Fallout Series Universe Wins Two Creative Arts Emmys
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16 Nominations, but only one award: Fallout, the only gaming series in the nominees of 2024's Creative Arts Emmys wasn't the big winner of the evening. That one was FX's Shogun. But: With another Emmy for Fallout: Vault 33, the interactive media experience going with Amazon's, Kilter Films' and Bethesda's TV series, gaming was still well represented.
Exceptional artistic and technological achievements were honoured with the Creative Arts Emmys on 7 and 8 September. The Primetime Emmy Awards will be presented a week later. One of the big winners of the evening was the series ‘Shogun’, which was nominated for 17 awards and won eleven of them, including in the categories Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Period or Fantasy Programme, Stunt Performance and Outstanding Period Costumes for a Series.
From a game industry perspective however, the prizes could have been bigger: While the Fallout TV series by Amazon MGM Studios, Kilter Films and Bethesda Studios, was nominated 16 times, only one award went there in the end: Trygge Toven, Music Supervisor, was awarded Outstanding Music Supervision. The interactive FMV experience Fallout: Vault 33 won the Creative Emmy as Outstanding Emerging Media Program as well, putting the award count of the Fallout team to two.
Other winners included the Netflix series ‘Blue Eye Samurai’, which won Outstanding Animated Programme, as well as ‘Baby Reindeer’ from the same company, which won Casting for a Limited Series. The popular series about a chef and his team ‘The Bear’ was also honoured with numerous awards - seven to be precise. Two well-known stars won for Outstanding Guest Actor and Actress in a Comedy Series respectively: Jon Bernthal and Jamie Lee Curtis. Actress Angela Basset was particularly delighted to finally receive one of the awards after ten Emmy nominations, in this case as Outstanding Narrator for National Geographic's ‘Queens’. One of the big losers was ‘True Detective: Night Country’, which did not win a single nomination out of 13.
Looking at the individual players, FX is definitely the king of the Creative Emmy Awards: The broadcaster produced ‘Shogun’, among others, and won a total of 27 awards at the ceremony. A further 18 awards went to Netflix, 15 to Apple TV+ and nine to Disney+.
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Pascal Wagner is Chief of Relations of GamesMarket and Senior Editor specialised in indie studios, politics, funding and academic coverage.
