HBO Leads, as Usual, in Emmys Creative Arts Awards

HBO’s “Behind the Candelabra” and “Boardwalk Empire” took early leads in the annual Emmy race when the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences handed out its Creative Arts awards on Sunday in categories like casting and directing.

The Creative Arts ceremony was held a week before the ceremony for the better-known Prime Time Emmys. As seems to happen each year, HBO came away with the most statues, 20 in all this time, including 8 for the “Candelabra” mini-series, and 4 for “Boardwalk Empire.”

CBS picked up 15, including one for Bob Newhart, the 84-year-old television veteran who guest-starred on the sitcom “The Big Bang Theory” last season. Mr. Newhart had been nominated for Emmys six times before but had never won. On Sunday the crowd gave him a standing ovation. A new entrant in the Emmys race, Netflix, earned two awards: one for the casting of “House of Cards” and another for that show’s cinematography.

The Creative Arts ceremony will be televised on Saturday night by the cable channel FXX, on the eve of the Prime Time Emmys, which will be shown live on CBS on Sunday night.