Emmy voters showered awards on Ava DuVernay\u2019s documentary \u201c13th,\u201d \u201cHairspray Live,\u201d \u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race,\u201d James Corden, and \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d during Saturday\u2019s first half of the two-night Creative Arts Award presentation at the Microsoft Theater.<\/p>\n
\u201c13th\u201d won for documentary special as well as writing, motion design and original music and lyrics for \u201cThe Letter to the Free\u201d by Common, Robert Glasper and Karriem Riggins. The Netflix documentary, which also collected a Peabody Award and an Oscar nomination this year, led the winners field with four trophies.<\/p>\n
DuVernay was one of several winners who made emotional pleas for those in media to use their power to speak out on urgent issues, from criminal justice and prison reform to climate change.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen all kinds of people are feeling aggressively demoralized and devalued, people of justice and dignity need to stand up and make our voices heard,\u201d DuVernay said. \u201cOur voices are stronger than those that try to silence us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cartoon Network\u2019s \u201cSamurai Jack\u201d also collected four trophies, for juried awards recognizing individual achievement in animation.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s ceremony focused on awards for reality, documentary and animated programs. Sunday\u2019s presentation will focus scripted programming. The remaining kudos in high-profile categories will be handed out Sept. 17 in a ceremony telecast live on CBS.<\/p>\n
James Corden\u2019s \u201cCarpool Karaoke Primetime Special\u201d won the first award of the night, for variety special. It marked the second straight win the category for the primetime rendition of the popular segment from his \u201cLate Late Show\u201d on CBS. Emmy voters also recognized the 2016 Tony Awards ceremony, hosted by Corden, with the special class program award.<\/p>\n
A&E Network\u2019s \u201cLeah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath\u201d was recognized for informational series or special. The star was emotional as she dedicated the win to those who came forward to discuss their experiences with Scientology.<\/p>\n
Fox\u2019s \u201cBob\u2019s Burgers\u201d was recognized for animated program. Cartoon Network\u2019s \u201cAdventure Time\u201d took its second trophy for short-form animated program.<\/p>\n
BBC America\u2019s \u201cPlanet Earth II\u201d prevailed for documentary or nonfiction series. \u201cShark Tank\u201d nabbed a fourth win in the structured reality category.<\/p>\n
CNN\u2019s \u201cUnited Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell\u201d won for unstructured reality program. Bell urged those in the crowd to recognize the important role played by \u201ctelevision and movies that prove the necessity of diversity and inclusion to make America a better place.\u201d<\/p>\n
RuPaul Charles pulled off a second consecutive win for reality host. Meryl Streep added an Emmy to her trophy case, landing the win for narrator for her work on Netflix\u2019s \u201cFive Came Back.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d won two technical awards and a makeup trophy for the Alec Baldwin-hosted episode from last season.<\/p>\n
The team from TBS\u2019 \u201cFull Frontal with Samantha Bee\u201d won writing for a variety special for their \u201cNot the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner\u201d effort. Bee told reporters backstage she is ready for the news flow of the Trump era to slow down a bit. \u201cAs citizens we would actually ask for less,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have what we have so we make what we can out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The night\u2019s winners included two industry notables who finally made it to the stage after numerous tries. Choreographer Mandy Moore won her first statuette, after six noms, for her work on ABC\u2019s \u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d (the category ended in tie with Travis Wall of Fox\u2019s \u201cSo You Think You Can Dance\u201d).<\/p>\n
Music director Rickey Minor prevailed on his seventh nom for his work on the ABC special \u201cTaking the Stage: African American Music and Stories That Changed America.\u201d<\/p>\n
Several participants in the ceremony made mention of the dangers of Hurricane Irma as it barrels toward Florida.<\/p>\n
Bill Nye, host of Netflix\u2019s \u201cBill Nye Saves the World,\u201d told the crowd he was a last-minute choice as a presenter because he was called on to fill in for actor Hank Azaria, who was called to Florida to help move his mother to safety out of Irma\u2019s path.<\/p>\n
Nye noted that everyone in the room owed a debt to the first responders who are on the front lines of every natural disaster. He also pointed to the prevalence of super storms like Irma and Hurricane Harvey that ravaged Texas last month as signs of a broader environmental concerns.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor my part I sincerely hope this year becomes a turning point and that we as a nation begin to acknowledge and address global climate change,\u201d he said, to wild applause. \u201cWe can do this. We can make the big changes we need. Working together we can \u2014 dare I say it \u2014 change the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a complete list of Saturday\u2019s Creative Arts Award winners:<\/p>\n
Variety Special<\/strong> Structured Reality Program<\/strong> Host for a Reality\/Reality-Competition Program<\/strong> Documentary or Nonfiction Special\u00a0<\/strong> Documentary or Nonfiction Series<\/strong> Animated Program\u00a0<\/strong> Original Music and Lyrics<\/strong> Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series<\/strong> Informational Series or Special<\/strong> Narrator<\/strong> Writing for a Variety Special<\/strong> Directing for a Variety Special\u00a0<\/strong> Lighting Design\/ Lighting Direction for a Variety Special\u00a0<\/strong> Casting for a Reality Program<\/strong> Costumes for Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Programming\u00a0<\/strong> Picture Editing for a Structured or Competition Reality Program<\/strong> Cinematography for a Reality Program<\/strong> Hairstyling for a Multi-Camera Series or Special\u00a0<\/strong> Production Design for a Variety, Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Series<\/strong> Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control For A Limited Series, Movie, or Special<\/strong> Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Series<\/strong> Motion Design\u00a0<\/strong>(Juried Award)<\/p>\n Choreography\u00a0<\/strong>(tie) Sound Editing for a Nonfiction Program<\/strong> Production Design for a Variety Nonfiction, Event or Award Special<\/strong> Makeup for a Multi-Camera Series or Special (Non-Prosthetic)<\/strong> Picture Editing for Variety Program\u00a0<\/strong> Short Form Animated Program<\/strong> Short Form Variety Series<\/strong> Directing for a Nonfiction Program<\/strong> Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program<\/strong> Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program\u00a0<\/strong> Interactive Program<\/strong> Creative Achievement in Interactive Media Within an Unscripted Program<\/strong> Music Direction<\/strong> Documentary Filmmaking<\/strong> Character Voice-Over Performance\u00a0<\/strong> Sound Mixing For a Variety Special Series or Special\u00a0<\/strong>(tie) Sound Mixing For a Nonfiction Program (Single or Multi-Camera)<\/strong> Writing for a Nonfiction Program<\/strong> Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program<\/strong> Unstructured Reality Program<\/strong> Special Class Program<\/strong> Lighting Design\/ Lighting Direction for a Variety Series<\/strong> (Pictured: Ava DuVernay and the team behind \u201c13th\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: variety.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emmy voters showered awards on Ava DuVernay\u2019s documentary \u201c13th,\u201d \u201cHairspray Live,\u201d \u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race,\u201d James Corden, and \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d during Saturday\u2019s first half of the two-night Creative Arts Award presentation at the Microsoft Theater. \u201c13th\u201d won for documentary special as well as writing, motion design and original music and ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":68398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13867,4545],"tags":[7369,9126],"class_list":["post-68397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cinema-tv","category-entertainment","tag-james-corden","tag-saturday-night-live"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"\n
\n\u201cCarpool Karaoke Primetime Special 2017\u201d (CBS)<\/p>\n
\n\u201cShark Tank\u201d (ABC)<\/p>\n
\nRuPaul Charles (\u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race)<\/p>\n
\n\u201c13th\u201d (Netflix)<\/p>\n
\n\u201cPlanet Earth II\u201d (BBC America)<\/p>\n
\n\u201cBob\u2019s Burgers\u201d (FOX)<\/p>\n
\nCommon, Robert Glasper, Karriem Riggins (\u201c13th\u201d \u2014 \u201cLetter to the Free\u201d)<\/p>\n
\n\u201cViceland at the Women\u2019s March\u201d (Viceland)<\/p>\n
\n\u201cLeah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath\u201d (A&E)<\/p>\n
\nMeryl Streep (\u201cFive Came Back\u201d \u2014 \u201cThe Price Of Victory\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nSamantha Bee, Jo Miller, Ashley Nicole Black, Patt Cassels, Eric Drysdale, Mathan Erhardt, Travon Free, Joe Grossman, Miles Kahn & Melinda Taub (\u201cFull Frontal with Samantha Bee Presents Not the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nGlenn Weiss (\u201cThe Oscars\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nRobert Barnhart, David Grill, Pete Radice & Jason Rudolph (\u201cSuper Bowl LI Halftime Show Starring Lady Gaga\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nSasha Alpert & Megan Sleeper (\u201cBorn This Way\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nZaldy Goco & Perry Meek (\u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nJohn Lim & Michael Roha (\u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nBruce Ready (\u201cBorn This Way\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nMiia Kovero, Terry Baliel, Roxane Griffin, Lawrence Davis, Jill Crosby & Joy Zapata (\u201cHairspray Live!\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nEugene Lee, Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood & N. Joseph DeTullio (\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nCharles Ciup, Billy Steinberg, Chris Hill, Bert Atkinson, Randy Gomez, Nathanial Havholm, Ron Lehman, Bettina Levesque, Dave Levisohn, Tore Livia, Mike Malone, Adam Margolis, Rob Palmer, Brian Reason, Damien Tuffereau, Andrew Waruszewski (\u201cHairspray Live!\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nSteven Cimino, John Pinto, Paul Cangialosi, Len Wechsler, Eric Eisenstein, Dave Driscoll, Susan Noll, Frank Grisanti, Jeff Latonero, Ann Bergstrom, Randy Bittle (\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d \u2014 \u201cHost: Jimmy Fallon\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nMandy Moore (\u201cDancing with the Stars\u201d)
\nTravis Wall (\u201cSo You Think You Can Dance\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nJon Michaels, Harrison Meyle, Dan Kenyon, Will Digby & Melissa Muik (\u201cThe Beatles: Eight Days a Week \u2013 The Touring Years\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nDerek McLane, Joe Celli & Jason Howard (\u201cHairspray Live!\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nLouie Zakarian, Amy Tagliamonti, Jason Milani, Daniela Zivcovic, Rachel Pagani, Andrew Sotomeyer (\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d \u2014 \u201cHost: Alec Baldwin\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nAnthony Miale (\u201cLast Week Tonight With John Oliver\u201d)<\/p>\n
\n\u201cAdventure Time\u201d (Cartoon Network)<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe Daily Show \u2013 Between the Scenes\u201d (TheDailyShow.com)<\/p>\n
\nEzra Edelman (\u201cO.J.: Made in America\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nCinematography Team (\u201cPlanet Earth II: Islands\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nBret Granato, Maya Mumma & Ben Sozanski (\u201cO.J.: Made in America\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nPartially Important Productions (\u201cLast Week Tonight with John Oliver\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nMeghan de Boer, Rich Preuss, Teeny Stillings, Augie Vargas & Shelby Sundling Lathrop (\u201cThe Oscars: All Access\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nRickey Minor (\u201cTaking the Stage: African American Music And Stories That Changed America\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nTJ Martin, Dan Lindsay, Jonathan Chinn & Simon Chinn (\u201cLA 92\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nSeth MacFarlane (\u201cFamily Guy\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nJosh Morton, Thomas Holmes, Mikael Stewart, Eric Schilling, John Harris, Ron Reaves, Thomas Pesa, Michael Parker, Eric Johnston, Pablo Munguia, Bob LaMasney (\u201c59th Grammy Awards\u201d)
\nAl Centrella, Susan Pelino, Jay Vicari, Dave Natale, Erik Von Ranson, Simon Welch (\u201c2017 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nChris Jenkins, Cameron Frankley, Nathan Evans, Sam O\u2019Kell (\u201cThe Beatles: Eight Days A Week \u2013 The Touring Years\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nAva DuVernay & Spencer Averick (\u201c13th\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nIan Richardson, Tony Diaz, Eric Michael Schrader & Matt Mercer (\u201cLife Below Zero\u201d)<\/p>\n
\n\u201cUnited Shades Of America: With W. Kamau Bell\u201d (CNN)<\/p>\n
\n\u201c70th Annual Tony Awards\u201d (CBS)<\/p>\n
\nSimon Miles, Matthew Cotter, Suzanne Sotelo & Matt McAdam (\u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d)<\/p>\n