Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle Emmy Awards: ‘Downey’s Dream Cars’ & Buddy Valastro Score Gold; More Emmys For ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’

Lynette Rice

9 June 2024 at 11:01 am·5-min read

Downey’s Dream Cars on Max and Christian Cooper of National Geographic’s Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper were among the winners Saturday night the 51st Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle Emmys.

Held a day after the Daytime Emmys at downtown Los Angeles’ Westin Bonaventure Hotel, the Creative Arts & Lifestyle awards honored legal/courtroom dramas, travel/adventure programs, and arts and culture shows, as well as lighting and technical direction specialists and costumers, cinematographers and hairstylists.

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Among the winners was Amazon Freevee’s Judy Justice for best Legal/Courtroom Program. The Kelly Clarkson Show, which picked up its fourth consecutive talk-show win the night before, scored two more wins Saturday, for lighting design and live sound mixing/editing.

Multiple winners Saturday also included Nat Geo’s Animals Up Close with Bertie Gregory, Netflix’s Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones, and Netflix’s African Queens: Njinga.

See the complete list of winners below.

LEGAL/COURTROOM PROGRAM

Judy Justice (Amazon Freevee)

Executive Producers
Randy Douthit, Scott Koondel

Co-Executive Producer
Amy Freisleben

Supervising Producer
Victoria Jenest

Line Producer
Yusufu Henry

Senior Producers
Matt Pomfret, Marisa Van Den Borre

Coordinating Producer
Jeff Kueppers

Segment Producers
Jave Galt-Miller, Luci Kwak, Melanie Manooki, Milena Rhodes, Alan Stein

Co-Supervising Producer
Cybil Jordan-Malachi

Host
Judge Judy Sheindlin

Co-Hosts
Whitney Kumar, Kevin Rasco, Sarah Rose

TRAVEL, ADVENTURE AND NATURE PROGRAM

Animals Up Close with Bertie Gregory (National Geographic)

Executive Producers
Drew Jones, Anwar Mamon

Senior Producer
Jennie Hammond

Series Producer
James Brickell

Producer
Will West

Co-Producer
Bertie Gregory

Line Producer
Ashley Lorenzo-Feldman

INSTRUCTIONAL/HOW-TO PROGRAM

Hack My Home (Netflix)

Executive Producers
Ross Breitenbach, Nicole Elliott, Ming Lee Howell, Christian Sarabia

Co-Executive Producers
Anne Hill, Cody Shelton

Supervising Producer
John Lewis

Line Producer
Jeff West

LIFESTYLE PROGRAM

Downey’s Dream Cars (Max)

Executive Producers
Emily Barclay Ford, Susan Downey, Robert Downey Jr., Dave Larzelere, Todd Lubin, Chris Mazzilli, Jay Peterson, Kyle Wheeler, Benjamin Wood

Co-Executive Producers
Leah Culton Gonzalez, Zach Messner, Trevor Neuhoff

Coordinating Producer
Paola Espinosa

Supervising Story Producer
Louis Waxman

Producer
Kyle Bedell

Story Producers
Steph Baca, Alexis Freitag

Line Producers
Chris Hansen, Samantha Nestor

Consulting Producer
Kirsten Korosec

ARTS AND POPULAR CULTURE PROGRAM

Oprah and “The Color Purple” Journey (Max)

Executive Producers
Tara Montgomery, Brian Piotrowicz, Oprah Winfrey

Co-Executive Producer
Brad Pavone

Supervising Producers
Colleen Dunnegan

Producers
Fatima Elswify, Kareka Green

EDUCATIONAL AND INFORMATIONAL PROGRAM

Leveling Lincoln (PBS)

Executive Producer
Arden Teresa Lewis

Producers
Rita Cofield, Tinks Lovelace, Kimberly Woods

DAYTIME SPECIAL

Culture Quest: Ukraine (PBS)

Executive Producer
Ian Grant

Senior Producer
Ian Levasseur

Creative Producer
Nata Zhyzhchenko

Consulting Producers
Trevor Hyslop, Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta

SHORT FORM PROGRAM

The Dads (Netflix)

Executive Producers
Jon Marcus, Dwyane Wade

Director
Luchina Fisher

CULINARY HOST

Buddy Valastro

Legends of the Fork (A&E)

DAYTIME PERSONALITY – NON-DAILY

Christian Cooper

Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper (National Geographic)

WRITING TEAM FOR A DAYTIME NON-FICTION PROGRAM

Reconnecting Roots (PBS)

Head Writers
Dave Boyd, Ryan Estabrooks

Associate Head Writers
Joel McAfee, Gabe McCauley

Writers
Josh Childs, Emma King, Asia Mechikoff, Ben Oddo, Julian Vaca, Wesley Vis

DIRECTING TEAM FOR A SINGLE CAMERA DAYTIME NON-FICTION PROGRAM

Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones (Netflix)

Director
Clay Jeter

DIRECTING TEAM FOR A MULTIPLE CAMERA DAYTIME NON-FICTION PROGRAM

The View (ABC)

Director
Sarah de la O

Associate Directors
Janean Elkins, John Keegan, Craig Viechec, Christopher Wayne

Stage Managers
Rob Bruce Baron, Paul Tarascio, Edward Valk

OUTSTANDING MUSIC DIRECTION AND COMPOSITION

Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones (Netflix)

Music By
Steve Gernes, Tyler Sabbag, Duncan Thum

ORIGINAL SONG

“We’re Home”

Reconnecting Roots (PBS)

Composer & Lyricists
Heidi Feek, Dillon Hodges, Mandy McCauley

LIGHTING DIRECTION

The Kelly Clarkson Show (Syndicated)

Lighting Designer
Darren Langer

Lighting Director
John Daniels

TECHNICAL DIRECTION, CAMERAWORK, VIDEO

Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade (ABC)

Senior Technical Directors
John Diperna, Travis Elkins, Tony Martin

Director of Photography
Rick Siegel

Tech Managers
Billy Butler, James Coker

Camera Operators
Deb Brozina, Chris Ferguson, Ricky Fontanez, Shaun Harkins, Travis Hays, Tom Hildreth, Jill Sager, Fed Wetherbee, Ryan Balton

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Animals Up Close with Bertie Gregory (National Geographic)

Cinematographers
Bertie Gregory, Sam Stewart

SINGLE CAMERA EDITING

Drive with Swizz Beatz (Hulu)

Lead Editors
Max Rosenfeld, Lauren Staller

Editors
Sujit Agrawal, Jared Aston, Ben Bolton, Jordan Browne, Katie Covell, Sherman Pascoe, Lyric Ramsey, Ashley Rath, Matt Valdez

MULTIPLE CAMERA EDITING

TrueSouth (ESPN/ABC/SEC Network)

Editors
Joe Canali, Timothy Horgan, Dave Lynch

OUTSTANDING LIVE SOUND MIXING AND SOUND EDITING

The Kelly Clarkson Show (Syndicated)

Audio Engineer
James Slanger

Monitor Mixer
Bob Lewis

Front of House Mixers
Omatali Beckett, Eddie Marquez

Music Mixer
Robert Venable

Pre-Production Mixers
Danny Cruz, Jeff Hickman, Rosa Howell Thornhill, Jennifer Vannoy-Rounsaville, Bryan Smith, Marilyn Vigilante

Pre-Production Music Mixers
Rachel Orscher, Kevin Shannon

SOUND MIXING AND SOUND EDITING

Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones (Netflix)

Re-Recording Mixer
Phil Detolve

Supervising Sound Editor
A. Josh Reinhardt

Dialogue Editor
Graham Barclay

Sound Effects Editor
Louie Recinos

MAIN TITLE AND GRAPHIC DESIGN

Searching for Soul Food (Hulu)

Graphics Producers
Carson Hood, Kristen Pritchett

Designers
Eun Sung Do, Paolo Garcia, Sohyun Park

Creative Director
Mark Thompson

Animators
Addy Afzali, Liu Chia-lung, Carl Dempsey

CASTING

African Queens: Njinga (Netflix)

Casting Directors
Olissa Rogers, Christa Schamberger

ART DIRECTION/SET DECORATION/SCENIC DESIGN

African Queens: Njinga (Netflix)

Art Director
Warren Gray

COSTUME DESIGN/STYLING

The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)

Costume Designer
Jeresa Featherstone

Wardrobe Supervisor
Anabel Shuckhart

Wardrobe Stylists
Lucy Flores, Jennifer Johns, Patrice Johnson

Costume Stylists
Ross Fuentes, Gail Mosley, Angelo Santos

HAIRSTYLING AND MAKEUP

African Queens: Njinga (Netflix)

Hair and Makeup Department Head
Gale Shepherd

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