Road To Emmys Annual Series
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Friday, Jul. 1, 2022
Exploring The Sound Thinking Behind "Stranger Things"
Tasked with raising the creative bar on Stranger Things (Netflix) for season 4 was a tall order--including on the audio front when you consider that season 3 won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a One Hour Comedy or Drama Series. Emmy recipients were lead sound effects editor Angelo...
Thursday, Jun. 23, 2022
Insights Into Editing 4 Seasons of "Ozark," Lensing "Hawkeye"
Cindy Mollo, ACE is a five-time Emmy nominee, the last two coming for her editing on Ozark (Netflix) in 2019 (shared with Heather Goodwin Floyd) and 2020. In ‘19 Mollo actually garnered a pair of nods, the other coming for Deadwood: The Movie (shared with Martin Nicholson and Erick Fefferman)...
Friday, Jun. 17, 2022
The Art of Collaboration: Insights Into Writing "Loki," Lensing "The Survivor"
Michael Waldron, head writer on Loki (Disney+), is no stranger to awards season. In 2020 as a producer/writer he was part of the contingent that earned Rick and Morty a primetime Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program. And earlier this year on the live-action front, Waldron was a member of the...
Friday, Jun. 10, 2022
Directorial POVs On "Succession," "The First Lady," "Ozark," "The Offer," "Girls5eva"
Lorene Scafaria is part of a distinguished group of Succession (HBO) directors. How distinguished? This year Succession swept the DGA Awards’ dramatic series category nominations--Kevin Bray for the “Retired Janitors of Idaho” episode; Mark Mylod, who wound up winning the DGA honor, for “All the...
Friday, Jun. 3, 2022
Director POVs On "Station Eleven," "The Dropout"; Lensing The Final Season of "Ozark"
For Jeremy Podeswa, a four-time Best Director Emmy nominee, the Station Eleven (HBO Max) story that fascinated him became two episodes into production uncannily prophetic. Based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven --a post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction...
Friday, May. 27, 2022
A Directorial POV On "Yellowjackets"; Showrunner and VFX Supervisor Takes On "blackish" and "Squid Game," Respectively
Karyn Kusama said she was driven to direct the pilot for Yellowjackets (Showtime) by its premise, a healthy degree of narrative uncertainty, and the prospect of looking at women during different stages of their lives. Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, Yellowjackets centers on a New Jersey...
Friday, May. 20, 2022
Declan Lowney Reflects On "Ted Lasso"; Jamie Walker McCall Talks "Impeachment"
Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) has opened new horizons for Declan Lowney, who going into the series was already an accomplished director as a six-time BAFTA TV Award nominee and two-time winner (for the comedy series Father Ted on U.K.’s Channel 4 and Help from the BBC). Ted Lasso , though, marked his...
Friday, May. 13, 2022
Director Craig Gillespie Reflects On "Pam & Tommy"; Series Has Parallels To His "I, Tonya"
Craig Gillespie first established himself as a world-class director in the short-form discipline. A five-time DGA Award nominee for best commercial director of the year, Gillespie won the honor in 2006 on the strength of spots for Ameriquest and Altoids. The next year the Chicago Film Critics...
Friday, May. 6, 2022
Emmy Season Preview: Directorial POVs On "Dexter: New Blood" and "1883"
Directors Marcos Siega and Christina Voros, with respective ties to Dexter and Yellowstone , shared insights into their work on series that those shows spawned-- Dexter: New Blood (Showtime) and 1883 (Paramount+)--which are now in the awards season conversation. Eavesdropping on that conversation...
Friday, Aug. 27, 2021
Lensing and Production Designing "Mare of Easttown"
Ben Richardson, ASC enjoyed a couple of significant firsts on Mare of Easttown . Last month the cinematographer earned his first career Emmy nomination for the HBO show which garnered a total of 16--including in the marquee category of Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series and spanning, in...