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Creative Arts Emmy Awards 2008: Recap

September 19, 2008 by Danny

Last weekend the Creative Arts Emmy Award show was held in Los Angeles.  The Creative Arts Emmy differs from the Primetime Emmy Awards because it “recognizes technical and other similar achievements in American television programming. They are commonly awarded to behind-the-scenes personnel such as art directors, costumer designers, cinematographers, casting directors and sound editors.”  These shows are usually untelevised (highlights from the show will air September 20th on E!) and recognize all the people that actually make a television show what it is.Nevertheless, HBO cleaned up with 8 Creative Arts Emmy awards last night with the series John Adams - where Paul Giamatti plays the 2nd US President in this historical drama.

Other noteables include Cynthia Nixon earning an Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Janis Donovan, a woman pretending to have multiple personality disorder in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Mad Men walked away with Outstanding Main Title Design, while Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List won the Outstanding Reality Program award for the second year in a row.  The super inspiring documentary Autism: the Musical, follows a group of young kids with autism in Los Angeles as they produce their own musical play won Outstanding Nonfiction Special.