The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences gave out their Creative Arts Primetime Emmy Awards during a 13 September ceremony at Los Angeles, California’s Nokia Theater, hosted by Sarah Chalke and Neil Patrick Harris. The 60th annual installment of awards recognized work in more than 70 categories. (The other, better-known Emmys will be awards in a live televised ceremony on 21 September.)
Genre winners and other of interest to SFScope readers include:
Animated Program (less than one hour): The Simpsons—”Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind”
Animated Program (one hour or more): South Park—”Imaginationland”
Individual Achievement in Animation (two winners): Ben Balistreri for Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends—”Mondo Coco” and
Teresa Drilling for Creature Comforts America—”Self Image, Winging It, Art”
Special Class Program—Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Programs: Battlestar Galactica: Razor Featurette #4
Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy: Stuart Bass for Pushing Daisies—”Pie-Lette”
Makeup for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special (Non-Prosthetic): Lisa Love for Tin Man
Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore): Jim Dooley for Pushing Daisies—”Pigeon”
Sound Editing for a Series: Smallville—”Bizarro”
Single-Camera Sound Mixing for a Series: Lost—:”Meet Kevin Johnson”
Special Visual Effects for a Series: Battlestar Galactica—”He That Believeth In Me”
Stunt Coordination: Merritt Yohnka for Chuck—”Chuck Versus the Undercover Lover”
We detailed the nominees of interest to us in this article, but remember, not all of the awards have been given out yet. For the complete list of winners in the 13 September ceremony, see this Variety page.