Highlights of the 73rd Annual Creative Arts Emmys
September 13, 2021

Highlights of the 73rd Annual Creative Arts Emmys

The list of winners for the 73rd Annual Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards is long — long enough for the ceremony to span two nights, September 11 and 12. This is in addition to the annual Primetime Emmy Awards. 
 Below we highlight some of the CG/VFX industry’s top winners.

Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie
The Mandalorian Disney+ • Lucasfilm Ltd.
Joe Bauer, Visual Effects Supervisor
Richard Bluff, Visual Effects Supervisor
Abbigail Keller, Visual Effects Producer
Hal Hickel, Animation Supervisor
Roy K. Cancino, Special Effects Supervisor
John Knoll, ILM Visual Effects Supervisor
Enrico Damm, Environments Visual Effects Supervisor
John Rosengrant, Legacy Effects Supervisor
Joseph Kasparian, Hybride Visual Effects Supervisor

Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode
Star Trek: Discovery • Su’kal Paramount+ • CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment
Jason Michael Zimmerman, Supervising Producer/Lead VFX Supervisor
Ante Dekovic, VFX Supervisor
Aleksandra Kochoska, VFX Producer
Charles Collyer, Lead VFX Artist
Alexander Wood, On Set VFX Supervisor
Ivan Kondrup Jensen, VFX Supervisor Ghost VFX
Kristen Prahl, VFX Producer Ghost VFX
Toni Pykalaniemi, VFX Supervisor DNEG
Leslie Chung, VFX Supervisor Crafty Apes

Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation
(Six pre-announced juried award winners)
Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal • Plague of Madness
Adult Swim • Cartoon Network Studios
David Krentz, Storyboard Artist

Love, Death + Robots • Ice Netflix • Blur Studio for Netflix
Robert Valley, Production Designer

Love, Death + Robots • Ice Netflix • Blur Studio for Netflix
Patricio Betteo, Background Artist

Love, Death + Robots • All Through the House
Netflix • Blur Studio for Netflix
Dan Gill, Stop Motion Animator

Love, Death + Robots • Automated Customer Service
Netflix • Blur Studio for Netflix
Laurent Nicolas, Character Designer

The Simpsons • Wad Goals
Fox • A Gracie Films Production in association with 20th Television Animation
Nik Ranieri, Lead Character Layout Artist

Short Form Animated Program
Love, Death + Robots • Ice
Netflix • Blur Studio for Netflix

Animated Program
Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal • Plague Of Madness
Adult Swim • Cartoon Network Studios

Outstanding Motion Design (Pre-announced juried award winner)
Calls
Apple TV+ • Apple / Studiocanal / Bad Hombre Productions in association with Canal+ Alexei Tylevich, Creative Director
Ethan Stickley, Designer/Animator
Scott Ulrich, Animator
Daisuke Goto, Animator
Chi Hong, Animator James Connelly, Editor

Main Title Design
The Good Lord Bird
Showtime • SHOWTIME Presents, Blumhouse Television, Mark 924 Entertainment, Under the Influence Productions
Efrain Montanez, Director/Creative Director
Eduardo Guisandes, Art Director/Designer
Abigail Fairfax, Illustrator/Animator