The Primetime Creative Arts Emmys are underway this afternoon at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles. Traditionally held the weekend before the Primetime Emmys, the Creative Arts are largely dedicated to key technical disciplines and behind-the-scenes crafts: art direction, cinematography, hairstyling, makeup, music, picture editing, sound editing and mixing, special visual effects, stunts and more. A two-hour, edited presentation will air Saturday, September 21st at 9:00 PM on FXX. For a second consecutive year, FX‘s American Horror Story is the most nominated program with 17 Nominations, followed by HBO‘s Game Of Thrones (16), which dominated last year’s Creative Emmys with 7 wins.
Diane Haithman, Ray Richmond and Anthony D’Alessandro are on the scene at the Nokia for Deadline: Balmier weather than last year’s 100-degree heat made for a livelier Red Carpet. Matt Weiner, whose Mad Men suffered a historic shutout last year with 17 nominations, was optimistic heading into the ceremony. “Ya know what, anything would be great,” he said. “I would love to see one of our (guest) actors recognized. Linda (Cardellini), Harry (Hamlin), Robert Morse. None of our actors have been recognized (with wins). We’ve never won an editing or cinematography award.” Asked whether Mad Men would possibly do a Season 8 if the price was right, Weiner said: “No, no, it’s not about the deal. I want to wrap the show up. I have a good vibe for what we’re doing in this last piece and that’s the way to go. Will there be more TV and film in my life? I hope so. I’ve written a play. I don’t expect this (the Emmy sensation) to happen again. That would be greedy.”
Some 88 awards will be given away today. To get it done in a reasonable time, Creative Arts Emmys producer Spike Jones Jr. appeared onstage early on to urge winners to keep it short, announcing a 45-seconds limit from the moment the winner’s name is announced. “You have 45 seconds to get from your seat all the way down the aisle, up the steps, and do your acceptance speech. I’m not kidding. Forty-five seconds. We’ve found that you can say a lot in a very short period of time. Everybody in this room will thank you for it.”
2013 Creative Arts Emmy Winners
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The never-shy Community showrunner Dan Harmon and star Joel McHale set an outrageous tone at the outset as presenters of the first four awards, channeling infamous Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais. “Tonight we honor all of the people in primetime television who are contractually obligated not to make eye contact with me,” said McHale. Harmon, the combative fired and then reinstated boss of Community, then made a quip about how he’d soon be fired by FXX, the new network telecasting a truncated edition of the ceremony. “We’re going to show those frauds (in TV) that these people (here tonight) are the real celebrities,” he said.
Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series
House Of Cards • Netflix • Donen/Fincher/Roth and Trigger Street Productions, Inc. in association with Media Rights Capital for Netflix
Laray Mayfield, CSA, Casting Director
Julie Schubert, CSA, Casting Director
Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie or Special
Behind The Candelabra • HBO • Jerry Weintraub Productions in association with HBO Films
Carmen Cuba, CSA, Casting Director
Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series
30 Rock • NBC • Broadway Video and Little Stranger, Inc. in association with Universal Television
Jennifer McNamara-Shroff, Casting Director
Blichfeld + Daniels, Casting Directors
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
Louie • FX Networks • Pig Newton, Inc.
Melissa Leo as Laurie
Leo thanked Louie creator/star Louis CK at least five times consecutively, including a final time in Spanish: “Gracias Louie!” “And thank you, Blair,” she added to executive producer M. Blair Breard. “She concluded with a jokey: “Time’s up, isn’t it?”
Backstage, Leo called her guest role in Louie — involving a hilariously raw discussion of oral sex in a car — “scary.” She said she enjoyed trying something “I had not had much opportunity to try — making people laugh.”
The Oscar-winning actress was asked if she was tempted to use any “naughty speech” in her acceptance as she had when she dropped an F-bomb at the Academy Awards. “I will never be tempted to curse in any way that would possibly come across to homes that would not like that kind of language,” she said. “ I wouldn’t want to sully their living rooms with the kind of language I don’t mind in mine.”
Outstanding Animated Program
South Park • Raising The Bar • Comedy Central • Central Productions
South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are no show to accept their award.
Outstanding Short Form Animated
Disney Mickey Mouse Croissant de Triomphe • Disney.com • Disney Television Animation
Outstanding Children’s Program
Nick News With Linda Ellerbee – Forgotten But Not Gone: Kids, HIV & AIDS • Nickelodeon • Nickelodeon in association with Lucky Duck Productions
Linda Ellerbee, Executive Producer
Rolfe Tessem, Executive Producer
Wally Berger, Supervising Producer
Mark Lyons, Producer
Martin Toub, Produced By
Wendy Lobel, Produced By
Outstanding Art Direction for a Multi-Camera Series
MasterChef • 3-20 • FOX • Shine America, One Potato, Two Potato
John Janavs, Production Designer
Robert Frye, Art Director
Heidi Miller, Set Decorator
While the winners so far were able to fit into the 45-second window to dash to the stage and give their speech, as production designeer John Janavs was in mid-thanks and the music swelled, he was
abruptly silenced — whereupon he looked confused. Her and his fellow winners were then quickly hustled offstage.
Outstanding Art Direction For Variety Or Nonfiction Programming (TIE)
Presenting the dual award for Best Art Direction in a Variety Show (London Olympic Games and Saturday Night Live), presenter Rupert Friend joked that the art direction team for the Olympics couldn’t be here because they were busy “putting flowers by the road where the Kris Jenner show taped.”
London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony • NBC • NBC Universal, LLC
Mark Tildesley, Production Designer
Suttirat Anne Larlarb, Production Designer
Danny Boyle, Art Director
Saturday Night Live • Host: Justin Timberlake • Host: Martin Short • Host: Ben Affleck • NBC • SNL Studios in association with Universal Television and Broadway Video
Eugene Lee, Production Designer
Akira Yoshimura, Production Designer
Keith Ian Raywood, Production Designer
It was a squeaker as SNL needed a tie to win its first art direction Emmy ever. Backstage, winner Keith Ian Raywood called it “fantastic, unbelievably surprising” that SNL won in the category “for the first time in 38 years. I’ve done [the show] for 28 years, but (co-winners) Eugene Lee and Akira Yoshimura did the original show. First time!” Raywood added jokingly:” We like to think people must have thought we won (before), somewhere down the line”.
Outstanding Art Direction for Miniseries or Movie
Behind The Candelabra • HBO • Jerry Weintraub Productions in association with HBO Films
Howard Cummings, Production Designer
Patrick M. Sullivan, Jr., Art Director
Barbara Munch Cameron, S.D.S.A., Set Decorator
Outstanding Art Direction for a Single Camera Series
Boardwalk Empire • Sunday Best • Two Impostors • Margate Sands • HBO •
Leverage, Closest to the Hole Productions, Sikelia Productions and Cold Front Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
Bill Groom, Production Designer
Adam Scher, Art Director
Carol Silverman, Set Decorator
Outstanding Stunt Coordination for Comedy Series or Variety Program
Supah Ninjas • Nickelodeon • Varsity Pictures
Hiro Koda, Stunt Coordinator
Outstanding Stunt Coordination for Drama Series, Miniseries or Movie
Revolution • Nobody’s Fault But Mine • NBC • Bonanza Productions in association with Bad Robot Productions, Kripke Enterprises and Warner Bros. Television
Jeff Wolfe, Stunt Coordinator
Outstanding Picture Editing for Reality Programming
Deadliest Catch • Mutiny On The Bering Sea • Discovery Channel • Original Productions, LLC, a FremantleMedia Company for the Discovery Channel
Josh Earl, A.C.E., Supervising Editor
Alex Durham, Editor
Rob Butler, Editor
Outstanding Picture Editing For Nonfiction Programming
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God • HBO • HBO Documentary Films in association with Jigsaw Productions, Wider Film Projects and Below The Radar Films
Sloane Klevin, Editor
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series
Breaking Bad • Gliding Over All • AMC • Sony Pictures Television
Kelley Dixon, Editor
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Comedy Series
The Office • Finale • NBC • Deedle-Dee Productions and Reveille, LLC in association with Universal Television
David Rogers, Editor
Claire Scanlon, Editor
Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing For A Comedy Series
How I Met Your Mother • P.S. I Love You • CBS • Twentieth Century Fox Television
Sue Federman, Editor
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Miniseries Or A Movie
Behind The Candelabra • HBO • Jerry Weintraub Productions in association with HBO Films
Mary Ann Bernard, Editor
Outstanding Picture Editing For Short-Form Segments And Variety Specials
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart • Australia & Gun Control’s Aftermath (Part 3) (Episode 18092) • Comedy Central • Central Productions, LLC
Einar Westerlund, Editor
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner and series’ nominated guest actress Linda Cardellini came out to present several Emmys for hairstyling, and the chrome-domed Weiner recognized the irony. “I want you to be honest,” he said to Cardellini. “I think (my hair is) thinning a little bit.” Cardellini went on with the gag before a still flashed onscreen showing Weiner with a horrid wig, drawing a few guffaws from the crowd inside the Nokia.
Outstanding Hairstyling for Movie or Miniseries
Behind The Candelabra • HBO • Jerry Weintraub Productions in association with HBO Films
Marie Larkin, Department Head Hairstylist
Yvette Stone, Key Hairstylist
Kerrie Smith, Personal Hairstylist
Kay Georgiou, Personal Hairstylist
Outstanding Hairstyling For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special
Saturday Night Live • Host: Jennifer Lawrence • NBC • SNL Studios in association with Universal Television and Broadway Video
Bettie O. Rogers, Department Head Hairstylist
Jodi Mancuso, Key Hairstylist
Inga Thrasher, Hairstylist
Jennifer Serio Stauffer, Hairstylist
Cara Hannah Sullivan, Hairstylist
Outstanding Hairstyling For A Single-Camera Series
Boardwalk Empire • Resolution • HBO • Leverage, Closest to the Hole Productions, Sikelia Productions and Cold Front Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
Francesca Paris, Department Head Hairstylist
Lisa Dellechiaie, Key Hairstylist
Sarah Stamp, Key Hairstylist
Outstanding Guest Actor, Drama Series
Scandal • ABC • ABC Studios
Dan Bucatinsky as James Novack
An ebullient Dan Bucatinsky gave the humdrum ceremony a huge burst of energy and emotion when he won for his role on Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal, which is cast by Linda Lowy. He raced onstage in a frenzy, looking utterly shocked, and blurted, “Oh my God! Oh my God! Shonda Rhimes! Linda Lowy! You’ve changed my life!” He also thanked his team at CAA, his kids, and his onscreen and real life husband, actor Jeff Perry. “How many people get to say onscreen husband and real-life husband?,” Bucatinsky marveled before giving a shoutout to the recent historic vote on gay marriage. “Thank you Supreme Court of the United States!”
Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Variety Series Or Special
The 55th Annual Grammy Awards • CBS • AEG Ehrlich Ventures, LLC
Thomas Holmes, Production Mixer
Mikael Stewart, House Production Mixer
John Harris, Music Mixer
Eric Schilling, Music Mixer
Ron Reaves, House Music Mixer
Eric Johnston, Playback Mixer
Pablo Munguia, Playback Mixer
Tom Pesa, Stage Mixer
Michael Parker, Stage Mixer
Bob LaMasney, Audience Supplemental Mixer
Outstanding Sound Mixing for Nonfiction Programming
History Of The Eagles • Showtime • Showtime Presents in association with
Monhegan Films
Tom Fleischman, Re-Recording Mixer
Bret Johnson, Sound Re-Recordist
Richard Davis, Music Mixer
Elliot Scheiner, Music Mixer
Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour)
Boardwalk Empire • The Milkmaid’s Lot • HBO • Leverage, Closest to the Hole Productions, Sikelia Productions and Cold Front Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
Frank Stettner, C.A.S., Production Mixer
Tom Fleischman, C.A.S., Re-Recording Mixer
George A. Lara, Foley Mixer
Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Miniseries Or A Movie
Behind The Candelabra • HBO • Jerry Weintraub Productions in association with HBO Films
Dennis Towns, Production Mixer
Larry Blake, Re-Recording Mixer
Thomas Vicari, Scoring Mixer
Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (Half-Hour) And Animation
Nurse Jackie • Teachable Moments • Showtime • Showtime Presents, A Caryn Mandabach Production, Clyde Phillips Productions, Jackson Group Entertainment, Lionsgate Television
Jan McLaughlin, Production Sound Mixer
Peter Waggoner, Re-Recording Mixer
Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries, Movie Or A Special
Behind The Candelabra • HBO • Jerry Weintraub Productions in association with HBO Films
Kate Biscoe, Department Head Makeup Artist
Hiroshi Yada, Special Makeup Effects Artist
Jamie Kelman, Special Makeup Effects Artist
Stephen Kelley, Additional Makeup Effects Artist
Chrissie Beveridge, Personal Makeup Artist
Todd Kleitsch, Prosthetic Designer
Christien Tinsley, Prosthetic Designer
Outstanding Makeup For A Miniseries Or A Movie (Non-Prosthetic)
Behind The Candelabra • HBO • Jerry Weintraub Productions in association with HBO Films
Kate Biscoe, Department Head Makeup Artist
Deborah Rutherford, Assistant Department Head Makeup Artist
Deborah Lamia Denaver, Key Makeup Artist
Chrissie Beveridge, Personal Makeup Artist
Todd Kleitsch, Personal Makeup Artist
Outstanding Makeup For A Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic)
Game Of Thrones • Kissed By Fire • HBO • Bighead, Littlehead, Television 360, Startling Television and Generator Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
Paul Engelen, Department Head Makeup Artist
Melissa Lackersteen, Key Makeup Artist
Daniel Lawson Johnston, Makeup Artist
Martina Byrne, Makeup Artist
Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic)
Saturday Night Live • Host: Justin Timberlake • NBC • SNL Studios in
association with Universal Television and Broadway Video
Louie Zakarian, Department Head Makeup Artist
Josh Turi, Makeup Artist
Amy Tagliamonti, Makeup Artist
Daniela Zivcovic, Additional Makeup Artist
Melanie Demitri, Additional Makeup Artist
Outstanding Sound Editing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special
American Horror Story: Asylum • Welcome To Briarcliff • FX Networks • 20th Century Fox Television
Gary Megregian, Supervising Sound Editor
Steve M. Stuhr, Dialogue Editor
Jason Krane, Dialogue Editor
Christian Buenaventura, Dialogue Editor
Timothy A. Cleveland, Sound Effects Editor
David Klotz, Music Editor
Andrew Dawson, Foley Editor
Noel Vought, Foley Artist