Road To Emmys Annual Series
While editor Walter Murch, A.C.E., is no stranger to the awards show circuit, Hemingway & Gellhorn marks his first career Emmy nomination--which gives him the highest possible batting average in that the HBO film also represents his first foray into editing for television. "The...
AMC's Mad Men and the FX Network's American Horror Story top the 2012 Emmy derby with 17 nominations apiece. This week we get perspectives on the shows from a cinematographer who's no stranger to the nominees' circle based on his contributions to Mad Men, and an editor...
Phil Abraham's Emmy chronology--spanning seven nominations and one win--traces a career evolution that entails more than just going from one acclaimed drama series to another, namely from HBO's The Sopranos to AMC's Mad Men. It also marks his transition from Emmy-winning...
While Pan Am was short lived on ABC, it nonetheless helped its cinematographer, John Lindley, ASC, take flight with his first career Emmy Award nomination, just months after the same pilot episode garnered him his initial ASC Award nom. The Emmy recognition comes in the Cinematography...
Michael Cuesta is well known for his commercialmaking exploits which led to his making a major mark in independent features. On the latter score, his L.I.E. was nominated for the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize back in 2001 and for Independent Spirit Awards for Best Director,...
There's a welcomed bit of deja vu for several nominees in the 2012 primetime Emmy competition for best visual effects, all against the backdrop of this being the first year of reconfigured categories recognizing artistic excellence in the discipline. The change is akin to what the Visual Effects...
Mad Men was all the Emmy rage when nominations were announced at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences headquarters in North Hollywood this morning. After all, the series tied with American Horror Story for the most noms, 17, and is looking for its fifth best drama series...
The History channel has the beginnings of an Emmy pedigree when it comes to scripted miniseries, which on the surface seems incongruous since the first such project that the network has handled through completion--the lauded Hatfields & McCoys--has yet to earn an Emmy nomination...