Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt won his first Emmy Award for producing “Create Together #WithMe,” the YouTube Originals’ miniseries that he co-created and hosts. The six-episode interactive miniseries showcasing creativity around the world was selected for the Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Programming Award by a of jury panel of professionals and will be presented as part of the Creative Arts Emmys on Sept. 17. The series featured the creations of everyday people collaborating to make art while at home during the pandemic via the HITRECORD platform.
“A lot of us have been spending a lot of time online these last number of months, looking to overcome the isolation of lockdown. And for me, one of the best ways to really connect with other humans, is to make something together. Not just talk, not just look, but really try to do something that we might not have done on our own. And that’s how we made this show,” Gordon-Levitt said. “It’s how we do everything on HITRECORD. The creative process is so intimate, so nuanced, so vulnerable, I think creative collaboration provides a certain antidote to a lot of the internet’s ills. We are so grateful to the Academy for this incredible honor.”
Currently starring alongside Jamie Foxx in the Netflix sci-fi action drama “Project Power,” Gordon-Levitt will next play prosecutor Richard Schultz in Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” premiering Oct. 16 on Netflix. The cast includes Sacha Baron Cohen as Abbie Hoffman and Ben Shenkman as defense attorney Leonard Weinglass.
