Julie Andrews and Bryan Cranston were among the winners as the two-night 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards began Saturday at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live with awards for scripted programming presented in 51 categories.
Andrews won for outstanding character voice-over performance for being the voice of the anonymous newsletter columnist Lady Whistledown on “Bridgerton.” Andrews has been nominated in the category all four times that Netflix’s steamy alternate history period drama has been eligible, but had never previously won.
The Emmy was the third for Andrews, who will turn 90 Oct. 1. She also received Emmys in 1973 as the star of “The Julie Andrews Hour,” which won for outstanding variety musical series, and in 2005 for hosting “Broadway: The American Musical,” which won for outstanding nonfiction series.
The field also included two four-time winners.
Maya Rudolph had won four of the past five years for supplying the voice of Connie the Hormone Monstress on “Big Mouth.”
The only interruption to the streak came in 2022 when she lost to Chadwick Boseman, who won for reprising the live-action role of T’Challa for the Disney+ Marvel Studios animated series, “What If…?” that re-imagines famous events from Marvel Cinematic Universe films.
Boseman played the role in four films, including “Black Panther.” He won the award five days after the second anniversary of his death from colon cancer on Aug. 28, 2020, at the age of 43.
Hank Azaria has also won four times for supplying the voice of various characters from Fox’s long-running animated comedy “The Simpsons.” His most recent win came in 2015.
The other nominees were first-time nominees.
Alan Tudyk was nominated for supplying the voice of the droid K-2SO in the Disney+ “Star Wars” series “Andor.”
Jeffrey Wright was nominated for supplying the voice of The Watcher, the narrator in “What If…?”
Steven Yuen was nominated for supplying the voice of the main character in the Prime Video adult animated superhero series, “Invincible.”
Cranston won for outstanding guest actor in a comedy series for his recurring role of studio CEO Griffin Mill in “The Studio.” Five of the six nominees in the category came from the Apple TV+ series starring Seth Rogen as the conflicted new head of a studio, with four portraying themselves — directors Ron Howard and Martin Scorsese, and actors Dave Franco and Anthony Mackie.
The other nominee was Jon Bernthal, who was seeking a second consecutive win for his portrayal of Michael Berzatto, who struggled with drug addiction before committing suicide four months before the events of the FX on Hulu psychological comedy-drama “The Bear.”
Julianne Nicholson won for outstanding guest actress in a comedy for her recurring role as the quirky influencer known only as Dance Mom on HBO Max’s “Hacks,” beating a field that also included Jamie Lee Curtis, who was seeking a second consecutive win in the category for her appearances on “The Bear” as the troubled mother of the Berzatto siblings (Bernthal, Jeremy Allen White and Abby Elliott).
The nominees also included another actress with a recurring role on “The Bear,” Olivia Coleman, who portrays the executive chef of a Chicago fine-dining restaurant, and an actress who portrayed herself on “The Studio,” Zoe Kravitz.
The category also included Robby Hoffman, who plays an industry outsider who becomes an assistant on `Hacks,” and Cynthia Erivo, who played quadruplets who were child stars, along with a secret quintuplet and two other roles in the Peacock crime comedy-drama “Poker Face.”
“The Studio” was the most-honored program with nine Emmys, followed by the HBO Max crime drama miniseries “The Penguin” with eight and the Apple TV+ science fiction psychological thriller “Severance” with six.
Most of Saturday’s awards were in various technical categories, including hairstyling, makeup, costuming, production design, picture editing, sound editing, sound mixing and visual effects.
Awards in 46 categories for animated, nonfiction, reality and variety programs and game shows will be presented Sunday.
Sunday’s ceremony will also include presentation of the Governors Award to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
An edited version of both nights of the Creative Arts Emmys will air next Saturday at 8 p.m. on FXX and stream on Hulu through Oct. 7.
Awards in the top 26 categories in comedy, drama, competition, limited, variety and talk series and the Governors Award will be presented at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 14, also at the Peacock Theater. Programming had to initially be broadcast or streamed between June 1, 2024 and May 31, 2025 to be eligible.