The 59th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards honored the best in artistic and technical achievement in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2006, until May 31, 2007, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.[1][2] The awards were presented on September 8, 2007, in a ceremony hosted by Carlos Mencia at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was broadcast by E! on September 15, preceding the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 16. A total of 80 Creative Arts Emmys were presented across 66 categories.
| 59th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | |
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| Date | September 8, 2007 |
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| Presented by | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
| Hosted by | Carlos Mencia |
| Most awards | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (5) |
| Most nominations | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (11) |
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| Network | E! |
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| Directed by | Chris Donovan |
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee received five wins from 11 nominations, leading all programs in both wins and nominations. Planet Earth and Tony Bennett: An American Classic tied for the second-most awards with four each, followed by Jane Eyre, Rome, and When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts with three each. The 60th Annual Tony Awards, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, A Lion in the House, Nick News with Linda Ellerbee, Planet Earth, South Park, When the Levees Broke, and Where's Lazlo? won Emmys in their respective overall program fields. HBO was the most-recognized network, receiving 15 awards from 53 nominations.
Winners and nominees
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Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).[2][3][a] Sections are based upon the categories listed in the 2006–2007 Emmy rules and procedures.[1] Area awards and juried awards are denoted next to the category names as applicable.[b] For simplicity, producers who received nominations for program awards have been omitted.
Programs
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Outstanding Voice-Over Performance (Juried)
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Animation
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Art Direction
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Casting
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Choreography
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Commercial
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Costumes
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Directing
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Hairstyling
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Lighting Direction
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Main Title Design
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Makeup
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Music
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Sound Editing
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Sound Mixing
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Special Visual Effects
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Stunt Coordination
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Writing
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Special awards
editGovernors Award
editThe Governors Award, recognizing an individual or group "whose works stand out with the immediacy of current achievement", was presented to two programs:[7]
- American Idol's "Idol Gives Back" (Fox) was recognized for raising "more than $75 million to benefit relief programs for children and young people in extreme poverty in America and Africa".[8]
- The Addiction Project (HBO) was "an unprecedented multi-platform and outreach campaign [...] aimed at helping Americans understand addiction as a chronic but treatable brain disease".[8]
Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development
editOne Emmy Award, four plaques, and one certificate of recognition were presented to recognize engineering achievements:[9][10]
- The Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Howard A. Anderson for his visual effects work.
- Plaques for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development went to TM Systems' QC Station, Osram Sylvania Products' OSRAM HMI Metal Halide Lamp Technology, Digital Vision's DVNR Image Processing Hardware-DVO Image Process Software, and Silicon Optix's Teranex Video Computer.
- A Certificate of Achievement, recognizing a historic contribution to television technology, was presented to Sycom for its work on the varicap.
Syd Cassyd Founders Award
editThe Syd Cassyd Founders Award was presented to Rich Frank, former television executive and president of the Television Academy, for his "significant positive impact on the Academy through [his] efforts and service over many years of involvement".[11][12]
Nominations and wins by program
editFor the purposes of the lists below, any wins in juried categories are assumed to have a prior nomination.
| Wins | Show | Network |
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| 5 | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | HBO |
| 4 | Planet Earth | Discovery Channel |
| Tony Bennett: An American Classic | NBC | |
| 3 | Jane Eyre (Masterpiece Theatre) | PBS |
| Rome | HBO | |
| When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts | HBO | |
| 2 | 79th Annual Academy Awards | ABC |
| The Amazing Race | CBS | |
| American Idol[e] | Fox | |
| American Masters | PBS | |
| Dexter | Showtime | |
| Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King | TNT | |
| Saturday Night Live | NBC | |
| So You Think You Can Dance | Fox | |
| The Tudors | Showtime | |
| Two and a Half Men | CBS |
Nominations and wins by network
edit| Nominations | Network |
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| 53 | HBO |
| 48 | ABC |
| 42 | NBC |
| 31 | CBS |
| 24 | Fox |
| 17 | PBS |
| 15 | Discovery Channel |
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| 12 | AMC |
| 11 | Cartoon Network |
| 7 | Bravo |
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| 6 | USA |
| 5 | Sci Fi Channel |
| 4 | Disney Channel |
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| 3 | Comedy Central |
| 2 | A&E |
| Animal Planet |
| Wins | Network |
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| 15 | HBO[e] |
| 12 | NBC |
| 9 | CBS |
| 8 | Cartoon Network |
| 7 | Fox[e] |
| 6 | PBS |
| 4 | ABC |
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| 2 | Bravo |
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Presenters
editThe following individuals presented awards at the ceremony:[13]
- Kristen Bell
- David Boreanaz
- Billy Ray Cyrus
- Miley Cyrus
- Tim Daly
- Josh Duhamel
- Omar Epps
- America Ferrera
- Tom Green
- Seth Green
- Greg Grunberg
- Marcia Gay Harden
- Neil Patrick Harris
- Bob Iger[14]
- Rex Lee
- Mekhi Phifer
- Jennifer Morrison
- Rob Morrow
- Emily Procter
- Yeardley Smith
- Maura Tierney
- Stanley Tucci
- Blair Underwood
- Michael Urie
- Rainn Wilson
Ceremony information
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The 59th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards were executive produced by Lee Miller and John Moffitt, produced by Spike Jones Jr. through his company SJ2 Entertainment, and directed by Chris Donovan.[15][16] Comedian Carlos Mencia was announced as the host in August.[17] Nominations were announced on July 19, a week later than usual due to changes in voting rules.[18] The awards were presented on September 8 in a four-hour ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, which was then edited into a two-hour broadcast shown on E! on September 15, the day before the main ceremony on Fox.[19][20]
Major rule changes for this year's Creative Arts categories included:
- Public performances taped for television were moved from Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special to Outstanding Special Class Program.[21]
- Broadband programs were allowed to compete in categories alongside cable and broadcast programs.[6][22]
- Episodes of an eligible program airing outside of the eligibility window became qualified for awards in the same year that the program was competing. Previously, such episodes were ineligible for any awards.[23][24]
Notes
edit- ^ The outlets listed for each program are the U.S. broadcasters or streaming services identified in the nominations, which for some international productions are different than the broadcaster(s) that originally commissioned the program.
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- Area awards are non-competitive and nominees are considered on their own terms. Any nominee with at least two-thirds approval received an Emmy. If no nominee received two-thirds approval, the nominee with the highest approval (and a minimum majority approval) received an Emmy.[1]
- Juried awards generally do not have nominations; instead, all entrants were screened before members of the appropriate peer group, and one, more than one, or no entry was awarded an Emmy based on the jury's vote.[1]
- ^ Finalists were announced for this juried category; they are not considered to be nominees.[4]
- ^ While Drive was broadcast on Fox, the relevant effects were released online because the series was cancelled before reaching the six-episode eligibility requirement. As a result, this nomination was the first broadband nominee at the Emmys. This also led to its nomination as a special, not a series.[6]
- ^ a b c Including the Governors Award
References
edit- ^ a b c d "59th Primetime Emmy Awards – 2006–2007 Rules and Procedures" (PDF). Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 30, 2007. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
- ^ a b "59th Primetime Emmy Awards Creative Arts Winners" (PDF). Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. September 8, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 16, 2007. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
- ^ "59th Primetime Emmy Awards Nominations" (PDF). Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2007. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
- ^ "59th Primetime Emmy Awards Nominations Revealed". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. July 19, 2007. Archived from the original on October 14, 2007. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
- ^ "Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Announces Emmy Award Winners in Costumes for a Variety or Music Program and Individual Achievement in Animation". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. August 21, 2007. Archived from the original on October 14, 2007. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
- ^ a b Schneider, Michael (July 20, 2007). "Drive makes primetime Emmy history". Variety. Archived from the original on July 25, 2022. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
- ^ Nordyke, Kimberly (August 7, 2007). "Governors Award to Idol, Addiction Project". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on July 31, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
- ^ a b "American Idol's 'Idol Gives Back' and HBO's "The Addiction Project" Named Recipients of Television Academy's 2007 Governors Award". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. August 6, 2007. Archived from the original on October 25, 2007. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
- ^ "Television Academy Announces Recipients of the 2007 Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on October 14, 2007. Retrieved July 29, 2022.
- ^ "ATAS Honors Engineering Excellence". Videography. Vol. 32, no. 9. NewBay Media. September 2007. p. 9. ProQuest 199883236.
- ^ Nordyke, Kimberly (September 5, 2007). "Frank to receive ATAS Founders Award". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on July 31, 2022. Retrieved July 29, 2022.
- ^ Schneider, Michael (September 4, 2007). "Frank earns Cassyd honor". Variety. Archived from the original on July 31, 2022. Retrieved July 29, 2022.
- ^ "HBO Tops 59th Creative Arts Emmys, NBC Leads Nets". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
- ^ Nordyke, Kimberly (September 9, 2007). "Wounded Knee tops Creative Emmys". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on July 31, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
- ^ "59th Annual Primetime Emmys". Emmy. Vol. 29, no. 4. July 2007. pp. 116, 118, 120–122. ProQuest 2297350232.
- ^ Nordyke, Kimberly (August 28, 2007). "Emmy goes to Mencia as Creative host". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on July 31, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
- ^ "Mencia to host Primetime Creative Arts Emmys". Los Angeles Daily News. August 27, 2007. Archived from the original on July 31, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
- ^ "Panel weighs in on ATAS, NATAS fight". The Hollywood Reporter. July 10, 2007. Archived from the original on July 31, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
- ^ "Mencia to host creative arts Emmy ceremony". Reuters. August 27, 2007. Archived from the original on July 31, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
- ^ Sneider, Jeff (September 8, 2007). "HBO tops Creative Arts Emmys". Variety. Archived from the original on July 31, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
- ^ Schneider, Michael (March 15, 2007). "Emmys issue new rules". Variety. Archived from the original on July 13, 2021. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
- ^ Finke, Nikki (July 18, 2013). "2013 Primetime Emmy Nominations (Live)". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on July 30, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
- ^ Nordyke, Kimberly (June 1, 2007). "ATAS tweaks Emmy rule on 'dangling'". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on July 31, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
- ^ Schneider, Michael (May 31, 2007). "Emmy tweaks eligible dates". Variety. Archived from the original on July 31, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.