Road To Emmys Annual Series
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...
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). ...
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...
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...
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...
The quest for truth is a driving force for documentarians. And filmmakers T.J. Martin and Dan Lindsay have over the years successfully made that journey spanning long and short-form fare--the latter reflected in the aptly titled “The Truth Is Worth It” campaign for The New York Times...
Among the dozen Emmy nominations this season for Bridgerton is one that helps to give a little geographic balance to the awards portfolio of director Julie Anne Robinson who’s been lauded over the years with BAFTA TV Award nods for such BBC fare as the miniseries Viva Blackpool...
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), director Declan Lowney has taken on a smattering of U.S. sitcom work over the years (American Housewife, Galavant, Teachers). But he...