“Widow’s Bay” led all programs on night two of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, bringing home eight prizes including Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for Betty Gilpin and additional awards for casting, production design, sound editing, sound mixing, cinematography, score and music supervision.
The comedy was followed by “DTF St. Louis,” which won six awards including Outstanding Supporting Actor (David Harbour) and Supporting Actress (Linda Cardellini) in a Limited Series.
“Spider-Noir” won five awards just two days after its cancellation at Prime Video. “The Pitt” and “Pluribus,” going head-to-head in this year’s drama division, tied for fourth with four Emmys each. “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” “Palm Royale” and “Beef” ended in a three-way tie with three awards apiece.
Apple TV led all networks with 18 wins, bolstered by “Widow’s Bay,” “Pluribus,” “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” and “Palm Royale.” The network was followed by HBO Max with 10 awards, Amazon with five and Netflix with three.
The Sunday show was the first head-to-head Emmy competition for several of the programs expected to be the top competitors at next week’s Primetime Emmys telecast. The first season of “Widow’s Bay” beat the final season of “Hacks” in five categories, while “Hacks” beat the freshman show in thought to be the two top contenders for Outstanding Comedy Series, went head-to-head for the picture-editing Emmy.
Among drama contenders, “The Pitt” topped “Pluribus” for casting and guest actor in a drama series (Ernest Harden Jr.), while “Pluribus” beat the reigning Emmy champ in production design, picture editing and sound mixing.
In the limited series categories, “Beef” won three awards, but “DTF St. Louis” doubled that number and won in crucial writing, directing and acting categories.
The first three awards of the night went to “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette,” “Widow’s Bay” and “The Pitt,” with the three heavy contenders winning Outstanding Casting in the Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, Comedy Series and Drama Series divisions respectively. “Paradise” then won the night’s first acting award, with Shailene Woodley taking home Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. Ernest Harden Jr. later brought “The Pitt” its first acting win of the season after scoring Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.
One of the nights final awards went to Rob Reiner, who won a posthumous Emmy for his guest performance in “The Bear.” His win was followed by Betty Gilpin, who took home the comedy guest actress prize in a category that was otherwise filled by Jamie Lee Curtis (“The Bear”) and five performers from “Hacks.”
“South Park” took home the Outstanding Animated Program Emmy, delivering the Trey Parker/Matt Stone series its first win since 2013 for a politically charged 27th season. Despite winning five times between 2005 and 2013, “South Park” had gotten eight nominations since then with zero wins. The next category saw Parker compete for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for his work as Satan on the show, losing out to Julie Andrews for her role in “Bridgerton.”
For the first time, supporting actor and actress awards in the limited-series category were presented on the Creative Arts show (going to Harbour and Cardellini) rather than on the televised Primetime Emmy telecast on Sept. 14. The move was part of a controversial realignment to streamline the main Emmy show, and was condemned in a joint statement by the Directors Guild, Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild.
Also at the ceremony, “I Love Lucy” was presented with the Television Academy’s first Legacy Award.
At the first Creative Arts ceremony on Saturday, Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show led all programs with seven wins, followed by “The Traitors” with six and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” with five. Most of the shows that will be competing for the top Emmys at next week’s Primetime Emmy ceremony were not eligible in the categories given out at Saturday’s show, but they competed head-to-head at Sunday’s second Creative Arts show.
Over the two Creative Arts shows, “Widow’s Bay” was the top winner with eight Emmys, followed by Bad Bunny’s halftime show with seven, “DTF St. Louis” and “The Traitors” with six, “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and “Spider-Noir” with five and “The Muppet Show,” “The Pitt” and “Pluribus” with four.
The televised Primetime Emmy Awards telecast will cover the final 19 categories and will take place on Monday evening, Sept. 14.
Here is the list of categories for the second Creative Arts show, in the order in which awards were presented.
OUTSTANDING CASTING FOR A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE
“Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette”
OUTSTANDING CASTING FOR A COMEDY SERIES
“Widow’s Bay”
OUTSTANDING CASTING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
“The Pitt”
OUTSTANDING CONTEMPORARY HAIRSTYLING
“Margo’s Got Money Troubles”
OUTSTANDING PERIOD OR FANTASY/SCI-FI HAIRSTYLING
“Bridgerton”
OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Shailene Woodley, “Paradise”
OUTSTANDING FANTASY/SCI-FI COSTUMES
“Fallout”
OUTSTANDING PERIOD COSTUMES
“Palm Royale”
OUTSTANDING CONTEMPORARY COSTUMES FOR A SERIES
“Margo’s Got Money Troubles”
OUTSTANDING CONTEMPORARY COSTUMES FOR A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE
“Beef”
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A NARRATIVE PROGRAM (HALF-HOUR)
“Widow’s Bay”
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A NARRATIVE PERIOD OR FANTASY PROGRAM (1HR+)
“Fallout”
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A NARRATIVE CONTEMPORARY PROGRAM (1HR+)
“Pluribus”
OUTSTANDING PROSTHETIC MAKEUP
“The Pitt”
OUTSTANDING PERIOD OR FANTASY/SCI-FI MAKEUP (NON-PROSTHETIC)
“Palm Royale”
OUTSTANDING CONTEMPORARY MAKEUP (NON-PROSTHETIC)
“Margo’s Got Money Troubles”
OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Ernest Harden Jr., “The Pitt”
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY FOR SCRIPTED PROGRAMMING
“Palm Royale”
OUTSTANDING STUNT COORDINATION FOR DRAMA PROGRAMMING
John Koyama, “The Boys”
OUTSTANDING STUNT PERFORMANCE
“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”
OUTSTANDING STUNT COORDINATION FOR COMEDY PROGRAMMING
“Spider-Noir”
OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
Skip MacDonald ACE, “Pluribus”
OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE
“DTF St. Louis”
OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR A SINGLE-CAMERA COMEDY SERIES
Jon Philpot, “Hacks”
OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR A MULTI-CAMERA COMEDY SERIES
Russell Griffin ACE, “Leanne”
LEGACY AWARD
“I Love Lucy”
OUTSTANDING ANIMATED PROGRAM
“South Park”
OUTSTANDING CHARACTER VOICE-OVER PERFORMANCE
Julie Andrews, “Bridgerton”
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN ANIMATION (juried): Uzoma Dunkwu, character design, “Eyes of Wakanda”: “Into the Lion’s Den”
David Krentz, storyboards, “Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal”: “Vengeance of Death”
Howard Chen, background design, “The Mighty Nein”: “Mote of Possibility”
Takashi Okazaki, character design, “Star Wars: Visions”: “The Duel: Payback”
OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING FOR A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL
“Beef”
OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING FOR A COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES (HALF-HOUR) AND ANIMATION
“Widow’s Bay”
OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING FOR A COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES (ONE HOUR)
“Spider-Noir”
OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING FOR A COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES (ONE HOUR)
“Pluribus”
OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING FOR A COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES (HALF-HOUR) AND ANIMATION
“Widow’s Bay”
OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING FOR A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE
“Beef”
OUTSTANDING TITLE DESIGN
“Spider-Noir”
OUTSTANDING SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS IN A SINGLE EPISODE
“Spider-Noir”
OUTSTANDING SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS IN A SEASON OR A MOVIE
“Stranger Things”
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE
David Harbour, “DTF St. Louis”
OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR A SERIES (ONE HOUR)
Darran Tiernan, “Spider-Noir”
OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE
James Whitaker, “DTF St. Louis”
OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR A SERIES (HALF-HOUR)
Christian Sprenger, ASC, “Widow’s Bay”
OUTSTANDING MUSIC SUPERVISION
Toko Nagata, “Widow’s Bay”
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC AND LYRICS
“Need Someone,” “The Pitt”
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MAIN TITLE THEME MUSIC
Dave Porter, “Pluribus”
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)
David Fleming, “Widow’s Bay”
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)
“The Beast in Me”
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE
Linda Cardellini, “DTF St. Louis”
OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE
Steve Conrad, “DTF St. Louis”
OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE
Steven Conrad, “DTF St. Louis”
OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Rob Reiner, “The Bear”
OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Betty Gilpin, “Widow’s Bay”
OUTSTANDING MOVIE
“Remarkably Bright Creatures”
