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By AP 
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Los Angeles – In a virtual Emmys version of the Oscar blunder, Ron Cephas Jones’s guest star award for “This Is Us” was announced for another nominee, Jason Bateman.
The mistake occurred during Saturday’s online creative arts Emmys, precursors to Sunday’s main ceremony and the culmination of a week of events honoring technical and other achievements.
However, Saturday’s show on FXX was the only one of the creative arts performances to be televised, making the mistake all the more glaring. In a voiceover announcement, Bateman was declared the winner for his guest appearance on HBO’s “The Outsider,” while the screen featured Jones’s name.
The confusion was not resolved until after a commercial break, with an on-screen message saying: “Our apologies, wrong winner announced. We’re fixing it now, ”followed by the repeated display of Jones’s name but without an announcement.
There was no immediate explanation for the error.
Jones was mild-mannered about the mistake when he answered questions virtually afterward, focusing instead on his second Emmy for “This Is Us” and especially his daughter, actress and singer Jasmine Cephas Jones.
He expressed his joy to learn that the couple made Emmys history as the first father and daughter to win the same year. Her short series acting trophy came earlier this week for Quibi’s “#FreeRayshawn”.
“My heart explodes when I think of her and see her and the success she has had,” he said.
Bateman gets another shot Sunday, when he competes for the best actor award for “Ozark.” The ABC telecast will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
Given the lack of onstage presenters and a theater audience at the virtual event, the mistake was far less dramatic than the 2017 Oscars confusion, in which Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway mistakenly announced “La La Land” as the best movie instead of the winner. “Moonlight”.
But the Emmys’ misstep was a cautionary note for Sunday’s show, which will also be virtual due to the pandemic, but has ambitious plans. More than 100 cameras are being deployed for the nominees at home and elsewhere so that the winners can accept their prize in real time.
Other winners on Saturday included Eddie Murphy, whose return to “Saturday Night Live” after more than three decades earned the star his first Emmy Award, as a guest star on a comedy series.
Maya Rudolph claimed the category’s Guest Actress trophy for her portrayal of Senator Kamala Harris, two days after earning an Emmy for voice-over performance for “Big Mouth.”
Cherry Jones won the Drama Guest Actress trophy for “Succession.”
Rudolph, also nominated in the comedy category for her guest role on “The Good Place,” paid tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg after the broadcast. The robe worn by Rudolph’s judge character was inspired by that of the associate justice of the Supreme Court, who died on Friday.
“When you think of a judge, when you think of everything he knows, when you think of powerful, when you think of everything good, yes, we modeled his robe after the RBG, so it was very good,” said Rudolph.
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