LOS ANGELES -- Live, from Los Angeles: winner is coming.
Saturday Night Live won five times Saturday night at the Creative Arts Emmys, while Game of Thrones also had a strong showing. Most of SNL's wins were for makeup and hairstyling, but former cast stalwart Jimmy Fallon did win for outstanding guest host.
Thrones won four Creative Arts Emmy awards, while fellow HBO show True Detective also hauled in four trophies. Not to be outdone, the Fox/NatGeo collaboration Cosmo, hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock also each won four times.
Thrones won for special and visual effects for episode "The Children"; costumes for a series; art direction for a contemporary or fantasy series for The Laws of Gods and Men/The Mountain and the Viper; and prosthetic makeup for a series, miniseries, movie or special.
With 15 wins, HBO was just as dominant in the specialty categories, which honor the many creative behind-the-scenes teams in TV, as it tends to be in the big ceremony, held a week from Monday. True Detective tracked down four wins including casting in a drama series -- that one was a no-brainer, eh guys? -- as well as makeup for a single-camera series; cinematography for a single series and original main title design.
Netflix was the fifth-most honored network of the night with seven, behind NBC, PBS and Fox: Orange is the New Black took casting in a comedy series and single-camera picture editing for a comedy; while documentary The Square won a pair, for nonfiction directing and cinematography. House of Cards only drew one ace -- a win for sound mixing for a comedy or drama series.
Cosmos made a big bang Saturday night of its own, winning for nonfiction programming; original main title theme music; music composition for a series and sound editing for nonfiction programming.
And despite six nominations, Breaking Bad only won once -- outstanding single-camera picture editing, drama, for "Felina."