Sunday, September 7, 2025

Creative Arts Emmy Awards 2025 (Night Two) - Winners List

The second round of winners from the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards are being announced tonight in a ceremony held in Los Angeles, California. Tonight will see awards handed out in 47 technical categories covering nonfiction, reality and variety programs. This post will be updating throughout the evening as the results come in.




Outstanding Short Form Comedy, Drama or Variety Series
  • YouTube's The Daily Show: Desi Lydic Foxsplains 
Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series
  • Netflix's Adolescence: The Making of Adolescence
Outstanding Production Design for a Variety Special
  • ABC's The Oscars
Outstanding Production Design for a Variety or Reality Series
  • NBC's Saturday Night Live - "Host: Lady Gaga"
Outstanding Choreography for Variety or Reality Programming
  • CBS' The 67th Annual Grammy Awards - "Doechii Musical Performance"
Outstanding Music Direction
  • FOX's The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar
Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score)
  • Netflix's Chef's Table - "José Andrés"
Outstanding Sound Editing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program
  • Disney+'s Music by John Williams
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction Program
  • Disney+'s Beatles '64
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety Series or Special
  • NBC's SNL50: The Anniversary Special
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Reality Program
  • FX's Welcome to Wrexham - "Down to the Wire"
Outstanding Casting for a Reality Program
  • Netflix's Love on the Spectrum
Outstanding Emerging Media Program
  • Meta Quest's SNL 50th The Anniversary Special: Immersive Experience 
Outstanding Innovation in Emerging Media Programming (Juried)
  • Shibuya.film's White Rabbit 
Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program
  • Comedy Central's The Daily Show Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: MAGA: The Next Generation
Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special
  • NBC's SNL50: The Anniversary Special
Outstanding Host for a Game Show
  • Jimmy Kimmel for ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire 
Outstanding Game Show
  • ABC's Jeopardy!
Outstanding Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program
  • NBC's SNL50: The Anniversary Special 
Outstanding Hairstyling for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program 
  • NBC's SNL50: The Anniversary Special
Outstanding Costumes for Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming (Juried)
  • Netflix's Beyoncé Bowl 
Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming (Segment) 
  • NBC's SNL50: The Anniversary Special - "Physical Comedy"
Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming
  • Netflix's Cunk on Life
Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program
  • HBO's Pee-wee as Himself
Outstanding Picture Editing for a Structured Reality or Competition Program
  • Peacock's The Traitors - "Let Battle Commence"
Outstanding Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program
  • FX's Welcome to Wrexham - "Down to the Wire"
Outstanding Cinematography for a Reality Program
  • Peacock's The Traitors 
Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program
  • HBO's 100 Foot Wave - "Chapter III - Cortes Bank"
Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series
  • HBO's 100 Foot Wave
Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special
  • HBO's Pee-wee as Himself
Outstanding Narrator
  • Barack Obama for Netflix's Our Oceans - "Indian Ocean"
Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program
  • Alan Cumming for Peacock's The Traitors
Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special
  • HBO Max's Conan O'Brien Must Go
Outstanding Directing for a Reality Program
  • Ben Archard for Peacock's The Traitors - "Let Battle Commence"
Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program
  • Matt Wolf for HBO's Pee-wee as Himself 
Outstanding Commercial
  • "Brian Cox Goes to College" - Uber One for Students
Outstanding Lighting Design / Lighting Direction for a Series
  • NBC's Saturday Night Live - "Host: Lady Gaga"
Outstanding Lighting Design / Lighting Direction for a Special
  • CBS' The 67th Annual Grammy Awards
Outstanding Technical Direction and Camerawork for a Special
  • NBC's SNL50: The Anniversary Special 
Outstanding Technical Direction and Camerawork for a Series
  • NBC's Saturday Night Live - "Host: Jack Black"
Outstanding Structured Reality Program
  • Netflix's Queer Eye
Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program
  • Netflix's Love on the Spectrum
Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking
  • Hulu's Patrice: The Movie
Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special
  • Liz Patrick for NBC's SNL50: The Anniversary Special
Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series
  • Jim Hoskinson for CBS' The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - "David Oyelowo, Finn Wolfhard, Special Appearance by Alan Cumming, Performance by Ok Go"
Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded)
  • Netflix's Conan O'Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor