‘SNL’ hosts Rudolph, Chappelle win guest actor Emmy honors

LOS ANGELES » Claire Foy, Courtney B. Vance, Maya Rudolph and Dave Chappelle won guest actor Emmys at the recent creative arts awards ceremony.

On the drama series side, Foy was honored for “The Crown” and her reprisal of Queen Elizabeth II, the role that won her a lead actress Emmy in 2018. Vance won for his part in “Lovecraft Country,” which was canceled after one season.

Rudolph and Chappelle earned comedy series guest acting trophies as hosts of “Saturday Night Live.” For Rudolph, it was a repeat of her victory in the category last year, also for “SNL.”

In the short-form comedy or drama series, the winners were J.B. Smoove for “Mapleworth Murders” and Keke Palmer for “Keke Palmer’s Turnt Up with the Taylors.”

All the awards, except for that earned by Foy, went to Black actors. While that appeared to signal a trend toward diversity for this year’s Emmys, the guest actor awards have proved more inclusive than the top acting honors in recent years.

The creative arts awards were presented in non-televised ceremonies. The awards are precursors to the main Emmy ceremony airing tonight at 8 on CBS, with Cedric the Entertainer as host.

Emmanuel Acho, executive producer of “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man,” which won for short form nonfiction or reality series, wore a suit that bore that names of Black men and women killed at the hands of police.

Courtney B. Vance poses with the award for outstanding guest actor in a drama series for “Lovecraft Country” on night two of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.