The Road to Emmy
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 TV Awards Season preview coverage and our Cinematography & Cameras features--has gone on to land nominations from Television Academy voters. For...
The Emmy Award nominations announced Tuesday included some snubs and surprises. "This Is Us" walked away forever without a top nomination and Nathan Lane made history as the most-nominated best comedy guest actor in Emmy history.
Here's our rundown.
NOT JUST A GAME...
"Succession" received a leading 25 Emmy nominations Tuesday, but the satirical drama about the rich and ruthless has a landmark rival in "Squid Game," the first non-English language series to vie for television's top honor.
"Squid Game," a South Korea-set drama in which the poor are...
What do you do for an encore when the first season of a series receives critical acclaim to the tune of 13 Emmy nominations and three wins? That was a prime challenge facing the creative minds and artisans behind Russian Doll (Netflix).
The answer in part resided in adopting and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...