59th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards

The 59th Annual Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards were held at the Shrine Auditorium on September 8, 2007, and were hosted by comedian-actor Carlos Mencia. The ceremony was broadcast a week later on September 15 on E!, the night before the Primetime telecast on FOX.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first, in bold. Other nominees are in alphabetical order.

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

• Stanley Tucci as David Ruskin on Monk
  • Beau Bridges as Carlton "Carl" Hickey on My Name is Earl
  • Martin Landau as Bob Ryan on Entourage
  • Ian McKellen as Himself on Extras
  • Giovanni Ribisi as Ralph Mariano on My Name is Earl

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series

• Elaine Stritch as Colleen Donaghy on 30 Rock
  • Dixie Carter as Gloria Hodge on Desperate Housewives
  • Salma Hayek as Sofia Reyes on Ugly Betty
  • Judith Light as Claire Meade on Ugly Betty
  • Laurie Metcalf as Carolyn Bigsby on Desperate Housewives

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series

• John Goodman as Judge Robert Bebe on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
  • Christian Clemenson as Jerry Espenson on Boston Legal
  • Tim Daly as J.T. Dolan on The Sopranos
  • David Morse as Michael Tritter on House
  • Eli Wallach as Eli Weintraub on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
  • Forest Whitaker as Curtis Ames on ER

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series

• Leslie Caron as Lorraine Chalmers on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  • Kate Burton as Ellis Grey on Grey's Anatomy
  • Marcia Gay Harden as FBI Special Agent Dana Lewis on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  • Elizabeth Reaser as Jane Doe on Grey's Anatomy
  • Jean Smart as Martha Logan on 24

Outstanding Children's Program

• Nick News with Linda Ellerbee: Private Worlds: Kids and Autism
  • Hannah Montana
  • That's So Raven
  • The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
  • When Parents are Deployed

Outstanding Nonfiction Series

• Planet Earth
  • American Masters
  • Biography
  • Deadliest Catch
  • Inside the Actors Studio

Outstanding Nonfiction Special

• Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
  • AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies
  • Blood Diamonds
  • Brando
  • Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed

Outstanding Reality Program

• Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
  • Antiques Roadshow
  • Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan
  • Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
  • Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than One Hour)

• South Park — "Make Love, Not Warcraft"
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender — "City of Walls and Secrets"
  • Robot Chicken — "Lust for Puppets"
  • The Simpsons — "The Haw-Hawed Couple"
  • SpongeBob SquarePants — "Bummer Vacation / Wigstruck"

Outstanding Animated Program (for programming One Hour or more)

• Camp Lazlo: Where's Lazlo?
  • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends — "Good Wilt Hunting"
  • Hellboy: Sword of Storms
  • Secrets of the Deep

Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• Jane Eyre (Masterpiece Theatre)
  • Broken Trail
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • Return to Halloweentown
  • The Starter Wife

Outstanding Art Direction for a Multi-Camera Series

• How I Met Your Mother — "Aldrin Justice", "Something Borrowed", "Something Blue"
  • The Class — "Pilot"

Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series

• Rome — "Heroes of the Republic", "Philippi", "Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus (No God Can Stop a Hungry Man)"
  • Deadwood — "Tell Your God To Ready For Blood", "True Colors", "Amateur Night"
  • Heroes — "Genesis"
  • Shark — "Teacher's Pet"
  • The Tudors — "In Cold Blood"
  • Ugly Betty — "The Box and the Bunny"

Outstanding Art Direction for a Variety or Music Program

• 79th Academy Awards (tie)
• Tony Bennett: An American Classic (tie)
  • Cirque Du Soleil: Corteo
  • Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of The Mayflower
  • Engineering an Empire — "Egypt"
  • Hell's Kitchen — "Episode 210"
  • MADtv — "Episode 1209"

Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series

• Ugly Betty
  • 30 Rock
  • Desperate Housewives
  • Entourage
  • Weeds

Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series

• Friday Night Lights
  • Brothers & Sisters
  • Grey's Anatomy
  • Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
  • The Tudors

Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• Broken Trail
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • Jane Eyre (Masterpiece Theatre)
  • The Path to 9/11
  • The Ron Clark Story
  • The Starter Wife

Outstanding Choreography

• John DeLuca & Rob Marshall for Tony Bennett: An American Classic (tie)
• Mia Michaels for So You Think You Can Dance — "Calling You" (tie)
• Wade Robson for So You Think You Can Dance — "Ramalama (Bang Bang)" (tie)
  • Louis Van Amstel for Dancing With the Stars — "Episode 303"

Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or Movie

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • Broken Trail — "Part 1"
  • Jane Eyre (Masterpiece Theatre) — "Part 1"
  • The Path to 9/11 — "Part 2"
  • The Valley of Light

Outstanding Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Series

• Two and a Half Men — "Release the Dogs"
  • According to Jim — "Hoosier Daddy"
  • Rules of Engagement — "Jeff's Wooby"

Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series

• Rome — "Passover"
  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — "Built to Kill, Part 1"
  • Deadwood — "Catbird Seat"
  • The Sopranos — "Soprano Home Movies"
  • Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip — "Pilot"

Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming

• Planet Earth — "From Pole to Pole"
  • Meerkat Manor — "Family Affair"
  • This American Life — "God's Close-Up"
  • When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Outstanding Commercial

• Animals — American Express
  • Battle — Cingular
  • Happiness Factory — Coca-Cola
  • Jar — General Electric
  • Pinball — Pepsi
  • Singing Cowboy — TheTruth.com
  • Snowball — The Travelers Companies

Outstanding Costumes for a Series

• The Tudors — "Wolsey, Wolsey, Wolsey!"
  • Deadwood — "Amateur Night"
  • Desperate Housewives — "Getting Married Today"
  • Rome — "De Patre Vostro (About Your Father)"
  • Ugly Betty — "I'm Coming Out"

Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• Jane Eyre (Masterpiece Theatre) — "Part 1"
  • Broken Trail — "Part 2"
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • Longford
  • The Starter Wife — "Part 1"

Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming

• Spike Lee for When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
  • Kevin Burns for Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed
  • Lauren Greenfield for Thin
  • Rory Kennedy for Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
  • Christopher Wicha for This American Life — "God's Closeup"

Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series

• Rome — "De Patre Vostro (About Your Father)"
  • Dancing with the Stars — "Episode 303"
  • Deadwood — "A Constant Throb"
  • Desperate Housewives — "It Takes Two"
  • Ugly Betty — "I'm Coming Out"

Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• Jane Eyre (Masterpiece Theatre)
  • 79th Academy Awards
  • Broken Trail
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Outstanding Lighting Direction (electronic, multicamera) for VMC Programming

• 49th Annual Grammy Awards
  • 79th Academy Awards
  • American Idol — "Finale"
  • Dancing with the Stars — "Episode 308"
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien — "Episode 2408"

Outstanding Main Title Design

• Dexter
  • Hustle
  • The Lost Room
  • The Path to 9/11
  • Standoff
  • Ugly Betty

Outstanding Main Title Theme Music

• The Tudors — "Arise, My Lord"
  • 30 Rock — "Hard Ball"
  • Dexter
  • Hustle — "Episode 401"
  • On the Lot — "Episode 102A"

Outstanding Makeup for a Series (Non-Prosthetic)

• Deadwood — "I Am Not The Man You Take Me For"
  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — "Fannysmackin'"
  • Dancing with the Stars — "Episode 303"
  • MADtv — "Episode 1210"
  • Rome — "De Patre Vostro (About Your Father)"

Outstanding Makeup for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special (Non-Prosthetic)

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • Broken Trail
  • Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of The Mayflower
  • Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
  • The Starter Wife

Outstanding Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie, or Special (Prosthetic)

• House — "Que Sera Sera"
  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — "Living Legend"
  • Grey's Anatomy — "My Favorite Mistake"
  • MADtv
  • Nip/Tuck — "Conor McNamara, 2026"

Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Series

• Two and a Half Men — "Release the Dogs"
  • American Idol — "Idol Gives Back"
  • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart — "Episode 12043"
  • Dancing with the Stars — "Episode 304"
  • How I Met Your Mother — "Slap Bet"

Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) And Animation

• Entourage — "One Day in the Valley" (tie)
• Scrubs — "My Musical" (tie)
  • 30 Rock — "Corporate Crush"
  • My Name is Earl — "Our Cops Is On!"
  • The Office — "The Coup"

Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)

• Planet Earth — "From Pole to Pole"
  • Jeff Beal for Rome — "Philippi"
  • Sean Callery for 24 — "Day 6: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m."
  • John M. Keane for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — "Law of Gravity"
  • Mark Snow for Ghost Whisperer — "Love Never Dies"
  • W. G. Snuffy Walden for Kidnapped — "Pilot"

Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special (Dramatic Underscore)

• Jeff Beal for Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King — "Battleground"
  • Todd Boekelheide for Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
  • John Cameron for The Path to 9/11
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • David Mansfield and Van Dyke Parks for Broken Trail
  • Rob Lane for Longford
  • Joseph LeDuca for The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines

Outstanding Music Direction

• 79th Academy Awards
  • 60th Tony Awards
  • Dancing with the Stars
  • Scrubs — "My Musical"

Outstanding Music & Lyrics

• Saturday Night Live — "Host: Justin Timberlake" (Song Title: "Dick in a Box")
  • Family Guy — "Peter's Two Dads" (Song Title: "My Drunken Irish Dad")
  • MADtv — "Episode 1209" (Song Title: "Merry Ex-Mas")
  • Scrubs — "My Musical" (Song Title: "Everything Comes Down To Poo")
  • Scrubs — "My Musical" (Song Title: "Guy Love")

Outstanding Picture Editing for a Special (Single or Multi-Camera)

• Cirque Du Soleil: Corteo
  • 79th Academy Awards
  • Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed
  • Tony Bennett: An American Classic
  • A Tribute to James Taylor

Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming

• When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
  • AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies
  • Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
  • Meerkat Manor — "Family Affair"
  • Planet Earth — "Mountains"

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series

• The Office — "The Job"
  • My Name is Earl — "Guess Who's Coming Out of Joy?"
  • My Name is Earl — "The Trial"
  • Weeds — "Crush Girl Love Panic"
  • Weeds — "Mrs. Botwin's Neighborhood"

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series

• Dexter — "Dexter"
  • Heroes — "Genesis"
  • Lost — "Through the Looking Glass"
  • The Sopranos — "Soprano Home Movies"
  • The Sopranos — "The Second Coming"

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (tie)
• The Path to 9/11 — "Part 2" (tie)
  • Broken Trail — Part 2
  • Jane Eyre (Masterpiece Theatre) — "Part 1"
  • Life Support
  • The Starter Wife — "Part 3"

Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series

• 24 — "Day 6: 10:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m."
  • Battlestar Galactica — "Exodus, Part 2"
  • CSI: Miami — "No Man's Land"
  • ER — "Bloodline"
  • Lost — "A Tale of Two Cities"
  • Smallville — "Zod"

Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Moviem or Special

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • Broken Trail — "Part 2"
  • The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
  • The Path to 9/11 — "Part 1"
  • Tsunami: The Aftermath — "Part 1"

Outstanding Sound Editing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera)

• Planet Earth — "From Pole To Pole"
  • American Masters — "Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built"
  • Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
  • When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One-Hour)

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — "Living Doll"
  • 24 — "Day 6: 10:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m."
  • Boston Legal — "Lincoln"
  • Deadwood — "A Two-Headed Beast"
  • Heroes — "Genesis"
  • The Sopranos — "Stage 5"

Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or Movie

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • Broken Trail — "Part 2"
  • Jane Eyre (Masterpiece Theatre) — "Part 1"
  • Krakatoa: Volcano of Destruction
  • The Lost Room — "The Key and The Clock (Part 1)"

Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety, Music Series, or Special

• Tony Bennett: An American Classic
  • 49th Annual Grammy Awards
  • 79th Academy Awards
  • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart — "Episode 12061"
  • The Magic Flute (Great Performances)

Outstanding Sound Mixing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera)

• American Masters — "Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built"
  • Planet Earth — "From Pole to Pole"
  • When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Outstanding Stunt Coordination

• CSI: Miami — "Rush"
  • 24 — "Day 6: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m."
  • CSI: NY — "Sleight Out Of Hand"
  • ER — "Sleight Out Of Hand"
  • Heroes" — "Genesis"

Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video for a Series

• Saturday Night Live" — "Host: Alec Baldwin"
  • American Idol — "Bon Jovi"
  • Dancing with the Stars — "Episode 310"
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live! — "Jay-Z Show"
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien — "Episode 2424"

Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• American Idol — "Idol Gives Back"
  • 49th Annual Grammy Awards
  • 79th Academy Awards
  • Comic Relief 2006
  • Dane Cook: Vicious Circle
  • Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show
  • Tony Bennett: An American Classic

Outstanding Visual Effects for a Series

• Battlestar Galactica — "Exodus, Part 2"
  • Eureka — "Pilot"
  • Grey's Anatomy — "Walk on Water"
  • Heroes — "Five Years Gone"
  • Rome — "Philippi"

Outstanding Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King — "Battleground"
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • Drive — "The Starting Line"
  • Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King — "The End of the Whole Mess"
  • The Path to 9/11 — "Part 2"
  • Secrets of the Deep

Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Award

• A Lion in The House (tie)
• When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (tie)
  • American Experience — "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple"

Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development

• Teranex (tie)
• TM Systems QC Station (tie)
  • OSRAM HMI Metal Halide Lamp Technology

Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Television Program or Series

• The Fallen Alternate Reality Game

See also

• 59th Primetime Emmy Awards

External links

• 59th Primetime Emmy Awards and Creative Arts Emmy Awards Nominees Emmy website