The Creative Arts Emmys: Betty White, The Old Spice Guy, and Robot Chicken reign supreme
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences held its even-less-popular Creative Arts Emmys awards ceremony on Saturday—though it’s not like we need to tell you, considering Twitter was absolutely aflame with outrage over Return To Cranford’s surprise upset win for Best Costume for a Movie/Miniseries. But now that we’ve all had 48 hours to process it, perhaps the sting has lessened, and we can move on to discussing some of the other categories?
Among the more notable wins, Betty White’s stranglehold over media grows stronger every day, and this weekend her appearance on Saturday Night Live allowed her to clasp the Best Guest Actress in a Comedy trophy in her steely fists and once again sound her barbaric yawp across the roofs of the world. Surprising no one, John Lithgow collected a Best Guest Actor win for his show-saving performance on Dexter, Neil Patrick Harris took home one of his own for Glee, and Anne Hathaway nabbed Best Voiceover Performance for her cameo on The Simpsons. And of course, Jeff Probst continues to be America’s favorite reality show host.
That’s pretty much it for the statuettes claimed by famous people. Some of the more interesting technical trophies: Robot Chicken is now “the Emmy-award-winning Robot Chicken.” (Of course, by that same token, you could also call it “the Emmy-award-winning Flash Forward,” since it was recognized for Best Stunt Coordination for those daring wheel-spinning scenes.) The Colbert Report took home a prize for writing, while Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution won Best Reality Program. Lost received what could end up being its only Emmy this year, for best editing—and the bad news is that Michael Giacchino’s stellar composing work on the final season lost out to 24. But Saturday was nothing but good news for “The Old Spice Guy,” because we now officially love those “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” commercials so much we gave it an award. Here’s the full list of winners. [Movieline]
Best Casting of a Drama Series: Mad Men
Best Casting of a Movie/Mini: The Pacific
Best Casting of a Comedy Series: Modern Family
Best Prosthetic Makeup for Series, Movie or Mini: The Pacific
Best Makeup for Movie or Mini (Non-Prosthetic): The Pacific
Best Makeup for a Single-Camera Series, Movie, Mini or Special (Non-Prosthetic): Grey’s Anatomy
Best Makeup/ Multi-Camera (Non-Prosthetic): Saturday Night Live
Best Guest Actress in a Comedy: Betty White, Saturday Night Live
Best Costumes for Movie/Mini: Return to Cranford
Best Costumes for a Series: The Tudors
Best Music Direction: Olympic Games
Best Choreography: Mia Michaels, So You Think You Can Dance
Best Music Score: 24
Best Music Score for Movie/Mini: Temple Grandin
Best Music and Lyrics: Monk
Best Art Direction for Variety or Nonfiction Program: Academy Awards
Best Art Direction for Movie/Mini: The Pacific
Best Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series: The Tudors
Best Picture Editing for Comedy Series: Modern Family
Best Picture Editing for Drama Series (Single Camera): Lost
Best Picture Editing for Movie/Mini (Single Camera): Temple Grandin
Best Short Form Picture Editing: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Best Picture Editing for Nonfiction Program: By the People: Election of Barack Obama
Best Picture Editing for Reality Program: Intervention
Best Animated Program: Disney’s Prep and Landing
Best Short Form Animated Program: Robot Chicken
Best Voiceover Performance: Anne Hathaway, The Simpsons
Best Stunt Coordination: Flash Forward
Best Visual Effects in a Series: CSI
Best Visual Effects in a Movie/Mini/Special: The Pacific, Part 5
Best Main Titles Design: Bored to Death
Best Main Title Theme Music: Nurse Jackie
Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series: John Lithgow, Dexter
Best Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series: Glee
Best Sound Mixing for a Mini/Movie: The Pacific, Part 2
Best Sound Mixing for Half-Hour Series (Tie): Entourage and Modern Family
Best Sound Mixing for Music Series or Special (tie): Grammy Awards and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert
Best Tech Direction for a Series: Dancing with the Stars
Best Tech Direction for a Mini/Special: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert
Best Cinematography for Nonfiction: Life
Best Cinematography for Movie/Mini: Return to Cranford
Best Cinematography for One-Hour Show: CSI
Best Cinematography for Half-Hour Series: Weeds
Best Cinematography for Nonfiction: Survivor
Best Lighting: Winter Olympics Opening
Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series: Neil Patrick Harris, Glee
Best Direction for Nonfiction: My Lai
Best Writing for Nonfiction: National Parks
Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking: Nerakhoon (The Betrayal)
Best Nonfiction Special: Teddy: In His Own Words
Best Nonfiction Series: National Parks: America’s Best Idea
Best Special Class Program: Tony Awards
Best Creative Achievement Interactive: Star Wars Uncut
Best Creative Achievement in Interactive: The Jimmy Fallon Digital Experience
Best Direction of Variety: Saturday Night Live
Best Children’s Program: Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie
Best Variety Special: Kennedy Center Honors
Best Variety Writing: Colbert Report
Best Children’s Nonfiction Program: Nick News With Linda Ellerbee – The Face Of Courage: Kids Living With Cancer
Best Commercial: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like • Old Spice Body Wash
Best Reality Program: Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
Best Reality Host: Jeff Probst, Survivor
Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series: Ann-Margret, Law & Order: SVU