The Primetime Emmy ceremony often seems long, but it includes only a fraction of the awards that the Television Academy distributes each year. On January 6 and 7, the academy hosted the Creative Arts Emmy Awards to allocate most of them. (The name is somewhat misleading. Shouldn't all television be creative?) This separate two-night ceremony honors designers, craftsmen, guest actors, as well as animation, game shows, reality shows and documentaries.
HBO and Max took home 22 Creative Arts Emmy Awards and Netflix 16, followed by FX, Apple TV+ and Disney+. The weekend's biggest winners were two freshman series: HBO's mushroom drama among us “The Last of Us,” which took home eight Emmys, and FX's football docuseries “Welcome to Wrexham.” ”, which won five of the six Emmy Awards for which it was nominated. for, including a prominent unstructured reality show. (All this and promotion, too!) The award for outstanding structured reality program went to “Queer Eye.” “The Bear,” “Wednesday,” and “The White Lotus” also received multiple awards.
Other awards included former President Barack Obama's second Emmy, this one for narrating Netflix's “Working: What We Do All Day.” (His previous Emmy win was for narrating the Netflix series “Our Great National Parks.”) Tim Robinson won for outstanding actor in a short series for “I Think You Should Leave,” which earned another Emmy for outstanding short form comedy and drama. or variety series. Sam Richardson, Robinson's former co-star on the Comedy Central comedy “Detroiters,” also received an Emmy, his first, for outstanding guest actor in a comedy for “Ted Lasso.”
While most of the awards given to “The Last of Us” were in design categories (it was a favorite for prosthetic design), it also picked up two guest acting awards, for Storm Reid as Riley and Nick Offerman as Bill. Offerman beat out three of his co-stars, including Murray Bartlett, who played his on-screen lover. In an Instagram post the day after his win, Offerman referred to Bartlett as “my magnificently generous partner and rightly praised best Australian man”.
