“The Bear,” the Chicagocentric series about a chef and his family and restaurant staff, won seven Emmys at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday night, including best guest actress in a comedy series for Jamie Lee Curtis.
Curtis was emotional on stage after winning her first Emmy 18 months after winning her first Oscar for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
“I’m the luckiest girl in the world,” Curtis said backstage. “I just never thought I would get to do work at this level of depth and complexity and intelligence. It’s been the thrill of my creative life these last couple of years.”
Asked if she could win a Grammy and a Tony to make it an EGOT, she said no way.
“I can’t sing at all,” she said, “and I’ve never been on stage.”
Curtis won for the season two “Bear” episode “Fishes,” in which she played the alcoholic mother of star Jeremy Allen White’s Carmy at a nightmare holiday family gathering. Jon Bernthal, who played White’s older brother Michael in the episode, won best guest actor in a comedy.
It was the second night of the two-night Creative Arts Emmys, where awards are handed out that don’t quite make the main Primetime Emmys ceremony.
“Shogun,” the FX series about political machinations in feudal Japan, won the most Emmys ever for a single season of a television series with 14, breaking the record of 13 set by the 2008 limited series “John Adams” before even reaching the Sept. 15 main Emmys ceremony, when it can pad its record with up to five more.
The series won all but two of the possible 16 trophies it could have claimed on Sunday night, including Emmys for costumes, makeup, editing, stunts and cinematography, along with a best guest actor in a drama Emmy for Néstor Carbonell.
Both nights of the program will be edited into a single 2 1/2-hour show that will air on Sept. 14 on FX, streaming the following day on Hulu.
Dan and Eugene Levy will host the primetime Emmy Awards live on Sept 15 on ABC.