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Emmy Awards Result – HBO is Dominating!

September 9th, 2007 in Awards, Box Office, The Movie Biz, TV -

HBO has maintained its dominance at the Emmy Awards last Saturday garnering 15 trophies during the marathon Creative Arts Primetime Emmy ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium. The cable network is led by one of its show “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” with five wins in makeup, cinematography, picture editing and sound mixing.

As always, HBO led other networks with 86 bids with wounded knee getting 17 nominations. Following “Wounded Knee” in the winner’s circle at Saturday’s four-hour ceremony, hosted by comic Carlos Mencia, were Discovery Channel’s “Planet Earth” and NBC’s “Tony Bennett: An American Classic” spec, with four awards each.

The only program to win three statuettes on Saturday was PBS’ “Masterpiece Theatre” entry “Jane Eyre,” which triumphed in the long form costumes, hairstyling and art-direction categories.

Emmy veteran John Goodman accounted for one of NBC’s dozen wins on Saturday as he snared the guest actor in a drama series prize for his turn as a local judge on “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.” Stanley Tucci picked up guest actor in a comedy for his turn on USA Network’s “Monk.”

NBC laid claim to both guest actress awards, with Elaine Stritch winning for “30 Rock.” Gallic thesp Leslie Caron, returning to American television after more than 20 years, won on the drama side for her one-off on “Law & Order: SVU.” Bravo’s “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List” drew the nod for reality program (still to come on Sunday is the award for reality-competition skein).

In the animation field, Comedy Central’s “South Park” won for animated program (less than one hour); Cartoon Network’s “Camp Lazlo (Where’s Lazlo)” triumphed in the hourlong heat.

Eye sitcom “Two and a Half Men” picked up two awards, one for multicamera series cinematography for d.p. Steven Silver and one for multicam picture editing for cutter Joe Bella. HBO’s “Rome” won for single-cam series cinematography for d.p. Alix Sakharov, and “Wounded Knee’s” David Franco won for movie/miniseries cinematography.

Sci Fi Channel’s “Battlestar Galactica” claimed the special effects for a series award.

NBC’s critical darling “Friday Night Lights” was recognized with casting for a drama series kudos. ABC’s “Ugly Betty” drew the comedy series casting nod.

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