Emmys 2018: Game of Thrones Leads Creative Arts Wins, as Apple Bags First

HBO’s “Game of Thrones” and FX’s “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” emerged with momentum after the first night of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
“Game of Thrones” went into the night as the pace-setter, having nabbed 22 Emmy nominations. “Thrones” finished out the night with seven wins. FX’s limited series “Gianni Versace” bagged four wins — including for contemporary costumes, appropriately enough.
The haul for “Thrones” helped HBO maintain a comfortable lead among networks with 13 wins so far, followed by 10 for Netflix and seven for FX. The network race is closely watched this year because Netflix elbowed HBO out of the top spot in total nominations for the first time in 18 years.

The 70th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which recognise technical achievements such as cinematography, directing, music, and production design in addition to others, took place on September 8-9 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The Television Academy has also included guest acting and a few programme awards in recent years to raise the event’s profile.

After missing out on the 2017 ceremony thanks to its delayed season 7 run, Game of Thrones returned this year in style, winning in seven categories including costumes, music composition, production design, prosthetic make-up, sound mixing, special visual effects, and stunt coordination. It was the first win for composer Ramin Djawadi and the show’s sixth for VFX. The HBO show was tied for wins with Saturday Night Live.

Game of Thrones’ seven awards helped propel HBO to a total of 17, including three for Westworld season 2. That meant it narrowly beat out Netflix, which picked up 16 wins at the 2018 Creative Arts ceremony with three for The Crown, two awards apiece for Black Mirror’s “USS Callister”, GLOW and Queer Eye, alongside contributions from Stranger Things, Wild Wild Country, and Godless.

While Apple has previously won Emmys for technical achievements – an Emmy Engineering Award in 2001 for developing FireWire, and another in 2017 for integrating Siri into Apple TV – the win for Apple Music’s Carpool Karaoke: The Series in ‘Short Form Variety Series’ is the first for content.
Other notable wins include three apiece for The Handmaid’s Tale and Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and one each for Rick and Morty (best animated programme) and Blue Planet II (best narrator for David Attenborough).

The main event, the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards aka the 2018 Emmys, will take place at the same venue on September 17. It will present the remaining, biggest awards: best comedy, drama, lead acting, writing, and directing among others.

Here is a Complete list of Saturday’s Winners:
-TV movie: “USS Callister: Black Mirror”
-Guest actor in a comedy series: Katt Williams, “Atlanta”
-Cinematography for a single-camera series (one hour): Adriano Goldman, “The Crown”
-Cinematography for a single-camera series (half-hour): Christian Sprenger, “Atlanta”
-Hairstyling for a single-camera series: “Westworld”
-Makeup for a single-camera series (non-prosthetic): “Westworld”
-Children’s program: “The Magical Wand Chase: A Sesame Street Special”
-Contemporary costumes: “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”
-Creative achievement in interactive media within a scripted program: “Westworld,” “Chaos Takes Control Interactive Experience.”
-Original interactive program: “NASA JPL: Cassini’s Grand Finale”
-Single-camera picture editing for a drama series: “The Handmaid’s Tale”
-Single-camera picture editing for a limited series or movie: “Black Mirror: USS Callister”
-Sound editing for limited series, movie or special: “Black Mirror: USS Callister”
-Guest actress in a drama series: Samira Wiley, “The Handmaid’s Tale”
-Sound editing for a comedy or drama series (half-hour) and animation: “Atlanta”
-Sound mixing for a comedy or drama series (half-hour) and animation: “Barry”
-Sound mixing for a comedy or drama series (one hour): “Game of Thrones”
-Sound editing for a comedy or drama (one hour): “Stranger Things”
-Production design for a narrative program (half-hour or less): “GLOW”
-Production design for narrative contemporary program: “The Handmaid’s Tale”
-Production design for a narrative for a narrative period or fantasy program: “Game of Thrones”
-Fantasy/sci-fi costumes: “Game of Thrones”
-Music supervision: Robin Urdang, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Dan Palladino, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
-Stunt coordination for a comedy series or variety program: “GLOW”
-Stunt coordination for a drama series, limited series or movie: Rowley Irlam, “Game of Thrones”
-Guest actor in a drama series: Ron Cephas Jones, “This Is Us”
-Music composition for a limited series, movie or special (original dramatic score): Cyril Aufort, “March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step”
-Music composition for a series (original dramatic score): Ramin Djawadi, “Game of Thrones”
-Main title design: “Counterpart”
-Original main title theme music: Carlos, Rafael Rivera, “Godless”
- Special visual effects in a supporting role: “The Alienist”
-Special visual effects: “Game of Thrones”
-Prosthetic makeup for a limited series, movie or special: “Game of Thrones”
-Period costumes: “The Crown”
-Cinematography for a multi-camera series: Gary Baum, “Will & Grace”
-Multi-camera picture editing for a comedy series: “Will & Grace”
-Single-camera picture editing for a comedy series: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
-Guest actress in a comedy series: Tiffany Haddish, “Saturday Night Live”
-Actress in a short-form comedy or drama series: Christina Pickles, “Break a Hip.”
-Actor in a short-form comedy or drama series: James Corden, “James Corden’s Next James Corden”
-Short-form comedy or drama series: “James Corden’s Next James Corden”
-Commercial: “The Talk,” P&G, “My Black is Beautiful”
-Cinematography for a limited series or movie: Mathias Herndl, “Genius: Picasso”
-Hairstyling for a limited series or movie: “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”
-Makeup for a limited series or movie, non-prosthetic: “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”
-Sound mixing for a limited series or movie: “Genius: Picasso”
-Animated program: “Rick and Morty: Pickle Rick”
-Short-form animated program: “Robot Chicken”
-Voice-over performance: Alex Borstein, “Family Guy”
-Casting for a comedy series: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
-Casting for a limited series: “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”
-Casting for a drama series: “The Crown”

September 10, 2018