Eddie Murphy finally wins an Emmy for his hosting gig last year, forty years after he first became a star on Saturday Night Live
The Creative Arts Emmys, the ceremony of a thousand technical awards, has been an ongoing nightly event this whole week and finally concluded tonight with early wins for many different shows before the main telecast tomorrow. The Mandalorian and Mrs. Maisel cleaned up in technical categories, as expected, but that doesn’t always mean much for the bigger awards. The headline winners were SNL dominating again in sketch series (they usually give this one out on the main show, don’t know why they didn’t this time), Eddie Murphy and Maya Rudolph winning guest acting awards for it (Rudolph’s win was for just one sketch!) and The Last Dance won documentary series, unsurprisingly (thank god it wasn’t Tiger King). Here were the bigger category winners.
2020 CREATIVE ARTS EMMY WINNERS
Animated Program: Rick and Morty
Children’s Program: The Dark Crystal and We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest (tie)
Documentary/Non-Fiction Series: The Last Dance
Television Movie: Bad Education
Unstructured Reality Program: Cheer
Variety Special (Pre-recorded): Dave Chapelle: Sticks and Stones
Guest Actor in a Comedy: Eddie Murphy, SNL
Guest Actress in a Comedy: Maya Rudolph, SNL
Guest Actor in a Drama: Ron Cephas Jones, This is Us
Guest Actress in a Drama: Cherry Jones, Succession
Host for a Reality/Competition Program: RuPaul, RuPaul’s Drag Race
Short Form Variety Series: Carpool Karaoke
Variety Sketch Series: Saturday Night Live
Variety Special (Live): Live in Front of a Studio Audience: “All in the Family”
Documentary or Non-Fiction Special: The Apollo
Structured Reality Program: Queer Eye
Narrator: David Attenborough, Seven Worlds, One Planet
The popular ESPN documentary series The Last Dance took the Emmy
