The Glee cast and crew won two awards at the 2011 Creative Arts Emmy’s last night! Our favorite substitute, Gwyneth Paltrow, took home an Emmy for Guest Actress in a Comedy Series and casting director Robert Ulrich won the Emmy for Outstanding Casting in a Comedy Series. This is the first Emmy for both Gwyneth and Robert. Unfortunately, Gwyneth couldn’t make it to the show, but Robert spoke at the Governor’s Ball after the ceremony, saying:

“I wanted to thank my producers from ‘Glee.’ I thanked Ryan Murphy, but I also wanted to acknowledge Dot and I wanted to acknowledge Chris Colfer because he thanked me at the Golden Globes and that’s unheard of. I wanted to say something like how wonderful it was that Chris thanked somebody in casting. And Chris was there (Saturday night) because he and Brad Falchuk, one of the producers, presented an award.”

Dot Marie Jones and Kristen Chenoweth were also nominated for Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. Before heading into the event, Dot Marie spoke on the red carpet about her nomination.

Congratulations to the winners and nominees!

Seeing as we all know Chris Colfer is a huge party animal, this should come as no surprise. ;) Check out this video of Chris taking a spin on a theme park ride in celebration of the TCA’s and his Emmy nomination!

In celebration of Glee‘s 19 Emmy nominations, Kristin Dos Santos of E! Online hosted a panel featuring live performances from the cast and huge spoiler drops for basically every couple on the show!

This event blew up the Glee fandom, spawning twitpics, twitvids, entire red carpet photo galleries, and of course, multi-part Youtube documentations. Most of these are relatively low-quality, but have no fear: Kristin herself, in addition to live tweeting, did a ship-based write-up of the event for E! Online. She then proceeded to do another write-up focusing on returning (and potential!) guest stars and minor characters.

The event itself featured performances of “Maybe This Time” (sans Kristin Chenoweth, sadly), “Funny Girl,” “Beautiful,” “Single Ladies,” “Lady is a Tramp,” “Over the Rainbow,” and of course, a mandatory dance-off between Kevin, Matt, and Harry.

Here’s a 7-minute summary video of the event, via ginaslittlejack on Youtube:

For a playlist of all the performances and interviews, check out the Glee Academy Event playlist on Youtube!

Also, check out WireImage, AP Images, and LeaMicheleWeb for HUGE photo drops of the event!

In the wise words of Gleehab.com…Glee KICKED EVERY OTHER SHOW’S ASS at the Emmy nominations, which were announced this morning! I’m almost freaking out too much to type!! Check them out below:

INDIVIDUAL AWARDS:

Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Matthew Morrison

Lead Actress in a Comedy Series – Lea Michele

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Chris Colfer

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series – Jane Lynch

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series – Mike O’Malley & Neil Patrick Harris

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series – Kristin Chenoweth

GENERAL SHOW AWARDS:

Outstanding Comedy Series – Glee

Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series – Glee

Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series – Glee

Outstanding Costumes for a Series – Glee (Lou Eyrich)

Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series – Glee (2 total nominations for “Pilot” & “Wheels”)

Outstanding Hairstyling for a Single-Camera Series – Glee (2 total nominations for “Power of Madonna” & “Hairography”)

Outstanding Creative Acheivement in Interactive Media – Fiction – Glee

Outstanding Makeup for a Single-Camera Series – Glee (2 total nominations for “Power of Madonna” & “Theatricality”)

Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series – Glee

Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series – Glee

Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series – Glee

The Emmy’s air on August 29, which also happens to be Lea Michele’s birthday! How awesome would it be if she won an Emmy on her birthday?