Night 1 of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards with Ava DuVernay’s Netflix documentary 13th leading with four wins. Also taking home statuettes — Samantha Bee for outstanding writing for a variety special for her Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Presents Not The White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

RuPaul Charles won his second straight Emmy for outstanding reality program host and Meryl Streep got an outstanding narrator win for Netflix’s Take Five. Oscar winner Streep had previously won two lead actress Emmys, but this was her first win for narrator.

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Other notables — James Corden accepted the second straight outstanding variety special Emmy win for Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special 2017. Shark Tank snagged the show’s fourth consecutive Emmy for Best Structured Reality Program. In accepting the award, executive producer Clay Newbill said he would “like to encourage all the nominees in the room to continue to produce television that gives people hope, and to do the right thing which his to love one another.”

The TV Academy, for the first time last year, split the awards over two nights. Night 1, with 46 categories, covered animation, documentary, reality and variety programming, while Creative Arts Sunday will present technical and creative achievement categories for scripted programming including comedy, drama and limited series. The entire ceremony will air Saturday, September 16 at 8 PM ET/PT on FXX. The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards will telecast live from the same venue Sunday, September 17 (8 PM ET/5 PM PT) on CBS with Stephen Colbert as host.

Here’s how it all went down:

4:52 PM: Intercom Voiceover Guy in theater says, glamorously, to all the nominees, presenters: “Ladies and gentlemen, 2 minutes to show time. Do not run, but get the hell into the theater.”

And here we go…



5 PM: “Welcome everybody to the second annual TWO-HOUR (emphasis on two-hour) Creative Emmys,” says exec producer Bob Bain.



5:05 PM: Aline Brosh and Rachel Bloom open the show with a musical number. (The song is from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s FYC Emmy video). “My music videos are not for anyone’s amusement!” Bloom declared to Kimmy Gatewood.

“I don’t care about awards shows!” she sings, “They have nothing to do with awards shows they have nothing to do with art…I’d rather act Checkov!” (With hair-removing cream on her upper lip)

“This is where the real talent is at! Screw you Primetime!” says Rachel.

And here come the winners:

Outstanding Variety Special Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special 2017

CBS • CBS Television Studios, Fulwell 73

This is the second year in a row the Late Late Show‘s Carpool Karaoke primetime special has won the category.

Backstage, James Corden was asked why he decided to make Carpool Karaoke a special.”[We] did it last year year which we won for as well so winning last year was sort of the thought process ‘oh we should do it again’.. it was as simple as that,” he said.

Outstanding Writing For A Variety Special Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Presents Not The White House Correspondents’ Dinner

TBS • JAX Media

Samantha Bee, Writer

Jo Miller, Writer

Ashley Nicole Black, Writer

Pat Cassels, Writer

Eric Drysdale, Writer

Mathan Erhardt, Writer

Travon Free, Writer

Joe Grossman, Writer

Miles Kahn, Writer

Melinda Taub, Writer

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“This is exciting!” Samantha Bee said picking up the Best Variety Special Writing Emmy for her Not The White House Correspondents Dinner.”

“Thank you so much to Academy…to these people with me on stage tonight for making me look so good. These are the people who stand in a jet stream of daily obscenities and manage to write jokes about them… I’d like to thank our parents — all of them.”

She also thanked the “amazingly supportive people at TBS and “my husband” for his support and “the wonderful spawn we have created.”

Outstanding Directing For A Variety Special The Oscars

ABC • The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Glenn Weiss, Directed by

It’s the 12th win for Weiss. “If Rachel Bloom’s still here I do care about awards shows, thank you!” he says.

If you watched the Oscars all the way to the end, something happened that we didn’t plan. You might not be aware of it..We’re on live TV, you can’t call cut, you can’t call it over….the most important thing is hiring the best goddam crew in the business. My hat is off to every single person with headsets in the Dolby theater that night.”

“The situation at the end of the Oscars was something happen that we couldn’t control,” Weiss said when he stepped backstage. We wanted make sure that were showing what we can to be as above board as possible.. it was really important to show everything that was going on to the world”

Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction For A Variety Special Super Bowl LI Halftime Show Starring Lady Gaga

Fox • NFL Network

Robert Barnhart, Lighting Designer

David Grill, Lighting Director

Pete Radice, Lighting Director

Jason Rudolph, Lighting Director

Superbowl 51 half-time show starring Lady Gaga – it received 6 noms total.

Robert Barnhart: “I want to thank Lady Gaga for not blinking an eye when I asked her to jump off the roof.”

Kristen Schaal and Kenan Thompson introduced Outstanding casting for a reality program

Outstanding Casting For A Reality Program Born This Way

A&E • Bunim/Murray Productions

Sasha Alpert, CSA, Casting by

Megan Sleeper, Casting by

“This is the first year for this award so thank you…most of all I really want to thank the cast and their families for trusting us to bring this story to television. Could you please all stand? I love you guys.”

Outstanding Costumes For Variety, Nonfiction Or Reality Programming RuPaul’s Drag Race

Oh. My. Gaga!

VH1 • World of Wonder Productions

Zaldy Goco, Costume Designer (RuPaul)

Perry Meek, Costume Designer (Lady Gaga)

Meek says, “Thank you to RuPaul for giving all the young gay people a platform for all this and to Lady Gaga!”

5:28 PM: Outstanding Picture Editing For A Structured Or Competition Reality Program RuPaul’s Drag Race

Oh. My. Gaga!

VH1 • World of Wonder Productions

Jamie Martin, Lead Editor

John Lim, Editor

Michael Roha, Editor

Jamie Martin for RuPaul: “The message of our show which is positivity and acceptance and we’re so honored to bring that message to a world that needs it more than ever.”

Outstanding Cinematography For A Reality Program Born This Way

Rough Waters

A&E • Bunim/Murray Productions

Bruce Ready, Director of Photography “Thanks go to John Murray and Laura who just pushed this show and pushed it.”



Outstanding Hairstyling For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special Hairspray Live!

NBC • Universal Television, Sony Pictures Television, Storyline Entertainment

Miia Kovero, Hair Designer

Terry Baliel, Head Hairstylist

Roxane Griffin, Hairstylist

Lawrence Davis, Hairstylist

Jill Crosby, Hairstylist

Joy Zapata, Hairstylist 5:35 PM: Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction For A Variety Series Dancing With The Stars

Cirque Du Soleil Night

ABC • BBC Worldwide Productions

Simon Miles, Lighting Designer

Matthew Cotter, Lighting Director

Suzanne Sotelo, Lighting Director

Matt McAdam, Media Server Programmer

Simon Miles: “This is really about all the people who’ve done all 24 seasons of DWTS…it starts at the top and goes all the way down and the people we have to be most thankful for are the carpenters…the people with hammers and saws who make it all come true.”

Outstanding Narrator Five Came Back

The Price Of Victory

Netflix • Amblin Television, Scott Rudin, IACF Productions in association with Passion Pictures & Rock Paper Scissors Entertainment

Meryl Streep, Narrator

Meryl Streep was not in attendance, so there was no acceptance speech.

Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control For A Limited Series, Movie Or Special Hairspray Live!

NBC • Universal Television, Sony Pictures Television, Storyline Entertainment

Charles Ciup, Technical Director

Billy Steinberg, Video Control

Chris Hill, Video Control

Bert Atkinson, Camera

Randy Gomez, Camera

Nathanial Havholm, Camera

Ron Lehman, Camera

Bettina Levesque, Camera

Dave Levisohn, Camera

Tore Livia, Camera

Mike Malone, Camera

Adam Margolis, Camera

Rob Palmer, Camera

Brian Reason, Camera

Damien Tuffereau, Camera

Andrew Waruszewski, Camera Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control For A Limited Series Special Saturday Night Live

Host : Jimmy Fallon

NBC • SNL Studios in association with Universal Television and Broadway Video

Steven Cimino, Technical Director

John Pinto, Camera

Paul Cangialosi, Camera

Len Wechsler, Camera

Eric Eisenstein, Camera

Dave Driscoll, Camera

Susan Noll, Video Control

Frank Grisanti, Video Control

Jeff Latonero, Camera

Ann Bergstrom, Camera

Randy Bittle, Camera Outstanding Motion Design (Previously Announced) Beyond Magic • ABC • Buck

Orion Tait, Executive Creative Director

Thomas Schmid, Creative Director

Daniel Oeffinger, Creative Director

William Trebutien, Lead Animator 13th • Netflix • Forward Movement LLC and Kandoo Films

Angus Wall, Co-Creative Director

Leanne Dare, Co-Creative Director

Lynn Cho, Designer

Dan Meehan, Animator

Ekin Akalin, Animator



Outstanding Informational Series Or Special Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath

A&E • The Intellectual Property Corporation in association with No Seriously Productions

Eli Holzman, Executive Producer

Aaron Saidman, Executive Producer

Leah Remini, Executive Producer

Alex Weresow, Executive Producer

Devon Graham Hammonds, Executive Producer

Erin Gamble, Co-Executive Producer

Rachelle Mendez, Co-Executive Producer

Jeana Dill, Supervising Producer

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Picking up her Emmy for Best Informational Series or Special for her A&E Scientology expose, Leah Remini began by saying she wanted to thank her mom, who was in the audience and who Remini said for years had hoped to attend a ceremony at which her daughter won an Emmy.

“Mom, thank you. You are officially forgiven for getting us into a cult.”

5:55 PM: Nearly half-way through the two-hour show…



Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction Or Reality Series Viceland At The Women’s March

Viceland • VICE Media, LLC

Meghan Kirsch, Executive Producer

Nacho Gil, Co-Executive Producer

Hannah Gregg, Supervising Producer The team from Viceland At The Women’s March declare. “Pink will always Trump orange” onstage while accepting their award, first Emmy for Viceland.



Outstanding Choreography Two winners! and both for So You Think You can Dance So You Think You Can Dance

Routines: The Mirror & Send In The Clowns & She Used To Be Mine

Fox • dick clark productions, inc. and 19 Entertainment

Travis Wall, Choreographer So You Think You Can Dance

Routines: Unsteady & This Is Not The End

Fox • dick clark productions, inc. and 19 Entertainment

Mandy Moore, Choreographer Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics Rex/Shutterstock 13th

Song Title: Letter To The Free

Netflix • Forward Movement, LLC and Kandoo Films

Common, Music & Lyrics by

Robert Glasper, Music by

Karriem Riggins, Music by Outstanding Sound Editing For A Nonfiction Program (Single Or MultiCamera) The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years

Hulu • Apple Corps Ltd., White Horse Pictures and Imagine Entertainment in association with Diamond Docs

Jon Michaels, Sound Supervisor

Harrison Meyle, Dialogue Editor

Dan Kenyon, Sound Effects Editor

Will Digby, Sound Effects Editor

Melissa Muik, Music Editor



Outstanding Production Design For A Variety, Nonfiction, Event Or Award Special Hairspray Live!

NBC • Universal Television, Sony Pictures Television, Storyline Entertainment

Derek McLane, Production Designer

Joe Celli, Art Director

Jason Howard, Set Decorator Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic) Saturday Night Live

Host: Alec Baldwin

NBC • SNL Studios in association with Universal Television and Broadway Video

Louie Zakarian, Department Head Makeup Artist

Amy Tagliamonti, Key Makeup Artist

Jason Milani, Key Makeup Artist

Daniela Zivcovic, Makeup Artist

Rachel Pagani, Makeup Artist

Andrew Sotomeyer, Makeup Artist



Outstanding Picture Editing For Variety Programming Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

F*ck 2016 (segment)

HBO • HBO Entertainment in association with Sixteen String Jack Productions and Avalon Television

Anthony Miale, Editor Winner Anthony Miale thanked John Oliver for “letting me do some silly stuff on your otherwise informative television program.” Governors Award (Previously Announced) ITVS, documentary film funder, co-producer and distributor for public media. Outstanding Animated Program Bob’s Burgers

Bob, Actually

Fox • 20th CentuFox Television and Bento Box Entertainment

This is Bob’s Burgers second win in the category. The underrated Fox comedy also was named best animated program in 2014.



Outstanding Short Form Animated Program

Adventure Time

Islands Part 4: Imaginary Resources

Cartoon Net work • Cartoon Network Studios Outstanding Individual Achievement In Animation (Previously Announced) Samurai Jack • XCIII • Adult Swim • Cartoon Network Studios

Bryan Andrews, Storyboard Artist Samurai Jack • XCIII • Adult Swim • Cartoon Network Studios

Scott Wills, Production Designer Samurai Jack • XCII • Adult Swim • Cartoon Network Studios

Craig Kellman, Character Designer Samurai Jack • XCV • Adult Swim • Cartoon Network Studios

Lou Romano, Background Designer Wander Over Yonder • The End Of The Galaxy • Disney XD • Disney Television Animation

Justin Nichols, Character Animator



Outstanding Short Form Variety Series The Daily Show – Between The Scenes

TheDailyShow.com • Central Productions, LLC

Jennifer Flanz, Executive Producer

Steve Bodow, Executive Producer

Ramin Hedayati, Supervising Producer

Jocelyn Conn, Produced by

Trevor Noah, Host

Trevor Noah is on the road doing comedy shows, and is not here to accept the award.

Outstanding Directing For A Nonfiction Program O.J.: Made In America

Part 3

ESPN • ESPN Films and Laylow Films

Ezra Edelman, Directed by Edelman also won Best Documentary Feature Oscar for O.J. Made In America earlier this year alongside Caroline Waterlow. Outstanding Cinematography For A Nonfiction Program Planet Earth II

Islands

BBC America • A BBC Studios Natural History Unit Production in co-production with BBC America

Cinematography Team

[Contributors: Mark MacEwen, Max Hug Williams, Jonathan Jones, Mateo Willis, Richard Wollocombe, Pete McCowen, Warwick Sloss, Paul Stewart, Derek Frankowski, John Shier, Tom Fitz Outstanding Picture Editing For A Nonfiction Program O.J.: Made In America

ESPN • ESPN Films and Laylow Films

Bret Granato, ACE, Editor

Maya Mumma, ACE, Editor

Ben Sozanski, ACE, Editor Outstanding Interactive Program Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

HBO • HBO Entertainment in association with Sixteen String Jack Productions and Avalon Television

Partially Important Productions Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media Within An Unscripted Program The Oscars: All Access

Oscar.com • ABC Digital Studio and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Meghan de Boer, Executive Producer

Rich Preuss, Co-Executive Producer

Teeny Stillings, Producer

Augie Vargas, Producer

Shelby Sundling Lathrop, Supervising Producer Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media Within An Unscripted Program The Oscars: All Access

Oscar.com • ABC Digital Studio and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Meghan de Boer, Executive Producer

Rich Preuss, Co-Executive Producer

Teeny Stillings, Producer

Augie Vargas, Producer

Shelby Sundling Lathrop, Supervising Producer Outstanding Music Direction Taking The Stage: African American Music And Stories That Changed America

ABC • Don Mischer Productions

Rickey Minor, Music Direction by Rickey Minor: “I’ve never won anything anywhere but what I’ve won is the love and gift of music.. music saved my life.” He’s a seven-time nominee.



Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Series Planet Earth II

BBC America • A BBC Studios Natural History Unit Production in co-production with BBC America

Michael Gunton, Executive Producer

Tom Hugh-Jones, Series Producer

Elizabeth White, Produced by

6:57 PM: Bill Nye got a chunk of time – who knows if it will make the cutdown Creative Arts Emmy Awards show to be telecast on FXX – for a Seventh Inning Stretch talk on global warming.

“I sincerely hope that this year becomes the turning point, in that we as a nation begin to address global climate change. Everyone watching: we can do this. We can make the big changes we need. Working together we can – dare I say it – save the world.”

Big applause in the hall.



Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Series Planet Earth II

BBC America • A BBC Studios Natural History Unit Production in co-production with BBC America

Michael Gunton, Executive Producer

Tom Hugh-Jones, Series Producer

Elizabeth White, Produced by Picking up Emmy for Best Documentary or Non-Fiction Series, Planet Earth II exec producer Mike Gunton said he’d like to thank the actors “even the snakes.”

“This was a love letter to the planet. She is crying at the moment” and needs more love, he said. Exceptional Merit In Documentary Filmmaking LA 92

National Geographic • Light box

TJ Martin, A Film by

Dan Lindsay, A Film by

Jonathan Chinn, Produced by

Simon Chinn, Produced by Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance Family Guy

The Boys In The Band

Fox • 20th Century Fox Television

Seth MacFarlane as Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Brian Griffin, Glenn Quagmire Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Special 13th

Netflix • Forward Movement, LLC and Kandoo Films

Angus Wall, Executive Producer

Jason Sterman, Executive Producer

Spencer Averick, Producer

Ava DuVernay, Produced by

Howard Barish, Produced by Ava Duvernay accepting: “It was a beautiful process, but it was an emotional process.”



Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Variety Series Or Special 2 winners 59th Grammy Awards

CBS • AEG Ehrlich Ventures, LLC

Josh Morton, Post Audio Mixer

Thomas Holmes, Production Mixer

Mikael Stewart, FOH Production Mixer

Eric Schilling, Broadcast Music Mixer

John Harris, Broadcast Music Mixer

Ron Reaves, FOH Mixer

Thomas Pesa, Stage Foldback Mixer

Michael Parker, Stage Foldback Mixer

Eric Johnston, Playback Music Mixer

Pablo Munguia, Pro Tools Mixer

Bob LaMasney, Sweetening Mixer 2017 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony

HBO • HBO Entertainment in association with Playtone, Line by Line Productions, Alex Coletti Productions and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation

Al Centrella, Production Mixer

Susan Pelino, Music Mixer

Jay Vicari, Music Mixer

Dave Natale, FOH Mixer

Erik Von Ranson, FOH Mixer

Simon Welch, Monitor Mixer



Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Nonfiction Program (Single or Multi-Camera)

The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years

Hulu • Apple Corps Ltd., White Horse Pictures and Imagine Entertainment in association with Diamond Docs

Chris Jenkins, Re-Recording Mixer

Cameron Frankley, Re-Recording Mixer

Nathan Evans, Production Mixer

Sam O’Kell, Music Mixer



Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality-Competition Program RuPaul’s Drag Race

VH1 • World of Wonder Productions

RuPaul Charles, Host RuPaul a no show winning second Emmy for best Reality Series Host. Outstanding Writing For A Nonfiction Program 13th

Netflix • Forward Movement, LLC and Kandoo Films

Ava DuVernay, Written by

Spencer Averick, Written by

Spencer Averick: “This is one of the toughest to write. I hope people can continue to have this conversation to talk about humanity and equality.”

Outstanding Structured Reality Program Shark Tank

ABC • MGM Television in association with Sony Pictures Television

Mark Burnett, Executive Producer

Clay Newbill, Executive Producer

Yun Lingner, Executive Producer

Phil Gurin, Executive Producer

Max Swedlow, Co-Executive Producer

Brandon Wallace, Co-Executive Producer

Becky Blitz, Supervising Producer

Sami Aziz, Senior Producer

Heather Dreiling, Senior Producer

Michael Kramer, Senior Producer

Shaun Polakow, Senior Producer

Laura Roush, Senior Producer

Kate Ryu, Senior Producer

Dominique Worden, Producer

Shark Tank EP Clay Newbill, picking up the show’s fourth consecutive Emmy for Best Structured Reality Program, said he would “like to encourage all the nominees in the room to continue to produce television that gives people hope, and to do the right thing which his to love one another.”

Outstanding Picture Editing For An Unstructured Reality Program Life Below Zero

River Of Rage • National Geographic • Adjacent Productions

Ian Richardson, Editor

Tony Diaz, Editor

Eric Michael Schrader, Editor

Matt Mercer, Editor



Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program United Shades Of America With W. Kamau Bell

CNN • CNN Original Series, All3Media America, Main Event Media

Jimmy Fox, Executive Producer

Gregory J. Lipstone, Executive Producer

Layla Smith, Executive Producer

W. Kamau Bell, Executive Producer

Donny Jackson, Executive Producer

Justin Yungfleisch, Co-Executive Producer

Steven Dickert, Co-Executive Producer

David E.J. Berger, Supervising Producer

Amy Entelis, Executive Producer

Lizzie Fox, Executive Producer

In accepting the award, W. Kamau Bell thanked Amy Entelis and Jeff Zucker for ordering a “show with a black guy who had a dream.”

Backstage Bell addressed whether he felt at any time that he was in physical danger doing the show. “I’m much more worried about getting a story wrong than I am about physical danger,” he said, “but then I’m not my wife.” (Then he grabbed her hand as they left the stage).

Outstanding Special Class Program 70th Annual Tony Awards

CBS • White Cherry Entertainment

Glenn Weiss, director of the James Corden-hosted Tony Awards, accepting the Emmy quoted one of that night’s more memorable acceptance speeches, “Love is love is love is love is love” adding, “let’s all get it together.”

And it’s a wrap.