Road To Emmys Annual Series
As in years past, a healthy percentage of those SHOOT interviewed relatively early on for its The Road To Emmy Series of feature stories--as well as prior TV Awards Season preview coverage--went on to land nominations from Television Academy voters. For example, among those SHOOT...
Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) is special to editors A.J. Catoline and Melissa McCoy on varied fronts. For one, this year each earned a first career ACE Eddie Award nomination--Catoline for “The Hope That Kills You” episode, and McCoy actually winning the Eddie for the “Make Rebecca Great Again...
Editors Lindsay Utz, ACE and Greg Finton, ACE came together for the first time and added to their Emmy credentials, recently nominated in the Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program category on the strength of Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry (Apple TV+), directed...
Prior to this week’s announcement of the season’s Emmy nominations, SHOOT connected with various contenders going back to special Preview coverage starting in April and then this ongoing The Road to Emmy series of feature stories which started two months ago. As it turns out, a good...
Cinematographer Checco Varese, ASC found himself deeply drawn to Them (Amazon Studios), an anthology series on terror which in its first season takes us to 1950s suburbia. A Black family moves from North Carolina to an all-white neighborhood in Los Angeles where they confront evil...
Cinematographer Ross Riege finds himself in the current awards season conversation for his lensing of two shows: Rutherford Falls (Peacock), a comedy with a serious undercurrent; and The Walking Dead: World Beyond (AMC), a drama/horror thriller that lends a new perspective to ...
Cinematographer Peter Deming, ASC was brought onto The Good Lord Bird (Showtime) by Albert Hughes, who directed the first episode and served as an EP on the limited series which is based on James McBride’s novel of the same title. Set in the mid-19th century, The Good Lord Bird...
Cinematographer James Laxton and director/writer Barry Jenkins have deep collaborative roots. The two were college roommates for a year and started working together at Florida State University film school. In fact, Laxton lensed Jenkins’ last two student films and has gone on to do the same for...
Race, nationalism, the notion of what constitutes a hero--these substantive topics along with the chance to as a solo woman director take on a Marvel Studios property, typically the province of male helmers, were among the compelling factors that spurred Kari Skogland to take on the series ...
When he read James McBride’s novel, “The Good Lord Bird,” Ethan Hawke, a four-time Oscar nominee (two for Best Supporting Actor, two for Best Adapted Screenplay) knew this was a story he had to tell, his initial thoughts centering on adapting it for a feature film. But in his first meeting with...