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Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023
Insights Into Costume Designing "George & Tammy," The Art Of "Still" Photography
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 Chastain turned in an...
Friday, Aug. 18, 2023
Directorial POVs On "The Last of Us" and "Being Mary Tyler Moore"
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 second highest...
Friday, Aug. 11, 2023
Directorial POVs On "Fleishman Is in Trouble" and "Ted Lasso"
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 Picture while...
Friday, Aug. 4, 2023
Laura Zempel, Nat Fuller Share A Primetime Emmy-Nominated Cut of "Beef"
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 time with...
Friday, Jul. 28, 2023
Writer-Director Dan Trachtenberg Finds Visceral-Emotional Balance In "Prey"
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-fetched. The reality...
Friday, Jul. 21, 2023
Anastas N. Michos Opens Guillermo del Toro's "Cabinet," Finds Emmy, ASC Award Nominations
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. Cabinet of Curiosities...
Friday, Jul. 14, 2023
Reflections On The Road To Emmy; Artists Return To The Nominees’ Circle
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 those SHOOT...
Friday, Jul. 7, 2023
Ana M. Amortegui Navigates, Embraces Her "Quantum Leap" Journey 
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 aesthetic...
Friday, Jun. 30, 2023
Pepe Avila del Pino Enters "House of the Dragon"
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 director/executive...
Wednesday, Jun. 21, 2023
Composing For "The White Lotus," Costume Designing For "The Boys"
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 and two are...

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