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Quibi Wins First Emmys at Creative Arts Awards, After Spending Top Dollar on Originals

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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorQuibi, in its awards-season debut, picked up two acting trophies at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Thursday night.Both were for “#Freerayshawn,” a police drama from from executive producer Antoine Fuqua: Laurence Fishburne and Jasmine Cephas Jones won the acting awards in the short-form category.The first Emmy wins for Quibi, led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, don’t come as a surprise: The well-funded mobile streamer has paid handsomely for its originals — upwards of $100,000 per minute of programming from A-list Hollywood talent.

All of its entries were in the short-form categories, which historically have been populated by series that are sidecars to TV shows.Overall, Quibi had picked up 10 Emmys.

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