Creative Arts Emmys: ‘When Claude Got Shot’ gets documentary award, Milwaukee native Noah Mitz wins first in 23 nominations

Milwaukee was nicely represented on the primary evening of the Artistic Arts Emmys Saturday. 

The Artistic Arts Emmys, which embrace the specialty classes together with behind-the-scenes work on one of the best in tv, are given out the weekend earlier than the Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony. The primary batch, 45 awards in all, have been doled out Saturday evening. Forty-eight extra will probably be given out Sunday evening. 

Amongst Saturday evening’s winners: 

• “When Claude Received Shot,” the documentary about Milwaukee native Claude Motley and his journey to justice and reconciliation after he was shot whereas visiting dwelling for a highschool reunion, received the award for distinctive benefit in documentary filmmaking. Amongst these accumulating trophies Saturday evening was producer-director Brad Lichtenstein, the Milwaukee-based filmmaker who made the mission along with his Motley, an in depth good friend. 

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• Milwaukee native Noah Mitz received his first Primetime Emmy Saturday evening — his first win in 23 nominations. 

Mitz, a lighting designer who went to Nicolet Excessive Faculty, shared the Emmy for finest lighting design/lighting path for a spread particular for “Adele: One Night time Solely.” It was certainly one of three nominations for Mitz within the class; he additionally was nominated for “The sixty fourth Annual Grammy Awards” and “The Tony Awards Current: Broadway’s Again!” 

Mitz had 5 total nominations at this yr’s Emmys. He additionally was nominated twice for excellent lighting design/lighting path for a spread sequence for “America’s Received Expertise” and “American Tune Contest”; the award in that class went to “The Voice.” 

Mitz’s shared win for “Adele: One Night time Solely” was certainly one of 5 Emmys received by the CBS music particular. It tied for many wins Saturday evening with “The Beatles: Get Again,” the three-part Disney+ documentary by Peter Jackson. 

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The evening’s different notable winners included the late Chadwick Boseman, who received the Emmy for finest character voice-over for the animated Marvel sequence “What If … ?”; and Barack Obama, who grew to become the primary president to win a aggressive Emmy when he acquired the award for finest narrator for his Netflix sequence, “Our Nice Nationwide Parks.” 

After the second spherical of Artistic Arts Emmys Sunday evening, the Primetime Emmy Awards, masking the key TV classes, will probably be offered Sept. 12 in a ceremony carried dwell on NBC. 

Contact Chris Foran at chris.foran@jrn.com. Comply with him on Twitter at @cforan12.