After an opening night dominated by Game of Thrones, the Television Academy turned its attention to documentaries, unscripted television, and musical and variety shows for the second night of the Creative Arts Emmys. While no show came close to Game of Thrones’ table-running nine awards Saturday night, both Netflix’s true crime documentary Making a Murderer and Fox’s Grease: Live took home four Emmys. Making a Murderer won Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series, as well as the nonfiction series awards for outstanding writing, directing, and picture editing. Grease: Live, a live production of the 1971 musical, won Outstanding Special Class Program, as well as awards for technical direction, camerawork, and video control, lighting design/lighting direction, and production design.
On the network level, HBO pulled farther ahead of the other networks, with awards for Jim: The James Foley Story, Project Greenlight, Vice, and two awards for Last Week Tonight With John Oliver bringing the network’s total to 16. FX picked up Best Animated Series for Archer and Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Animated Series for Inside Look: The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, bringing them to second place with 12 Emmys so far. Even with Making a Murderer’s wins Sunday night and another trophy for What Happened, Miss Simone?, Netflix was in a distant third, with six Emmys. A complete list of Sunday night’s winners is here. The Creative Arts Emmy Awards will be broadcast on FXX on Saturday, Sept. 17; the main Emmy Awards will be on ABC on Sept. 18.
