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“Shogun” wins a record-breaking 14 Emmys at the Creative Arts ceremony, Jamie Lee Curtis receives her first
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“Shogun” wins a record-breaking 14 Emmys at the Creative Arts ceremony, Jamie Lee Curtis receives her first

LOS ANGELES (AP) — At Sunday night’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards, “Shogun” won the most Emmys ever for a single season of a television series with 14, while “The Bear” won seven, including Jamie Lee Curtis for best guest actress in a comedy series.

On the second night of the two-day Creative Arts Emmys, which hand out awards that don’t quite make it to the main primetime Emmy ceremony, presenters at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theatre chanted “Shogun” all night long, breaking the record of 13 awards set by the 2008 miniseries “John Adams” before reaching the main Emmy ceremony on Sept. 15, where the record can be surpassed by up to five more awards.

“Shogun,” the FX series about political machinations in feudal Japan, won all but two of the 16 possible trophies on Sunday night, including Emmys for costumes, makeup, editing, stunts and camera work, as well as an Emmy for best guest actor in a drama for Néstor Carbonell.

When he accepted, Carbonell thanked the crew and then marveled at how many of them were in the audience.

“You’re all here! You’re all nominated!” said Carbonell. “I love this team sport.”

Curtis was emotional onstage after winning her first Emmy, 18 months after winning her first Oscar for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

“I’m the luckiest girl in the world,” Curtis said backstage. “I never thought I’d be able to do work that’s so deep, complex and intelligent. This has been the highlight of my creative life over the last few years.”

When asked if she could win a Grammy and a Tony to make it an EGOT, she said, “Absolutely not.”

“I can’t sing at all,” she said, “and I’ve never been on stage.”

However, songwriting team Benj Pasek and Justin Paul became the 20th and 21st members of the elite EGOT club when they won their first Emmy for a song they co-wrote for “Only Murders in the Building.” The duo had previously won an Oscar for “La La Land” and a Grammy and Tony for “Dear Evan Hansen.”

Curtis won for the Bear season two episode “Fishes,” in which she played star Jeremy Allen White’s mother at a nightmarish family reunion over the holidays. Jon Bernthal, who played White’s big brother in the episode, won best guest actor in a comedy.

For her performance in “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” Michaela Coel won the award for Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.

“Shogun” breathed new life into the Emmy race when it moved from miniseries to drama series in May and topped all nominees with 25 nominees when the nominations were announced in July.

The victory was so consistent that the few who beat him – he lost only in two music composition categories – felt compelled to comment on it.

“I didn’t write a speech because I had no chance of beating ‘Shogun’ tonight,” said Siddharta Khosa, who won the award for best music composition for a series for “Only Murders in the Building.”

When Eric Andŕe was asked just one question in the media room after winning his first Emmy for his performance on his eponymous talk show, he said with mock despair: “Sorry, I’m not on Shogun!”

Maya Rudolph and Angela Bassett were among the winners of the Creative Arts competition Saturday night, which focused on reality TV and variety TV. Rudolph won her sixth Emmy for her voice work on the animated series “Big Mouth.” Bassett won her first Emmy for her narration of the National Geographic wildlife documentary series “Queens.”

Both nights of the show will be edited into a single two-and-a-half-hour show that will air on FXX on September 14 and stream on Hulu the following day.

Dan and Eugene Levy will host the Primetime Emmy Awards, also at the Peacock Theater, which will air on ABC on September 15.

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