The Creative Arts Emmys 2024 took place on September 7, 2024, showcasing the best and brightest for the year, touting diverse achievements across the entertainment industry. Panned out over two nights before the Primetime Emmy Awards, the Creative Arts Emmys 2024 event honored established favorites and emerging contenders alike.
The Creative Arts Emmys 2024 represented the new and the old faces of television and film, from the perennial Saturday Night Live to new entries like John Mulaney's Everybody's in LA and Ron Howard's Jim Henson's Idea Man.
The night of Creative Arts Emmys 2024 recognized exceptional performances, including Angela Bassett for narration in Queens and Alan Cumming for hosting The Traitors.
Night one highlights of Creative Arts Emmys 2024
Winners at the Creative Arts Emmys 2024 were all over the map on its first night. Following is the complete list of winners of Creative Arts Emmys 2024.
- Outstanding Animated Program: Blue Eye Samurai
- Outstanding Casting for a Reality Program: Love on the Spectrum U.S.
- Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance: Maya Rudolph, Big Mouth (“The Ambition Gremlin”)
- Outstanding Choreography for Variety or Reality Programming: 76th Annual Tony Awards, Routines: “Opening Number” and “Lifetime Achievement”
- Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program: Girls State
- Outstanding Cinematography for a Reality Program: Life Below Zero, “Bulletproof”
- Outstanding Commercial: “Fuzzy Feelings,” Apple - iPhone + Mac
- Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Programming: Saturday Night Live, “Host: Ryan Gosling”
- Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program: Girls State
- Outstanding Directing for a Reality Program: Love on the Spectrum U.S., “Episode 7”
- Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series: Saturday Night Live, “Host: Ryan Gosling”
- Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special: The Oscars
- Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special: Jim Henson Idea Man
- Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series: Beckham
- Outstanding Emerging Media Program: Fallout: Vault 33
- Outstanding Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking: Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
- Outstanding Game Show: Jeopardy!
- Outstanding Hairstyling for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program: Saturday Night Live, “Host: Ryan Gosling”
- Outstanding Host for a Game Show: Pat Sajak, Wheel of Fortune
- Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program: Alan Cumming, The Traitors
- Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special: My Next Guest With David Letterman and John Mulaney
- Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation: Noémie Leroux, Scavengers Reign ("The Signal"), The Blue Samurai ("The Great Fire of 1657," Hammerscale," and "Nothing Broken"), Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake ("The Winter King"), Clone High ("Let's Try This Again"), and In The Know ("Yogurt Week")
- Outstanding Innovation in Emerging Media Programming: Silent Hill: Ascension and What If…? – An Immersive Story
- Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series: Saturday Night Live, “Host: Kristen Wiig”
- Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Special: Billy Joel: The 100th - Live at Madison Square Garden
- Outstanding Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program: Saturday Night Live, “Host: Ryan Gosling”
- Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score): Jim Henson Idea Man
- Outstanding Music Direction: The Oscars
- Outstanding Narrator: Angela Bassett, Queens (“African Queens”)
- Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program: Jim Henson Idea Man
- Outstanding Picture Editing for a Structured Reality or Competition Program: The Voice, Series Body of Work
- Outstanding Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program: Welcome to Wrexham, “Up the Town?”
- Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming: John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA, “Paranormal”
- Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming (Segment): The Daily Show, “The Dailyshowography of Vivek Ramaswamy: Enter the RamaVerse (Segment)”
- Outstanding Production Design for a Variety Special: The Oscars
- Outstanding Production Design for a Variety or Reality Series: Saturday Night Live, “Host: Josh Brolin”
- Outstanding Short Form Comedy, Drama or Variety Series: Only Murders in the Building: One Killer Question
- Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series: Shōgun – The Making of Shōgun
- Outstanding Sound Editing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program: Jim Henson Idea Man
- Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction Program: The Beach Boys
- Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Reality Program: Welcome to Wrexham, “Giant Killers”
- Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety Series or Special: Billy Joel: The 100th - Live at Madison Square Garden
- Outstanding Structured Reality Program: Shark Tank
- Outstanding Technical Direction and Camerawork for a Series: Saturday Night Live, “Host: Timothée Chalamet”
- Outstanding Technical Direction and Camerawork for a Special: Billy Joel: The 100th - Live At Madison Square Garden
- Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program: Welcome to Wrexham
- Outstanding Variety Special (Live): The Oscars
- Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded): Dick Van Dyke 98 Years of Magic
- Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program: Conan O’Brien Must Go, “Ireland”
- Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
The Creative Arts Emmys 2024 recognized achievements across various categories, including voice-over performances and reality programming. Supposedly, this event was to build audience anticipation for the Primetime Emmy Awards. The Creative Arts Emmys 2024 also demonstrated notable developments and contributions within the industry.