The 45th Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards took place Friday night in Pasadena, honoring programs, performers and creative craftspeople in the television and digital streaming space. CBS soap The Bold and the Beautiful and the largely live-action kids’ classic Sesame Street tied for most awards with seven each, while DreamWorks Animation Television was behind the most animation winners with five Emmys — making good on its seven nominations — and helped Netflix take the top platform place for animated programs with eight.
For DWA’s series, this year’s additional victory brings the Trollhunters total to five Emmys; two wins for All Hail King Julien: Exiled add to the previous series’ cumulative five; and Dinotrux also scored a double, with two previous Daytime Emmy Awards.
Also padding their win record were Bix Pix/Amazon’s beautiful stop-motion series Tumble Leaf, which now has 11 (including a second Individual Achievement in Animation award for colorist Robyn Yannoukos). Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants now has four Daytime wins, with 2018 delivering the Children’s Animation Series award and Tom Kenny’s first Emmy for voicing the iconic character.
JibJab Media/Netflix’s A StoryBots Christmas was another double winner, out of five nominations. The Ask the StoryBots series won the Interactive Media – Enhancement to a Daytime Program prize last year.
The 2018 animation and related category winners are:
Outstanding Preschool Children’s Series
Sesame Street (HBO)
Outstanding Children’s Series
Free Rein (Netflix)
Outstanding Writing in a Children’s, Preschool Children’s, Family Viewing
Sesame Street (HBO)
Outstanding Preschool Children’s Animated Series
Tumble Leaf (Amazon)
Outstanding Children’s Animated Series
SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickelodeon)
Outstanding Special Class Animated Program
A StoryBots Christmas (Netflix)
Outstanding Interactive Media Enhancement to a Daytime Program or Series
Fruit Ninja Frenzy Force (YouTube RED)
Outstanding Interactive Media – Original Daytime Program or Series
ASTEROIDS! (Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, Google Daydream, HTC Vive, Sony PSVR)
Outstanding Special Class – Short Format Daytime Program
Sesame Street: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with Julia & Elmo (YouTube)
Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program
Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickelodeon)
Outstanding Casting for an Animated Series or Special
Elena of Avalor (Disney Channel)
Outstanding Writing in a Preschool Animated Program
Octonauts (Disney Junior)
Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program
Trollhunters (Netflix)
Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program
Danger & Eggs (Amazon)
Outstanding Directing in a Preschool Animated Program
A StoryBots Christmas (Netflix)
Outstanding Art Direction/Set Decoration/Scenic Design
Sesame Street (HBO)
Outstanding Sound Mixing in and Animated Program
All Hail King Julien: Exiled (Netflix)
Outstanding Sound Mixing in a Preschool Animated Program
Dinotrux (Netflix)
Outstanding Sound Editing in an Animated Program
All Hail King Julien: Exiled (Netflix)
Outstanding Sound Editing in a Preschool Animated Program
Dinotrux (Netflix)
Outstanding Music Direction & Composition
The Tom & Jerry Show (Cartoon Network)
Outstanding Technical Team
Sesame Street (HBO)
Outstanding Main Title & Graphic Design
Mind of a Chef (Facebook Watch)
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation
Marie Thorhauge Torslev | Production Designer Through the Woods (Curious World)
Steve C. Meyers | Background Layout Artist, Puppy Dog Pals (Disney Junior)
Tom Caulfield | Storyboard Artist, Tangled: The Series (Disney Channel)
Michelle Park | Color Designer, Star vs. the Forces of Evil (Disney XD)
Robyn Yannoukos | Colorist, Tumble Leaf (Amazon)
