FILE - An Emmy statue appears one stage at the 49th annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Pasadena, Calif., on June 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Maya Rudolph won her sixth career Emmy on Saturday night, taking the trophy for best character voice-over for her work on “Big Mouth” at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. And the former and future “Saturday Night Live” star is up for three more.
It was Rudolph’s fourth Emmy for giving voice to the Hormone Monstress on the Netflix animated show “Big Mouth.”
“I’m really proud to be a part of this show,” she said. “It humanizes being human.”
She got emotional when as she talked about the privilege that she gets to do what she loves in her life.
“It’s making me cry because I’m very menopausal,” Rudolph said.
She won on the first of the two-night Creative Arts Emmys, which honor artistic and technical achievement in television and are a precursor to the main Emmys ceremony, hosted by Dan and Eugene Levy, that will air at 8 p.m. EST Sept. 15 on ABC.
Other winners Saturday night included the recently retired Pat Sajak, who won best game show host for his final season on “Wheel of Fortune.” It was his fourth time winning the award, and first time since 1998.
“Saturday Night Live” thrived in the craft categories, winning for its hairstyling, makeup and production design.
Rudolph won two Emmys when she was a cast member on the show, and is nominated for two more for her work as host of the sketch institution last season. Those will be awarded Sunday.
She will be returning this fall to play Vice President Kamala Harris on the 50th season of “SNL” in the weeks leading up to the election.
“I feel like I am connected somehow to an incredible time in this country and an excitement that I haven’t felt in a long time,” she said backstage on Saturday.
She is also nominated at the main Emmys ceremony for best actress in a comedy for her Apple TV+ series “Loot.” She is a longshot for that award, where the favorites are Jean Smart for “Hacks” and Ayo Edebiri for “The Bear,” which leads all shows in the comedy category with 23 nominations.
The top overall nominee, “Shogun,” got a win of sorts Saturday when the team that puts together the post-show making of featurette took home an Emmy. The FX series itself is up for 25 Emmys. Seventeen of those will be handed out on Sunday, which focuses on scripted television, while Saturday’s ceremony is for unscripted and variety shows.
Nearly 100 Emmys are handed out to hairdressers, production designers, cinematographers and other behind-the-scenes figures this weekend at the Peacock Theater, the same home as the larger Emmy Awards.
Plenty of big names are also up for Creative Arts Emmys, including Oscar winners Jamie Lee Curtis and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Oscar nominees Ryan Gosling and Angela Bassett, though not all of them are likely to appear in person as Rudolph did.
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