Road To Emmys Annual Series
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Friday, Jun. 7, 2024
Directing and Exec Producing "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" and "Franklin"
Director and producer Hiro Murai’s collaborative relationship with Donald Glover spans 10-plus years, yielding a mix of breakthrough music videos, short films and television. “With all good collaborations, a lot of what works is sort of unspoken,” related Murai who observed that he and actor,...
Friday, May. 31, 2024
Emmy Contenders Discuss Directing and Exec Producing "Fellow Travelers," Composing For "Ripley"
The Road To Emmy is already paved with accolades for Fellow Travelers (Showtime), most notably a Peabody Award announced last month. On the Peabody website, the rationale for the honor is shared. It reads, “Running all through Fellow Travelers , a limited series based on Thomas Mallon’s 2007 novel...
Friday, May. 24, 2024
"Expats" Reunites Director Lulu Wang, DP Anna Franquesa-Solano and Editor Matt Friedman
Writer-director-producer Lulu Wang--with an independent film pedigree punctuated by The Farewell , a Humanitas Prize winner, recipient of the Best Feature honor at the Independent Spirit Awards, and one of the AFI’s best films of the year (2019)--has made her way into this season’s Emmy...
Friday, May. 17, 2024
Extending The Creative Reach of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"--And The Talent Behind The Series
On the surface it seemed a curious choice when the creative ensemble behind the two-time Peabody Award-winning Atlanta took on Mr. & Mrs. Smith , a Prime Video series sharing the same title as the 2005 theatrical film starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. But perhaps the incongruity was in and...
Friday, May. 10, 2024
Looking Through The Lens To Find "All the Light We Cannot See"
It’s already been an eventful awards season for work lensed by Tobias Schliessler, ASC--and perhaps even more recognition is in the offing. On the feature film front, Schliessler shot Rustin (Netflix), which scored Oscar, BAFTA and Critics Choice Award nominations for lead actor Colman Domingo. And...
Friday, May. 3, 2024
Road To Emmy Preview: Director Sarah Adina Smith Shares "Lessons in Chemistry"
Just getting to join the Directors Guild of America (DGA) several years back was “a huge moment in my career,” recalled Sarah Adina Smith, citing her transition from industry outsider to feeling a sense of belonging. Fast forward to 2024 and this sense of achievement grew in size and scope as Smith...
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...