Bad Bunny Halftime Show, Traitors Top Night 1 Creative Arts Emmys — SkimNews
Get the Culture newsletter
Daily culture — film, music, books, the trends and ideas worth your attention. Free.
- Bad Bunny's 'Super Bowl LX Halftime Show' swept seven Creative Arts Emmys, including outstanding variety special (live), choreography (Charm La'Donna, Karina Ortiz), production design (Bruce Rodgers), and music direction (Miguel Gandelman), who said he had to chase the artist across Colombia and Chile to record the band.
- Peacock's 'The Traitors' took six Emmys on the night, including outstanding production design for a variety or reality series for the 'Black Banquet' episode.
- Jimmy Kimmel won outstanding host for a game show for 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' — his second consecutive year in the category — and joked from the stage about the win coming early enough to beat the seat fillers.
- Mariska Hargitay won two Emmys for her documentary 'My Mom Jayne,' used her speech to honor the recently deceased Gloria Steinem, and told reporters backstage she's in 'a year of firsts' after saying yes to hosting the Emmys and a Broadway stint.
- Sabrina Carpenter moved halfway to an EGOT with an Emmy win for outstanding variety special (pre-recorded) on 'The Muppet Show,' where she is an executive producer and performer; Seth Rogen also earned his fifth Emmy as an EP on the series.
- Tyler Strickland won outstanding music composition for a documentary for Prime Video's 'John Candy: I Like Me,' recording the entire score with a string orchestra and giving Candy's theme a French horn for 'valor and strength.'
- Netflix's 'Love on a Spectrum' picked up three Emmys, with casting director Sean Bowman telling the audience he loves 'talking on Zoom and hearing their stories of why they want to find love.'
Why it matters: The halftime show haul crowns the most-watched live TV moment of the year as an Emmy-winning production, reinforcing Roc Nation and Apple Music's continued dominance of tentpole music-TV events. Carpenter's halfway-to-EGOT milestone keeps her on a fast celebrity-cross-discipline track, while Hargitay's two wins double as a public tribute to Steinem days after the feminist icon's death.
Ask SkimNews
