Innholdsfortegnelse for Awards Special 16A - May 30, 2024 i The Hollywood Reporter

The first several weeks in the writers room of The Girls on the Bus, the Max series about female journalists covering a presidential campaign, went like this: “Oh, what if Sadie sleeps with a candidate?” Me: “Absolutely not.” “How about a Democratic strategist?” “Hard no. She cannot sleep with a source.” “Well, what if she falls for the bartender at the Marriott?” Me: “Doesn’t work. They’re in a different Marriott every night.” Finally, my co-creator Julie Plec said, “Amy, it’s TV, she has to fuck someone.” The more we brainstormed the romantic storyline of our protagonist, Sadie McCarthy, a reporter for a fictional paper of record played by Melissa Benoist, the more it started to feel like onscreen female journalists couldn’t catch a break in love. If we wanted our…

What intrigued you about this Gala Film shortform series? Honestly, it was the idea of finally being able to work within this format, with such phenomenal directors, as well as talent. I’ve always wanted to play a character as tough as Detective Thompson. She’s someone who has risen within the ranks due to her intelligence and an ability that matches that of a hacker named Grimm (played by show creator David Bianchi). Was preparation for this different from your other TV work? Definitely. This felt more similar to a film set. I have to immediately refer to Bianchi, because he really set the tone. Having a creative that’s not just your writer, but also wearing many other hats, it’s a true testament to their ability when they can pull something…

While hosting the 39th Artios Awards in March, comedian Alex Edelman cracked a fitting joke about casting directors Bernard Telsey and Adam Caldwell. As Telsey recalls it, Edelman said, “‘You know how Bernie and Adam cast The Gilded Age, don’t you? They stand in front of Bar Centrale,’ which is a famous theater bar, ‘and as the actors are coming out after their matinee, they throw a hood over their head and kidnap them in a van and take them up to Troy, New York, or Long Island.’” Telsey adds: “Basically, that is how we do it. We just don’t do the kidnapping.” Over two seasons, Julian Fellowes’ HBO period drama has earned a reputation for its stacked ensemble of Broadway talent playing New York high society characters and a…

The Simpsons is no underachiever when it comes to Emmy Awards, having notched 37 wins over its run that spans 35 seasons and counting. Two of its victories came in the outstanding original music and lyrics category — and in back-to-back years. The Fox animated series, one of few weekly shows to be scored with a full orchestra, topped the category in 1997 with the tune “We Put the Spring in Springfield” from the season eight episode “Bart After Dark.” The song — in which the staff of a burlesque house pitches the town on why it deserves to exist, much to Marge’s chagrin — featured music by series composer Alf Clausen and lyrics by then-producer Ken Keeler. The following year, Clausen and Keeler won again for “You’re Checkin’ In…

DAVID ATTENBOROUGH added two new projects to his eight-decade career as a writer, producer, narrator and featured source in some 150 natural history docs: Netflix’s Our Planet II and the BBC’s Planet Earth III. ANGELA BASSETT narrated and executive produced her first nature documentary, the seven-part Nat Geo series Queens, which explores the unique dynamics of animal matriarchies. CATE BLANCHETT lent her voice to Netflix’s Our Living World documentary, a four-part unveiling of the interconnectedness of animal ecosystems and the concerning effects of human activity on them. MORGAN FREEMAN narrated the eight-part Netflix series Life on Our Planet, his fifth nature documentary overall. TOM HARDY made his nature narration debut with Predators, Netflix’s five-parter on the hunters of the animal kingdom.…

Before John Bradley was cast as the brash yet lovable Jack Rooney in David Benioff, Dan Weiss and Alexander Woo’s 3 Body Problem, the actor felt that he was limited in terms of the roles being offered to him after his turn as Samwell Tarly on Benioff and Weiss’ Game of Thrones. “I think that they realized halfway through Game of Thrones that I was nothing like that character,” Bradley tells THR. “Dan Weiss said I was so diametrically opposed to the characters I was playing, and I think they could see that I was being put into that character bracket a little bit too easily, and they knew that I could do more than that. They gave me this chance to show a different side of myself, and I…

In season three of Only Murders in the Building, Broadway director Oliver Putnam, played by Martin Short, lands on the idea of turning his murder mystery play Death Rattle into a musical after the shocking death of his leading man. The musical, in which a detective investigates the murder of a woman in a lighthouse that was witnessed only by her infant triplets, is meant to salvage the show, and his career. To make the already over-the-top musical feel as real as possible, the Only Murders writing team called on Tony- and Oscar-winning songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Dear Evan Hansen, The Greatest Showman, La La Land). The pair then invited other well-known Broadway songwriters to help complete the score for the fictional musical, which features Steve Martin,…

As a stunt performer with more than 300 credits to his name and three decades of stunt coordination experience, Lauro Chartrand-DelValle was the obvious choice to teach the cast of FX’s Shogun how to battle. Between an avalanche, shipwrecks and explosive battle training, the stunt coordinator’s scope of work was broad, but while the series itself has a majestic range, Chartrand-DelValle kept the kills intimate. “We were all about one cut, one kill,” he states. THR spoke with him about traveling to the 1600s for what he calls his “dream job.” How did you research the time period? Because what I had done before, in The Last Samurai, was later in history, I read up on this particular time period. They also brought in specialists from Japan that we learned…

In HBO/Max’s war drama The Sympathizer, adapted from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer-winning novel and co-created by renowned director Park Chanwook, a communist spy from North Vietnam (The Captain, played by Hoa Xuande) accompanies a Southern Vietnamese general (Toan Le) as he prepares to flee for America or risk capture. In this scene from episode one, The General is compiling his list of names to board the getaway plane with him, while The Captain starts crossing out those who’ll stay behind, masterfully depicted onscreen through this transition (one of many impressively complex scene changes in the series) showing the paper and the red pen indicating those fated to remain and face their victors’ wrath. Cinematographer Kim Ji-yong chose this shot out of the show’s many cinematic frames because, he says, it’s…