Innholdsfortegnelse for Awards Special 22C - August 7, 2023 i The Hollywood Reporter

It started with a curious text message from a friend, which stood out among the usual messages of congratulations coming through to my phone for the premiere of the third season of my Netflix show Indian Matchmaking: “To the devil w the NYT! You keep making, we’ll keep watching. Trust that your viewer isn’t dumb. You just keep slaying, Smriti!” Devil to The New York Times? I ripped open my Sunday paper and there it was, smack in the middle of The New York Times Magazine. The headline blared: “It’s Time To Break Up With Indian Matchmaking.” Oof. The article itself went on to repeat many of the same missives I’ve heard about the show since its debut in peak-pandemic 2020 — that it doesn’t do enough to interrogate the…

Martin Short is one of the funniest people in showbiz — and has been for a half-century. He’s a veteran writer, actor and variety show specialist who has received 15 career Emmy nominations, winning once. His most recent nod came in July, when he was announced as a finalist for best comedy actor for his hilarious work on the second season of Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building. On the show, he plays Oliver Putnam, a onetime Broadway producer now working with two neighbors — played by Short’s longtime friend and collaborator Steve Martin and the millennial queen Selena Gomez — to solve murders in their New York City apartment building. Short, 73, sat down with Scott Feinberg for an episode of THR’s Awards Chatter podcast. Where were you born and…

On the morning of his Emmy nomination, Michael Shannon was out for coffee with a friend. “It kind of slipped my mind,” the actor told The Hollywood Reporter in a conversation soon after the announcement. Shannon is nominated for outstanding lead actor in a limited series for his role in Showtime’s George & Tammy, in which he stars as country music legend George Jones opposite fellow nominee Jessica Chastain as Tammy Wynette. The show is a reunion for the co-stars, who first appeared together in director Jeff Nichols’ 2011 psychological thriller Take Shelter. In chronicling the power couple’s complicated relationship and legacy in the music industry, George & Tammy sees Shannon embark on the “mind-boggling” journey of his character’s life. “The tragic thing with these people is they give so…

SCTV (1976-84) Short for Second City Television, this Canadian sketch series starring the Toronto cast of the improvisational group saw Short debut characters like Ed Grimley (left, he’d later appear on SNL) and the albino Las Vegas lounge act Jackie Rogers Jr. THREE AMIGOS! (1986) Short starred alongside fellow SNL alum Chevy Chase and co-writer Steve Martin in John Landis’ farce about three American actors who are mistaken for heroic caballeros and tasked with saving a Mexican village from a brutal bandit. INNERSPACE (1987) This Oscar-winning sci-fi comedy stars Short as Jack Putter, a hypochondriac grocery store clerk who inadvertently becomes host to a miniaturized Navy aviator played by Dennis Quaid when a science experiment goes awry. FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1991) Nancy Meyers co-wrote this remake of the 1950…

THE CROWN Netflix “Make me into a British gentleman,” says Mohamed Al-Fayed (Salim Daw) to his new hire Sydney Johnson (Jude Akuwudike), the former longtime valet and footman to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Along with mentoring the billionaire on afternoon tea etiquette, Sydney takes Mohamed to the tailor for a pinstripe suit that’s literally fit for a king, albeit abdicated. “The Duke felt it gave him more stature in photographs,” says Sydney, gesturing toward a higher-waist cut on the double-breasted, peak lapel jacket. But returning costume designer Amy Roberts, who won an Emmy for season three, explains that his aspirational suiting arc began much earlier. In 1946, enterprising teenage Mohamed (Amir El-Masry) sells Coca-Cola on the streets of Alexandria, Egypt. After spotting the Windsors visiting the British-occupied territory,…

At just 20 years old, Storm Reid has a résumé that stands out. There was her breakout as the lead in Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time, followed by a recurring role on HBO’s Euphoria as Gia, the younger sister of Rue (Zendaya), and a headlining gig in the mystery thriller Missing this year. Now, Reid is an Emmy nominee, recognized for her fan-favorite appearance as Riley Abel in The Last of Us. Between balancing work and school — Reid is an undergraduate student at USC — the young actress didn’t expect any sort of awards acclaim to result from this role in the video game adaptation. “I knew that The Last of Us would be a very special show,” Reid tells The Hollywood Reporter on the morning of the announcement.…

Today, Steven Yeun is known as an Oscar- and Emmy-nominated star for his work in acclaimed projects like A24’s family drama Minari and Netflix’s black comedy Beef, both of which earned him recent nods in film and TV’s respective lead acting categories. But it was his turn on AMC’s The Walking Dead that catapulted the actor to international fame. Yeun’s Glenn Rhee, “the plucky loner” (as THR described him) of The Walking Dead, is introduced in the show’s pilot as a voice on a radio, telling Andrew Lincoln’s Rick to make a run for it while a horde of zombies devour his horse. The show premiered on Halloween in 2010 and ran for 11 seasons, racking up 16 Emmy nominations and two wins. Former pizza delivery guy Glenn became a…

For Emmy nominee Sharon Long, each costume is approached like it’s going to be photographed for a poster. “You have to put in as much effort as if it’s going to be seen 12 times,” says Long. In the case of this dress designed for Elizabeth (Belinda Bromilow), the aunt of Nicholas Hoult’s Peter III, she wanted to display the character’s worldliness and the era’s East Asia-inspired design. “There was always a hope that Aunt Elizabeth would wear it again, but there was never actually an opportunity. It was too much of a statement to work in any other place.”…

Theo James was in a London park when he learned he was nominated for his first Emmy for his role as chaotic finance bro Cameron on HBO’s The White Lotus, and when the British actor got on the phone with THR, he hadn’t yet had a chance to talk to any of his co-stars — many of whom were also nominated. Overall, The White Lotus racked up 23 nominations during the July 12 announcement. That was his plan after he hung up. “I’m going to try to get a hold of people, and then I think I’m going to have a drink,” he says. “An alcoholic drink. I haven’t chosen which one.” The next stop? Reading Julia Donaldson’s book Room on the Broom to his daughter. “That’s probably what I’ll…

Taraji P. Henson has received plenty of accolades for her serious performances — most notably a 2009 Oscar nomination for her supporting role in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, plus two Emmy noms for her turn on the Fox music drama Empire and a nom for her starring role in the 2011 Lifetime movie Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story. But she was still thrilled to be honored for her guest turn on ABC’s hit sitcom Abbott Elementary when her name was called on the morning of July 12, as it signaled the achievement of a longtime dream Henson had for her career. “I love comedy,” Henson told THR shortly after the nominations were announced. “That’s what I moved out here to do, almost 30 years ago,” she…

QUINTA BRUNSON ‘BRIDESMAID CULT DOCUMENTARY’ This pretaped sketch parodies the glut of streaming true-crime docuseries, with talking heads warning of the rise of bridesmaid parties that veer into emotionally manipulative and controlling cults. ‘DRUG DEALER’ Four aggressive dealers hawk cocaine in a club bathroom. “My stuff is so white, it’s like Gwyneth Paltrow skiing in Utah,” says Brunson. Adds Punkie Johnson, “My coke is so pure, it was written and directed by Noah Baumbach.” ‘MIDWIFE’ Brunson plays an obstetrician who has repeated run-ins with Bowen Yang’s midwife Barry, who holds a yearslong grudge against the doctor for not recognizing him from a barbecue before a Macklemore concert. PEDRO PASCAL ‘FANCAM ASSEMBLY’ Pascal’s teacher Mr. Ben humiliatingly has to instruct his middle school students not to create TikTok videos celebrating his…