‘100 Foot Wave’ Wins Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series at Creative Arts Emmys

100 Foot Wave has won the Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series award at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmys.

Other nominees for the award, which was announced on Sunday, Sept. 7, included Chef’s Table, Simone Biles Rising, SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night and Social Studies.

HBO Max’s 100 Foot Wave has received 12 Emmy nominations and two previous wins since first premiering in 2021.

It also won the trophy for Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program on Sept. 7.

Its third season, which landed on the streamer earlier this year, follows Garrett McNamara and almost a dozen other surfers as they traverse the globe searching from some of the biggest waves.

“When we first started the project Garrett said to me, ‘little person on big wave. People like that.’ It’s really that simple,” 100 Foot director Chris Smith previously told PEOPLE. “It immediately connects with people because of the enormity of the wave. Imagining trying to surf down a six or seven-story building is just terrifying.”

Chef’s Table volume 7 was released on Netflix in November 2024 and features the stories of five chefs across the globe.

“Nok” Suntaranon, a James Beard Foundation award-winning chef, brings the flavors of Thailand to a BYOB restaurant in South Philadelphia. Kwame Onwuachi, whose restaurant Tatiana By Kwame Onwuachi opened in New York City in 2022 and pays tribute to his sister, for whom the restaurant is named, and shows off tastes of his childhood in the Bronx.

Also featured is Spanish chef Ángel León, known as “Chef of the sea” and whose restaurant Aponiente in Cádiz, Spain has three Michelin stars. Lastly, husband and wife duo Norma Listman and Saqib Keval share an episode to showcase how they merge Mexican and South Asian cuisines into their pair of restaurants in Mexico City. 

The series received three nominations this year, rounding out their total number of Emmy nominations in their seven seasons at 11. 

“… to all the chefs who’ve invited us into your lives over the past decade: thank you. You’ve trusted us with your journeys—your struggles, your triumphs, your dreams—and it’s been the privilege of a lifetime to help tell those stories,”  the series shared on their Instagram page following the nomination announcement.

Simone Biles Rising is a four-part docuseries that premiered on Netflix last year and takes audiences through the record-breaking gymnast’s journey toward her comeback at the Paris Summer Olympics in 2024.

In the final episode, titled “I will rise,” Biles is seen competing in the games as her family and husband Jonathan Owens cheer from the stands. The series also gives a glimpse into her personal life, including her response to the viral 2023 interview her NFL husband did — and subsequent backlash he received. 

“I know we signed up to be judged in the gym but when you guys are going to talk about him or my family, yeah I’m gonna come at you guys,” she says in an episode. 

Amid the array of celebrations for Saturday Night Live’s milestone 50th season came SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, which premiered in January on Peacock, and includes more than 60 people who have contributed to the series over the last five decades and never-before-seen footage. 

“For SNL50, I’ve been lucky to collaborate with some of my favorite independent filmmakers to tell some deeper stories of SNL,” executive producer ​​Morgan Neville said of the four-part series. “Taken together, these standalone episodes give a new perspective of SNL and what makes it work.”

Social Studies, from FX, dives into how social media has changed what childhood — and growing up – look like.

The series, which premiered in Sept. 2024, was filmed over the course of a school year in L.A. and features a varied group of students who talk about how bullying, beauty standards and the general pressures they must navigate as the “first generation of digital natives,” as explained in a description of the series. Director Lauren Greenfield was previously nominated for an Emmy in 2007 for Thin. 

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Last year’s winner for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series was Netflix’s Beckham, which was also nominated in four other categories. It focuses on soccer star, David Beckham.

“Making this series was such a personal journey, a love letter to football and my family,” Beckham shared at the time of his nomination announcement. “It has been overwhelming for me and Victoria that we have had such a warm and positive response to the series. I’m so grateful to the incredible team led by Fisher Stevens and also to all those people from my life and career who took part and who have played such an important role in my story.”

The 2025 Creative Arts Emmys are being presented in Los Angeles on Saturday, Sept. 6 and Sunday, Sept. 7. The full show will be broadcast on Saturday, Sept. 13 at 8 p.m. ET on FXX.