Creative Arts Emmys: ‘OITNB,’ Jane Lynch and Jimmy Fallon Among Winners
With only a little over a week until the Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony on Aug. 25, the Creative Arts Emmys were given Saturday night at the Nokia Theater LA Live. The Nokia Theater will also be hosting the Primetime Emmys next week.
During Saturday's award show, the 2014 Governor's Award was given to Marion Dougherty, a casting director who worked on such shows as "All in the Family," posthumously. During the In Memoriam montage, 27-year-old camera assistant Sarah Jones was recognized after she died from being struck by a train while filming "Midnight Rider," the Gregg Allman biopic.
Allison Janney was a big winner at the Creative Arts Emmy's; she added a fifth award to her Emmy collection for playing Margaret Scully in "Masters of Sex." In her on-stage acceptance speech, she thanked "the crew guy who got me a shot of bourbon before my first sex scene."
Backstage at the show, Janney recalled the built-up anxiety she had about being filmed naked for the show.
"I felt that Margaret Scully challenged me in ways that I've never been challenged before as an actress on so many levels -- on an emotional level, on a physical level -- and having to do sex scenes was extraordinarily nerve-racking and stressful for me and something that I didn't think I'd have to do at this age, frankly," Janney said.
She is also up for a Primetime Emmy in supporting actress in a comedy category for her work in "Mom."
The Netflix hit show "Orange Is the New Black" won seven awards over the course of the evening, including Uzo Aduba's win of her first Emmy for her character Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren.
"I don't know how to say how incredibly impressed I am to be a part of this show day in, day out," Aduba said as she accepted her award.
And it wasn't just scripted television that got all the glory. Jane Lynch won for best reality host on "Hollywood Game Night" and "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" won for best interactive program.
Among the networks, HBO led with 15 wins, but NBC took home 10, PBS was awarded eight and FOX and Netflix each won seven.
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