The 57th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards honored the best in artistic and technical achievement in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2004, until May 31, 2005, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards were presented on September 11, 2005, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. A total of 75 Creative Arts Emmys were handed out across 65 categories. The ceremony preceded the 57th Primetime Emmy Awards, held on September 18.
The movie The Life and Death of Peter Sellers led all programs with six wins, followed by Deadwood with five wins and Lost with four wins. For overall program fields, awards went to Broadway: The American Musical, Classical Baby, Death in Gaza, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, 58th Annual Tony Awards, Nick News with Linda Ellerbee, South Park, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Stephen Sondheim's "Passion" (Live From Lincoln Center), and Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. HBO led all networks with 20 wins.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡). 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.
Programs + 58th Annual Tony Awards (2004) (CBS) 77th Annual Academy Awards (ABC) Dave Chappelle: For What It's Worth (Showtime) Everybody Loves Raymond - The Last Laugh (CBS) The Games of the XXVII Olympiad - Opening Ceremony(NBC) ''Stephen Sondheim's "Passion" (Live From Lincoln Center) (PBS) Agatha Christie's Miss Marple (Mystery!) (PBS) Jazz At Lincoln Center Grand Opening Of Frederick P. Rose Hall (PBS) Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" In Concert (Great Performances) (PBS) |- | style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC) Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Showtime) Project Greenlight (Bravo) Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (Bravo) | style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" | Classical Baby (HBO) Nick News With Linda Ellerbee: "Never Again? From the Holocaust to the Sudan" (Nickelodeon) Pride (A&E) That's So Raven (Disney Channel) Zoey 101 (Nickelodeon) |- | style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" | South Park: "Best Friends Forever" (Comedy Central) Samurai Jack: "The Four Seasons of Death" (Cartoon Network) Family Guy: "North by North Quahog" (Fox) The Simpsons: "Future-Drama" (Fox) SpongeBob SquarePants: "Fear of a Krabby Patty / Shell of a Man" (Nickelodeon) | style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" | Star Wars: Clone Wars: "Vol. 2 (Chapters 21-25)" (Cartoon Network) Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real (Animal Planet) |- | style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" | Broadway: The American Musical (PBS) Biography (A&E) Cold Case Files (A&E) Dinner for Five (IFC) Inside the Actors Studio (Bravo) | style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (PBS) Beyond The Da Vinci Code (History Channel) Cary Grant: A Class Apart (TCM) Inside the Actors Studio: 10th Anniversary Special (Bravo) Live From New York: The First Five Years of Saturday Night Live (NBC) |- | style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" | Death in Gaza (HBO) Last Letters Home: Voices of American Troops from the Battlefields of Iraq (HBO) Guerrilla: The Taking Of Patty Hearst (American Experience) (PBS) With All Deliberate Speed (PBS) | style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" | 2005 TV Land Awards All Access Pass (TV Land, Zetools) iO Interactive Optimum Digital Cable Service from Cablevision'' (Cablevision Systems Corporation)
Performing + Bobby Cannavale - Will & Grace as Vince (NBC) Fred Willard - Everybody Loves Raymond as Hank (CBS) Alec Baldwin - Will & Grace as Malcolm (NBC) Victor Garber - Will & Grace as Peter Bovington (NBC) Jeff Goldblum - Will & Grace as Frank/Scott (NBC) Kathryn Joosten - Desperate Housewives as Mrs. McClusky (ABC) Lupe Ontiveros - Desperate Housewives as Juanita Solis (ABC) Georgia Engel - Everybody Loves Raymond as Pat (CBS) Cloris Leachman - Malcolm in the Middle as Ida (Fox) Blythe Danner - Will & Grace as Marilyn Truman (NBC) Ray Liotta - ER as Charlie Metcalf (NBC) Red Buttons - ER as Mr. Rubadoux (NBC) Charles Durning - NCIS as Ernie Yost (CBS) Ossie Davis - The L Word as Melvin Porter (Showtime) Martin Landau - Without a Trace as Frank Malone (CBS) Amanda Plummer - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Miranda Cole (NBC) Swoosie Kurtz - Huff as Madeline Sullivan (Showtime) Cloris Leachman - Joan of Arcadia as Aunt Olive (CBS) Angela Lansbury - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Eleanor Duvall (NBC) Jill Clayburgh - Nip/Tuck as Bobbie Broderick (FX) Keith David - Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Narrator (PBS)
Animation + Classical Baby: "Bear Hugs" - Barbara Wierzchowska (HBO) ''Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: "World Wide Wabbit" - Ed Baker (Cartoon Network) Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: "House of Bloos" - Craig McCracken (Cartoon Network) Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: "House of Bloos" - Mike Moon (Cartoon Network) Samurai Jack: "The Four Seasons of Death" - Bryan Andrews (Cartoon Network) Star Wars: Clone Wars: "Vol. 2 (Chapters 21-25)" - Justin K. Thompson (Cartoon Network) The Fairly OddParents: "Shelf Life" - Gordon Hammond (Nickelodeon) The Powerpuff Girls'': "West In Pieces" - Frederick J. Gardner III (Cartoon Network)
Art Direction + George Lopez: "Leave it to Lopez" / "The Simple Life" / "Trouble in Paradise" - John Shaffner and Judi Giovanni (ABC) That '70s Show: "Down the Road Apiece" - Garvin Eddy and Tara Stephenson (Fox) Two and a Half Men: "It Was 'Mame' Mom" / "A Low, Guttural Tongue Flapping Noise" - John Shaffner and Ann Shea (CBS) Will & Grace: "The Birds and the Bees" - Glenda Rovello and Melinda Ritz (NBC) Deadwood: "Requiem for a Gleet" - Ernie Bishop, Maria Caso, James J. Murakami, David Potts (HBO) Carnivàle: "Old Cherry Blossom Road" - Dan Bishop, Joyce Ann Gilstrap, Roger L. King, David Morong (HBO) Cold Case: "Factory Girls" - Corey Kaplan, Sandy Getzler, Timothy Stepeck (CBS) Desperate Housewives: "Suspicious Minds" - Thomas A. Walsh, P. Erik Carlson, Erica Rogalla (ABC) Six Feet Under: "Grinding the Corn" - Kristan Andrews, Suzuki Ingerslev, Rusty Lipscomb (HBO) The Lost Prince (Masterpiece Theatre) - John-Paul Kelly, Emma MacDevitt, Sara Wan (PBS) Warm Springs - Frank Galline, Sarah Knowles, Thomas Minton, Scott Ritenour (HBO) Empire Falls - John Kasarda, Maria Nay, Stuart Wurtzel (HBO) Faith of My Fathers - Vincent J. Cresciman, Raymond Pumilia (A&E) The Life and Death of Peter Sellers - Norman Garwood, Maggie Gray, Christopher Lowe, John Ralph, Lucy Richardson (HBO) The 47th Annual Grammy Awards - Steve Bass, Brian Stonestreet, Scott Wellborn, Tamlyn Wright (CBS) 77th Academy Awards - Roy Christopher - Stephan G. Olson, Greg Richman (ABC) American Idol: "Top 16 Results" - Andy Walmsley, James Yarnell (Fox) First Invasion: The War of 1812 - H. David Wright (The History Channel) MADtv: "Episode 6" - D Martyn Bookwalter, Daryn Reid Goodall, John Sabato (Fox)
Casting + Desperate Housewives - Scott Genkinger, Junie Lowry-Johnson (ABC) Arrested Development - Allison Jones (Fox) Entourage - Sheila Jaffe, Meredith Tucker, Georgianne Walken (HBO) Scrubs - Brett Benner, Debby Romano (NBC) Will & Grace - Tracy Lilienfield Lost - Veronica Collins Rooney, Mandy Sherman, April Webster, Alyssa Weisberg (ABC) 24 - Peggy Kennedy, Debi Manwiller (Fox) Deadwood - Libby Goldstein, Junie Lowry-Johnson (HBO) Grey's Anatomy - John Brace, Linda Lowy (ABC) House - Amy Lippens (Fox) Nip/Tuck - Eric Dawson, Carol Kritzer, Robert J. Ulrich (FX) Lackawanna Blues - John Papsidera (HBO) Elvis - Beth Blanks, Steve Brooksbank, Mary Jo Slater (CBS) Empire Falls - Avy Kaufman (HBO) The Life and Death of Peter Sellers - Nina Gold (HBO) Warm Springs - Shay Griffin, Lynn Kressel (HBO)
Choreography + Smucker's Stars On Ice 2005 - Christopher Dean (A&E) 36th NAACP Image Awards - Jeffrey Page, Anthony Talauega, Richmond Talauega (Fox) A Christmas Carol - Dan Siretta (NBC) MADtv: "Episode 23" - Monie Adamson (Fox) Reefer Madness - Mary Ann Kellogg (Showtime
Cinematography + Will & Grace: "Friends With Benefits" - Tony Askins (NBC) Everybody Loves Raymond: "Pat's Secret" - Mike Berlin (CBS) Hope & Faith: "Carmen Get It" - Richard J. Quinlan (ABC) Reba: "Flowers For Van" - Bryan Hays (WB) Two and a Half Men: "Back Off, Mary Poppins" - Steven V. Silver (CBS) Deadwood: "Complications" - James Glennon (HBO) 24: "5:00 AM - 6:00 AM" - Rodney Charters (Fox) Carnivàle: "Lincoln Highway" - Jeffrey Jur (HBO) Carnivàle: "The Road to Damascus" - Jim Denault (HBO) Six Feet Under: "Untitled" - Lowell Peterson (HBO) The Life and Death of Peter Sellers - Peter Levy (HBO) Faith of My Fathers - Bill Roe (A&E) The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Kramer Morgenthau (ABC) The 4400 - Thomas Burstyn (USA) Warm Springs - Robbie Greenberg (HBO) Death in Gaza - James Miller (HBO) Living With Wolves - Jim Dutcher (Discovery Channel) Survivor: "This Has Never Happened Before" - Michael Applebaum, Derek Carver, Paulo Castillo, David Chapiro, Bennie Cronje, Leighton De Barros, Lee Doig, Justine Evans, Russell Fill, Kevin Garrison, Kent Harvey, Matthias Hoffmann, Mark Hryma, Mark "Ninja" Lynch, Lance Milbrand, Paul Moss, Michael Murray, Dave Parkinson, John Tattersall, Jeff Taylor, Jeff Watt, Peter Wery, Michael Yelseth (CBS) The Amazing Race: "We're Moving Up The Food Chain" - John Armstrong, Sylvester Campe, Tom Cunningham, Chip Goebert, Lucas Kenna Mertes, Per Larsson, Dave Ross, Uri Sharon, Scott Shelley, Mark Walker, Scott Walker (CBS) The Contender: "The Final Four" - Scott Acosta, John Armstrong, Paulo Castillo, Rodney Chauvin, Scott Duncan, Russell Fill, Kevin Garrison, Michael Koepke, Robert Landry, Vince Monteleone, Michael Murray, Martin Palafox, Alan Pierce, Jeremy Schneider, Therese Sherman, Raphael Smadja, Chris S. Smith, John Tattersall, Matt Valentine, Jeff Watt, Mande Whitaker, Tyne M. Whitmore (NBC)
Commercial + "Surprise Dinner" - DDB Los Angeles, MJZ (Ameriquest Mortgage) "Applause" - DDB Chicago, PYTKA (Budweiser) "Drink Up" - BBDO New York, Traktor/Partisan (Aquafina) "Glen" - Biscuit Filmworks, Fallon New York (Starbucks DoubleShot) "The One Campaign" - @radical.media (One.org)
Costumes + Deadwood: "Boy the Earth Talks To" - Katherine Jane Bryant, Le Dawson (HBO) Alias: "Tuesday" - Laura Goldsmith, Leslie Herman, Christine Orth (ABC) Carnivàle: "The Road to Damascus" - Chrisi Karvonides-Dushenko, Robin Roberts (HBO) Desperate Housewives: "Suspicious Minds" - Catherine Adair, Karo Vartanian, Joyce Unruh (ABC) Six Feet Under: "Grinding the Corn" - Jill Ohanneson, Bridget Ostersehlte (HBO) ''The Lost Prince (Masterpiece Theatre): "Episode One" - Odile Dicks-Mireaux, Colin May (PBS) Conquest of America: "The Southwest" - Jeannine Wiest, Phil Wayne (The History Channel) Elvis: "Part 1" - Eduardo Castro, Helen Monaghan (CBS) The Life and Death of Peter Sellers - Jill Taylor, Charlotte Sewell (HBO) Warm Springs - Hope Hanafin, Keith Lewis (HBO) |- | style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" colspan="2" | MADtv'': "Episode 17" - Wendy Benbrook, Wanda Leavey (Fox)
Directing + Death in Gaza - James Miller (HBO) American Idol: "Finale" - Bruce Gowers (Fox) The Apprentice: "Season 2 Finale" - Glenn Weiss (NBC) Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: "The Dore Family" - Patrick Higgins (ABC) Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson - Ken Burns (PBS)
Hairstyling + Deadwood: "Boy the Earth Talks To" - Carol Pershing, Terry Baliel, Kimberley Spiteri (HBO) Alias: "Nocturne" - Michael Reitz (ABC) American Dreams: "Starting Over" - Mary Ann Valdes, Norma Lee, Paulette Pennington, Cathrine A. Marcotte (NBC)