According to a press release by NATAS, the Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards are awarded to a living individual, a company, or a scientific or technical organization for developments and/or standardization involved in engineering technologies that either represent so extensive an improvement on existing methods or are so innovative in nature that they materially have affected television.

“The Technology & Engineering Emmy Award was the first Emmy Award issued in 1949 and it laid the groundwork for all the other Emmys to come,” said Adam Sharp, CEO & President, NATAS. “We are extremely happy about honoring these prestigious individuals and companies, together with NAB, where the intersection of innovation, technology and excitement in the future of television can be found.”

“As we commemorate 75 years of this prestigious award, this year’s winners join a legacy of visionaries who use technology to shape the future of television. Congratulations to all!” said Dina Weisberger, Co-Chair, NATAS Technology Achievement Committee.

“As we honor the diamond class of the technology Emmys, this class typifies the caliber of innovation we have been able to enjoy for the last 75 years.  Congratulations to all the winners.” said Joe Inzerillo, Co-Chair, NATAS Technology Achievement Committee.  

A Committee of highly qualified engineers working in television considers technical developments in the industry and determines which, if any, merit an award.

The 75th Technology & Engineering ceremony will take place in partnership with the NAB New York media & technology convention as part of their convention in New York, October 2024, at the Javits Center.

The honorees at the event are as follows:

2024 Technology & Engineering Emmy Award Honorees

1. Pioneering Development of Inexpensive Video Technology for Animation
   1. Winners: Lyon Lamb (Bruce Lyon and John Lamb)

2. Large Scale Deployment of Smart TV Operating Systems
   1. Winners: Samsung, LG, Sony, Vizio, Panasonic

3. Creation and Implementation of HDR Static LUT, Single-Stream Live Production
   1. Winners: BBC and NBC

4. Pioneering Technologies Enabling High Performance Communications Over Cable TV Systems
   1. Winners: Broadcom, General Instrument (CommScope)
   2. Winners: LANcity (CommScope)
   3. Winners: 3COM (HP)

5. Pioneering Development of Manifest-based Playout for FAST (Free Ad-supported Streaming Television)
   1. Winners: Amagi
   2. Winners: Pluto TV
   3. Winners: Turner

6. Targeted Ad Messages Delivered Across Paused Media
   1. Winners: DirecTV

7. Pioneering Development of IP Address Geolocation Technologies to Protect Content Rights
   1. Winners: MLB
   2. Winners: Quova

8. Development of Stream Switching Technology between Satellite Broadcast and Internet to Improve Signal Reliability
   1. Winners: DirecTV

9. Design and Deployment of Efficient Hardware Video Accelerators for Cloud
   1. Winners: Netint
   2. Winners: AMD
   3. Winners:Google
   4. Winners: Meta

10. Spectrum Auction Design
    1. Winners: FCC and Auctionomics

11. TV Pioneers – Cathode Ray Tubes (CRT)
    1. Karl Ferdinand Braun
    2. Boris Lvovich Rosing
    3. Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton

12. TV Pioneers – Development of lighting, ventilation, and lens-coating technologies
    1. Hertha Ayrton
    2. Katharine Burr Blodgett

About NAB

NAB Show, being held October 9-10, 2024 at the Javits Center. NAB is the premier event for content professionals in the media, entertainment and technology ecosystem. It’s the ultimate marketplace for those seeking to create superior audio and video experiences. From creation to consumption, across multiple platforms, NAB Show is where global visionaries convene to bring content to life in new and exciting ways. For complete details, visit www.nabshow.com.

For more information go to www.theemmys.tv

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The years-long streak of shows with five or more nominations having higher audience demand was broken in 2022, but this year’s record high makes 2022 look like an exception to the trend instead of a turning point. The high demand was boosted by record demand for shows that have been Emmy regulars for years, like “Better Call Saul,” “Succession” and  “Barry,” all of which saw record demand for their finale seasons. Popular hits like “Ted Lasso” and “The Last of Us” also helped drive high demand for nominated shows this year.

However, looking at the shows that ultimately walked away with a trophy, there still seems to be a disconnect between the shows that have the most audience demand and the ones ultimately getting the nod from the Academy. While the latest season of “Succession” still registered the third-highest demand of Best Drama nominees, its win over “Better Call Saul” is particularly illustrative of how industry favorites still beat out popular hits on awards night.

Even though it was not necessarily a surprise (“Succession” uniquely appeals to industry insiders with its plot about a media dynasty and earned stellar reviews for its final season), its triumph over the final season of “Better Call Saul” in the Best Drama category is uniquely devastating for “Better Call Saul” fans. “Better Call Saul” walked away from the 75th Emmy Awards with 53 nominations over the course of its six seasons but exactly zero wins. Adding insult to injury, the “Breaking Bad” spinoff had the most in-demand recent season and the highest IMDb rating of all the nominees for Best Show categories.

The winners in the Limited Series and Comedy categories also show how industry favorites often win over much more broadly popular shows. “Beef” and “The Bear” were two of only four shows in the main categories that had less than 20 times the average series demand in their first 30 days during the seasons they were nominated for.

There were many other nominated series that had significantly higher demand.  For example, “Ted Lasso” has proven to be a critical darling with broad popular appeal. It cleaned up at previous Emmys and its latest season had about 50x demand. However, just because a show is an insider favorite without broad appeal one year doesn’t mean that it can’t catch on with wider audiences. 

Demand for the second season of “The Bear” significantly outpaced the first season. At next year’s Emmys perhaps Academy members and general audiences can both root for this show.

Christofer Hamilton is a senior insights analyst at Parrot Analytics, a WrapPRO partner. For more from Parrot Analytics, visit the Data and Analysis Hub.

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The accolades included six wins for the final season of “Succession,” including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor and Actress in a Drama Series for Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Matthew Macfadyen and Outstanding Writing and Directing for Jesse Armstrong and Mark Mylod for “Connors Wedding.” Additionally, “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” scored two Emmys in the Scripted Variety Series category and “The White Lotus” star Jennifer Coolidge won Supporting Actress in a Drama.

The latest round of awards brings HBO and Max’s total Emmy wins to 31 this year, following 22 wins at the Creative Arts Emmys, including eight for Season 1 of “The Last of Us.”

“We had a great showing across the board,” Bloys told TheWrap in an interview on Tuesday.”I’m proud and enjoying the moment.”

When asked if HBO would ever return to the world of “Succession” with a spinoff, Bloys said it’s “highly unlikely” but ultimately up to creator and showrunner Jesse Armstrong.

“If Jesse changed his mind and came to us and said, ‘I have the best idea, this is what I want to do,’ then we would have that conversation,” he said. “But I think he’s been pretty clear. It was an amazing show and I think it’ll go down in history as one of the best. I just don’t think he wants to go there again and I totally respect that and it makes sense. It’s really his choice and I look forward to what he’s going to do next.”

He noted that the network has had conversations with Armstrong about future collaborations after the creator signed an overall deal with HBO, but emphasized that neither party is in any hurry.

“He wants to take a break from the show, take some time to think about other things, read,” Bloys continued. “I think one of the worst things you can do is rush right into something new. I think he should take his time and see what he gets excited about.”

HBO and Max’s 2024 Slate

Looking ahead, Bloys said he feels good about the awards prospects of the 2024 content slate despite it being “a little bit compressed with the strike.”

It includes the latest season of “True Detective,” which is currently airing; the final season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” premiering Feb. 8, “The Regime” led by Kate Winslet premiering March 3, and “House of The Dragon” Season 2, which Bloys revealed to TheWrap will premiere in “early summer.”

Other upcoming titles in 2024 include “Hacks” Season 3, the Robert Downey Jr.-led Park Chan-wook series “The Sympathizer,” and “The Penguin” starring Colin Farrell. Of the “Batman” spinoff, Bloys said he’s seen half the episodes (“They’re fantastic,” he said) and the show has resumed production.

“I was also very pleased to see ‘The Gilded Age’ break through in the SAG Awards, so I’m hoping that cast and the show can get some recognition in the Emmys,” Bloys added of the Carrie Coon-fronted period drama.

Bloys also revealed that the “The Franchise,” a half-hour comedy series from Sam Mendes, Armando Iannucci and Jon Brown, has been pushed back due to the strike and will likely not be included in the next Emmys slate — meaning it will debut after May 31.

“The Last of Us” Season 2 (and Beyond) and “The White Lotus” Season 3

Bloys also expressed excitement for upcoming seasons of “The Last of Us” and “The White Lotus,” which both begin filming in February.

“I read five of the scripts and they’re great,” Bloys said of the Naughty Dog video game franchise’s adaptation. “Craig Mazin is an incredible writer and he and Neil Druckmann are back together and busy at work.”

When previously asked about Season 2 in August, Mazin told TheWrap that he and Druckmann would “adapt as we see fit” and that the story of the second game “contemplates more than just a Season 2.”

“We’re obviously working off of a fantastic story, one of the most acclaimed video games of all time. The first was one of the most acclaimed and then the second one came along and said hold my beer and it’s pretty intense,” he said at the time. “We are giving ourselves the space and freedom to do it the way we think it should be done best.”

Similar to his approach with Jesse Armstrong on “Succession,” Bloys said he would look to Mazin and Druckmann to dictate how many seasons the story of “The Last of Us” will take to tell.

“I’ll take as many as they want to give us but I want them to feel good about what they’re doing,” Bloys said. “I don’t think it ever works for the platform or network to say to the creator, ‘We need five seasons, we need six seasons.’ I think it’s much better when it comes from the organic place of the creator saying to us ‘This is what I feel like I need to tell the story’.”

As for “The White Lotus,” Bloys praised writer and director Mike White and teased that the upcoming cast would fill the gap left by Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya.

“I’m not worried about his ability to create iconic characters,” Bloys said. “From what I read in Season 3, he’s got a whole cast of new characters that people will fall in love with or love to hate, depending on how you approach it.”

More “Thrones,” “Euphoria” Season 3 and That “Harry Potter” Series

In addition to “The Last of Us” and “The White Lotus,” the “Game of Thrones” prequel series “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” based on George R.R. Martin’s “Dunk and Egg” books, was previously eyeing spring 2024 for a potential start of filming.

Bloys confirmed that the show remains on track to start filming this year, but noted that casting and writing is still in progress. As for other spinoffs related to “Game of Thrones,” he reiterated that nothing else has been officially greenlit but that there are a lot of projects in development.

“I think with a show like this, when somebody reads that something is in development, there becomes an expectation that that is being shot, which is not the case. So right now the only two things that are greenlit are ‘House of the Dragon,’ obviously, and ‘The Hedge Night.’ There are a lot of other projects in development but I don’t have anything imminent to report.”

Also in the pipeline is the third season of Sam Levinson’s “Euphoria.” When asked about the longevity of the show, Bloys said it depends on Levinson and the stories he wants to tell.

“We’ll see how it goes. He’s writing Season 3 right now, he’s in the thick of it. So I don’t know that he is laying out what the future looks like. It’s just getting Season 3 done,” Bloys said. “I haven’t had a specific conversation with him about is this the end or what does it look like.”

As for an update on the Harry Potter TV adaptation, Bloys said that the network is “moving along, having conversations” but offered no concrete update on timing for what is undoubtedly one of Warner Bros. Discovery’s most anticipated projects.

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And yet it didn’t really matter. The show, which celebrated the Emmys’ 75th anniversary, was itself a well-done tribute to nostalgia fueled by reunions of casts from “All in the Family” to “Cheers” to “Grey’s Anatomy” to “The Sopranos.” So what’s wrong with a little more looking back when the envelopes were opened?

Fox’s Emmy broadcast brought us the third acceptance speeches in eight days for “The Bear” leads Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, for “Beef” stars Steven Yeun and Ali Wong and for “Succession” actors Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook.

And it delivered those same three shows dominating the main categories for the third time in those eight days: “Succession” winning six out of seven categories in the drama series field, “The Bear” doing the same thing in comedy series and “Beef” taking five of seven in limited series.

When you throw in the fact that the Emmys were being given out for programs that aired between June 1, 2022 and May 31, 2023 – in other words, shows that aired a long time ago – old news was indeed the operative word for what took place on the stage of the Peacock Theatre in downtown Los Angeles.

“Déjà vu all over again” has pretty much always been the modus operandi for Emmys voters. Television Academy voters are used to giving awards to people who’ve gotten them before, and for the most part that’s not a problem – and the fact that “Succession,” “The Bear” and “Beef” have piled up trophies in the first two weeks of 2024 might simply mean that Emmy voters agree with all the other voters that those were the best shows of 2023.

Still, the by-the-numbers nature of the winners meant that the show itself zipped along without any of the shocks or surprises on which awards shows often depend. The most delayed Emmys ceremony was also the most predictable one; out of the 26 categories handed out on Monday night, a grand total of one didn’t go to the preshow favorite.

The only surprise, and it was a mild one, came because the Television Academy decided to move “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” out of the talk series category and into the new scripted-variety category. The talk category was thrown into slight disarray with the departure of the show that had won the last seven years in a row, and opened the door for “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” to edge out the favored “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” for the win.

“Last Week Tonight,” on the other hand, moved into the new Scripted Variety Series category and proved to be the kryptonite to the Superman of “Saturday Night Live,” which had won for six consecutive years on its way to becoming the winningest show in Emmy history.

Another show that had to move, Mike White’s “The White Lotus,” didn’t fare as well. At the previous Emmy ceremony, which took place way back in September 2022, the show’s first season won five awards in the limited series categories, and another five at that year’s Creative Arts ceremonies. This year, it was moved into the more competitive drama series categories and had to go up against “Succession” and “The Last of Us”; it ended up with a single award for Jennifer Coolidge on Monday, plus another four at last week’s Creative Arts shows.

So you can call this a pleasantly predictable Emmys, one in which the show managed to be entertaining even though it traveled a well-worn path.

But we ought to sound a cautionary note about the Emmys ceremony that we’ll most likely see in September of this year, when the Television Academy will presumably return to its normal schedule with a smaller-than-usual, post-strike crop of contenders.

When “The Bear” won all those awards at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, the wins were for Season 2 of the series, which aired over the summer. But when it won its Emmys on Monday, they came for Season 1, because the second season didn’t begin until after the Emmy eligibility cutoff. (That first season, for the record, won Globes and Critics Choice Awards last January.)

Season 2, the one that won the awards from those other groups last week, will be eligible for the next Emmys.

So eight months from now, we might just see all those people back up on the Emmy stage again. And at that point, it might really seem like old news.  

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Recovering from an knee operation, John was not present at the ceremony to pick up his Emmy. The award was accepted by winning producer Ben Winston, onstage along with John’s husband, producer David Furnish.

But in statement John said, “I am incredibly humbled to be joining the unbelievably talented group of EGOT winners tonight. The journey to this moment has been filled with passion, dedication, and the unwavering support of my fans all around the world. Tonight is a testament to the power of the arts and the joy that it brings to all our lives. Thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout my career, I am incredibly grateful.”

John, 76, has also won a Tony Award in 2000 for the score of “Aida,” in addition to two Oscars for 1994’s “The Lion King” and 2019’s “Rocketman” and five Grammy Awards for 1987’s “That’s What Friends Are For,” 1992’s “Basque,” 1995’s “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” 1998’s “Candle in the Wind” and 2001’s “Aida,” in addition to a non-competitive Grammy’s Legend Award in 1999.

The other 18 people who have achieved EGOT status include Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, Audrey Hepburn, John Gielgud, Whoopi Goldberg, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Tim Rice, Robert Lopez, Viola Davis, John Legend and Jennifer Hudson.

John won his first Emmy on his first nomination. Until Monday, he was in a small group of artists who only required an Emmy to complete the EGOT set. The only living members of that group are “Dear Evan Hanson” and “La La Land” songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Late artists who were just an Emmy shy of EGOT include Stephen Sondheim and Henry Fonda.

During his Emmys opening monologue, host Anthony Anderson mentioned that the term “EGOT” was originally invented by actor-musician Philip Michael Thomas of “Miami Vice” fame. Thomas first coined to the awards acronym in 1984.

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Peruse our Emmys red carpet arrivals gallery below.

Laverne Cox

“Only Murders in the Building” star Selena Gomez

“Abbott Elementary” star and creator Quinta Brunson

“Abbott Elementary” star Sheryl Lee Ralph

“The Bear” star Ayo Edebiri

“Succession” star Kieran Culkin and Jazz Charton

“Succession” star Sarah Snook

“Succession” star Brian Cox

“Monster” star Evan Peters

“The Bear” star Ali Wong

“Beef” star Steven Yeun and Jo Pak

“Beef” star Young Mazino

“Beef” actress Maria Bello

“Poker Face” star Natasha Lyonne

“Tiny Beautiful Things” star Kathryn Hahn

“Bad Sisters” creator and star Sharon Horgan wears Georges Chakra

“Loki” star Tom Hiddleston

“Loki” star Ke Huy Quan

“Grey’s Anatomy” star Ellen Pompeo

“Jury Duty” star James Marsden

Taraji P. Henson

“George & Tammy” star Jessica Chastain

“George & Tammy” star Michael Shannon

“Daisy Jones & the Six” star Riley Keough and Priscilla Presley

“The Crown” star Elizabeth Debicki

“Wednesday” star Jenna Ortega

“Daisy Jones & the Six” star Suki Waterhouse

“The Bear” star Jeremy Allen White

“The Last of Us” star Pedro Pascal and Lux Pascal

“The Last of Us” star Bella Ramsey

“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” stars Rob McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson

“Shrinking” star Jessica Williams

Presenter Tracee Ellis Ross

Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons

Seth Meyers

“Yellowjackets” star Juliette Lewis

“Schmigadoon!” star Ariana DeBose

“Succession” star Alexander Skarsgard

“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” star Alex Borstein

“The White Lotus” star Meghann Fahy

“The White Lotus” star Sabrina Impacciatore

“Succession” star Nicholas Braun

“Fleishman Is in Trouble” star Lizzy Caplan

Emmys host Anthony Anderson

Former “Top Chef” judge Padma Lakshmi

“Swarm” star Dominique Fishback

“Yellowjackets” star Christina Ricci

“The Bear” star Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Yelena Yemchuk

“Ted Lasso” star Hannah Waddingham

“Ted Lasso” star and cocreator Jason Sudeikis

“Ted Lasso” star Juno Temple

“Ted Lasso” star Phil Dunster

“The Diplomat” star Keri Russell

“Perry Mason” star Matthew Rhys

“The White Lotus” star Aubrey Plaza

“Insecure” creator and star Issa Rae

“The White Lotus” star Jennifer Coolidge

“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” star Rachel Brosnahan

“Barry” cocreator, writer, director and star Bill Hader

“Barry” star Henry Winkler

“Barry” star Anthony Carrigan

“Swarm” cocreator Donald Glover

Stephen Colbert and Evelyn McGee

Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker

“Fleishman Is in Trouble” star Claire Danes

“Grey’s Anatomy” star and Emmys presenter Katherine Heigl

“Daisy Jones & the Six” star Camila Morrone

“Weird” stars Daniel Radcliffe and Weird Al Yankovic

Lorne Michaels

“Monster” star Niecy Nash-Betts

“Fleishman Is in Trouble” star Jesse Eisenberg

“Fleishman Is in Trouble” star Adam Brody

“Better Call Saul” star Giancarlo Esposito

“Fire Island” writer and star Joel Kim Booster

“The Masked Singer” panelist Ken Jeong

“Yellowjackets” star Courtney Eaton

“Yellowjackets” star Sophie Nélisse

“Yellowjackets” star Tawny Cypress

“Shrinking” star Jason Segel and Kayla Radomski

“Ted Lasso” star Brett Goldstein

“Abbott Elementary” star Chris Perfetti

“Abbott Elementary” star Lisa Ann Walter

“The Bear” actress Liza Colón-Zayas

“Abbott Elementary” star Tyler James Williams

“Schitt’s Creek” star Emily Hampshire

“Ted Lasso” actor and Emmy winner Sam Richardson

“Abbott Elementary” star Janelle James

Joel McHale

“Succession” star Matthew Macfadyen and Keeley Hawes

“The Old Man” star Jeff Bridges and Susan Geston

“Welcome to Chippendales” star Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon

“Ally McBeal” star Calista Flockhart

“Wednesday” director Tim Burton

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And Television Academy voters cast their ballots for the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards.

Normally, that would mean that those ballots would be counted in September and the winners handed their spiky trophies around the third week of the month. But there’s nothing normal about the past year, because the Emmy show, originally scheduled for Sept. 18, was one of the many casualties of the extended Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild strikes.

With the show postponed, the Emmy ballots have been sitting around for the last four-and-a-half months. We’ll finally know the winners on Monday, Jan. 15, when the Emmys will announce winners for shows that aired between June 1, 2022, and May 31, 2023 – which is to say, anywhere from seven to 19 months before the ceremony.

Will anybody care? Will anybody watch? It’s on Fox, if you’re so inclined. On Martin Luther King Day.

By the time the envelopes are opened, most of the nominees will have spent time at the Golden Globes, the Critics Choice Awards and other kudos-fests, and some of them will have already aired and competed with seasons that aren’t even eligible for this Emmys. Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edibiri, for instance, won Golden Globes last Sunday for Season 2 of “The Bear,” but that season isn’t eligible for the forthcoming Emmys – so if they win on Monday, which at least one of them probably will, it’ll be for Season 1.

It’s an absurd bit of timing, dropping last year’s Emmys in the middle of a month that already has the Globes, the Critics Choice Awards, the AFI Awards luncheon, the Motion Picture Academy’s Governors Awards and more nomination announcements than you can count, including the Oscar noms coming on Jan. 23.

Dropped into the ides of January ’24, the Emmys may seem unstuck in time, to borrow a phrase from Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five.” But a lot of people still have a stake in what happens on Monday night at the Peacock Theater. (Yes, it’s newly named after the NBC streaming service that received three nominations last year, all for the miniseries “Angelyne.”)

“Succession,” “Better Call Saul,” “Barry,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and maybe “Ted Lasso” are competing with their final seasons. “The White Lotus” has been moved from the limited series categories, where it cleaned up last year, to the more competitive drama field. “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” has been declared a scripted variety series rather than a variety talk series, which means it’ll go head-to-head with “Saturday Night Live” in a clash of Emmy titans.

Recent shows like the Golden Globes have embraced “Succession,” “The Bear” and “Beef,” but it’s worth remembering that momentum means nothing – those ballots were due back on Aug. 28, so nothing that has happened since then can have any bearing on who wins. Still, those programs feel like pretty good bets in a number of categories, particularly since the big program wins have often spilled over into acting, directing and writing categories in recent years. But watch out for “The Last of Us,” which topped all programs at last weekend’s two Creative Arts Emmys shows.

Here are our best guesses as to what’ll win on Monday, before we return you to this year’s current awards races.

Comedy predictions

• OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES: “The Bear”
• OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES: Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”
• OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES: Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary”
• OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES: James Marsden, “Jury Duty”
• OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES: Ayo Edibiri, “The Bear”
• OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A COMEDY SERIES: Christopher Storer, “The Bear”
• OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A COMEDY SERIES: Christopher Storer, “The Bear”

Drama predictions

• OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES: “Succession”
• OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES: Kieran Culkin, “Succession”
• OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES: Sarah Snook, “Succession”
• OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES: Matthew Macfadyen, “Succession”
• OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES: Jennifer Coolidge, “The White Lotus”
• OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A DRAMA SERIES: Peter Hoar, “The Last of Us”
• OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES: Jesse Armstrong, “Succession”

Limited/anthology predictions

• OUTSTANDING LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES: “Beef”
• OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE: Evan Peters, “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”
• OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE: Ali Wong, “Beef”
• OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE: Paul Walter Hauser, “Black Bird”
• OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE: Niecy Nash-Betts, “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”
• OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE: Lee Sung Jun, “Beef,”  
• OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE: Lee Sung Jin, “Beef”

Reality/variety/talk predictions

• OUTSTANDING REALITY COMPETITION PROGRAM: “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
• OUTSTANDING TALK SERIES: “Late Show With Stephen Colbert”
• OUTSTANDING SCRIPTED VARIETY SERIES: “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver”
• OUTSTANDING VARIETY SPECIAL (LIVE): “Elton John Live: Farewell From Dodger Stadium”
• OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A VARIETY SERIES: “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver”

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“As hosts and former hosts of series eligible for the Emmy Awards’ “Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series/Special” categories, we are profoundly disappointed by the Television Academy’s decision to not present this award during the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards’ televised ceremony on January 15, 2024,” the letter addressed to Television Academy chairman and CEO Cris Abrego and president and CEO Maury McIntyre, as well as Fox Entertainment’s CEO Rob Wade and Entertainment President Michael Thorn states.

“Our programs could not exist without the tremendous work of our writers – as proven by the writers’ strike that shut down late night television for 148 days,” it continues. “The Academy’s decision devalues their work, and our series, by sidelining writers from being honored during the Emmys’ main telecast.”

The letter’s signatories include Colbert, Fallon, Meyers, Michael Che, Adam Conover, Sam Jay, Bomani Jones, Colin Jost, Jimmy Kimmel,
Trevor Noah, John Oliver, Amber Ruffin, Jon Stewart and Robin Thede.

Additionally, over 1,400 Writers Guild of America Members have signed a petition urging for the category’s reinstatement as well, including Rachel Bloom, Leslie Jones, Ray Romano, Roy Wood Jr. and more.

“Writing is the bedrock of variety programming, and it is unthinkable that the Television Academy would choose to sideline our contribution to the genre only months after writers spent 148 days on strike to receive the recognition we deserve for the work we help create,” the petition reads. “The Academy’s decision to erase the variety writing award from the Primetime EmmyAwards broadcast dismisses writing as the foundation for excellence in television, and devalues our profession as a whole.”

The move comes just weeks after the WGA called out the Television Academy for deciding to remove the category from the broadcast, saying they did so “without any justification or defensible reason.”

This year’s nominees for “Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special” include “Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter and Love,” “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage,” “John Mulaney: Baby J,” “Wanda Sykes: I’m An Entertainer” and “Would It Kill You to Laugh? Starring Kate Berlant & John Early.”

Representatives for the Television Academy did not immediately return TheWrap’s request for comment.

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The ceremony was the last of four different ceremonies presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences between Friday and Sunday to hand out the Daytime Emmys and Children’s & Family Emmys.

Christopher Jackson hosted the show, which included the presentation of a Lifetime Achievement Award to voice performer Peter Cullen.

The winners:

Outstanding Preschool Series: “Sesame Street” (HBO Max)
Outstanding Children’s or Family Viewing Series: “The Muppets Mayhem” (Disney+)
Outstanding Young Teen Series: “The Crossover”(Disney+)
Outstanding Fiction Special: “The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special” (Disney+)
Outstanding Non-Fiction Program: “1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed” (HBO Max)
Outstanding Preschool Animated Series: “StoryBots: Answer Time” (Netflix)
Outstanding Children’s or Young Teens Animated Series: “Zootopia+” (Disney+) 
Outstanding Animated Special: “Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur,” “Moon Girl Landing” (Disney Channel)
Outstanding Short Form Program: “I Am Groot” (Disney+)

Outstanding Lead Performance in a Preschool, Children’s or Young Teen Program: Tony Hale as Mr. Benedict, “The Mysterious Benedict Society” (Disney+)
Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Preschool, Children’s or Young Teen Program: Adeel Akhtar as Dr. Aditya Singh, “Sweet Tooth” (Netflix)
Outstanding Younger Performer in a Preschool, Children’s or Young Teen Program: Mykal-Michelle Harris as Alice Baxter, “Raven’s Home” (Disney Channel)
Outstanding Puppetry Performance: Ryan Dillon as Elmo, “Sesame Street” (HBO Max)
Outstanding Voice Performance in a Preschool Program:  Eric Bauza as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird & Marvin the Martian, “Bugs Bunny Builders” (Cartoon Network)
Outstanding Voice Performance in a Children’s or Young Teen Program: Jack Black as Po, “Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight” (Netflix)
Outstanding Younger Voice Performance in a Preschool, Children’s or Young Teen Program: Maria Nash as Pinecone, “Pinecone & Pony” (Apple TV+)
Outstanding Host: Tabitha Brown, “Tab Time” (YouTube Originals)

Outstanding Writing for a Preschool Animated Program: “StoryBots: Answer Time” (Netflix)
Outstanding Directing for a Multiple Camera Program: “Sesame Street” (HBO Max)

Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation:

Kaz Aiwaza, Color Script Artist/Background Paint Lead, “Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” (Disney Channel)

Carl Anders Beu, Art Director, “Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie” (Netflix)

Ellen Coons, Animator, “Shape Island” (Apple TV+) 

Stephen DeStefano, Character Designer, “Unicorn: Warriors Eternal” (Adult Swim)

Masa Inada, Visual Development Artist, “ONI: Thunder God’s Tale” (Netflix)

Robert Kondo, Production Designer, “ONI: Thunder God’s Tale” (Netflix)

Joey Pogoy, Senior Animator, “Sonic Prime” (Netflix)

Kyle Menke, Storyboard Artist, “Hamster & Gretel” (Disney Channel)

Lia Tin, Visual Development Artist, “ONI: Thunder God’s Tale” (Netflix)

Outstanding Public Service Initiative: “DreamWorks Gabby’s Kid Power Challenge” (YouTube)
Honorable Mention: “Sesame Street: Quest for Health Equity” (YouTube)

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Other programs with multiple wins included Netflix’s “Lost Ollie,” which led all shows with five wins, and HBO Max’s “Sesame Street.”

Netflix was second to Disney in wins with nine, while Nickelodeon had five and Apple TV+ had three.

The ceremony gave out awards in more than 30 categories covering directing, writing, music and below-the-line crafts for children’s and family programming. An additional ceremony on Sunday will cover the rest of the Children & Family Emmys’ 54 categories.

In the writing categories, Emmys went to “Sesame Street,” “Life by Ella” and “Baymax.” Directing awards were given to “The Tiny Chef Show,” “Lost Ollie” and “The Cuphead Show.”

Baobab Studios’ “Galactic Catch’ won the award for Outstanding Interactive Media, while Nickelodeon won for promotional announcements.

With more than 50 categories, the Children & Family Creative Arts Emmys is the largest awards show overseen by NATAS, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. (The Primetime Emmys, the best known of the many Emmy ceremonies, is produced by a the Television Academy, a different organization also known as the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, or ATAS.)

The ceremony took place at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. It was the third of four different Emmy shows that took place in a weekend marathon between Friday and Sunday. The string began with the Daytime Emmys on Friday evening, followed by the Daytime Creative and Lifestyle Awards on Saturday afternoon. The Children & Family Emmy Awards will take place on Sunday evening.

The full list of winners:

Outstanding Interactive Media: “Galactic Catch” (Baobab Studios)
Outstanding Promotional Announcement: Nickelodeon Brand Campaign – “Quartet,” “Car,” “We Make Fun” (Nickelodeon)
Writing for a Preschool or Children’s Program: “Sesame Street” (HBO Max)
Writing for a Young Teen Program: “Life by Ella” (Apple TV+)
Writing for a Children’s or Young Teen Animated Program: “Baymax!” (Disney+)
Directing for a Single Camera Live Action Program: “Lost Ollie” (Netflix)
Directing for a Preschool Animated Program: “The Tiny Chef Show” (Nickelodeon)
Directing for an Animated Program: “The Cuphead Show!” (Netflix)
Voice Directing for an Animated Series: “Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” (Disney+)
Music Direction and Composition for a Live Action Program: “Lost Ollie” (Netflix)
Music Direction and Composition for an Animated Program: “Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight” (Netflix)
Original Song for a Preschool Program: “One Sacred Thing” from “Jam Van” (YouTube)
Original Song for a Children’s or Young Teen Program: “Finally Free” from “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” (Disney+)
Main Title: “Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” (Disney Channel)
Cinematography for a Single Camera Live Action Program: “Sweet Tooth” (Netflix)
Cinematography for a Multiple Camera Live Action Program: “Family Reunion” (Netflix)
Editing for a Single Camera Live Action Program: “Lost Ollie” (Netflix)
Editing for a Multiple Camera Live Action Program: “Nick News” (Nickelodeon)
Editing for a Preschool Animated Program: “Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures” (Disney+)
Editing for an Animated Program: “Baymax!” (Disney+)
Sound Mixing and Sound Editing for a Live Action Program: “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” (Nickelodeon)
Sound Mixing and Sound Editing for a Preschool Animated Program: “Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures” (Disney+)
Sound Mixing and Sound Editing for an Animated Program: “I Am Groot” (Disney+)
Lighting, Camera and Technical Arts: “Lost Ollie” (Netflix)
Visual Effects for a Live Action Program: (TIE) “Jane” (Apple TV+), “Lost Ollie” (Netflix)
Casting for a Live Action Program: “Best Foot Forward” (Apple TV+)
Casting for an Animated Program: “Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” (Disney Channel)
Art Direction/Set Decoration/Scenic Design: “The Mysterious Benedict Society” (Disney+)
Costume Design/Styling: “The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special” (Disney+)
Hairstyling and Makeup: “The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special” (Disney+)
Puppet Design and Styling: “Sesame Street” (HBO )
Stunt Coordination: “The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special” (Disney+)
Choreography: “Monster High: The Movie” (Nickelodeon)

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