Innholdsfortegnelse for Awards Special 17B - June 10, 2024 i The Hollywood Reporter

When it comes to the comedy series category, a hypothetical question arises when imagining how Television Academy members may vote. Should the top prize go to the best show of the eventual eight nominees or the funniest show? Should a series’ humor — or in some cases, lack thereof — impact an Emmy pick? Last season’s best comedy winner (and this year’s frontrunner) was certainly light on the humor, but that hasn’t stopped FX/Hulu’s The Bear from picking up a slew of comedy trophies at the Emmys and elsewhere. Its debut season, dropped in June 2022, led January’s strike-postponed Emmys, scoring trophies for stars Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Ayo Edebiri and creator Christopher Storer (who got two, for writing and directing). In addition to its sweep, the show’s…

In the third episode of Prime Video’s I’m a Virgo, a beloved character succumbs to an injury after being denied treatment at a hospital because he was uninsured; it’s one of several of the show’s depictions of the horrors of America under capitalism, and the scene that made editor Tom Eagles want to be part of the project. “I’m a fairly recent immigrant, and I still remember the first time I had to take my son to the ER,” says the New Zealand native. “The first place they sent us was the billing department to make sure I could pay. When I [read] that episode, I remember really leaning in.” Here, he recalls connecting to and working on this singular series. Which episode offered the biggest challenge? Episode four was…

During Steven Zaillian’s Ripley, the viewer gleans a lot from things that aren’t said, whether that’s through telltale props, intricate sets or fabulous 1960s fashion. But it’s the show’s sound mixing that really becomes a key player in the Netflix series, adding tension and mystery to scenes with little dialogue or score. “Steve clearly planned the show with sound in mind and really left room for the environments and ambiences to breathe and support a tone,” says sound designer and rerecording mixer Larry Zipf. “We had many long stretches with little dialogue or little music, and wherever there was opportunity for sound to give the impression of life outside the frame, whether it’s diegetic or in Tom’s mind, Steve was always looking for that.” Ripley stars Andrew Scott as con…

Paramount Television’s Shogun was arguably the original international event series. The five-part TV adaptation of James Clavell’s sprawling 1975 novel of the same name became a pop culture sensation when it aired on NBC in 1980, winning an Emmy for outstanding limited series and the Golden Globe for best television series in the drama category. Much like FX and Hulu’s updated Shogun adaptation released in February, the original limited series was an enormous swing, in terms of both budget and production values. Starring Richard Chamberlain and Japanese screen icon Toshiro Mifune, the show’s six-month Japan shoot was initially budgeted at $12 million but swelled to $22 million ($83.7 million in today’s dollars), becoming the most expensive TV series ever made at the time. Some aspects of the original haven’t aged…

Cooking Up Something New When Cat Smith first started conceptualizing the set for Lessons in Chemistry’s fictional cooking show Supper at Six, hosted by former chemist Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson), she designed a typical 1960s housewife Colonial-style kitchen, complete with oak paneling and black wrought-iron hinges. Then she scrapped it. “The idea that Brie presented to me was that it should really be what a man thinks a woman likes, and that changed the whole thing for me,” says the production designer for the Apple TV+ series. Enter the monochromatic pale pink kitchen with powder blue trimmings, scalloped moldings and red cherry wallpaper that made it onscreen. “I did a little bit of the Hollywood Regency style because in TV in general, you try to exaggerate the form a little…

In Netflix’s Griselda, Sofía Vergara transforms into notorious Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco. Makeup artist Todd McIntosh, working with the show’s prosthetics constructor, Stephen Bettles, used a prosthetic nose, eyebrow covers and fake teeth for Vergara’s look, which he completed with the help of paint and makeup. “If you look at Griselda, she was not an attractive lady,” says McIntosh. “I understood from the moment I was part of the show that my job was to make this absolutely gorgeous woman look like a plain, average kind of person in the 1970s.” Vergara’s noticeably full eyebrows needed to be thinned and tweezed with a higher arch for that ’70s look. However, since Vergara wasn’t willing to have that done to her actual eyebrows, eyebrow covers, which are always “problematic,” says…

How do you breathe humanity into a post-nuke, radiation-poisoned America? In Fallout, it comes down to Walton Goggins’ nose-less Ghoul, a cyclops vault dweller, bloodthirsty mutated bears and a centuries-decayed Santa Monica Pier, just to name a few of the series’ cataclysmic details. Amazon MGM Studios’ adaptation of the popular Bethesda video game is set in apocalyptic Los Angeles in 2296, 219 years after an atomic bomb obliterates the U.S. Producers Jonathan “Jonah” Nolan and Lisa Joy tapped longtime collaborator and Emmywinning VFX supervisor Jay Worth (Westworld, Person of Interest) to build that world alongside showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner. “It was fun being able to make a sad little love letter to L.A., mixed with all the different challenges that we had storytelling-wise and where visual effects were…

In Palm Royale, about a woman named Maxine (Kristen Wiig) infiltrating the wealthy elite of Palm Beach, Florida, in 1969, Laura Dern plays Linda, the local feminist of the community. In episode six, titled “Maxine Takes a Step,” Dern shares the screen with her real-life father, Bruce Dern, for the first time ever. “It’s such an iconic moment on television, obviously, the two of them acting together,” says director Stephanie Laing. “But more than that, it signifies the journey they’re about to take in the story.” He plays Linda’s father, Skeet, who is coming to terms with his looming death, and receives the blessing of his daughter to move to the other side. Here, the pair of them trip on LSD while watching the Apollo 12 launch. To capture the…