| 73rd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | ||||
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| Date | September 11–12, 2021 | |||
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| Presented by | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences | |||
| Most awards | The Queen's Gambit (9) | |||
| Most nominations | The Mandalorian (19) | |||
| Television/radio coverage | ||||
| Network | FXX | |||
| Produced by | Bob Bain[1] | |||
| Directed by | Rich Preuss[1] | |||
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The73rd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards honored the best in artistic and technical achievement inAmericanprime time television programming from June 1, 2020, until May 31, 2021, as chosen by theAcademy of Television Arts & Sciences.[2][3] The awards were presented across three ceremonies on September 11 and 12, 2021, at the Event Deck atL.A. Live inDowntown Los Angeles,California, preceding the73rd Primetime Emmy Awards on September 19. A total of 99Creative Arts Emmys were presented across 92 categories. The ceremonies were produced by Bob Bain, directed by Rich Preuss, and broadcast in the United States byFXX on September 18.
The Queen's Gambit won nine awards, leading all programs;The Mandalorian andSaturday Night Live followed with seven wins each.The Mandalorian also received the most nominations with 19, followed byWandaVision with 15 andSaturday Night Live with 14. Program awards went toBoys State,Carpool Karaoke: The Series,Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square,For All Mankind: Time Capsule,Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal,Love, Death & Robots,Queer Eye,RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked,Secrets of the Whales,Space Explorers: The ISS Experience,Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy,Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, and76 Days.Netflix led all networks with 34 wins and 104 nominations.
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Winners are listed first, highlighted inboldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).[3][4][a] Sections are based upon the categories listed in the 2020–2021 Emmy rules and procedures.[2] 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.
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For the purposes of the lists below, any wins in juried categories are assumed to have a prior nomination.
| Wins | Show | Network |
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| 9 | The Queen's Gambit | Netflix |
| 7 | The Mandalorian | Disney+ |
| Saturday Night Live | NBC | |
| 6 | Love, Death & Robots | Netflix |
| 4 | The Crown | Netflix |
| RuPaul's Drag Race | VH1 | |
| 3 | Bo Burnham: Inside | Netflix |
| David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet | Netflix | |
| Pose | FX | |
| Ted Lasso | Apple TV+ | |
| WandaVision | Disney+ | |
| 2 | David Byrne's American Utopia | HBO |
| Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square | Netflix | |
| Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal | Adult Swim | |
| Life Below Zero | National Geographic | |
| Lovecraft Country | HBO | |
| The Social Dilemma | Netflix |
| Nominations | Network |
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| 104 | Netflix |
| 89 | HBO/HBO Max[c] |
| 50 | Disney+ |
| 34 | NBC |
| 23 | Apple TV+ |
| 18 | ABC |
| CBS | |
| 15 | Prime Video |
| 11 | FX |
| Hulu | |
| 10 | VH1 |
| 9 | Fox |
| National Geographic | |
| 8 | Quibi |
| 7 | Bravo |
| 6 | Paramount+ |
| 5 | YouTube |
| 4 | CNN |
| Showtime | |
| 3 | Adult Swim |
| Discovery Channel | |
| History | |
| PBS | |
| 2 | Comedy Central |
| Oculus |
| Wins | Network |
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| 34 | Netflix |
| 13 | Disney+ |
| 10 | HBO/HBO Max[c] |
| 7 | NBC |
| 6 | Apple TV+ |
| 5 | VH1 |
| 3 | ABC |
| FX | |
| 2 | Adult Swim |
| CNN | |
| Fox | |
| National Geographic |
The following categories were presented at each ceremony:[7]
The nominations for the 73rd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards were announced on July 13, 2021, byRon andJasmine Cephas Jones via avirtual event.[11][12] On July 21, theAcademy of Television Arts & Sciences, also known as the Television Academy, revealed that the Creative Arts Emmys would be presented in two ceremonies on September 11, and September 12, 2021;the previous year's ceremonies were presented over five daysdue to the COVID-19 pandemic. The two ceremonies were scheduled to be held at theMicrosoft Theater.[13] On July 30, the event was split into three ceremonies with one ceremony held on the evening of September 11, and two ceremonies held on September 12 in the afternoon and evening.[14] The combined ceremonies aired in an edited two-hour broadcast on September 18 onFXX.[14][15]
On August 10, the ceremonies were moved to the indoor-outdoor Event Deck atL.A. Live due to then-ongoing COVID-19 concerns. Additionally, the Television Academy announced that nominated teams would be limited to four tickets per nomination.[16] Despite the changes, producer Bob Bain sought to create an event that closely resembled pre-pandemic ceremonies "in terms of energy" while still making changes as needed. Unlike previous ceremonies, audiences were seated at tables, similar to theGolden Globe Awards orCritics' Choice Awards, while the shift from the traditional two ceremonies to three allowed the event to have better pacing, according to Bain. The event did not have a host; instead, each ceremony relied on numerous presenters throughout the ceremonies with a "show opener" at the beginning.[17] To minimize COVID-19 risks, winners received their trophies on a separate stage from the presenters, and microphones were cleaned between speeches.[18] Attendees were also required to showproof of vaccination and a negativeCOVID-19 test before the event.[17]
Several changes that were implemented for these ceremonies include:[19][20][21]
In addition, the awards forOutstanding Writing for a Variety Series andOutstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) were moved to the main ceremony in July,[22] followed by the awards forOutstanding Variety Sketch Series andOutstanding Variety Special (Live) in August.[23][24]
