Innholdsfortegnelse for Award Special 20B August 2020 i The Hollywood Reporter

A decade ago, the limited series was on its death-bed, as was its place at the Emmys. To be fair, the “limited series” didn’t really exist. Way back in the ancient past of 2010, they were called “miniseries,” a name that primarily referred to three things: PBS prestige literary adaptations, broadcast multiparters reserved to air during sacred “sweeps” periods, and Tom Hanks-produced epics for HBO, all of which sounds like enough to support a genre. It was not. At the 62nd Primetime Emmys, there were only two nominees in the outstanding miniseries category: HBO’s ambitious, bloody masterpiece The Pacific, which probably would have won even against a loaded field, and PBS’ Return to Cranford. The TV Academy did what, at the time, made total sense: It folded the miniseries and…

The third season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel isn’t just a throwback to 1960. Amazon Studios’ unrestrained production — a technicolor orgy of blink-and-you-miss-them wardrobe changes and sprawling set pieces populated by hundreds of extras — is now a time capsule to a way of making TV that even its show-runners can’t imagine resuming in the foreseeable future. “Last year, on day one of shooting, we were in an airplane hangar with 800 extras,” says executive producer Dan Palladino. “Eight hundred and fifty extras,” interrupts his partner, in life and work, Maisel creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. “Plus, 200 production people!” With a return to scripted filming still impossible for many amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it seems especially daunting for a show such as Maisel. Lavished with 20 Emmy nominations for…

When asked to imagine the quintessential TV mom, you might recall any number of firm, wholesome or uplifting characters from across the decades. June Cleaver and Carol Brady remain the paradigms of chipper blond matriarchy. Marge Simpson and the doyennes of The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie made hearth and home. On classic sitcoms, Clair Huxtable eased you with her patrician comfort while Marie Barone and Roseanne Conner smothered you with bullish affection. In later years, TV drama mamas Lorelai Gilmore, Tami Taylor and the Pearson women could help you feel like you always had a place to turn. As TV content continues to swell and deepen in the streaming era, so do our definitions of onscreen motherhood. Competition increasingly has led platforms to seek innovative auteurs…

The daring makeup on HBO’s Euphoria has inspired a wave of beauty trends and even influenced the runway at New York Fashion Week, but makeup artist Doniella Davy doesn’t want to take all the credit. “I got a lot of my inspiration by scrolling through Instagram,” she tells THR. “I think Gen Z is doing amazing things with makeup, using it in these rebellious and really brave, unconventional ways that totally defy gender and makeup norms.” On a typical show, each character has a base makeup look that may change for special occasions but remains relatively the same. On Euphoria, each of the girls had a completely new look for every costume change, resulting in hundreds of intricate designs that Davy and partner Kirsten Coleman had to develop. With quick…

THE MANDALORIAN Ludwig Göransson The Swedish composer, a longtime collaborator of Ryan Coogler’s, won the Grammy and an Oscar for his score for 2018’s Black Panther. If Göransson, a first-time Emmy nominee who also produced Childish Gambino’s single “This Is America,” wins for his score for Disney+’s The Mandalorian, he’ll be one Tony shy of the EGOT. WATCHMEN Trent Reznor (right) and Atticus Ross The duo earned two noms for HBO’s Watchmen (music and song lyrics for “The Way It Used to Be” and music composition). If they nab either trophy, they’ll need only a Tony to complete their EGOTs. They won a Grammy for the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack and an Oscar for The Social Network’s score.…

Michael Learned — or “Miss Michael Learned,” as she was credited on The Waltons, lest anyone confuse her for a man — holds the record for most Emmy wins for outstanding lead actress in a drama series. Three of those came for her work on The Waltons; she played matriarch Olivia Walton on the CBS drama, which ran for nine seasons beginning in 1972. The show, which followed the lives of a wholesome family living through the Great Depression in rural Virginia, was created by and based on the life of TV writer Earl Hamner Jr. (who died in 2016 at age 92). Hamner got his start writing for The Twilight Zone before striking it big with shows like The Waltons and Falcon Crest. Learned, then 32, had been living…

Octavia Spencer grew up with the legacy of Madam C.J. Walker, a businesswoman and philanthropist who built an empire selling cosmetics and grooming products to Black women. Walker became known as America’s first self-made female millionaire — hence the title of the Netflix series Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker, for which Spencer earned her career-first Emmy nomination for lead actress in a limited series. But it wasn’t Walker’s wealth that inspired Spencer, who also served as an executive producer on the four-episode series. “The fact that this woman, who was born the first free person in her home post-slavery, was able to achieve so much when the world told her that she had no value — that’s what my mother used as the example,” Spencer…

1940S MOV IE SOUNDSTAGE This set of a ’40s movie soundstage, constructed at Sunset Gower Studios, was dressed with a vintage Panavision film camera, crane, lighting and other production gear true to the period. “We rented authentic equipment from prop houses in Los Angeles,” says Ferguson. GEORGE CUKOR’S DINING ROOM After careful research, director George Cukor’s home in the Hollywood Hills — the setting of a pivotal party in the miniseries — combined four different locations, including a Paul Williams Hollywood Regency house in Beverly Hills that was used for the dining room sequence. A mansion in Pasadena was employed for the pool and exteriors, while the guest house where actress Vivien Leigh stayed and the cottage were built on stages. ACE STUDIOS’ COMMISSARY The set of the Ace Studios…