Chadwick Boseman, Barack Obama, and Eminem won Creative Arts Emmys last night
Slim Shady and Adele both almost have EGOTs, and Peter Jackson gave a shoutout to The Beatles
Aux News Emmys
It’s almost Emmys time, which means it is currently Creative Arts Emmys time, which is the second-most exciting week of the year for fans of Emmys… not counting when the nominations are announced which is probably the real second-most exciting. So, if anything, it’s just a week of the year that Emmys fans might want to pay attention to, which is still better than most other weeks.
And hey, last night’s Creative Arts Emmys had a lot of fun, big-name winners! Chadwick Boseman won a posthumous Emmy for his voice acting appearance as Star-Lord in Disney+’s What If…? series, Barack Obama won Outstanding Narrator for his work on Netflix’s Our Great National Parks documentary series, The Beatles: Get Back won five awards (Peter Jackson said “shoutout to The Beatles” at one point, which they probably appreciated), and Adele’s One Night Only special also won five awards.
Those wins bring Adele one Tony win away from an EGOT, which seems like it should be pretty easy to get, but she’s going to have some competition on Broadway: The Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show also won a handful of Creative Arts Emmys, including Outstanding Variety Special, which means all of the headlining performers got Emmys as well.
So, with his Oscar for “Lose Yourself” from 8 Mile, his many Grammys, and now this Creative Arts Emmy, Eminem is also just a Tony away from having an EGOT. Adele could easily put together a jukebox musical using all of her hits, but Eminem could just as easily put his name on a theatrical adaptation of 8 Mile. A rap musical! Live battles onstage! Mom’s spaghetti!
You can see the full list of yesterday’s Creative Arts Emmys at The Hollywood Reporter. The real Emmys—sorry, the… normal Emmys, you know—will be given out on September 12.
16 Comments
Did anyone tell Trump Obama won an Emmy?.
Trump will just start his own version of the Emmy Awards! It will be great, believe me. Everyone will be talking about it. The statue will be made of…you guessed it…solid gold!
For the life of me I don’t know how Trump has lasted this long without starting his own religion. I can’t think of a better enterprise for a con man like him to go into. Tax exempt. People give you money. You don’t have to produce any results, you just need to get the rubes to “believe.”
Even if he were smart and sophisticated enough to start a religion, he wouldn’t. What Trump values above all else is loyalty and devotion… to him. And even he knows people wouldn’t literally worship him, and in a cult there would have to be at least a pretense towards following a higher power. That’s not Trump’s style. Being the leader of a populist movement is the next best thing. Why start a religious cult when you can start a cult of personality? Perfect for a narcissist like Trump.
Clearly you’ve never seen a service at a mega church. Those people are 100% all in on the pastor first and foremost.
Eh, “religion” or cult. Same thing, essentially. Trump wouldn’t bring god into it because that’s his identity. Ideally, he’d be a god king.
Solid gold only if someone else is paying for it. Either that, or the recipient will be billed for the statuette.
I have a statue made of Solid Gold Dancers.
Lol. How horrifying because he would do that.
Nobody’s gonna talk about how Arcane won an Emmy, too? Best cartoon I’ve seen in a while.
For better or worse, it seems like few people care about Arcane aside from LoL fans. At least that’s how it appears in my circle of the internet.
The alleged alt-right wing troll faction on Youtube absolutely *love* Arcane (and not for bad reasons) for what that’s worth.
If they’re alt-right trolls, how is it not for “bad” reasons?
Weird, cause I see so many people talk about it. Kind of wish AV Club talked about it more as a show.
Fun fact President Obama has killed more children with a drone than any other Emmy winner. Congrats President Obama!!!!!
Eminem won? Uhm….DR. DRE?!!!!!