The 62nd Annual Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony was held on August 21, 2010 at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles. This was in conjunction with the annual Primetime Emmy Awards and was presented in recognition of technical and other similar achievements in American television programming. E! aired clips from the ceremony on August 28, the evening preceding the night of the primetime telecast.
Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold:
Programs + Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution (ABC) Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Dirty Jobs (Discovery Channel) Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List (Bravo) MythBusters (Discovery Channel) Undercover Boss (CBS) The Betrayal – Nerakhoon (PBS) Brick City (Sundance Channel) My Lai (PBS) Patti Smith: Dream of Life (PBS) Pressure Cooker (BET) Sergio (HBO) The National Parks: America's Best Idea (PBS) Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut) (IFC) Life (Discovery Channel) American Experience (PBS) Deadliest Catch (Discovery Channel) American Masters (PBS) Teddy: In His Own Words (HBO) Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story (Epix) By the People: The Election of Barack Obama (HBO) Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (TMC) Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again (NBC) The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice! (Fox) Prep & Landing (ABC) Alien Earths (Nat Geo) South Park (Episode: "200/201") (Comedy Central) The Ricky Gervais Show (Episode: "Knob At Night") (HBO) The Simpsons (Episode: "Once Upon a Time in Springfield") (Fox) Robot Chicken (Episode: Full-Assed Christmas Special) (Adult Swim) Adventure Time (Episode: "My Two Favorite People") (Cartoon Network) Chowder (Episode: "The Toots") (Cartoon Network) Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil (Episode: "Racing The Schoolbus") (Disney XD) The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (Episode: "Tee Hee Tummy Tums") (Cartoon Network) Uncle Grandpa (Cartoon Network) Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie (Disney Channel) Hannah Montana (Disney Channel) iCarly (Nickelodeon) Jonas (Disney Channel) Wizards of Waverly Place (Disney Channel) Nick News with Linda Ellerbee: The Face of Courage: Kids Living with Cancer (Nickelodeon) When Families Grieve (PBS) 63rd Tony Awards (CBS) 30 Rock: The Webisodes (NBC.com) 82nd Academy Awards (ABC) ABC's LOST Presents: Mysteries of the Universe – The Dharma Initiative The Daily Show: Ask a Correspondent (thedailyshow.com) Avatar: Enter The World of Pandora (HBO First Look) (HBO) Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony (NBC)
Acting + Neil Patrick Harris as Bryan Ryan on Glee (Episode: "Dream On") (Fox) Will Arnett as Devon Banks on 30 Rock (Episode: "Into the Crevasse") (NBC) Jon Hamm as Dr. Drew Baird on 30 Rock (Episode: "Emanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land") (NBC) Mike O'Malley as Burt Hummel on Glee (Episode: "Wheels") (Fox) Eli Wallach as Bernard Zimberg on Nurse Jackie (Episode: "Chicken Soup") (Showtime) Fred Willard as Frank Dunphy on Modern Family (Episode: "Travels with Scout") (ABC) Betty White as Various Characters on Saturday Night Live (Episode: "Host: Betty White") (NBC) Christine Baranski as Dr. Beverly Hofstadter on The Big Bang Theory (Episode: "The Maternal Congruence") (CBS) Kristin Chenoweth as April Rhodes on Glee (Episode: "The Rhodes Not Taken") (Fox) Tina Fey as Various Characters on Saturday Night Live (Episode: "Host: Tina Fey") (NBC) Kathryn Joosten as Karen McCluskey on Desperate Housewives (Episode: "The Chase") (ABC) Jane Lynch as Dr. Linda Freeman on Two and a Half Men (Episode: "818-jklpuzo") (CBS) Elaine Stritch as Colleen Donaghy on 30 Rock (Episode: "The Moms") (NBC) John Lithgow as Arthur Mitchell on Dexter (Episode: "Road Kill") (Showtime) Dylan Baker as Colin Sweeney on The Good Wife (Episode: "Bad") (CBS) Beau Bridges as George Andrews on The Closer (Episode: "Make Over") (TNT) Alan Cumming as Eli Gold on The Good Wife (Episode: "Fleas") (CBS) Ted Danson as Arthur Frobisher on Damages (Episode: "The Next One's Gonna Go in Your Throat") (FX) Gregory Itzin as Charles Logan on 24 (Episode: "1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.") (Fox) Robert Morse as Bert Cooper on Mad Men (Episode: "Shut the Door. Have a Seat.") (AMC) Ann-Margret as Rita Wills on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Episode: "Bedtime") (NBC) Shirley Jones as Lola Zellman on The Cleaner (Episode: "Does Everybody Have A Drink?") (A&E) Elizabeth Mitchell as Dr. Juliet Burke on Lost (Episode: "The End") (ABC) Mary Kay Place as Adaleen Grant on Big Love (Episode: "The Mighty and Strong") (HBO) Sissy Spacek as Marilyn Densham on Big Love (Episode: "End of Days") (HBO) Lily Tomlin as Marilyn Tobin on Damages (Episode: "Your Secrets Are Safe") (FX) Anne Hathaway as Princess Penelope on The Simpsons (Episode: "Once Upon a Time in Springfield") (Fox) Hank Azaria as Apu Nahasapeemapetilon and Moe Szyslak on The Simpsons (Episode: "Moe Letter Blues") (Fox) H. Jon Benjamin as Sterling Archer on Archer (Episode: "Mole Hunt") (FX) Dan Castellaneta as Grampa Simpson and Homer Simpson on The Simpsons (Episode: "Thursdays with Abie") (Fox) Dave Foley as Wayne on Prep & Landing (ABC) Seth Green as Cobra Commander, Movie Narrator, and Robot Chicken Nerd on Robot Chicken (Episode: "Cannot Be Erased, So Sorry") (Adult Swim)
Animation + Prep & Landing – Andy Harkness (art director) (ABC) Prep & Landing – William M. George III (background key design) (ABC) Prep & Landing – Joe Mateo (storyboard artist) (ABC) Family Guy – Greg Colton (storyboard artist) (Episode: "Road to the Multiverse") (Fox) Generator Rex – Nora Murphy-Berden and Chu-Hui Song (background painter) (Episode: "The Day That Everything Changed") (Cartoon Network) Heart of Stone – Chris Do (art director) (VEVO.com) The Ricky Gervais Show – Andy Bialk (character design) (Episode: "Charity") (HBO) The Simpsons – Charles Ragins (background design) (Episode: "Postcards from the Wedge") (Fox)
Art Direction + No winner Hell's Kitchen (Episodes: "Episode 615") (Fox) How I Met Your Mother (Episodes: "Duel Citizenship", "Of Course", "Hooked") (CBS) Rules of Engagement (Episodes: "3rd Wheel", "Ghost Story", "Atlantic City") (CBS) The Big Bang Theory (Episode: "The Gothowitz Deviation", "The Adhesive Duck Deficiency") (CBS) The New Adventures of Old Christine (Episode: "Subway", "Somehow", "Revenge Makeover", "Sweet Charity") (CBS) The Tudors (Episode: "Episode #407") (Showtime) Glee (Episode: "Pilot") (Fox) Heroes (Episode: "Brave New World") (NBC) Lost (Episode: "Ab Aeterno") (ABC) Modern Family (Episode: "Moon Landing") (ABC) True Blood (Episode: "Never Let Me Go") (HBO) The Pacific (HBO) Georgia O'Keeffe (Lifetime) Return to Cranford (PBS) Temple Grandin (HBO) You Don't Know Jack (HBO) 82nd Academy Awards (ABC) 63rd Tony Awards (CBS) American Idol (Episode: "Idol Gives Back") (Fox) The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (Episode: "#1.1") (NBC) The Who Super Bowl Halftime Show (CBS) Saturday Night Live (Episode: "Host: Jon Hamm, Host: Betty White") (NBC)
Casting + Modern Family – Jeff Greenberg (ABC) 30 Rock – Jennifer McNamara-Shroff (NBC) Glee – Robert J. Ulrich and Eric Dawson and Jim Carnahan (Fox) Nurse Jackie – Julie Tucker and Ross Meyerson (Showtime) United States of Tara – Cami Patton and Jennifer Lare (Showtime) Mad Men – Laura Schiff and Carrie Audino (AMC) Big Love – Libby Goldstein, Junie Lowry-Johnson and Lisa Soltau (HBO) Dexter – Shawn Dawson (Showtime) Friday Night Lights – Linda Lowy, John Brace and Beth Sepko (NBC) The Good Wife – Mark Saks (CBS) True Blood – Junie Lowry-Johnson and Libby Goldstein (HBO) The Pacific – Meg Liberman and Cami Patton, Christine King, Jennifer Euston and Suzanne Smith (HBO) Emma – Gemma Hancock and Sam Stevenson (PBS) Georgia O'Keeffe – David Rubin, Richard Hicks and Angelique Midthunder (Lifetime) Temple Grandin – David Rubin, Richard Hicks and Beth Sepko (HBO) You Don't Know Jack – Ellen Chenoweth (HBO)
Choreography + Mia Michaels – So You Think You Can Dance (Routines: "Gravity", "Addiction & Koop Island Blues & One") (Fox) Adam Shankman – 82nd Academy Awards (Routines: "Opening Number", "No One Wants to Do It Alone & Score Suite") (ABC) Derek Hough – Dancing with the Stars (Routines: "Futuristic Paso Doble", "Living On Video & Quickstep", "Anything Goes'") (ABC) Chelsie Hightower and Derek Hough – Dancing with the Stars (Routines: "Paso Doble", "Malaquena") (ABC) Stacey Tookey – So You Think You Can Dance (Routines: "Fear") (Fox)
Cinematography + CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Episode: "Family Affair") (CBS) Breaking Bad (Episode: "No Mas") (AMC) FlashForward (Episode: "No More Good Days") (ABC) Mad Men (Episode: "Shut the Door. Have a Seat.") (AMC) The Tudors (Episode: "Death of a Monarchy") (Showtime) Weeds (Episode: "A Modest Proposal") (Showtime) 30 Rock (Episode: "Season Four") (NBC) Gary Unmarried (Episode: "Gary Shoots Fish in a Barrel") (CBS) Hung (Episodes: "Pilot") (HBO) Nurse Jackie (Episode: "Apple Bong") (Showtime) Two and a Half Men (Episode: "Crude and Uncalled For") (CBS) Return to Cranford (Episode: "Part 2") (PBS) The Pacific (Episode: "Peleliu Landing") (HBO) The Pacific (Episode: "Okinawa") (HBO) The Prisoner (Episode: "Checkmate") (AMC) You Don't Know Jack (HBO) Life (Episode: "Challenges of Life") (Discovery Channel) America: The Story of Us (Episode: "Division") (History Channel) Deadliest Catch (Episode: No Second Chances) (Discovery Channel) The National Parks: America's Best Idea (Episode: The Scripture of Nature) (PBS) Whale Wars (Episode: "The Stuff of Nightmares") (Animal Planet) Survivor (Episode: "Slay Everyone, Trust No One") (CBS) Dirty Jobs (Episode: "High Rise Window Washer") (Discovery Channel) Man vs. Wild (Episode: "Big Sky Country") (Discovery Channel) The Amazing Race (Episode: "I Think We're Fighting The Germans, Right?") (CBS) Top Chef (Episode: "Vivre Las Vegas") (Bravo) Top Chef Masters (Episode: Masters Get Schooled) (Bravo)
Commercial + "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" (Old Spice Body Wash) "Anthem" (Absolut) "Coke Finals" (Coca-Cola) "Game" (Mars Snack Food US/Snickers) "Green Car" (Audi) "Human Chain" (Nike)
Costuming + The Tudors (Episode: "Episode #408") (Showtime) 30 Rock (Episode: "I Do Do") (NBC) Glee (Episode: "The Power of Madonna") (Fox) The Good Wife (Episode: "Crash") (CBS) Mad Men (Episode: "Souvenir") (AMC) Return to Cranford (Episode: "Part One") (PBS) Emma (Episode: "Part Two") (PBS) Georgia O'Keeffe (Lifetime) The Pacific (Episode: "Melbourne") (HBO) You Don't Know Jack (HBO) Jimmy Kimmel Live! (Episode: "Episode 09-1266") (ABC) (TIE) So You Think You Can Dance (Episode: "Top 12 Perform") (Fox) (TIE) Titan Maximum (Episode: "Went To Party, Got Crabs") (Cartoon Network) (TIE)
Directing + Barak Goodman for American Experience (Episode: "My Lai" (PBS) Amy Rice and Alicia Sams for By the People: The Election of Barack Obama (HBO) Bill Jones and Ben Timlett for Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut) (Episodes: "Lust for Glory") (IFC) Dan Reed for Terror in Mumbai (HBO) Bertram van Munster for The Amazing Race (Episode: "I Think We're Fighting the Germans, Right?" (CBS) Don Roy King for Saturday Night Live (NBC) Jerry Foley for Late Show with David Letterman (CBS) James Hoskinson for The Colbert Report (Comedy Central) Allan Kartun for The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (NBC) Chuck O'Neil for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)
Hairstyling + Mad Men (Episode: "Souvenir") (AMC) Castle (Episode: "Vampire Weekend") (ABC) Glee (Episode: "Hairography") (Fox) Glee (Episode: "The Power of Madonna") (Fox) The Tudors (Episode: "Episode 407") (Showtime) Tracey Ullman's State of The Union (Episode: "Episode 301") (Showtime) Dancing with the Stars (Episode: "Episode 902A") (ABC) 82nd Academy Awards (ABC)