The 71st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards honored the best in artistic and technical achievement in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2018, until May 31, 2019, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards were presented across two ceremonies on September 14 and 15, 2019, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California. FXX broadcast an abbreviated telecast of the ceremonies on September 21, leading into the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards on September 22.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡). Sections are based upon the categories listed in the 2018–2019 Emmy rules and procedures. Area awards and juried awards are denoted next to the category names as applicable. For simplicity, producers who received nominations for program awards have been omitted.
Governors Award None
Programs + Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons' (ABC) The 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards (NBC) The 61st Grammy Awards (CBS) The Oscars (ABC) RENT (Fox) 72nd Annual Tony Awards (CBS) Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From Liverpool (CBS) Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (Netflix) Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé (Netflix) Springsteen on Broadway (Netflix) Wanda Sykes: Not Normal (Netflix) When You Wish Upon a Pickle: A Sesame Street Special (HBO) A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix) Carmen Sandiego (Netflix) Song of Parkland (HBO) Star Wars Resistance (Disney Channel) The Simpsons: "Mad About the Toy" (Fox) Adventure Time: "Come Along with Me" (Cartoon Network) Big Mouth: "The Planned Parenthood Show" (Netflix) Bob's Burgers: "Just One of the Boyz 4 Now for Now" (Fox) BoJack Horseman: "Free Churro" (Netflix) Queer Eye (Netflix) Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (Food Network) Shark Tank (ABC) Tidying Up with Marie Kondo (Netflix) Who Do You Think You Are? (TLC) United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell (CNN) Born This Way (A&E) Deadliest Catch (Discovery Channel) Life Below Zero (Nat Geo) RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked (VH1) Somebody Feed Phil (Netflix) Our Planet (Netflix) 30 for 30 (ESPN) American Masters (PBS) Chef's Table (Netflix) Hostile Planet (Nat Geo) Leaving Neverland (HBO) FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (Netflix) The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (HBO) Jane Fonda in Five Acts (HBO) Love, Gilda (CNN) Minding the Gap (Hulu) Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (CNN) Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (Netflix) Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (A&E) My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman (Netflix) Surviving R. Kelly (Lifetime) RBG (CNN) The Sentence (HBO) Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes (A&E) Hale County This Morning, This Evening (PBS) Three Identical Strangers (CNN) State of the Union (Sundance TV) An Emmy for Megan (AnEmmyforMegan.com) Hack Into Broad City (Comedy Central) It's Bruno! (Netflix) Special (Netflix) Carpool Karaoke: The Series (Apple Music) Billy on the Street (Funny or Die) Gay Of Thrones (Funny or Die) Honest Trailers (YouTube) The Randy Rainbow Show (YouTube) Creating Saturday Night Live (NBC) Fosse/Verdon (Inside Look) (FX) Pose: Identity, Family, Community (Inside Look) (FX) RuPaul's Drag Race's: Out Of The Closet (VH1) RuPaul's Drag Race's: Portrait Of A Queen (VH1) Love, Death & Robots: "The Witness" (Netflix) Robot Chicken: "Why Is It Wet?" (Adult Swim) SpongeBob SquarePants: "Plankton Paranoia" (Nickelodeon) Steven Universe: "Reunited" (Cartoon Network) Teen Titans Go!: "Nostalgia Is Not a Substitute for an Actual Story" (Cartoon Network) NASA InSight's Mars Landing (NASA TV) First Man VR (Windows Mixed Reality) HQ Trivia x Warner Bros.: A Live and Interactive Animation First (HQ Trivia) Traveling While Black (Oculus) You vs. Wild (Netflix) NASA And SpaceX: The Interactive Demo-1 Launch (YouTube) Conan (TBS) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Comedy Central) The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS) The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS) Bandersnatch (Black Mirror) (Netflix) Game of Thrones – Fight for the Living: Beyond the Wall Virtual Reality Experience (HBO) The Good Place – Interactive Fan Experience (NBC) Free Solo 360 (Nat Geo) CONAN Without Borders Japan & Australia (TBS) The Late Late Show Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special 2019 (CBS) The Oscars – Digital Experience (ABC) Artificial (Twitch) Wolves in the Walls: It’s All Over (Oculus Store)
Performing + Luke Kirby – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: "All Alone" as Lenny Bruce (Prime Video) Matt Damon – Saturday Night Live: "Host: Matt Damon" as host (NBC) Robert De Niro – Saturday Night Live: "Host: Sandra Oh" as Robert Mueller (NBC) Peter MacNicol – Veep: "Oslo" as Jeff Kane (HBO) John Mulaney – Saturday Night Live: "Host: John Mulaney" as host (NBC) Adam Sandler – Saturday Night Live: "Host: Adam Sandler" as host (NBC) Rufus Sewell – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: "Look, She Made a Hat" as Declan Howell (Prime Video) Jane Lynch – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: "Vote for Kennedy, Vote for Kennedy" as Sophie Lennon (Prime Video) Sandra Oh – Saturday Night Live: "Host: Sandra Oh" as host (NBC) Maya Rudolph – The Good Place: "Chidi Sees the Time-Knife" as Judge Gen (NBC) Kristin Scott Thomas – Fleabag: "Episode 3" as Belinda (Prime Video) Fiona Shaw – Fleabag: "Episode 2" as Counsellor (Prime Video) Emma Thompson – Saturday Night Live: "Host: Emma Thompson" as host (NBC) Bradley Whitford – The Handmaid's Tale: "Postpartum" as Commander Joseph Lawrence (Hulu) Michael Angarano – This Is Us: "Songbird Road: Part One" as Nick Pearson (NBC) Ron Cephas Jones – This Is Us: "A Philadelphia Story" as William (NBC) Michael McKean – Better Call Saul: "Winner" as Chuck McGill (AMC) Kumail Nanjiani – The Twilight Zone: "The Comedian" as Samir Wassan (CBS All Access) Glynn Turman – How to Get Away with Murder: "It Was the Worst Day of My Life" as Nate Lahey, Sr. (ABC) Cherry Jones – The Handmaid's Tale: "Holly" as Holly (Hulu) Laverne Cox – Orange Is the New Black: "Well This Took a Dark Turn" as Sophia Burset (Netflix) Jessica Lange – American Horror Story: Apocalypse: "Return to Murder House" as Constance Langdon (FX) Phylicia Rashad – This Is Us: "Our Little Island Girl" as Carol Clarke (NBC) Cicely Tyson – How to Get Away with Murder: "Where Are Your Parents?" as Ophelia Harkness (ABC) Carice van Houten – Game of Thrones: "The Long Night" as Melisandre (HBO) Chris O'Dowd – State of the Union as Tom (Sundance TV) Ed Begley Jr. – Ctrl Alt Delete as Dr. Rosenblatt (Vimeo) Jimmy Fallon – Beto Breaks the Internet as Beto O'Rourke (NBC) Ryan O'Connell – Special as Ryan Hayes (Netflix) Patton Oswalt – An Emmy for Megan as Patton (anemmyformegan.com) Rosamund Pike – State of the Union as Louise (Sundance TV) Ilana Glazer – Hack Into Broad City as Ilana Wexler (Comedy Central) Jessica Hecht – Special as Mom (Netflix) Abbi Jacobson – Hack Into Broad City as Abbi Abrams (Comedy Central) Punam Patel – Special as Kim Laghari (Netflix) Seth MacFarlane – Family Guy: "Con Heiress" as Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Brian Griffin, Glenn Quagmire, Tom Tucker, and Seamus (Fox) Hank Azaria – The Simpsons: "From Russia Without Love" as Moe, Carl, Duffman, and Kirk (Fox) Alex Borstein – Family Guy: "Throw It Away" as Lois Griffin and Tricia Takanawa (Fox) Eric Jacobson – When You Wish Upon a Pickle: A Sesame Street Special as Bert, Grover, and Oscar (HBO) Kevin Michael Richardson – F Is for Family: "The Stinger" as Rosie (Netflix) Sir David Attenborough – Our Planet (Netflix) Angela Bassett – The Flood (Nat Geo Wild) Charles Dance – Savage Kingdom (Nat Geo Wild) Anthony Mendez – Wonders of Mexico (PBS) Liev Schreiber – The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti (HBO) Juliet Stevenson – Queens of Mystery (Acorn TV) RuPaul – RuPaul's Drag Race (VH1) James Corden – The World's Best (CBS) Ellen DeGeneres – Ellen's Game of Games (NBC) Marie Kondo – Tidying Up with Marie Kondo (Netflix) Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman – Making It (NBC)
Animation + Age of Sail – Céline Desrumaux (YouTube) Age of Sail – Bruno Mangyoku (YouTube) Age of Sail – Jasmin Lai (YouTube) Carmen Sandiego: "The Chasing Paper Caper" – Elaine Lee (Netflix) Love, Death & Robots: "Good Hunting" – Jun-ho Kim (Netflix) Love, Death & Robots: "Sucker of Souls" – Owen Sullivan (Netflix) Love, Death & Robots: "The Witness" – Alberto Mielgo (Netflix) Love, Death & Robots: "The Witness" – David Pate (Netflix)
Art Direction + The Handmaid's Tale: "Holly" (Hulu) Escape at Dannemora (Showtime) Killing Eve: "The Hungry Caterpillar" (BBC America) Ozark: "Outer Darkness, The Gold Coast" (Netflix) The Umbrella Academy: "We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals" (Netflix) Chernobyl (HBO) A Series of Unfortunate Events: "Penultimate Peril: Part 1" (Netflix) Fosse/Verdon (FX) Game of Thrones: "The Bells" (HBO) The Man in the High Castle: "Now More Than Ever, We Care About You" (Prime Video) The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: "Simone" / "We're Going to the Catskills!" (Prime Video) Russian Doll: "Nothing in the World Is Easy" (Netflix) Barry: "ronny/lily" (HBO) Veep: "Veep" (HBO) Will & Grace: "Jack's Big Gay Wedding" (NBC) Saturday Night Live: "Host: John Mulaney" / "Host: Emma Stone" (NBC) At Home with Amy Sedaris: "Teenagers" (truTV) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: "Authoritarianism" (HBO) Queer Eye: "Jones Bar-B-Q" (Netflix) The Voice: "Live Cross Battles Part 1" (NBC) RENT (Fox) The 61st Grammy Awards (CBS) Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé (Netflix) Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons (ABC) The Oscars (ABC)
Casting + Fleabag - Olivia Scott-Webb (Prime Video) Barry - Sharon Bialy and Sherry Thomas (HBO) The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - Cindy Tolan (Prime Video) Russian Doll - Christine Kromer (Netflix) Veep - Dorian Frankel and Sibby Kirchgessner (HBO) Game of Thrones - Nina Gold, Robert Sterne and Carla Stronge (HBO) Killing Eve - Suzanne Crowley and Gilly Poole (BBC America) Ozark - Alexa L. Fogel, Tara Feldstein Bennett and Chase Paris (Netflix) Pose - Alexa L. Fogel (FX) Succession - Francine Maisler, Douglas Aibel and Henry Russell Bergstein (HBO) When They See Us - Aisha Coley, Billy Hopkins and Ashley Ingram (Netflix) Chernobyl - Nina Gold and Robert Sterne (HBO) Escape at Dannemora - Rachel Tenner (Showtime) Fosse/Verdon - Bernard Telsey and Tiffany Little Canfield (FX) Sharp Objects - David Rubin (HBO) Queer Eye - Gretchen Palek, Danielle Gervais, Quinn Fegan, Ally Capriotti Grant and Pamela Vallarelli (Netflix) Born This Way - Sasha Alpert, Megan Sleeper and Caitlyn Audet (A&E) RuPaul's Drag Race - Goloka Bolte and Ethan Petersen (VH1) Shark Tank - Mindy Zemrak and Jen Rosen (ABC) The Voice - Michelle McNulty, Holly Dale and Courtney Burns (NBC)
Choreography + World of Dance – Tessandra Chavez (NBC) So You Think You Can Dance – Luther Brown (Fox) So You Think You Can Dance – Travis Wall (Fox) World of Dance – Karen Forcano and Ricardo Vega (NBC) World of Dance – Suresh Mukund (NBC) World of Dance – Melvin "Timtim" Rogador (NBC) Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: "Don't Be a Lawyer" / "Antidepressants Are So Not a Big Deal" – Kathryn Burns (The CW)
Cinematography + The Ranch: "Reckless" – Donald A. Morgan (Netflix) Rel: "Halloween" – George Mooradian (Fox) Will & Grace: "Family, Trip" – Gary Baum (NBC) Russian Doll: "Ariadne" – Chris Teague (Netflix) Ballers: "Rough Ride" – Anthony Hardwick (HBO) Fleabag: "Episode 1" – Tony Miller (Prime Video) Homecoming: "Optics" – Tod Campbell (Prime Video) Insecure: "High-Like" – Ava Berkofsky (HBO) What We Do in the Shadows: "Manhattan Night Club" – D.J. Stipsen (FX)