59th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡). Sections are based upon the categories listed in the 2006–2007 Emmy rules and procedures. Area awards and juried awards are denoted next to the category names as applicable. For simplicity, producers who received nominations for program awards have been omitted.

Programs

Performing

Animation

Art Direction

Casting

Choreography

Cinematography

Commercial

Costumes

Directing

Hairstyling

Lighting Direction

Main Title Design

Makeup

Music

Picture Editing

Sound Editing

Sound Mixing

Special Visual Effects

Stunt Coordination

Technical Direction

Writing

Special awards

Governors Award

The Governors Award, recognizing an individual or group "whose works stand out with the immediacy of current achievement", was presented to two programs:

• American Idols "Idol Gives Back" (Fox) was recognized for raising "more than $75 million to benefit relief programs for children and young people in extreme poverty in America and Africa".
• The Addiction Project (HBO) was "an unprecedented multi-platform and outreach campaign [...] aimed at helping Americans understand addiction as a chronic but treatable brain disease".

Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development

One Emmy Award, four plaques, and one certificate of recognition were presented to recognize engineering achievements:

• The Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Howard A. Anderson for his visual effects work.
• Plaques for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development went to TM Systems' QC Station, Osram Sylvania Products' OSRAM HMI Metal Halide Lamp Technology, Digital Vision's DVNR Image Processing Hardware-DVO Image Process Software, and Silicon Optix's Teranex Video Computer.
• A Certificate of Achievement, recognizing a historic contribution to television technology, was presented to Sycom for its work on the varicap.

Syd Cassyd Founders Award

The Syd Cassyd Founders Award was presented to Rich Frank, former television executive and president of the Television Academy, for his "significant positive impact on the Academy through [his] efforts and service over many years of involvement".

Nominations and wins by program

For the purposes of the lists below, any wins in juried categories are assumed to have a prior nomination.

Nominations and wins by network

Presenters

The following individuals presented awards at the ceremony:

• Kristen Bell
• David Boreanaz
• Billy Ray Cyrus
• Miley Cyrus
• Tim Daly
• Josh Duhamel
• Omar Epps
• America Ferrera
• Tom Green
• Seth Green
• Greg Grunberg
• Marcia Gay Harden
• Neil Patrick Harris
• Bob Iger
• Rex Lee
• Mekhi Phifer
• Jennifer Morrison
• Rob Morrow
• Emily Procter
• Yeardley Smith
• Maura Tierney
• Stanley Tucci
• Blair Underwood
• Michael Urie
• Rainn Wilson

Ceremony information

The 59th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards were executive produced by Lee Miller and John Moffitt, produced by Spike Jones Jr. through his company SJ2 Entertainment, and directed by Chris Donovan. Comedian Carlos Mencia was announced as the host in August. Nominations were announced on July 19, a week later than usual due to changes in voting rules. The awards were presented on September 8 in a four-hour ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, which was then edited into a two-hour broadcast shown on E! on September 15, the day before the main ceremony on Fox.

Major rule changes for this year's Creative Arts categories included:

• Public performances taped for television were moved from Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special to Outstanding Special Class Program.
• Broadband programs were allowed to compete in categories alongside cable and broadcast programs.
• Episodes of an eligible program airing outside of the eligibility window became qualified for awards in the same year that the program was competing. Previously, such episodes were ineligible for any awards.

Notes

References

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