The Creative Arts Primetime Emmy Ceremony was held Saturday night at the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles (it will be broadcast next Saturday, September 20 on E!) and a handful of nonfiction awards were bestowed upon eager documentarians and television executives (full list of doc nominees here).
No surprise, HBO and PBS were often on stage, with public television's love affair/patronage of Ken Burns paying off with 3 awards for his miniseries THE WAR. PBS also took the Outstanding Nonfiction Series trophy for AMERICAN MASTERS. Surprisingly, Ken Burns himself did not take home a winged angelic award, as the prize for Outstanding Directing went to Chris Wilcha and Adam Beckman for their work on Showtime's THIS AMERICAN LIFE.
Tricia Regan's AUTISM: THE MUSICAL was the big winner of the evening, receiving the award for Outstanding Nonfiction Special and for Outstanding Editing. HBO also won a prize for Steven Okazaki's WHITE LIGHT/BLACK RAIN in the Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Programming.
But the best news of the night, much like last year's victory for "Dick in a Box" came in the Original Song category, where Sarah Silverman (and her four collaborators) won for "I'm Fucking Matt Damon".
Here are tonight's winners:
OUTSTANDING NONFICTION SPECIAL
AUTISM: THE MUSICAL
Jonathan Murray, Janet Grillo, Krstin Stills, Executive Producers
Nancy Abraham, Senior Producer
Perrin Chiles, Tricia Regan, Sasha Alpert, Producers
OUTSTANDING NONFICTION SERIES
AMERICAN MASTERS
Susan Lacy, Executive Producer
Prudence Glass, Series Producer
Julie Sacks, Supervising Producer
Jim Brown, Producer
Michael Cohl, Producer
William Eigen, Producer
EXCEPTIONAL MERIT IN NONFICTION FILMMAKING
WHITE LIGHT/BLACK RAIN
Sheila Nevins, Executive Producer
Robert Richter, Executive Producer
Steven Okazaki, Producer
Sara Bernstein, Supervising Producer
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING
Christopher Wilcha & Adam Beckman, Directors
THIS AMERICAN LIFE - "Escape"
OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING
Geoffrey C. Ward, Writer
THE WAR - "Pride of Our Nation"
OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING
The Cinematography Team
DEADLIEST CATCH - "No Mercy"
OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING
Kim Roberts, Editor
AUTISM: THE MUSICAL
OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING
Erik Ewers, Ryan Gifford, Mariusz Glabinski, Magdaline Volatis, Ira Spiegel, Marlena Grzaslewicz & Jacob Ribicoff
THE WAR - "When Things Get Tough"
OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING
Jason King, Sound Mixer
AMERICAN MASTERS - "Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends"
OUTSTANDING SPECIAL CLASS - SHORT-FORMAT NONFICTION PROGRAMS
GREAT MOMENTS FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
Tim Nolan, Executive Producer
Anthony Giacchino, Producer
OUTSTANDING VOICE-OVER PERFORMANCE
Keith David, Narrator
THE WAR: A Necessary War
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