2024 Creative Arts Emmys (Night One): ‘Saturday Night Live’ Hits 100, Angela Bassett Wins First Emmy
Night One of the 2024 Creative Arts Emmy Awards for Non-fiction, Reality, and Variety categories covering writers, directors, cinematographers, editors were held tonight, where the venerable Saturday Night Live, which enters its 50th season later this month, earned its 100th Emmy Award, among its six new wins tonight that included Outstanding Variety Series. These new wins extended the NBC sketch series’ total as the most honored show in Emmy history.
Several streaks were broken tonight including Angela Bassett winning her first Emmy in nine tries, as Outstanding Narrator for the NatGeo series Queens. It was her fourth nomination in that category, besting multiple winner Sir Richard Attenborough. Maya Rudolph won her fourth Emmy for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance (all for Big Mouth) and sixth overall. She has three other Emmy nominations this year. Shark Tank won its 5th Emmy for Outstanding Structured Reality Program, breaking the six-year streak of Queer Eye. The Emmy for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program went to Alan Cumming for The Traitors, breaking RuPaul’s record-making eight year streak in the category.
Other streaks held steadfast, including Last Week Tonight with John Oliver earning its ninth Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series Emmy in a row.
The Oscars were a big winner tonight with four, including Outstanding Variety Special (Live), a first ever win in that category for movies’ biggest night. It is only the third time the program has won a top program award; it won a special award in 1988 and won the Variety Program Emmy in 1991 (where it competed against talk shows and sketch shows). It had been nominated every year since 2013 without a win.
Jim Henson Idea Man earned four wins and Billy Joel: The 100th — Live at Madison Square Garden nabbed four while two of biggest overall Emmy nominees of the season, Shōgun and Only Murders in the Building, both earned wins in short form categories.
Tomorrow will see winners in Comedy, Drama and Limited Series categories for production design, costumes, guest actors and actresses and more.
FXX will run an edited version of the two nights of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards next Saturday, September 14 with the 2024 Primetime Emmy Award airing live on ABC next Sunday, September 15 and hosted by father and son Emmy winners Eugene and Dan Levy.
Here are the winners of Night One of the 2024 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
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 Gremli”
Outstanding Choreography for Variety or Reality Programming: 76th Annual Tony Awards – “Opening Number” and “Lifetime Achievement”
Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program: Girls State
Outstanding Cinematography for a Reality Program: Life Below Zero
Outstanding Commercial: Apple’s Fuzzy Feelings
Outstanding Costumes for Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Programming: Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music
Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program: Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, Girls State
Outstanding Directing for a Reality Program: Cian O’Clery, Love on the Spectrum U.S.
Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series: Liz Patrick, Saturday Night Live
Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special: Hamish Hamilton, The Oscars
Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series: Beckham
Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special: Jim Henson Idea Man
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 Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series: Saturday Night Live
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 Underscore): Jim Henson Idea Man
Outstanding Music Direction: The Oscars
Outstanding Narrator: Angela Bassett, Queens – “For Queens”
Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program: Jim Henson Idea Man
Outstanding Picture Editing for a Structured Reality or Competition Program: The Voice
Outstanding Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program: Welcome to Wrexham
Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming: John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA
Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming (Segment): The Daily Show: “The Dailyshowography of Vivek Ramaswamy: Enter the RamaVerse”
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: Shōgun – The Making of Shōgun
Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series: Only Murders in the Building: One Killer Question
Outstanding Sound Editing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program: Jim Henson Idea Man
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction Program: Welcome to Wrexham
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Reality Program: The Beach Boys
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
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
Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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