Innholdsfortegnelse for Award Special 23A - August 10, 2023 i The Hollywood Reporter

To understand just how long the TV Academy has struggled to define “comedy series,” look no further than the first decade or so of the category’s life: Between 1952, when Red Skelton’s titular variety show claimed Emmy’s first-ever comedy prize, and 1964, when The Dick Van Dyke Show scored its second win, the category had no fewer than six name changes, ranging from the terse “best comedy show” to the rather unwieldy “outstanding program achievement in the field of comedy.” And it only grew more complicated from there. Unlike in the drama series category, whose contenders have been consistently hourlong and usually serialized, comedy competitors also started to assume widely different formats: multicam sitcom (All in the Family, Friends); single-camera, half-hour dramedy (The Wonder Years, Sex and the City); single-camera mockumentary…

SERPICO (1973) In his second onscreen performance — and one for which he did not receive screen credit — Abraham played the police partner of Al Pacino’s eponymous NYPD whistle-blower, ultimately betraying Serpico for exposing police corruption. SCARFACE (1983) Reteaming with Pacino for Brian De Palma’s outlandish crime drama about the violent rise and fall of a Cuban American drug dealer, Abraham played Omar, the right-hand man to Robert Loggia’s drug lord and colleague of Pacino’s Tony Montana. AMADEUS (1984) Milos Forman’s drama about the fictionalized rivalry between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri earned eight Oscars, including best picture. Abraham won best actor for playing Salieri, besting co-star Tom Hulce, who played Mozart. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014) Abraham was a member of the 17-actor ensemble of Wes Anderson’s…

2023 EMMY NOMINATIONS 11 NETWORK HBO SEASON 4 EPISODES 8 RUNTIME 26-34 MIN. NOMINEES Bill Hader (COMEDY SERIES, DIRECTING, LEAD ACTOR AND WRITING) • Alec Berg, Aida Rodgers, Liz Sarnoff, Duffy Boudreau, Julie Camino (COMEDY SERIES) • Anthony Carrigan, Henry Winkler (SUPPORTING ACTOR) • Elmo Ponsdomenech, Teddy Salas, Scott Harber, Aaron Hasson (SOUND MIXING) • Wade Allen (STUNT COORDINATION) • Sean Heissinger, Matthew E. Taylor, John Creed, Rickley W. Dumm, Deron Street, Clay Weber, Michael Brake, Darrin Mann, Alyson Dee Moore, Chris Moriana (SOUND EDITING) • Carl Herse (CINEMATOGRAPHY) • Franky Guttman, Ali Greer (EDITING) The fourth and final season of Barry was unlike its previous three, with the HBO comedy becoming darker and deadlier as hitman Barry Berkman (co-creator Bill Hader) reaches his endgame. Yet the Television Academy’s love…

2023 EMMY NOMINATIONS 14 NETWORK PRIME VIDEO SEASON 5 EPISODES 9 RUNTIME 49-75 MIN. NOMINEES Daniel Palladino, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Dhana Rivera Gilbert, Neena Beber, Dipika Guha, Matthew Shapiro, Sal Carino, Jen Kirkman, Isaac Oliver, Nick Thomason (COMEDY SERIES) • Rachel Brosnahan (LEAD ACTRESS) • Alex Borstein (SUPPORTING ACTRESS) • Luke Kirby (GUEST ACTOR) • Amy Sherman-Palladino (DIRECTING) • Bill Groom, Neil Prince, Ellen Christiansen (PRODUCTION DESIGN) • M. David Mullen (CINEMATOGRAPHY) • Donna Zakowska, Katie Hartsoe, Ben Philipp, Amanda Seymour, Claire Aquila, Marie Seifts (PERIOD COSTUMES) • Kimberley Spiteri, Keleen Snowgren, Diana Sikes, Valerie Gladstone, Emily Rosko, Matthew Armentrout (PERIOD AND/OR CHARACTER HAIRSTYLING) • Patricia Regan, Claus Lulla, Joseph A. Campayno, Michael Laudati, Tomasina Smith, Roberto Baez (PERIOD AND/OR CHARACTER MAKEUP, NON-PROSTHETIC) • Curtis Moore, Thomas Mizer (ORIGINAL MUSIC AND…

For Emmy-nominated cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes, the complex work required to turn Rachel Weisz into identical twins for Dead Ringers was made somewhat easier given the fact that he had shot another series about twin siblings who share screen time — 2020’s I Know This Much Is True, starring Mark Ruffalo. “This was the easy one of the two,” Lipes tells THR. “It’s like learning a new language, and the second time around, it came a lot more naturally.” On the Prime Video limited series, a gender-flipped reboot of David Cronenberg’s 1988 film of the same name, Weisz plays Elliot and Beverly Mantle, twin obstetricians living in New York who share a co-dependent bond despite their vastly different personalities. This shot below, from the end of the first episode, is…

LEAD ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR TV MOVIE Taron Egerton, Black Bird For his portrayal of a criminal turned informant on an Apple TV+ show that’s at 98 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, the Brit earned SAG Award and Globe noms and his first Emmy nom. But his show dropped last summer, isn’t up for best limited series and received only three other noms. Evan Peters, Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story The Emmy winner reunited with frequent collaborator Ryan Murphy to play the titular serial killer. Despite the show’s abysmal 55 percent RT score, he landed a SAG Award nom, won a Globe and helped propel the show to 13 Emmy noms, including best limited series. Michael Shannon, George & Tammy The Oscar-nominated character actor made a big…

Emmy-winning costume designer Laura Montgomery took home gold last year for the third season of FX/Hulu’s What We Do in the Shadows, and had a field day creating looks for the fourth iteration of the comedy’s kooky, vampiric world. In a season packed with impressive looks, one of Montgomery’s main concerns was deciding which one to unpack for THR. Here, she breaks down the process behind creating an outfit for Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) in the season four premiere, which happens to also be an ensemble worn by her corresponding creepy doll-self.…

2023 EMMY NOMINATIONS 13 NETWORK FX SEASON 1 EPISODES 8 RUNTIME 20-48 MIN. NOMINEES Joanna Calo, Josh Senior, Christopher Storer, Hiro Murai, Nate Matteson, Rene Gube, Tyson Bidner (COMEDY SERIES) • Jeremy Allen White (LEAD ACTOR) • Ebon Moss-Bachrach (SUPPORTING ACTOR) • Ayo Edebiri (SUPPORTING ACTRESS) • Jon Bernthal, Oliver Platt (GUEST ACTOR) • Christopher Storer (WRITING, DIRECTING) • Sam Lisenco, Eric Dean, Emily Carter (PRODUCTION DESIGN) Steve “Major” Giammaria, Scott D. Smith (SOUND MIXING) • Steve “Major” Giammaria, Evan Benjamin, Jonathan Fuhrer, Annie Taylor, Chris White, Leslie Bloome, Shaun Brennan (SOUND EDITING) • Jeanie Bacharach, Jennifer Rudnicke, Mickie Paskal, AJ Links (CASTING) • Joanna Naugle (EDITING) Though The Bear returned for its widely praised second season earlier this summer, it’s the show’s first (and similarly lauded) eight-episode foray that…

2023 EMMY NOMINATIONS 11 NETWORK HULU SEASON 2 EPISODES 10 RUNTIME 29-38 MIN. NOMINEES Dan Fogelman, Jess Rosenthal, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, John Hoffman, Matteo Borghese, Rob Turbovsky, Ben Smith, Kristin Newman, Kirker Butler, Nick Pavonetti, Kristin Bernstein (COMEDY SERIES) • Martin Short (LEAD ACTOR) • Nathan Lane (GUEST ACTOR) • John Hoffman, Matteo Borghese, Rob Turbovsky (WRITING) • Patrick Howe, Jordan Jacobs, Rich Murray (PRODUCTION DESIGN) Dana Covarrubias, Abby Geoghegan, Kathleen Gerlach (CONTEMPORARY COSTUMES) • Peggy Tachdjian (PICTURE EDITING) • Penny Harold, Andrew Lange, Joseph White Jr., Alan DeMoss (SOUND MIXING) • Chris Teague (CINEMATOGRAPHY) • Betsy Reyes, Tonia Ciccone, Fabian Garcia, Kerrie Smith (CONTEMPORARY HAIRSTYLING) • Bernard Telsey, Tiffany Little Canfield, Destiny Lilly (CASTING) The great question of a murder mystery show is, what do you…

A screen actor for more than a half century, F. Murray Abraham was once described by Pauline Kael as “a wizard at eager, manic, full-of-life roles” and by David Denby as “a real actor.” One of just 37 living best actor Oscar winners — for his unforgettable portrayal of composer Antonio Salieri in the 1984 film Amadeus — the 83-year-old is experiencing a late-career renaissance of sorts, with memorable turns on several popular television programs. The one for which he has received the most attention — and recently earned a best supporting actor in a drama series Emmy nomination — is Mike White’s HBO limited series The White Lotus, on which he played an unfiltered senior citizen on vacation in Italy with his son and grandson. Shortly after sharing in…

2023 EMMY NOMINATIONS 8 NETWORK ABC SEASON 2 EPISODES 22 RUNTIME 22 MIN. NOMINEES Quinta Brunson (COMEDY SERIES, LEAD ACTRESS) • Justin Halpern, Patrick Schumacker, Randall Einhorn, Brian Rubenstein, Jordan Temple, Brittani Nichols, Josh Greene, Scott Sites (COMEDY SERIES) • Wendy O’Brien, Chris Gehrt (CASTING) • Moira Frazier, Dustin Osborne, Christina Joseph (CONTEMPORARY HAIRSTYLING) • Janelle James, Sheryl Lee Ralph (SUPPORTING ACTRESS) Taraji P. Henson (GUEST ACTRESS) • Tyler James Williams (SUPPORTING ACTOR) On day one, we all felt it. We all felt something really special here,” says Abbott Elementary executive producer and director Randall Einhorn of the ABC sitcom. In its first year, the freshman series won two Emmys for creator-showrunner Quinta Brunson and supporting actress Sheryl Lee Ralph (respectively, they were the second Black women to win in…

2023 EMMY NOMINATIONS 4 NETWORK FREEVEE SEASON 1 EPISODES 8 RUNTIME 26-30 MIN. NOMINEES David Bernad, Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky, Ruben Fleischer, Nicholas Hatton, Cody Heller, Todd Schulman, Jake Szymanski, Andrew Weinberg, Robyn Adams, Tanner Bean, Katrina Mathewson, Alexis Sampietro, Matthew McIntyre (COMEDY SERIES) • James Marsden (SUPPORTING ACTOR) • Mekki Leeper (WRITING) • Susie Farris (CASTING) Cody Heller admits she was terrified when she began production on the mockumentary series Jury Duty, which features a cast of actors putting on a fictional civil trial in which one single member of the jury is a non-actor — an everyman named Ronald Gladden — who is unaware that everything around him is completely fake. Over the course of three weeks, Heller ran an experimental production in which much of what happens…

2023 EMMY NOMINATIONS 12 NETWORK NETFLIX SEASON 1 EPISODES 8 RUNTIME 45-57 MIN. NOMINEES Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Tim Burton, Andrew Mittman, Gail Berman, Steve Stark, Kayla Alpert, Jonathan Glickman, Tommy Harper, Kevin Lafferty, Kevin Miserocchi, Todd Williams, Carla Vargas, David Minkowski, Carmen Pepelea (COMEDY SERIES) • Jenna Ortega (LEAD ACTRESS) • Tim Burton (DIRECTING) • Mark Scruton, Adrian Curelea, Robert Hepburn (PRODUCTION DESIGN) • David Lanzenberg (CINEMATOGRAPHY) • Colleen Atwood, Mark Sutherland, Robin Soutar, Claudia Littlefield, Adina Bucur (CONTEMPORARY COSTUMES) Aaron Becker, Joseph Ahn, James Ramirez, Lee Nelson, Eric Keller, Hslen Lun Su (MAIN TITLE DESIGN) • Tara McDonald, Freda Ellis, Nirvana Jalalvand, Tamara Meade, Blanca Boeroiu (CONTEMPORARY MAKEUP, NON-PROSTHETIC) • Danny Elfman, Chris Bacon (MUSIC COMPOSITION) • Danny Elfman (ORIGINAL MAIN TITLE THEME) • Tom Turnbull, Kent Johnson,…