Everybody's Woman of the Year, Betty White, won big ratings when she hosted 'Saturday Night Live.' An Emmy nod for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series followed.
The creepiest family man/serial killer on TV last season was either John Lithgow's sinister Arthur Mitchell on 'Dexter,' or the Michael C. Hall title character who tried to bring him down. Hall's category is on the big show, Lithgow's on the Creative Arts.
Sorry, Nike and Audi and Coke and Absolut and Mars candy - when it comes to Outstanding Commercial, how could anybody vote against Isaiah Mustafa, the Old Spice guy?
With three voice-over nominations, plus one for Outstanding Animated Program and one for Outstanding Nonfiction Special, 'The Simpsons' continues its historic run.
The Outstanding Reality-Show Host award has been presented twice on the primetime show, and 'Survivor's' Jeff Probst (here with Hayden Panettierre) has won both times. If he didn't wear a tie then, he probably won't wear one to the Creative Arts show, either.
Jay Leno may have won the battle for the Tonight Show, but Conan O'Brien's the one with two Emmy nominations for his brief stint on the show. (Jay didn't get any.)
Seth Green's animated series 'Robot Chicken' nabs the pint-sized funnyman nods for Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program and for his voiceover work, where he's no doubt hoping for a split vote among the 'Simpsons' trifecta of Hank Azaria, Dan Castellaneta and Anne Hathaway.
Now this is what you call dominance: four of the 24 nominations for the HBO series "The Pacific" came in the Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or Movie category, where the show secured every single nomination with four different episodes.
Kathy Griffin became the most notorious Creative Arts winner when her 2007 speech included the line, "Suck it, Jesus." If she wins this year for Outstanding Reality Program, she promises another water-cooler moment, albeit a non-blasphemous one.
'Monty Python's Flying Circus' may have gone off the air more than 35 years ago, but the British comedy troupe still crashed the Outstanding Nonfiction Series category, this time with the IFC documentary series 'Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut).' Do silly walks to the podium await?
Perhaps its star is ready to move on - but at the Emmys, 'Hannah Montana' is still kicking. For Outstanding Children's Program, Miley Cyrus' alter ego will face off against the Jonas Brothers, a pair of 'Wizards of Waverly Place' projects and the single non-Disney nominee, Nickleodeon's 'iCarly.'
Would it help make up for a rough year for the president if the HBO special 'By the People: The Election of Barack Obama' wins a couple of the Emmys for which it is nominated? Probably not.
Past winner and host Kathy Griffin calls them “the Schmemmies” and jokes that they’re a seven-hour endurance test, but the Creative Arts Emmys are actually the ceremony at which two-thirds of all Primetime Emmy Awards are handed out. This year’s show takes place Saturday night at the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, with an edited version airing on E! the following Friday night.
With six dozen categories up for grabs, the Creative Arts Emmys nominees cut a wide swath through the television business, from kids’ shows to reality TV, movies to advertisements to interactive. Pictured are a few of the more than a thousand nominees.
