Road To Emmys Annual Series
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Thursday, Jun. 8, 2017
Insights Into Cinematography, Music For Jill Soloway's Amazon Shows
Jill Soloway knows a thing or two about the Emmy Awards. She earned multiple nominations as a producer/writer on Six Feet Under , and a pair of wins for Best Directing for a Comedy Series in 2015 and last year for Transparent (Amazon). She is now once again in the Emmy conversation, not just for...
Thursday, Jun. 1, 2017
Lensing "The Handmaid's Tale," "Emerald City," "The Crown"
Cinematographer Colin Watkinson has a pair of shows in the running for Emmy consideration-- The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) and Emerald City (NBC). Inspired by--and a much darker take on--L. Frank Baum’s “Wizard of Oz” tales, Emerald City introduces us to a mystical land replete with warriors, witches,...
Friday, May. 19, 2017
In The Emmy Conversation: Ron Howard, Lesli Linka Glatter, Jill Soloway, Barry Sonnenfeld
Doing justice to the life of a genius is a daunting task but not one entirely new to filmmaker Ron Howard who won Best Director and Best Picture Oscars in 2002 for A Beautiful Mind which told the poignant story of Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash. Howard now again delves into the man...
Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016
6 Emmy Nominations Join An Oscar Nod For "What Happened, Miss Simone?"
Justin Wilkes, president of RadicalMedia’s entertainment group, has long had a deep-rooted appreciation for Nina Simone, the late, great, legendary recording artist. “I’ve always been a fan of her music,” recalled Wilkes. “I grew up in Woodstock, New York. Her records were a fixture on my parents’...
Friday, Aug. 19, 2016
Emmy Nominees Reflect On "Game of Thrones," "Homeland," "The Night Manager," "The Man In The High Castle," "Black Sails"
A four-time DGA Award nominee for Lost, a series which also earned him three Emmy nods as a director, Jack Bender—whose first directing Emmy nomination came for Northern Exposure — now finds himself again in the running for a TV Academy statuette based on his directorial prowess, this time for the...
Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016
Crescenzo Discusses His Emmy-Nominated Cinematography On "Gotham"
For Crescenzo Notarile, ASC, AIC--who’s known throughout the industry as Crescenzo--earning his first career primetime Emmy nomination, for the “Azrael” episode of Gotham , is especially gratifying. “I’m extremely proud of it for a number of reasons. We are in the platinum age of television. The...
Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016
Insights Into Production Design For Amazon’s "Transparent," HBO’s "Lemonade"
For the second straight year production designer Cat Smith has scored an Emmy nomination for Amazon’s Transparent , this time for the episodes “Kina Hora,” “The Book Of Life” and “Man On The Land.” While her back-to-back Transparent nods are Smith’s first two as department head (her auspicious...
Thursday, Jul. 28, 2016
Emmy Nominee Jay Worth Discusses VFX In A Supporting Role For Hulu's "11.22.63"
There’s an adage that the best VFX are the ones you don’t notice--and that is inherently the case in the Emmy Awards category of Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Supporting Role. Among this year’s nominated efforts is Hulu’s 11.22.63 , a science fiction thriller/limited series based on the...
Friday, Jul. 22, 2016
Agency Creatives Reflect On Their Emmy-Nominated Spots
The first primetime commercial Emmy Award was bestowed in 1997 upon HBO’s “Chimps” directed by Joe Pytka of PYTKA for BBDO NY. Since then, the spotmaking Emmy has grown in prominence and become increasingly coveted, taking on an added importance spurred on by changes in the business over the years...
Friday, Jul. 15, 2016
Emmy Nominee Insights Into "All the Way," "People v. O.J. Simpson," "American Horror Story: Hotel"
Prior to yesterday’s announcement of this season’s Emmy nominations, SHOOT connected with varied contenders over a two-month stretch spanning different disciplines and as it turns out a good number of the artisans we covered in parts 1 through 8 of our The Road To Emmy series of feature stories...