Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).[2][3][a] Sections are based upon the categories listed in the 2006–2007 Emmy rules and procedures.[1] Area awards and juried awards are denoted next to the category names as applicable.[b] 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:[7]
American Idol's "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".[8]
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".[8]
Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development
One Emmy Award, four plaques, and one certificate of recognition were presented to recognize engineering achievements:[9][10]
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".[11][12]
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:[13]
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.[15][16] Comedian Carlos Mencia was announced as the host in August.[17] Nominations were announced on July 19, a week later than usual due to changes in voting rules.[18] 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.[19][20]
Major rule changes for this year's Creative Arts categories included:
Broadband programs were allowed to compete in categories alongside cable and broadcast programs.[6][22]
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.[23][24]
Notes
^The outlets listed for each program are the U.S. broadcasters or streaming services identified in the nominations, which for some international productions are different than the broadcaster(s) that originally commissioned the program.
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Area awards are non-competitive and nominees are considered on their own terms. Any nominee with at least two-thirds approval received an Emmy. If no nominee received two-thirds approval, the nominee with the highest approval (and a minimum majority approval) received an Emmy.[1]
Juried awards generally do not have nominations; instead, all entrants were screened before members of the appropriate peer group, and one, more than one, or no entry was awarded an Emmy based on the jury's vote.[1]
^Finalists were announced for this juried category; they are not considered to be nominees.[4]
^While Drive was broadcast on Fox, the relevant effects were released online because the series was cancelled before reaching the six-episode eligibility requirement. As a result, this nomination was the first broadband nominee at the Emmys. This also led to its nomination as a special, not a series.[6]
^ a b cIncluding the Governors Award
References
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^"59th Primetime Emmy Awards Nominations Revealed". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. July 19, 2007. Archived from the original on October 14, 2007. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
^"Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Announces Emmy Award Winners in Costumes for a Variety or Music Program and Individual Achievement in Animation". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. August 21, 2007. Archived from the original on October 14, 2007. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
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^Nordyke, Kimberly (August 7, 2007). "Governors Award to Idol, Addiction Project". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on July 31, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
^ a b"American Idol's 'Idol Gives Back' and HBO's "The Addiction Project" Named Recipients of Television Academy's 2007 Governors Award". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. August 6, 2007. Archived from the original on October 25, 2007. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
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^Schneider, Michael (September 4, 2007). "Frank earns Cassyd honor". Variety. Archived from the original on July 31, 2022. Retrieved July 29, 2022.
^"HBO Tops 59th Creative Arts Emmys, NBC Leads Nets". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
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^Sneider, Jeff (September 8, 2007). "HBO tops Creative Arts Emmys". Variety. Archived from the original on July 31, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
^Schneider, Michael (March 15, 2007). "Emmys issue new rules". Variety. Archived from the original on July 13, 2021. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
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External links
59th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards at Emmys.com