Barack Obama, Keke Palmer, Nikole Hannah-Jones and more take home Creative Arts Emmy Awards
Obama won the Emmy for best narrator for his Netflix documentary series, “Working: What We Do All Day."
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Barack Obama won his second Emmy, John Mulaney won his third, and Carol Burnett took her seventh Sunday on night two of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
Obama won the Emmy for best narrator for his Netflix documentary series, “Working: What We Do All Day,” repeating in a category he previously won for narrating a Netflix series on national parks. He also has two Grammys for his voice work on the audiobooks of his two memoirs.
Keke Palmer poses in the press room with the award for outstanding host for a game show for “Password” during night two of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday Jan. 7, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Bobby Berk, from left, Karamo Brown, Antoni Porowski, Tan France, and Jonathan Van Ness pose in the press room with the award for outstanding structured reality program for “Queer Eye” during night two of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday Jan. 7, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Andrew Law poses in the press room with the award for outstanding lighting design / lighting direction for a variety series for “Dancing With The Stars – Semi Finals” during night two of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday Jan. 7, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
RuPaul poses with the Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program award during the 2024 Creative Arts Emmys at Peacock Theater on January 07, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
(Left to right) Stephanie Filo, Malinda Zehner Guerra and Taylor Joy Mason pose with the Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming during the 2024 Creative Arts Emmys at Peacock Theater on January 07, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
(Left to right) Nikole Hannah-Jones, Roger Ross Williams, Shoshana Guy, Caitlin Roper, Kathleen Lingo, Geoff Martz, and Jonathan Classberry pose with the Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series award during the 2024 Creative Arts Emmys at Peacock Theater on January 07, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Jasmine Guy poses with the Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series award during the 2024 Creative Arts Emmys at Peacock Theater on January 06, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Sam Richardson poses in the press room with the award for outstanding guest actor in a comedy series for “Ted Lasso” during night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Storm Reid poses in the press room with the award for outstanding guest actress in a drama series for “The Last Of Us – Left Behind” during night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Jon Boogz poses in the press room with the award for outstanding choreography for scripted programming for “Routines: The History / San Quentin Blues” episode of Blindspotting during night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
The former president, who was not at the ceremony at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, beat fellow nominees Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Mahershala Ali and Pedro Pascal in what was by far the most star-studded category at the Creative Arts Emmys, a two-night award-show marathon that mostly honors less-than-famous artists, crew members and crafts people in television.
Mulaney won his Emmy for writing on his Netflix standup special, “Baby J,” in which his work took a darker turn and dealt with his drug addiction and recovery.
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“I can’t wait to show this award to our son for a special he will never, ever be allowed to watch,” Mulaney told wife Olivia Munn, with whom he has a 2-year-old, as he accepted the award.
He previously won Emmys for another standup special and for his writing on “Saturday Night Live.”
The 90-year-old Burnett took the stage to accept the last award of the weekend when NBC’s “Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love,” won best prerecorded variety special.
The comic legend won the first of her seven Emmys in 1961 and took her most recent one in 1997.
The Creative Arts Emmys, which began Saturday and ended Sunday, are a precursor to the main Emmy ceremony that will air 8 p.m. Jan. 15 on Fox, with “black-ish” star Anthony Anderson as host. Just like the main telecast, the Creative Arts Emmys arrive after a four-month delay because of Hollywood’s writers and actors strikes.
Sunday’s night two, which focused largely on reality shows and other unscripted TV, was largely overshadowed by the Golden Globe Awards, taking place simultaneously about 10 miles (16 kilometers) away in Beverly Hills.
Other winners included Keke Palmer, who took best game show host for “Password.” “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson” was named best short form comedy, drama or variety series; “Queer Eye” was named best structured reality show; and “Welcome to Wrexham” won for best unstructured reality show.
Saturday night’s winners included Ed Sheeran, who won his first Emmy for co-writing the song “A Beautiful Game” for “Ted Lasso” on Apple TV+.
TV veterans Judith Light and Nick Offerman each won their first Emmy on Saturday for guest roles. Offerman won his for an episode of “The Last of Us,” which took eight Creative Arts Emmys and is a favorite to win several more at the Jan. 15 main ceremony.
An edited version of the two-night ceremony airs Jan. 13 on cable channel FXX.
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