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76th Emmy Awards: ‘Blue Eye Samurai,’ ‘Scavengers Reign’ and ‘Ahsoka’ among winners

The Television Academy held two 2024 Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremonies on 7 and 8 September at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California. The awards aim to honour outstanding artistic and technical achievement in television.

The ceremony awarded many talented artists and craftspeople behind this year’s best comedy, drama, limited series and television movies in such categories as cinematography, guest performance, animation, reality, documentary/non-fiction, variety programming, production design, sound editing and stunt performance.

Both of the days of the 2024 Creative Arts Awards were executively produced by Bob Bain. The first day featured presenters like B-Boy Victor Montalvo (Team USA olympian and breaking bronze medal winner,) Garcelle Beauvais (Tempted By Love), Jonathan Bennett (Finding Mr. Christmas), Mike Birbiglia (The Old Man and The Pool), Dani Bowman (Love on the Spectrum), LeVar Burton (Trivial Pursuit), Maksim Chmerkovskiy (So You Think You Can Dance), Barbara Corcoran (Shark Tank), Mark Cuban (Shark Tank), comedian Matt Friend, Nikki Glaser (Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die), Lori Greiner (Shark Tank), Robert Herjavec (Shark Tank), Derek Hough (Dancing with the Stars), David Isaacman (Love on the Spectrum) among others.

The second day of the awards featured presenters like Patrick Brammall (Colin from Accounts), Néstor Carbonell (Shōgun), Michael Cyril Creighton (Only Murders in the Building), Jamie Lee Curtis (The Bear), Harriet Dyer (Colin from Accounts), Alex Edelman (Alex Edelman: Just for Us), Devery Jacobs (Reservation Dogs), Brie Larson (Lessons in Chemistry), Aria Mia Loberti (All the Light We Cannot See), Desi Lydic (Desi Lydic Foxsplains; The Daily Show), Courtney McBroom (Lessons in Chemistry) and more.

American TV channel FX’s Shōgun received a record breaking 14 awards in the drama category, leading all shows across the two nights. The show is set in 17th Century Japan and explores the political power play in that period.

Other winners include The Morning Show, Baby Reindeer, Ripley, Only Murders in the Building, The Crown and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Here is a list of the award winners in animation, VFX, games and immersive categories:

  • OUTSTANDING ANIMATED PROGRAM 

Blue Eye Samurai
The Tale of the Ronin and the Bride

  • OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN ANIMATION (Juried Award)

Noemie Leroux, Background Designer (HBO/Max)
Scavengers Reign
The Dream

Alex Small-Butera, Animator (HBO/Max)
Adventure Time: Fionna And Cake
The Winter King

Jan Mass, Lead Animator (Peacock)
In The Know
Yogurt Week

Brian Kesinger, Lead Character Designer (Netflix)
Blue Eye Samurai
Nothing Broken

Tara Billinger, Art Director (HBO/Max)
Clone High
Let’s Try This Again

Toby Wilson, Production Designer (Netflix)
Blue Eye Samurai
The Great Fire Of 1657

Ryan O’Loughlin, Storyboard Artist (Netflix)
Blue Eye Samurai
|Hammerscale

  • OUTSTANDING CHARACTER VOICE-OVER PERFORMANCE 

Maya Rudolph as Connie The Hormone Monstress (Netflix)
Big Mouth 
The Ambition Gremlin

  • OUTSTANDING EMERGING MEDIA PROGRAM

Fallout: Vault 33 (Prime Video)
Amazon MGM Studios
Kilter Films
Bethesda Studios 

  • OUTSTANDING INNOVATION IN EMERGING MEDIA PROGRAMMING

Silent Hill: Ascension (ascension.com)
Genvid Entertainment

What If…? – An Immersive Story (Apple Vision Pro)
Marvel Studios
ILM Immersive
Disney+
Dave Bushore, Director/Executive Producer
Shereif M. Fattouh, Producer/Executive Producer

  • OUTSTANDING CASTING FOR A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE 

Nina Gold, Casting By
Martin Ware, Casting By
Baby Reindeer (Netflix)

  • OUTSTANDING FANTASY/SCI-FI COSTUMES (Area Award)

Shawna Trpcic, Costume Designer 
Elissa Alcala, Assistant Costume Designer 
Devon Patterson, Costume Supervisor
Ahsoka (Disney+)
Part Eight: The Jedi, The Witch, And The Warlord 

  • OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE

Peter H. Oliver, Editor
Benjamin Gerstein, Editor
Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
Episode 4

  • OUTSTANDING SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS IN A SINGLE EPISODE (Area Award)

John Bowers, Visual Effects Supervisor
Jason Tsang, Visual Effects Supervisor
Joseph Servodio, Visual Effects Producer
Maricel Pagulayan, Visual Effects Producer
Christopher White, Visual Effects Supervisor
Libby Hazell, Visual Effects Producer
Francois Sugny, Visual Effects Sequence Supervisor
Gaia Bussolati, Visual Effects Supervisor
Pepe Valencia, Visualization Supervisor
Ripley (Netflix)
III Sommerso

  • OUTSTANDING SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS IN A SEASON OR A MOVIE 

Michael Cliett, Overall Visual Effects Supervisor 
Melody Mead, Production Associate Visual Effects Producer 
Jed Glassford, Onset Visual Effects Supervisor 
Cameron Waldbauer, Special Effects Coordinator 
Philip Engström, Visual Effects Supervisor: Ilp 
Chelsea Mirus, Visual Effects Production Manager: ILP
Ed Bruce, Visual Effects Supervisor: SSVFX 
Nicholas Murphy, Visual Effects Producer: SSVFX 
Kyle Rottman, Visual Effects Supervisor: Refuge 
Shōgun (FX)

  • OUTSTANDING MOTION DESIGN (Juried Award)

Mark Thompson, Creative Director 
Seamus Walsh, Creative Director 
Mark Caballero, Creative Director 
Ivan Viaranchyk, Designer Max Strizich, Designer
Momo Zhao, Animator
Jim Henson Idea Man (Disney +

  • OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING FOR A COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES (HALF-HOUR) AND ANIMATION

Steve “Major” Giammaria, Mpse, Co-Supervising Sound Editor
Andrea Bella, Co-Supervising Sound Editor
Evan Benjamin, Dialogue Editor
Jonathan Fuhrer, Sound Effects Editor
Annie Taylor, Mpse, Foley Editor
Jason Lingle, Music Editor
Jeff Lingle, Music Editor
Leslie Bloome, Mpse, Foley Artist
Shaun Brennan, Foley Artist
The Bear (FX)
Forks