FOX’s The Simpsons picked up its ninth Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program (less than one hour) on Saturday during the 2005-2006 Creative Arts Primetime Emmy awards presentation at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Additional gold statuettes for animation and visual effects went to Discovery Channel’s Before the Dinosaurs, HBO’s Rome and SCI-FI Channel’s The Triangle.
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honored The Simpsons for the episode ‘The Seemingly Neverending Story.’ The long running series proved it still packs a punch after more than 300 episodes, for the episode from creator/exec producer Matt Groening beat out fellow FOX toon Family Guy, as well as Comedy Central’s South Park and the Cartoon Network hits Camp Lazlo and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. In addition, Kelsey Grammer accepted his previously announced Outstanding Voice-Over Performance win for voicing the character Sideshow Bob in the Simpsons episode ‘The Italian Bob.’
Before the Dinosaurs earned Discovery Channel another Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program (one hour or more). Mike Milne served as director of computer animation on this latest installment of the network’s popular series of specials that explore what life may have been like in prehistoric times. Discovery previously won the category with the specials Walking with Dinosaurs and Chased by Dinosaurs.
Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series was awarded to HBO’s Rome for the episode “The Stolen Eagle”, thanks to a crew lead by vfx producer Barrie Hemsley and vfx supervisor James Madigan. Meanwhile, SCI FI’s The Triangle snagged Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries Movie or Special. Co-written and exec-produced by Superman Returns director Bryan Singer, Independence Day scribe Dean Devlin and Farscape creator Rockne S. O’Bannon, the production features visual effects overseen by Volker Engel and Marc Weigert, the Oscar-winning team behind Independence Day.
Six artists were additionally chosen by the jury to receive this year’s Emmys for Individual Achievement in Animation. The awards were picked up over the weekend by animator Jarek Szyszko for his work on the ‘Hippo Dance’ segment of HBO’s Classical Baby 2; animator Sarah E. Meyer for the ‘Easter Basket’ episode of Cartoon Network’s Robot Chicken; background key designer Frederick Gardner for the ‘Adventures in Babysitting’ episode of Cartoon Network’s The Life And Times Of Juniper Lee; character designer Bryan Arnett for Nickelodeon’s Escape From Cluster Prime; character designer Shannon Tindle for the ‘Go Goo Go’ episode of Cartoon Network’s Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends; and storyboard artist Mike Diederich for Cartoon Network’s The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
The Creative Arts Primetime Emmys ceremony is an extension of The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, Aug. 2, with NBC picking up the telecast from the Shrine Auditorium.
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