The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) presented the first annual Children’s & Family Emmy Awards, across two ceremonies held Saturday, December 10 (Creative Arts) and Sunday, December 11 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. Animation was a major part of the new awards — the first standalone expansion of the Emmy Award competition since 1979.
Netflix Animation really threw its creative weight around in this inaugural competition, taking the top category prizes for animation as across kids’ series (City of Ghosts), preschool (Ada Twist, Scientist), special class (Hilda and the Mountain King) and short-form (We the People), in addition to multiple craft awards for Maya and the Three and Centaurworld.
OUTSTANDING PRESCHOOL ANIMATED SERIES — Ada Twist, Scientist (Netflix)
Executive Producers: Andrea Beaty, Mark Burton, Tonia Davis, Cathal Gaffney, Chris Nee, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Darragh O’Connell, David Roberts, Priya Swaminathan
Co-Executive Producer: Kerri Grant
Creative Producer: Alex Pitz
Supervising Producer: Gillian Higgins
Producers: Nayanshi Shaw, Peedee Shindell
Consulting Producer: Jean Herlihy
