Ahead of the Primetime Emmy Awards a week from Monday, the creative arts winners were announced last night at a separate ceremony that'll be streamed next weekend. They give out everything from makeup to editing to hairstyle and costumes, but here are the results of the bigger categories (some of these actually used to be given out on the main telecast):
- Guest Actress in a Drama: Allison Janney (above), Masters of Sex
- Animated Program: Bob's Burgers
- Guest Actor in a Drama: Joe Morton (above), Scandal
- Guest Actor in a Comedy: Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live
- Guest Actress in a Comedy: Uzo Aduba (below), Orange is the New Black
- Variety Special: AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Mel Brooks
- Writing for a Variety Series: The Colbert Report
- Directing for a Variety Series: Saturday Night Live
- Host for a Reality/Reality-Competition Program: Jane Lynch, Hollywood Game Night
- Documentary Series: American Masters
- Structured Reality Program: Shark Tank
- Unstructured Reality Program: Deadliest Catch
So, if we can read anything into these tea leaves, it'd be best signaled in the writing win for Colbert in the Variety category. I'm probably going to predict that to win again in Variety Series this year over The Tonight Show and The Daily Show. The other wins here probably don't tell us very much (the tech wins never do), except that the Emmys continue to love Allison Janney (this is her sixth Emmy) and the guest actors from Scandal (Joe Morton denied Robert Morse the chance to finally win an Emmy for the Mad Men cast when many people thought he would, thanks to the musical number in his episode this year). And I'm kind of shocked that Cosmos missed out in Documentary, because that makes the Emmys the only organization not to honor that series in the category. How'd that happen? Orange is the New Black also picked up three awards tonight, so I think I'll go ahead and predict that show to take down Modern Family on the 25th. It's time, don't you think? Tune in all this coming week for my predictions in the major categories.
