2014 Creative Arts Emmy Winners - Complete List

by Leroy Douresseaux

The Creative Arts Emmys are a class of Emmy Awards.  They recognize technical and other similar achievements in American television programming and honor behind-the-scenes personnel.  This includes art directors, costume designers, cinematographers, casting directors, and sound editors.  The Creative Arts category also includes awards for outstanding animated programs and guest acting.

Both the Primetime and Daytime awards each present their own Creative Arts Emmys at separate Creative Arts ceremonies prior to their respective main ceremonies.

The 2014 Creative Arts Emmys were handed out Saturday night, August 16, 2014 at the Nokia Theatre at L.A. LIVE.  The awards show took place just over a week before the 2014 Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony, which will be held, Monday, Aug. 25, 2014.  The 2014 Creative Arts Emmys are the first ceremony of the 66th Emmy Awards.

During Saturday's ceremony, casting director Marion Dougherty (“All in the Family”) was honored posthumously with the 2014 Governor's Award.  Also, Sarah Jones was the 27-year-old camera assistant who died earlier this year when she was struck by a train in Georgia while filming the Gregg Allman biopic, “Midnight Rider.”  Jones was remembered during the “In Memoriam” montage during Saturday's Creative Arts Emmys.

For a complete list of 2014 Creative Arts Emmys winners, including the individual names of winners in all categories, go here or http://www.emmys.com/sites/default/files/Downloads/2014-creative-arts-winners-v1.pdf

2014 Creative Arts Emmys winners (in bold) and nominees:

Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series
Uzo Aduba, Orange Is the New Black (WINNER)
Natasha Lyonne, Orange Is the New Black
Laverne Cox, Orange Is the New Black
Tina Fey, Saturday Night Live
Melissa McCarthy, Saturday Night Live
Joan Cusack, Shameless

Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality-Competition Program
Jane Lynch, Hollywood Game Night (WINNER)
Betty White, Betty White’s Off Their Rockers
Tom Bergeron, Dancing With The Stars
Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, Project Runway
Cat Deeley, So You Think You Can Dance
Anthony Bourdain, The Taste

Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program
Deadliest Catch (WINNER)
Alaska: The Last Frontier
Flipping Out
Million Dollar Listing New York
Wahlburgers
Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan

Outstanding Structured Reality Program
Shark Tank (WINNER)
Antiques Roadshow
MythBusters
Undercover Boss
Who Do You Think You Are?

Outstanding Variety Special
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute To Mel Brooks (WINNER)
The Beatles: The Night That Changed America
Best Of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Primetime Special
Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays
The Kennedy Center Honors
Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles

Outstanding Writing For A Variety Series
The Colbert Report (WINNER)
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Inside Amy Schumer
Portlandia

Outstanding Directing For A Variety Series
Saturday Night Live (WINNER)
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Portlandia
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Outstanding Choreography
So You Think You Can Dance • Routines: Puttin’ on the Ritz / Gold Rush / Run the World (WINNER)
Dancing With The Stars • Routines: Human / Ameksa / Too Darn Hot
So You Think You Can Dance • Routines: Trigger / Sand / The Gravel Road
So You Think You Can Dance • Routines: Edge of Glory / Feelin’ Good / I Can’t Make You Love Me
So You Think You Can Dance • Routines: Hanging by a Thread / Wicked Game / Medicine

Outstanding Interactive Program
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Digital Experience (WINNER)
Comedy Central’s @midnight
Game of Thrones Premiere – Facebook Live and Instagram
The Voice

Outstanding Short-Format Nonfiction Program
30 For 30 Shorts (WINNER)
Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee
Cosmos: A National Geographic Deeper Dive
I Was There: Boston Marathon Bombings
Jay Leno’s Garage
Park Bench With Steve Buscemi

Outstanding Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama (WINNER)
Childrens Hospital
Parks And Rec In Europe
The Soup: True Detective
Super Bowl XLVIII Halftime Show Starring Bruno Mars

Outstanding Special Class Program
67th Annual Tony Awards (WINNER)
The 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards
The Oscars
Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony
The Sound Of Music Live!

Outstanding Informational Series Or Special (TIE)
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (WINNER)
Vice (WINNER)
Inside The Actors Studio
Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman
The Writers’ Room

Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Special
JFK (American Experience) (WINNER)
Paycheck To Paycheck: The Life And Times Of Katrina Gilbert
Running From Crazy
The Sixties: The Assassination Of President Kennedy
The Square
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley

Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Series (TIE)
American Masters (WINNER)
Years Of Living Dangerously (WINNER)
Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey
Pioneers Of Television
The World Wars

Exceptional Merit In Documentary Filmmaking
Life According To Sam (WINNER)
The Amish: Shunned (American Experience)
Brave Miss World
Hillsborough (30 For 30 Soccer Stories)

Outstanding Writing For Nonfiction Programming
Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey (WINNER)
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
JFK (American Experience)
The World Wars
Years Of Living Dangerously

Outstanding Directing For Nonfiction Programming
The Square (WINNER)
The Amazing Race
Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey
Regular Show
Robot Chicken
Project Runway
Shark Tank

Outstanding Cinematography For A Multi-Camera Series
How I Met Your Mother (WINNER)
The Exes
Last Man Standing
Mike & Molly
2 Broke Girls

Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series
True Detective (WINNER)
Breaking Bad
Game Of Thrones • Two Swords
Game Of Thrones • The Lion and the Rose
Homeland
House Of Cards

Outstanding Cinematography For A Miniseries Or Movie
Sherlock: His Last Vow (WINNER)
Fargo • Buridan’s Ass
Fargo • The Crocodile’s Dilemma
Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond
Killing Kennedy
The Normal Heart

Outstanding Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming
The Square (WINNER)
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown • Tokyo
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown • Punjab
Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey
Vice

Outstanding Cinematography For Reality Programming
Deadliest Catch (WINNER)
Alaska: The Last Frontier
The Amazing Race
Project Runway
Survivor

Outstanding Commercial
Misunderstood • Apple (WINNER)
Childlike Imagination • General Imagination
Hero’s Welcome • Budweiser
Possibilities • Nike
Puppy Love • Budweiser

Outstanding Narrator
Jeremy Irons, Game Of Lions (WINNER)
Daniel Craig, One Life
Jane Lynch, Penguins: Waddle All The Way
Henry Strozier, Too Cute!
Whoopi Goldberg, Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley

Outstanding Children’s Program
One Last Hug: Three Days At Grief Camp (WINNER)
Degrassi
Dog With A Blog
Good Luck Charlie
Nick News With Linda Ellerbee – Family Secrets: When Violence Hits Home
Wynton Marsalis – A YoungArts Masterclass

Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance
Harry Shearer, The Simpsons (WINNER)
Chris Diamantapolous, Disney Mickey Mouse
Stephen Full, Dog With A Blog
Seth MacFarlane, Family Guy
Maurice LaMarche, Futurama
Seth Green, Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains In Paradise

Outstanding Stunt Coordination For A Comedy Series Or A Variety Program
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (WINNER)
Community
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Sam & Cat
Shameless

Outstanding Stunt Coordination For A Drama Series, Miniseries Or Movie
The Blacklist (WINNER)
Game Of Thrones
Grimm
Hawaii Five-0
Revolution
True Blood

Outstanding Special And Visual Effects
Game Of Thrones (WINNER)
Almost Human
Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey
The 100
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Outstanding Special And Visual Effects In A Supporting Role
Black Sails (WINNER)
Da Vinci’s Demons
Hawaii Five-0Mob City
Vikings
The Walking Dead

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Comedy Series
Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live (WINNER)
Bob Newhart, The Big Bang Theory
Nathan Lane, Modern Family
Steve Buscemi, Portlandia
Louis C.K., Saturday Night Live
Gary Cole, Veep

Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction For A Variety Series
Dancing With The Stars (WINNER)
America’s Got Talent
Saturday Night Live
The Voice

Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction For A Variety Special
Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony (WINNER)
The Beatles: The Night That Changed America
The 56th Grammy Awards
The Oscars

Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control For A Series
Dancing With The Stars (WINNER)
The Big Bang Theory
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Saturday Night Live
The Voice

Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special
The Sound Of Music Live! (WINNER)
The Oscars
Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony
67th Annual Tony Awards

Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics
67th Annual Tony Awards • Song Title: Bigger! (WINNER)
A Christmas Carol – The Concert • Song Title: No Trouble
Key & Peele • Substitute Teacher #3 / Song Title: Les Mis
Saturday Night Live • Song Title: Home For The Holiday (Twin Bed)
Sofia The First: The Floating Palace • Song Title: Merroway Cove
Sons Of Anarchy • Song Title: Day Is Gone

Outstanding Music Composition For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Original Dramatic Score)
Sherlock: His Last Vow (WINNER)
American Horror Story: Coven
Clear History
Fargo
Herblock: The Black & The White
The Sound Of Music Live!
67th Annual Tony Awards

Outstanding Main Title Design
True Detective (WINNER)
Black Sails
Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey
Masters Of Sex
Silicon Valley

Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Original Dramatic Score)
Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey (WINNER)
Downton Abbey
Game Of Thrones
House Of Cards
True Detective

Outstanding Music Direction
The Beatles: The Night That Changed America (WINNER)
Barbra Streisand: Back to Brooklyn
The Oscars
Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music
Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey (WINNER)
Black Sails
Magic City
Sleepy Hollow
The Spoils Of Babylon

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour)
House Of Cards (WINNER)
Breaking Bad
Game Of Thrones
Homeland

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Miniseries Or A Movie
Treme (WINNER)
American Horror Story: Coven
Fargo
Killing Kennedy
Sherlock: His Last Vow

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (Half-Hour) And Animation
Modern Family (WINNER)
Californication
Nurse Jackie
The Simpsons
Veep

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Variety Series Or Special
The 56th Grammy Awards (WINNER)
The Beatles: The Night That Changed America
The Kennedy Center Honors
The Oscars
The Voice

Outstanding Sound Mixing For Nonfiction Programming
American Masters (WINNER)
The Amazing Race
Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey
Deadliest Catch

Outstanding Makeup For A Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic)
True Detective (WINNER)
Boardwalk Empire
Breaking Bad
Game Of Thrones
Mad Men

Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic)
Saturday Night Live (WINNER)
Dancing With The Stars
Key & Peele
So You Think You Can Dance
The Voice

Outstanding Makeup For A Miniseries Or A Movie (Non-Prosthetic)
The Normal Heart (WINNER)
American Horror Story: Coven
Anna Nicole
Bonnie & Clyde
Fargo

Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries, Movie Or A Special
Game Of Thrones (WINNER)
American Horror Story: Coven
Boardwalk Empire
Breaking Bad
The Normal Heart

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series
Black Sails (WINNER)
Boardwalk Empire
Breaking Bad
Game Of Thrones
The Walking Dead

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special
Sherlock: His Last Vow (WINNER)
American Horror Story: Coven
Bonnie & Clyde
Fargo
Klondike
Mob City

Outstanding Sound Editing For Nonfiction Programming (Single Or Multi-Camera)
Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey (WINNER)
The Amazing Race
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Vice
The World Wars

Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series
Allison Janney, Masters of Sex (WINNER)
Margo Martindale, The Americans
Diana Rigg, Game of Thrones
Kate Mara, House of Cards
Jane Fonda, The Newsroom
Kate Burton, Scandal

Outstanding Hairstyling For A Single-Camera Series
Downton Abbey (WINNER)
Boardwalk Empire
Game Of Thrones
Mad Men

Outstanding Hairstyling For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special
Saturday Night Live (WINNER)
Dancing With The Stars
Key & Peele
The Originals
The Oscars
The Voice

Outstanding Hairstyling For A Miniseries Or A Movie
American Horror Story: Coven (WINNER)
Bonnie & Clyde
Mob City
The Normal Heart
The White Queen

Outstanding Costumes For A Series
Game Of Thrones (WINNER)
Boardwalk Empire
Downton Abbey
Mad Men
Once Upon A Time

Outstanding Costumes For A Miniseries, Movie or Special
American Horror Story: Coven (WINNER)
The Normal Heart
House Of Versace
Sherlock: His Last Vow (Masterpiece)
The White Queen

Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program
Disney Mickey Mouse (WINNER)
Adventure Time
Disney Phineas and Ferb
Regular Show
Robot Chicken

Outstanding Animated Program
Bob’s Burgers (WINNER)
Archer
Futurama
South Park
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Manhattan Project

Outstanding Art Direction For A Period Series, Miniseries Or A Movie (Single-Camera)
Boardwalk Empire (WINNER)
American Horror Story: Coven
Downton Abbey
Mad Men
Masters Of Sex

Outstanding Art Direction For A Contemporary Program (Half-Hour Or Less)
House Of Lies (WINNER)
The Big Bang Theory
Modern Family
Silicon Valley
Veep
HBO

Outstanding Art Direction For Variety, Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Program
The Oscars (WINNER)
Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey
Portlandia
Saturday Night Live
Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony
The Voice

Outstanding Art Direction For A Contemporary Or Fantasy Series (Single-Camera)
Game Of Thrones (WINNER)
House Of Cards
Justified
True Blood
True Detective

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series
Breaking Bad • Felina (WINNER)
Breaking Bad • Tohajillee
Breaking Bad • Granite State
True Detective

Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing For A Comedy Series
The Big Bang Theory (WINNER)
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
How I Met Your Mother
Jimmy Kimmel Live

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Comedy Series
Orange Is The New Black • Tit Punch (WINNER)
Modern Family
Orange Is The New Black • Can’t Fix Crazy
Orange Is The New Black • Tall Men With Feelings
Portlandia

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Miniseries Or A Movie
Sherlock: His Last Vow (WINNER)
Fargo • The Crocodile’s Dilemma
Fargo • The Rooster Prince
Fargo • Buridan’s Ass
The Normal Heart

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series
Joe Morton, Scandal (WINNER)
Paul Giamatti, Downton Abbey
Dylan Baker, The Good Wife
Reg E. Cathey, House Of Cards
Robert Morse, Mad Men
Beau Bridges, Masters of Sex

Outstanding Picture Editing For Short-Form Segments And Variety Specials
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart (WINNER)
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute To Mel Brooks
Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays
The Colbert Report • People Destroying America: Vicco Mayor Johnny Cummings (Segment)
The Colbert Report • StePhfest Colbchella ‘013

Outstanding Picture Editing For Nonfiction Programming
The Square (WINNER)
American Masters
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey
The Sixties: The Assassination Of President Kennedy

Outstanding Picture Editing For Reality Programming
Deadliest Catch (WINNER)
The Amazing Race
Naked And Afraid
Project Runway
Survivor
The Voice

Outstanding Casting For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special
Fargo (WINNER)
American Horror Story: Coven
The Normal Heart

Outstanding Casting For A Drama Series
True Detective (WINNER)
Breaking Bad
Game Of Thrones
The Good Wife
House Of Cards
Sherlock: His Last Vow (Masterpiece)
Treme

Outstanding Casting For A Comedy Series
Orange Is The New Black (WINNER)
Louie
Modern Family
Nurse Jackie
Showtime
Veep

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Review: "Anything Else" is Familiar Woody Allen

TRASH N MY EYE No. 119 (of 2004) by Leroy Douresseaux

Anything Else (2003)
Running time:  108 minutes 91 hour, 48 minutes)
MPAA – R for a scene of drug use and some sexual references
WRITER/DIRECTOR:  Woody Allen
PRODUCER:  Letty Aronson
CINEMATOGRAPHER:  Darius Khondji
EDITOR:  Alisa Lepselter

COMEDY/ROMANCE

Starring:  Woody Allen, Jason Biggs, Fisher Stevens, Anthony Arkin, Danny DeVito, Christina Ricci, Kadee Strickland, Jimmy Fallon, Diana Krall, William Hill, Stockard Channing, Maurice Sonnenberg, Kenneth Edelson, David Conrad, and Joseph Lyle Taylor

The subject of this movie review is Anything Else, a 2003 romantic comedy from writer-director Woody Allen.  The film is a contemporary romantic comedy set in New York City and follows an older guy as he guides his younger protégé through a messy and hilarious love story.

Woody Allen’s Anything Else is a movie about two relationships.  First, there is the friendship between an aged, aspiring comedy writer, David Dobel (Woody Allen), and a young, struggling comedy writer, Jerry Falk (Jason Biggs, American Pie).  Dobel is apparently severely paranoid, but he dispenses much wisdom and advice to Falk, who is in the middle of a messy situation.  That situation is the second relationship upon which the film focuses.  Falk is deeply in love with Amanda (Christina Ricci), a young actress who is insecure about her weight, among others things.  Amanda also claims to be uptight and insecure about her relationship with Jerry, but she may only be using that as a cover for having one or several affairs.

Anything Else isn’t among Allen’s best work, but it’s better than his least work – sort of in the middle.  It’s intermittently funny, sometimes outrageous, but too often dull and dry.  Allen’s dialogue, is as usual, crackling, but it takes almost half the film before the witty repartee begins to flow.  When Allen is not the lead in his film or if he’s not in his film, he usually has another character stand in for him.  While Allen is in Anything Else as David Dobel, Jason Biggs’ Jerry Falk is the Woody character or character type we’ve seen in films like Annie Hall or Manhattan.  Biggs does a passable job in this role, but that’s all; thankfully Woody is so good at writing himself, even for other actors to play, that the film doesn’t fall apart.  But nor does it ever really come together as anything more than several scenes that would make good exercises for an acting class.

Christina Ricci steals the show, although her performance takes a bit of time to get going.  Despite its obvious flaws, Anything Else is worth seeing, not only for Allen fans, but also for fans of Ms. Ricci.

6 of 10
B

Updated:  Wednesday, July 24, 2013

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Review: Queen Latifah Makes "Taxi" a Winner

TRASH IN MY EYE No. 34 (of 2005) by Leroy Douresseaux

Taxi (2004)
Running time: 97 minutes (1 hour, 37 minutes)
MPAA – PG-13 for language, sensuality, and brief violence
DIRECTOR: Tim Story
WRITERS: Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon, and Jim Kouf (based upon an earlier screenplay by Luc Besson)
PRODUCER: Luc Besson
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Vance Burberry
EDITOR: Stuart Levy

ACTION/COMEDY with elements of crime and a thriller

Starring: Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon, Henry Simmons, Jennifer Esposito, Gisele Bundchen, Ana Cristina De Oliveira, Ingrid Vandebosch, Magali Amadei, Ann-Margaret, and Christian Kane with Jeff Gordon

Belle (Queen Latifah), a mouthy and feisty New York City cab driver with a souped up cab, helps Washburn (Jimmy Fallon), an inept and green cop, solve a series of bank hold ups committed by a band of female Brazilian bank robbers, led by the sexy Vanessa (Gisele Bundchen), who is as good at driving at super high speeds through NYC traffic as Belle is.

The first scene of Taxi, an American version of the French series created by Luc Besson (creator of The Fifth Element, who also produces this version), features a NYC bike messenger flying through and over the streets and landmarks of the city in a manner that would mark him as super human. It was like something out of a video game or a James Bond movie. When the biker reaches the office where he works, he slips off his helmet to reveal that he is Queen Latifah. A slim stunt rider can’t pass for someone as… pleasantly plumb as the Queen. But the Queen and her co-star, Jimmy Fallon, have it going on.

Taxi is a cheesy, thrill ride, a funny action comedy that has more laughs than it has moments that stretch belief, and it has lots of moments that cross over into fantasy. Still, the important thing in terms of entertainment is to make a funny movie. No, the cop/FBI angle, as it is in Taxi, wouldn’t work in the real world, but here it works to lots of laughs. And the car races and chase scenes may not be The Fast and the Furious, but they’re 2 Fast 2 Furious.

Queen Latifah and Fallon have great screen chemistry. You can really believe that her Belle hates Fallon’s Washburn, but there’s truth in both their characters. You can buy their characters and the progression of their relationship as the film progresses. It’s dumb, but funny. The Queen is a talented and funny screen comedienne, and Fallon’s shtick works here. He’s not the macho action star; he’s more sweet, charming and vulnerable, but what keeps him from being a chump is that his Washburn is perseveres. No matter what knocks him down, he’s subtly relentless and machine like in his quest to be an effective cop. You can respect this soft guy who is not so soft after all. He’s got grit and determination. So you may not have wanted to buy a ticket to see Taxi, but if you have a sense of humor, this thrilling, action-paced comedy is worth a rental.

7 of 10
B+

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