Star Wars: The Clone Wars may be over -- besides the "bonus content" episodes we're still waiting to hear the release plans for -- but the show is ending on a high note.

Tonight, The Clone Wars won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program. Series creator and executive producer George Lucas (you may have heard of him) accepted the award, presented by Carrie Fisher no less, with Lucas joined onstage by supervising director Dave Filoni, producer Cary Silver and line producer Athena Portillo. The Clone Wars beat The Legend of Korra and Dan Vs. in this category.The Clone Wars had never been nominated for an Emmy until this year, when it received seven nominations. The show also won Friday in the Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program category, with David Tennant honored for his work as the droid Huyang in Season 5.

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Everyone, as you know tonight Star Wars: The Clone Wars won an Emmy for Outstanding Special Class Animation and David Tennant won Friday for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Series for his work as Huyang.



These awards represent the hard work of everyone who has worked on The Clone Wars' 5 seasons. Whether you worked on Clone Wars in the Bay Area, Singapore, Taipei, or Tokyo we all did this together.



Star Wars fans, your support and dedication to The Clone Wars helped champion our cause year after year. This win is for you as well, thank you from everyone at Lucasfilm, now let's celebrate!!

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Dave Filoni released a statement on Facebook about the show's wins:Filoni is currently working on the next Star Wars animated series, Star Wars Rebels , launching fall 2014.You can see the full list of the Daytime Emmy Award winners here