A number of Canadian talents took home gold at the 75th Creative Arts Emmy Awards across Jan. 6 and 7, with the Alberta-shot HBO series The Last of Us (pictured) leading in overall wins.

The video game adaptation won eight awards overall, with Calgary’s Michael Playfair among the winners in the Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour) category.

The series also won prizes for prosthetic makeup, VFX, main title design, sound editing, picture editing, and guest performance for Nick Offerman and Storm Reid.

The Last of Us generated more than $182 million in GDP for Alberta and created nearly 1,500 jobs, according to a recent report from Oxford Economics. The production spend on the series’ first season included $71 million on wages and salary for local crew and cast, and $70 million supporting local businesses, totalling $141 million.

Other Canadians picking up Creative Arts Emmys include production designer Tamara Deverell, art director Brandt Gordon, and set decorator Shane Vieau, winning Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Period or Fantasy Production (One Hour or More) for Netflix anthology series Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet Of Curiosities.

Chilean-Canadian music composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer, meanwhile, won Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for HBO’s The White Lotus, and Matthew Whelan was among the honourees for Outstanding Special Visual Effects In A Single Episode for the Apple TV+ series Five Days At Memorial.

The Apple TV+ documentary feature Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, about the Edmonton-born actor, won four awards, including Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Special. Additionally, Alberta-shot film Prey won Outstanding Sound Editing For A Limited Or Anthology Series, Movie Or Special.

The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards will take place on Sunday (Jan. 15).

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