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‘The Studio’, Julie Andrews among winners at Creative Arts Emmys

Published:Monday | September 8, 2025 | 12:09 AM
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Emmy statues are seen at the 70th Primetime Emmy Nominations Announcements at the Television Academy’s Saban Media Center July 12, 2018, in Los Angeles.
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Emmy statues are seen at the 70th Primetime Emmy Nominations Announcements at the Television Academy’s Saban Media Center July 12, 2018, in Los Angeles.
Adam Newport-Berra poses in the press room with the award for outstanding cinematography for a series (half-hour) for ‘The Studio’ during night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, in Los Angeles.
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Adam Newport-Berra poses in the press room with the award for outstanding cinematography for a series (half-hour) for ‘The Studio’ during night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, in Los Angeles.
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LOS ANGELES (AP):

Julie Andrews won her third Emmy Award at age 89 Saturday at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, while The Studio will take nine trophies and The Penguin will take eight into next weekend’s main Emmys ceremony.

Andrews won for best character voice-over performance for her work on Netflix’s Bridgerton, her first Emmy since 2005. She won her first Emmy for the special The Julie Andrews Hour in 1973 and another for Broadway: The American Musical, in 2005. She has both an Oscar and a Grammy for playing Mary Poppins. She strangely lacks only a Tony to complete her EGOT status, despite being a giant of the Broadway stage in shows including My Fair Lady.

The Studio, the Hollywood satire from Apple TV+ that is this year’s top-nominated comedy series, won for its cinematography, production design, casting and other craft categories. The show’s winners got to use their real filmmaking chops to recreate a fake one, including Adam Newport-Berra, whose cinematography evoked the beauty the show’s comic characters were trying to capture. He won for a very meta episode called The Oner, in which an on-screen crew is trying to capture a long single shot in an episode that is itself done in a single shot.

In a similar visual vein, Adolescence, the acclaimed Netflix show where every episode is a single shot, won best cinematography in a limited series. But it was one of only two Emmys won by Adolescence on a night when HBO’s “The Penguin” dominated the limited series categories. The abundance of craft categories given out allowed it to win eight, including prosthetic makeup and visual effects. Andor, the Disney+ Star Wars series, won four in the drama categories.

The Creative Arts Emmys, where nearly 100 awards are handed out across two nights, are a precursor to the main Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony, which will air live on CBS on September 14.

“This is the real Emmys,” presenter Maya Rudolph said at the beginning of the show at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. “This is that Emmys they couldn’t have the other Emmys without, cause nothing would get made.”

Julianne Nicholson and Bryan Cranston were winners in the guest-acting categories that add some star power to the proceedings. Nicholson trumped Oscar winners Jamie Lee Curtis and Olivia Colman to win her first Emmy for best guest actress in a comedy, for playing a character known as Dance Mom on HBO Max’s Hacks.

Shawn Hatosy won best guest actor in a drama for playing the supervising doctor on The Pitt who is relieved by star Noah Wyle at the beginning of the all-in-a-day show then relieves him at the end of the intense medical series. Another big nominee, The White Lotus, won just once Saturday, for its opening title music, and Hatosy was the lone winner for The Pitt.