Innholdsfortegnelse for Emmy Special Issue 27A August 2018 i The Hollywood Reporter

While one major Academy Awards rule change has been grabbing headlines these days, another proposal that has yet to be implemented is one banning Oscar-recognized films from also competing for the Emmys. And while the Film Academy mulls how and whether it could implement such a rule, filmmakers are taking advantage. This season, across both the Primetime Emmys and the News and Documentary Emmys, a whopping 12 productions double-dipped to earn Emmy nominations after being either nominated or shortlisted for an Academy Award. Among them are four out of the five 2018 Oscar documentary feature nominees, including the winner, Bryan Fogel’s Russian doping doc Icarus. Emmy consideration ads are big business, but not so much in the nonfiction fields. As such, in an increasingly populated documentary landscape, films that spend…

Drama Comedy Limited Series or TV Movie ANTHONY ANDERSON Black-ish ABC What is next for Dre and Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross)? Bow and Dre are back together! And after getting back together from their brief separation, I am happy to share with you that Andre Johnson may or may not be pregnant with another set of twins for the family. What’s the most unexpected response you’ve gotten to this past season? It was in response to our four-episode arc with Bow and Dre separating. More people had come up to me saying, “Man, your show is supposed to be funny, not making me have conversations with my wife or husband about the state of our marriage and how not to end up like Bow and Dre.” I was visiting a…

An episode of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown set in Lagos, Nigeria, was the first in the CNN travel and food series to combine digital photography with 16mm film — a choice that proved organic to the story, says director of photography Morgan Fallon, who also directed the episode and earned a second Emmy nomination this year as a producer on the series. The multiformat look was carefully planned with the series’ popular globetrotting host. “It was the high point of my career to be able to travel the world with him,” says Fallon of the late Bourdain, who died in June. “He wasn’t just the host, he was the creative force behind the show. He was a tremendous creative advocate and someone who was constantly bursting with ideas on how…

For Bob Bronow, the period drama Genius: Picasso couldn’t be more different from the Alaska fishing boat-set reality series Deadliest Catch, for which he earned 11 previous Emmy noms (winning twice). For National Geographic’s drama about iconic Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was born in 1881, it was creating a period soundscape that delivered an Emmy nomination to re-recording mixers Bronow and Mark Hensley and production mixer Tamas Csaba. “The sets were so beautiful; they looked like practical locations,” Bronow says, adding that this was still a set, sans background sounds of residents speaking the local language or period transportation. “There were not all those things that would tell you, ‘This is where we are.’” And so it was up to the sound editing and mixing teams to create that…

VERY WELCOME GUESTS These actors are frequent visitors to the land of nominations TINA FEY Fey’s nominations span her work on Saturday Night Live (for which she was a writer and performer from 1997 to 2006), 30 Rock (nominated for lead actress, writing and comedy series multiple times, winning six times) and, this year, a nod for guest star when the SNL alum returned to host the show in May. BRYAN CRANSTON After three nominations for starring on the comedy Malcolm in the Middle, Cranston topped himself with his next TV gig, earning six nominations for playing Walter White on Breaking Bad (winning lead actor four times, including for three consecutive years). A guest stint on Curb Your Enthusiasm earns him this 2018 nom. BILL HADER Nominated for hosting SNL…

She’s been working as a TV writer since 2011, logging credits on such shows as HBO’s Silicon Valley and NBC’s Parks and Recreation and The Good Place, but one career milestone has continued to elude Megan Amram — an Emmy. So this year, she devised a show so clear in its mission that it had to get nominated: An Emmy for Megan, a web series about making a web series that she has been promoting relentlessly since its spring release. The hard sell has worked so far: Amram, 30, scored a shortform series nomination and an actress nod. Leading up to the Sept. 8 Creative Arts Emmys, she’ll keep up the pressure and stay busy buying billboards, handing out lawn signs and renting theaters. “I don’t care if people even…

Game of Thrones HBO In this shot from the epic battle on a frozen lake (the “Beyond the Wall” episode), the plates and live action were lensed at Wolf Hill Quarry, outside Belfast in Northern Ireland. According to lead VFX supervisor Joe Bauer, there were an estimated 500 extras on set, and digital effects were used to extend that crowd to 10,000. For shots of actors falling into the water, stunt performers were filmed in a 30-foot water tank with a motion-control rig, and these elements were composited into the location plates. “We pre-animated the dragon and used motion control for the fire,” says Bauer of the shot at left. “We put a 50-foot flamethrower on a Spidercam for more realistic behavior of the fire and better scale.” Game of…

As with most reality series, the work of an editor starts with sifting through a mountain of footage to craft a tight, well-paced and clear story. But perhaps the greatest strength of Queer Eye, Netflix’s reboot of Bravo’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which debuted in 2003, is its emotional core. “It is all about uplifting people, and the entire tone of the series is about making people feel good. We wanted to include the funniest, most informative and most heartwarming moments to make sure that it connected with people,” says supervising editor Thomas Scott Reuther, who shared editing duties with his fellow Emmy nominees Joe DeShano, A.M. Peters, Ryan Taylor, Matthew D. Miller and Brian Ray. Season one of the revival was set in Georgia and introduced a…

For Sarah Drew, the Emmy nomination for Grey’s Anatomy’s shortform spinoff B-Team — which she directed — was profound to say the least. The nomination came nearly two months after the actress was let go from the ABC medical drama after a nine-season run. “My confidence had gotten a bit shaken in the wake of being let go, and the nomination after the fact made me go, ‘I don’t need to be worried about anything or have my confidence shaken,’” says Drew, 37. The six-episode web series, which focuses on the ABC medical drama’s latest intern class, served as Drew’s directorial debut and, to hear her tell it, a new chapter in her career. “I’m not only pursuing my career as an actor, but now I’m walking into this world…