Road To Emmys Annual Series
Dee Rees made her first Emmy splash a big one, scoring both Outstanding Directing and Outstanding Writing nominations for Bessie, the HBO biopic which starred Queen Latifah as iconic blues singer Bessie Smith, and Mo’Nique...
The fantasy saga “Game of Thrones” (HBO) received a leading 24 Emmy Awards nominations Thursday.
The drama wasn’t hurt with TV academy voters by controversy over its depiction of a female character’s rape, earning five more nominations than it did...
A mixed martial arts (MMA) drama adds to the recent mix of projects for director Adam Davidson. The MMA-themed story told in DirecTV’s Kingdom--for which Davidson directed two episodes, including the pilot (titled...
Mimi Leder is part of the Emmy conversation, once again--this time for HBO’s The Leftovers as EP/director.
Created by Damon Lindelof (Emmy winner for Lost) and novelist Tom Perrotta (an...
Clement Virgo, director, EP, producer and co-writer of the The Book of Negroes, has seen the BET miniseries gain award show traction with two Critics Choice TV Award nominations--for Best...
SHOOT’s second annual New Directors Showcase--back in 2004--included a promising young talent in Elliott Lester who has gone on to an accomplished career spanning features, commercials and television. On the latter front, last month Lester made his most...
Several years ago, director Lisa Cholodenko (High Art, Laurel Canyon, The Kids Are All Right) and cinematographer Fred Elmes, ASC (Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, The Ice Storm) served on a Sundance selection jury. “It’s a very intense experience...
Marta Kauffman received her first Emmy nomination in 1993--for Writing in a Comedy Series on the strength of the “For Peter’s Sake” episode of Dream On. She shared that nomination with fellow writer David Crane. She and Crane went on to create the iconic...
Craig Zisk is no stranger to the Emmy nominees’ circle. He has been up for the coveted award four times--three nominations for Best Comedy Series (Weeds in 2009; The Larry Sanders Show in 1998; and Brooklyn Bridge in 1992), and once for...
We start out with Beau Willimon, showrunner, exec producer, writer and creator of Netflix’s House of Cards which scored nine Emmy nominations in 2013, its debut year (and three wins--David Fincher for Outstanding Director on a Drama Series, Eigil Bryld for Outstanding Cinematography For...