Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis and Matthew Broderick are among the nominees as the two-night 2023-24 Creative Arts Emmy Awards conclude Sunday at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live with the presentation of awards in 49 categories of scripted programming.
The awards are mainly in such technical categories as hairstyling, makeup, costuming, production design, picture editing, sound editing, sound mixing and visual effects, but also include guest acting.
Curtis, who won a best supporting actress Oscar in 2023 for her portrayal of an IRS inspector and other versions of the character in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” is nominated for outstanding guest actress in a comedy series for her two second-season appearances on the FX on Hulu psychological comedy-drama “The Bear,” as the troubled mother of the Berzatto siblings (Jeremy Allen White, Abby Elliott and Jon Bernthal).
The other nominees are Olivia Colman, the British executive chef at a fine dining restaurant on “The Bear”; Kaitlin Olson, for her recurring role as the daughter of comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) on HBO’s “Hacks”; Da’Vine Joy Randolph, for her recurring role as a detective on the Hulu mystery comedy-drama, “Only Murders in the Building,” and Maya Rudolph and Kristin Wiig for hosting separate episodes of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.”
Broderick is nominated for outstanding guest actor in a comedy series for portraying a fictionalized version of himself on “Only Murders in the Building.”
The field also includes three actors from “The Bear” — Bob Odenkirk, who portrays the business partner of the best friend of the Berzatto siblings’ father (Oliver Platt), Will Poulter, who portrays a pastry chef, and Bernthal, who portrays the Berzatto sibling who struggled with drug addiction before committing suicide four months before the events of the series.
The other nominees are Christopher Lloyd for his portrayal of a reclusive writer on “Hacks,” and Ryan Gosling for hosting NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.”
Three of the five nominees for outstanding guest actress in a drama series are from the first-season Prime Video spy series, “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” — Michaela Coel, Sarah Paulson and Parker Posey. The other nominees are Claire Foy, for her appearance as the young Queen Elizabeth II in the final episode of “The Crown,” and Marcia Gay Harden for her guest-starring appearance as journalist Maggie Brener on Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show.”
“Mr. & Mrs. Smith” also accounted for two nominations for outstanding guest actor in a drama series — Paul Dano and John Turturro. The other nominees were Néstor Carbonell for his portrayal of Spanish sailor Vasco Rodrigues who befriends Pilot Major John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) in the FX historical drama “Shogun,” Jonathan Pryce for his role as a retired senior British senior spy in Apple TV+’s spy thriller “Slow Horses,” and Tracy Letts as Jack McKinney, who coached the Lakers for 14 games in 1979 before a serious bicycle accident, in HBO’s series about the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, “Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty.”
The Creative Arts Emmy Awards began Saturday with presentation of awards in 50 categories of reality, variety, documentary, nonfiction and animated programming and game shows with Pat Sajak, Alan Cumming and Angela Bassett among the individual winners and “Jeopardy!” among the program winners.
Sajak, who announced on June 12, 2023, that he would retire as the host of “Wheel of Fortune” following the conclusion of the 2023-24 season, won for the fourth time as outstanding game show host and first time since 1998.
Sajak’s 23 nominations in the category tie the late Bob Barker for second, behind the late Alex Trebek who had 32.
The award was presented at the Daytime Emmy Awards through 2022, then shifted to the Creative Arts Emmy Awards in January.
The other nominees were Steve Harvey of “Celebrity Family Feud,” a three-time winner in the category, “Password” host Keke Palmer, the winner at the strike-delayed January ceremony, “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings and “Weakest Link” host Jane Lynch.
Cumming ended Ru Paul’s streak of eight consecutive victories as outstanding host for a reality or competition program for his work on the second season of the Peacock reality competition series “The Traitors.” Ru Paul, who hosts MTV’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” had won each time he was nominated.
The other nominees were Jeff Probst from CBS’ “Survivor,” Kristen Kish of Bravo’s “Top Chef,” and Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Kevin O’Leary, Barbara Corcoran, Robert Herjavec and Daymond John from ABC’s “Shark Tank.”
“Jeopardy!” won for the fifth consecutive time as outstanding game show and 21st time overall since it was revived in 1984. The other nominees were “Celebrity Family Feud,” “Password,” “The Price is Right at Night” and “Wheel of Fortune.”
Rudolph won for the fourth time for outstanding character voiceover performance for supplying the voice of Connie the Hormone Monstress on the Netflix adult animated coming-of-age comedy “Big Mouth.” She also won in 2020, 2021 and at January’s strike-delayed ceremony.
The other nominees included Alex Borstein, nominated for the fifth time for supplying the voice of Lois Griffin on the Fox animated comedy “Family Guy,” and Hank Azaria, a 10-time nominee for supplying various voices on the Fox animated comedy “The Simpsons” and a four-time winner, most recently in 2015.
The other nominees were first-timers in the category Sterling K. Brown, nominated for supplying the voice of Angstrom Levy, the main antagonist in the second season of the Amazon adult animated superhero series, “Invincible,” and Hannah Waddingham, nominated for supplying the voice of Deliria, the goddess of self-destruction and questionable choice, on the Fox animated comedy “Krapopolis.”
Bassett won for outstanding narrator for the first time on her fourth nomination. She was honored for narrating the Nat Geo documentary series “Queens” on how females in the natural world rise to power
Oscar-winning actors Morgan Freeman and Octavia Spencer were among the other nominees, Freeman for the Netflix nature documentary series “Life On Our Planet,” and Spencer for “Lost Women of Highway 20,” Investigation Discovery’s three-part documentary on a series of crimes against women on an east-west route in Oregon.
The other nominees were David Attenborough for the BBC America nature documentary series “Planet Earth III,” and Paul Rudd for the Nat Geo nature documentary “Secrets Of The Octopus.”
An edited presentation of the two nights will air next Saturday at 8 p.m. on FXX and be available on Hulu from Sept. 15 through Oct. 9.
Awards in the top 25 categories in comedy, drama, competition, limited, variety and talk series and the Governors Award will be presented at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 15, also at the Peacock Theater. Programming had to initially be broadcast or streamed between June 1, 2023 and May 31, 2024 to be eligible for all three shows.