There's less than a week until the American television industry hands out awards honoring itself, but the so-called "Creative Emmys" have been awarded, and SciFi Channel's "Battlestar Galactica" is among the winners.
In the network's only win on the creative side, the episode "Exodus, Part 2" which featured among other things a free-falling Galactica through the planet's atmosphere that some fans had called one of the most amazing effects on television ever produced, beat out some tough competition in the Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series category over the weekend that included the pilot episode of SciFi's "Eureka," ABC's "Gray's Anatomy," the "Five Years Gone" episode of NBC's "Heroes" and HBO's "Rome."
Those honored include visual special effects supervisor Gary Hutzel, senior VFX coordinator Michael Gibson, CG supervisor Doug Drexler, CGI sequence designer Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz, lead matte painter Jeremy Hoey, lead compositor Tom Archer, CGI supervisor Andrew Karr, lead CGI artist/animator Alex McClymont, and lead compositor Brenda Campbell.
This is the first Emmy win for the series after being nominated in creative categories in 2005 and 2006. The 2003 miniseries also had three creative nominations as well.
It's not over yet for "Battlestar Galactica," however. The show nudged out of the creative categories and will have a chance for a statue during Sunday's live broadcast of the main awards. Ronald D. Moore's two-part episode "Occupation" and "Precipice" is up for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series as well as Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for Felix Alcala's work on "Exodus, Part 2."
"Dexter" on Showtime also was a winner, picking up statues for Outstanding Main Title Design and for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series, but lost out for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music to "The Tudors," which also airs on Showtime.
"Battlestar" did lose out to "24" for Outstanding Sound Editing.
Other shows nominated but not winning in the creative categories included "Heroes," "The Lost Room," "Lost" and "Smallville."
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