for a nonfiction program.
Henson, who died in 1990 at age 53, gained 5 Grammys and three Primetime Emmys. In addition, he was inducted into the TV Academy Hall of Fame in 1987.
The Beach Boys on Disney + gained for excellent sound mixing for a nonfiction program.
The Voice gained excellent image enhancing for a structured actuality or competitors program.
Maya Rudolph gained excellent character voice-over efficiency for her position as Connie the Hormone Monstress on Netflix’s Big Mouth. This is her sixth Primetime Emmy; her fourth on this class. Rudolph’s mom, the late Minnie Riperton, topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975 with “Lovin’ You” and acquired two Grammy nominations.
Alan Cumming, host of The Traitors, gained excellent host for a actuality/competitors program, beating Ru Paul Charles, host of RuPaul’s Drag Race, who had gained the final eight years operating. Cumming gained a Tony for greatest actor in a musical in 1998 for his position because the Emcee in a reboot of Cabaret. He picked up a second Tony in 2022 as one among platoon of producers of A Strange Loop.
Jeopardy! gained excellent recreation present for the second yr in a row, however Ken Jennings, the present’s host (and contestant with the longest profitable streak), misplaced excellent recreation present host to Pat Sajak, who lately concluded a 40-year run because the host of that present.
Shark Tank gained excellent structured actuality present for the fifth whole time. It beat Queer Eye, which had gained the final six years in a row. These two exhibits are the highest winners within the historical past of the class.
An edited presentation of the awards from each nights of the Creative Arts Emmys will air Saturday, Sept. 14, at 8:00 p.m. PT on FXX. Subsequently, this system will probably be obtainable for streaming on Hulu from Sunday, Sept. 15 by way of Wednesday, Oct. 9.
The 76th Emmy Awards will probably be broadcast reside from the Peacock Theatre on Sunday, Sept. 15, from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET/5 p.m. to eight p.m. PT on ABC. The broadcast will probably be obtainable for streaming the subsequent day on Hulu.
