Game of Thrones wins four Creative Arts Emmys 

raked in the Emmy nominations this year, dominating the technical categories. We’ll see if they bring home the awards tonight, as the Emmy Creative Arts Awards ceremony takes place at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles.

The ceremony begins at 4PM Pacific Time, 7PM Eastern. The awards show won’t air for another week, but we’ll be posting the winners tonight, as soon as the information becomes available!

has won four Emmys tonight.  Congratulations to GoT on their big wins in Art Direction, Costuming, Visual and Special Effects and Prosthetic Makeup!

Casting for a Drama Series- Nina Gold and Robert Sterne,

Music Composition For A Series (Original Dramatic Score)- Ramin Djawadi,

lost to Alan Silvestri for Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey

Winner! - Art Direction For A Contemporary Or Fantasy Series (Single-Camera)

Cinematography: Jonathan Freeman (“Two Swords”), Anette Haellmigk (“The Lion and the Rose”),

Stunt Coordination For A Drama Series, Miniseries Or Movie,

Winner! – Costumes for a Series (“The Lion and the Rose”)

Hairstyling for a Single-Camera Series (“The Lion and the Rose”),

Winner! – Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (“The Children”)

Sound Editing For A Series (“The Watchers on the Wall”), lost to Black Sails

Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series – One Hour (“The Watchers on the Wall”), lost to House of Cards

Interactive Program – Game of Thrones Premiere Facebook Live and Instagram, lost to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Digital Experience

Creative Achievement in Interactive Media (Juried Award): Game of Thrones Viewers Guide, User Experience and Visual Design,

A recorded version of tonight’s show will air on the FXM network on Sunday, August 24th at 8pm ET/PT. The Primetime Emmys live awards show will air Monday, August 25th. Tune in then to root for Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, and Game of Thrones.

Good luck, tonight, to everyone involved with the show!

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If they don’t win at least five of these, fuck the Emmys

In any case, I doubt GOT will win anything outside the creative arts awards. The only one outside of this who has a real chance is Peter, and even then I’m not sure the Emmys will budge.

EDIT: also, minor issue report- on mobile (safari, iPhone), the “show/hide spoilers” buttons overlaps with the “jump to and always support the bottom” button. It doesn’t prevent anything from working, just looks a bit odd.

GoT wins the stunt award every year. It would be funny if they lost this year when they had “The Watchers on the Wall” going on.

(I’m another WiC escapee, took me long enough to find you guys)

As someone who works in Art Department (not on GoT, more’s the pity, I’d give a kidney to be involved!) I’m always astounded with what they manage to achieve on a TV series budget. Someone is running a tight ship.

I’m also awarding them the Sound, Costume and Musical Score awards, and I don’t even know who they’re up against.

I will be deeply upset if Diana Rigg doesn’t win THIS time around.

I’m waiting on the edge of my seat for your report; I will update Game of Thrones Wiki with the winners as soon as you post them.

So, they have never won a casting Emmy then? It might not be the same as snubbing Jon Hamm every year for Best Actor but it’s close. I guess the award will go to the new hotness every time from here on out since the major characters are almost all cast.

Absurd – really! I can only guess that it is because so many in the cast are not well-known to these voters. Who actually votes on the Casting award?

So, they have never won a casting Emmy then?It might not be the same as snubbing Jon Hamm every year for Best Actor but it’s close.I guess the award will go to the new hotness every time from here on out since the major characters are almost all cast.

Yes, it is close. Its incredible that Jon Hamm is without an Emmy.

I think that True Detective will be the darling of these Emmy awards.

Seriously – Downton Abbey beat GoT for best hairstyling? What a joke.

I’m so happy to see Michele Clapton and all the wonderful team of artisans get recognized for their work :’ )

It’s the first time Downton’s ever been nominated for hair, first time the Academy’s had a chance to vote for them. Also, for some reason, the Television Academy throws awards at DA no matter how terrible their season is.

I know and, though I watch and enjoy DA, it is nothing more than a gentrified soap.

Game of Thrones wins Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries, Movie Or A Special!

As much as I love Diana Rigg, Alison Janney (an Emmy favorite for years) was just heartbreaking on Masters of Sex.

Game of Thrones Wiki has had the Emmy nominations as our front page news for some time (the first out of four things in our slider, the first one people see when they log in)

I have temporarily changed the slider image so when you click “read more”, it links directly to this live news report on WatchersOntheWall.com.

Why? Because that OTHER fansite isn’t bothering to do live news coverage of the Thrones nods at the Creative Arts Emmys!

I hope this helps with site traffic.

Well deserved! My biggest issue right now is the loss on Sound Mixing for “Watchers on the Wall”. Nothing against House of Cards.

I’m crushed by the Diana Rigg loss, but at least Michele Clapton’s amazing costumes won.

…I’ve actually been tinkering away at a nascent “Costumes” article on Game of Thrones Wiki but it is MASSIVE and thus only half-finished:

It’s the result of hunting around for every quote about her work that Clapton ever made, the thought that went into it, i.e. Tyrell fashions were designed to be the opposite of Lannister fashions, to show the Cersei/Margaery rivalry, and they carefully planned out that *very gradually*, more and more of the background extras shift to dressing in Margaery’s fashions — a subtle hint that Cersei is yesterday’s news and losing influence at court.

As I said, half-finished. It’s got all of the quotes I’ve ever collected (A LOT) but I have to smooth it out into an actual prose explanation. Keep an eye out for that, I’m going to put it under the “Culture and Society” portal on the front page.

Admittedly it wasn’t their most diverse music season…lacked the stirring ironborn theme, amirite?!

Music and sound editing not won, that’s a big shame.

However I’ve not seen Spacetime Oddysee, maybe the music was awesome.

I’m really surprised they lost the Stunt Coordination Emmy to The Blacklist.

Game of Thrones wins Special and Visual Effects! Well deserved. Up to four for the night!

But they lose Stunt Coordination … to The Blacklist? Hoookay. I’ll admit that I don’t watch that show, so maybe the work done by the stunt coordination team is dynamite. But somehow I doubt that a network procedural really does have better stunts than what we saw in “The Watchers on the Wall”.

As a bit of a sidebar, legendary voice actor Harry Shearer (The Simpsons) just won his first Emmy ever. Very nice.

So am I… “The Watchers on the Wall” was nominated, wasn’t it? I saw a good amount of the first season of “The Blacklist” and nothing of what I saw even came close to the stunts in that episode, imo. In fact, I would go as far say that GoT objectively has better stunts than “The Blacklist”, it’s simply another league. Oh well, what ever want down there, no biggie.

The only one I’m okay with them loosing is Best Guest Actress. As much as I like Diana Rigg as Olenna, Alison Janney was too damn good on Masters of Sex. Everything else they should’ve won.

Diana Rigg barely did anything in season 4, and she especially didn’t do much in “The Lion and the Rose”, her submission episode. Compare her to Janney (the winner), or some of the other nominees, and she’s really not in the same league in terms of story (which is a writing thing, not on her, of course).

“Game of Thrones” is tied with “True Detective” for wins among the drama series (4 apiece).

They had cars, a couple of really brutal fist fights and torture to go with the usual gun battles. I still think “Watchers” must have taken more coordination, but what do I know.

You should watch the show, if only for James Spader. He’s so entertaining!

I know, I watched the first half of the season. Their actions scene are not bad by any means, but GoT has full blown battles, something you almost never see in a TV show. And that’s not even talking about scenes like the fight between Jon and Styr in “The Watchers on the Wall”, which was very good in its own right, even if you not think about the fact that it was in between a battle with a lot of extras and other actors. Just to be clear, I’m not in any way salty about it, I just really think that GoT should have won Stunt Coordination over its competitors. Like I said, it plays in a whole different league.

Abyss: I know, I watched the first half of the season.

The Blacklist had a pretty big multi-car long action sequence (and I want to say there was a motorcycle too, IIRC?) near the end of the season. I have a feeling that’s what got them the award. Plus they had at least one stunt/fight sequence per episode, it seemed. There’s definitely more individual skill involved with the GoT stunts, but this is for “coordination.” Also looking at their nominations, it seems GoT doesn’t always even get nominated for the stunt category and it looks like the show has never won that category at the Emmys, so perhaps the voters for stunts have something against the show. (The guy who won had apparently been nominated 5 times previously, but had never won, so that might have something to do with it, as well.) They seem fond of cop shows, too, so maybe motor vehicle-related stunts catch their eye more than one-on-one fights.

2011 – Southland (GoT nom, specifically for “The Wolf and the Lion”)

2014 – The Blacklist (GoT nom, episode apparently unspecified)

Note that the show wasn’t nominated for season 2, with Blackwater. It seems the Emmys aren’t particularly gaga over battles.

I’m still annoyed that Pedro Pascal didn’t get a guest actor nom.

I can’t believe they snubbed Ramin Djawadi again. Does anyone deserve to win for original score more than GOT?!

Absolutely. He actually had a chance at winning this one, and definitely deserved it.

Sorry but this is lame,especially compared to last year when they won almost everything in this category,not happy about this one bit !

What about the supporting actor and actress? Lena and Peter? When will those be announced?

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