2016 Creative Arts Emmy Winners: Night Two – Making a Murder, Grease Live Top Night, RuPaul Makes Herstory

Erik Anderson September 11, 2016

**Making a Murderer and Grease Live were top winners, RuPaul wins first Emmy**

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After Game of Thrones swept the first night of the 2016 Creative Arts Emmys last night, they took a break from tonight’s awards which was focus primarily on Documentary, Reality, Short-form, and Non-Fiction programming.

One of the most talked about, water-cooler shows of 2016, Netflix’s Making a Murderer, made a killing at tonight’s Creative Arts Emmys with four wins. The doc series is set for a second season but with no official date yet. The huge musical hit Grease Live! rocked the awards with four awards including one of the top awards of the night, Special Class Program. It bested Emmy favorite, the Kennedy Center Honors for the win.

The biggest shock of the night, and such a great one, was RuPaul Charles winning Outstanding Reality Host for his long-running drag competition show RuPaul’s Drag Race. RuPaul had made waves earlier this year about having never been nominated (nor the show) and that he didn’t need an Emmy to legitimize him or the show. That anti-campaigning paid off in a nomination in July and now a win tonight.

Another surprise was James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke beating very formidable competition in the form of Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Adele’s live performance in New York City. Corden is now a Tony and Emmy winner, halfway to EGOT.

Tune in next week for the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards for all of the top categories.

Here is the FULL list of WINNERS from Night Two of the Creative Arts Emmys:

ACTING

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A SHORT FORM COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES
Rob Corddry, Children’s Hospital

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A SHORT FORM COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES
Patrika Darbo, Acting Dead

OUTSTANDING CHARACTER VOICE-OVER PERFORMANCE
Seth MacFarlane, Family Guy

ANIMATION

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED PROGRAM
Archer

CHOREOGRAPHY

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY
America’s Best Dance Crew AND Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Tie)

CINEMATOGRAPHY

OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING
Cartel Land

OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR REALITY PROGRAMMING
Life Below Zero

COSTUMES

OUTSTANDING COSTUMES FOR A VARIETY, NON-FICTION OR REALITY PROGRAMMING
The Wiz Live!

DIRECTING

OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A VARIETY SERIES
Inside Amy Schumer

OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING
Making a Murderer

DOCUMENTARY

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY OR NONFICTION SERIES
Making a Murderer

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY OR NONFICTION SPECIAL
What Happened Miss Simone?

OUTSTANDING EXCEPTIONAL MERIT IN DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING
Cartel Land and Jim: The James Foley Story (tie)

HAIRSTYLING

OUTSTANDING HAIRSTYLING FOR A MULTI-CAMERA SERIES OR SPECIAL
Saturday Night Live

HOST

OUTSTANDING HOST FOR A REALITY OR REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM
RuPaul Charles, RuPaul’s Drag Race

INFORMATIONAL

OUTSTANDING INFORMATIONAL SERIES OR SPECIAL
Anthony Bourdain, Parts Unknown

LIGHTING

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN/LIGHTING DIRECTION FOR A VARIETY SERIES

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN/LIGHTING DIRECTION FOR A VARIETY SPECIAL
Grease Live!

MAKEUP

OUTSTANDING MAKEUP FOR A MULTI-CAMERA SERIES OR SPECIAL (NON-PROSTHETIC)
Key & Peele

PICTURE EDITING

OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR A STRUCTURED OR COMPETITION REALITY PROGRAM
Who Do You Think You Are?

OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR AN UNSTRUCTURED REALITY PROGRAM
Project Greenlight

OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING
Making a Murderer

OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR VARIETY PROGRAMMING
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

PRODUCTION DESIGN

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR VARIETY, NONFICTION, REALITY OR REALITY-COMPETITION SERIES
Portlandia

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR VARIETY, NONFICTION, REALITY OR REALITY-COMPETITION SPECIAL
Grease Live!

REALITY

OUTSTANDING STRUCTURED REALITY PROGRAM
Shark Tank

OUTSTANDING UNSTRUCTURED REALITY PROGRAM
Born This Way

SHORT-FORM PROGRAMMING

OUTSTANDING SHORT-FORM ANIMATED PROGRAM
Robot Chicken

OUTSTANDING SHORT-FORM COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES
Children’s Hospital

OUTSTANDING SHORT-FORM NONFICTION OR REALITY SERIES
Inside Look: American Crime Story: The People v OJ Simpson

OUTSTANDING SHORT-FORM VARIETY SERIES
Park Bench With Steve Buscemi

SOUND EDITING

OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING (Single or multi-camera)
Vice

OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING FOR A VARIETY SERIES OR SPECIAL
Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton

OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING
Cartel Land

SPECIAL CLASS

OUTSTANDING SPECIAL CLASS PROGRAM
Grease Live!

TECHNICAL DIRECTION

OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL DIRECTION, CAMERAWORK, VIDEO CONTROL FOR A LIMITED SERIES, MOVIE OR A SPECIAL
Grease Live!

OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL DIRECTION, CAMERAWORK, VIDEO CONTROL FOR A SERIES
Dancing with the Stars

VARIETY

OUTSTANDING VARIETY SPECIAL
Carpool Karaoke with James Corden

WRITING

OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A VARIETY SERIES
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING
Making a Murderer

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.