Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023

Costume designer Mitchell Travers has gone from one lauded Jessica Chastain performance to another--and for that matter, from one Tammy to the next.

The first came with Chastain’s Oscar-winning portrayal of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye. And then...

Friday, Aug. 18, 2023

Peter Hoar last month earned his first career Emmy nomination, recognized in the Outstanding Director for a Drama Series for the “Long, Long Time” episode of The Last of Us (HBO). His was one of 24 nominations, including Outstanding Drama series, garnered by the series, which was the...

Friday, Aug. 11, 2023

Directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton now have an Emmy nomination to go alongside their Oscar recognition. The latter came back in 2007 with the wife-and-husband directing duo’s feature debut, Little Miss Sunshine, which earned four Academy Award nominations, including for Best...

Friday, Aug. 4, 2023

Last year Laura Zempel, ACE won the Emmy for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series on the strength of “The Theater and Its Double” episode of Euphoria--an honor shared with Julio C. Perez IV, Nikola Boyanov and Aaron I. Butler. Now she’s nominated once again--this...

Friday, Jul. 28, 2023

A cursory assessment early on would have been that Prey (Hulu) didn’t have a prayer of receiving an Emmy nomination. Even its writer-director Dan Trachtenberg acknowledged that the prospect of TV Academy recognition for “making ostensibly Predator, Part 5” would seem a bit far-...

Friday, Jul. 21, 2023

It’s been an eventful awards season for Anastas N. Michos, ASC, GSC. Michos’ work on “The Autopsy” episode of Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, the Netflix anthology series, landed the cinematographer an ASC Award nomination in January and an Emmy nod last week. 

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Friday, Jul. 14, 2023

As in years past, a healthy percentage of those SHOOT interviewed relatively early on for its The Road To Emmy Series--as well as prior Guild Awards Preview coverage and our Cinematography & Cameras features--has gone on to land nominations from TV Academy voters. For example, among...

Friday, Jul. 7, 2023

Taking the Quantum Leap of faith entailed cinematographer Ana M. Amortegui being up for multiple challenges, including arriving at the delicate balance of giving a nod to the original sci-fi series of the 1990s but not to the point of replicating it, instead creating a new and inspiring...

Friday, Jun. 30, 2023

Back in October 2020, cinematographer Pepe Avila del Pino was working on Mosquito Coast, one of the select few productions continuing during the pandemic. He recalled getting a text with an image of a dragon and fire.

The dragon-themed communique was from Greg Yaitanes, a...

Wednesday, Jun. 21, 2023

In his first turn on The White Lotus (HBO), composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer won two Emmys last year--for Original Dramatic Score and Original Main Title Theme Music. He now once again is in the awards conversation for his work on season two of the series.

And while seasons one...

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