Emmys for South Park, Simpsons

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored Comedy Central’s South Park and FOX’s The Simpsons, among other animated and vfx-intensive programs, at Saturday night’s the 2008 Creative Arts Awards ceremony. Held in conjunction with the 60th Annual Emmy Awards, the event took place at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. Other big winners include Cartoon Network’s Camp Lazlo, HBO’s Classical Baby, SCI FI Channel’s Battlestar Galactica and HBO’s John Adams.

The Simpsons picked up its 10th win for Outstanding Animated Program (less than one hour). Now entering its 20th season, the show has picked up the Emmy half of the years it’s been on the air. Emmy voters first singled out the program in 1990, the year after it debuted and took primetime television by storm.

Seth MacFarlane and the crew of FOX’s hit toon Family Guy missed out on two fronts. The show wasn’t eligible for contention for Outstanding Animated Program (less than one hour) because producers instead ventured to put it up against its live-action counterparts in the run for Best Comedy Series. The show failed to land a nomination there, but MacFarlane had hedged his bet by entering the Star Wars spoof Family Guy: Blue Harvest in the Animated Program (one hour or more) category. In that heat, it ended up losing to South Park‘s three-part ‘Imaginationland’ story arc.

Also picking up awards during the ceremony were previously announced winners of juried categories. These include Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation recipients Ben Balistreri
for character design for Cartoon Network’s Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (‘Mondo Coco’), and Teresa Drilling for animation on CBS’ Creature Comforts America (‘Self Image, Winging It, Art’)

The 2008 Creative Arts Emmy Winners for animation and vfx categories follow. A complete list of winners can be found at /www.emmys.org/awards/primetimeawards.php.

Outstanding Animated Program (One Hour or More)

South Park ‘Imaginationland’

Comedy Central

Trey Parker, Executive Producer/Writer/Director

Matt Stone, Executive Producer

Anne Garefino, Executive Producer

Frank Agnone II, Supervising Producer

Kyle McCulloch, Producer

Eric Stough, Producer

Bruce Howell, Producer

Adrien Beard, Producer

Vernon Chatman, Producer

Erica Rivinoja, Producer

Pam Brady, Producer

Ryan Quincy, Director of Animation

Outstanding Animated Program (Less Than One Hour)

The Simpsons ‘Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind’

FOX

James L. Brooks, executive producer

Matt Groening, executive producer

Al Jean, executive producer

Ian Maxtone-Graham, executive producer

Matt Selman, executive producer

Tim Long, executive producer

John Frink, co-executive producer

Kevin Curran, co-executive producer

Michael Price, co-executive producer

Bill Odenkirk, co-executive producer

Marc Wilmore, co-executive producer

Joel H. Cohen, co-executive producer

Ron Hauge, co-executive producer

Rob Lazebnik, co-executive producer

Laurie Biernacki, animation producer

Rick Polizzi, animation producer

J. Stewart Burns, writer

Chuck Sheetz, director

Mark Kirkland, supervising director

Jess Espanola, assistant director

Patricia Shinagawa, animation timer

Outstanding Children’s Program

Tie

Classical Baby (I’m Grown Up Now) ‘The Poetry Show’

HBO

Sheila Nevins, executive producer

Dolores Morris, supervising producer

Amy Schatz, producer

Beth Aala, producer

Nick News With Linda Ellerbee ‘The Untouchable Kids of India’

Nickelodeon

Linda Ellerbee, Executive Producer

Rolfe Tessem, Executive Producer

Josh Veselka, Producer

Mark Lyons, Producer

Wally Berger, Supervising Producer

Outstanding Special Class ‘ Short-Format Animated Program

Camp Lazlo ‘Lazlo’s First Crush’

Cartoon Network

Joe Murray, executive producer

Brian A. Miller, executive producer

Mark O’Hare, supervising producer

Jennifer Pelphrey, supervising producer

Janet Dimon, producer

Brian Sheesley, supervising director/director

Won Dong Kun, animation director

John Infantino, storyboard director/writer

Piero Piluso, writer

Merriweather Williams, story

Kaz Prapuolenis, story

Steve Little, story

Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series

Battlestar Galactica ‘He That Believeth In Me’

SCI FI Channel

Gary Hutzel, visual effects supervisor

Michael Gibson, visual effects producer

David Takemura, visual effects coordinator

Doug Drexler, cgi supervisor

Kyle Toucher, cg artist

Sean Jackson, cg artist

Pierre Drolet, cg modeler

Aurore de Blois, senior compositor

Derek Ledbetter, compositor

Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or Special

John Adams ‘Join Or Die’

HBO

Erik Henry, visual effects supervisor

Jeff Goldman, visual effects supervisor

Paul Graff, visual effects supervisor

Steve Kullback, visual effects producer

Christina Graff, visual effects producer

David Van Dyke, visual effects producer

Robert Stromberg, visual effects designer

Edwardo Mendez, compositing supervisor

Ken Gorrell, special effects coordinator