‘John Adams,’ ‘Mad Men’ Big Winners at Creative Arts Emmys
HBO Tops Nets With 16 Awards, Including Eight for 'John Adams'
By Linda Moss -- Multichannel News, 9/15/2008 8:37:00 AM EDT
HBO, led by its John Adams mini-series, topped the list of winners at the 2008 Creative Arts Emmy Awards with 16 golden statuettes this weekend while AMC’s Mad Men walked off with four awards.
Leading the recipients of multiple awards was the HBO production John Adams, which earned eight. AMC’s Mad Men took home four; NBC’s 30 Rock, CBS’s 50thAnnual Grammy Awards, and PBS’s The War won three each; and PBS’s AmericanMasters, HBO’s Autism: The Musical, Sci Fi Channel’s BattlestarGalactica, Showtime’s This American Life and ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, JimmyKimmel Live and Pushing Daisies all won two.
Rounding out the night’s winners after HBO’s 16 awards were ABC and PBS with nine each; CBS with eight; NBC with six; AMC and Showtime with five; Fox with three; Bravo, Cartoon Network and Sci Fi Channel with two; and The CW, Discovery Channel, Disney Channel, FX Networks, and National Geographic Channel with one each.
Awards were handed out for animation, commercials, reality series and other programming, and four acting categories. A complete list of winners can be found here.
The Governors Award, which is given to individuals or organizations committed to important social causes, was given to National Geographic Channel for its “Preserve Our Planet” campaign. Outstanding guest actor in a drama series went to Glynn Turman for HBO’s In Treatment.
The Outstanding Children’s Program was shared by two winners: HBO’s Classical Baby (I’m Grown Up Now): The Poetry Show and Nickelodeon’s Nick News with Linda Ellerbee: The Untouchable Kids Of India. This marked two Emmys in a row in this category for Nick News with Linda Ellerbee. Last year the series won for the episode titled “Private Worlds: Kids with Autism.”
Imaginationland, a special episode of Comedy Central’s South Park, was named Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More). Last year, SouthPark won the animation Emmy for programming of less than one hour.
For the second year in a row, Outstanding Reality Program was presented to the Bravo production KathyGriffin: My Life on the D-List.
Outstanding Nonfiction Special was won by the HBO production Autism: The Musical the inspiring story of five autistic children from Los Angeles and their journey to create and perform a musical production. HBO also won this category last year with Ghosts ofAbu Ghraib.
In nonfiction programming, Outstanding Nonfiction Series went to two productions: PBS’s American Masters and Showtime’s This American Life. Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking went to the HBO production White Light/Black Rain, which chronicled the stories of a group of survivors of the 1945 nuclear attacks at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The evening’s sole directing honor, Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming, went to Adam Beckman and Richard Wilcha for the “Escape” episode of the Showtime series This American Life.
The awards for Interactive Media were presented by Evan and Gregg Spiridelis of the online media company JibJab Inc. The award for fiction award went to nbc.com’s Heroes Digital Experience. The nonfiction award went to Disney Channel Games Digital Media Event from the ABC Television Group, Creative Asylum and Walt Disney Internet Group.
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