No show is created in a vacuum, and that’s never more clear than when you look at the artisans and the programs that scored the most noms in major Creative Arts categories. That most of these shows also scored major noms in the more visible acting, writing and directing categories proves that depth counts and that the most honored programs draw on the widest collection of talent. The profiles that follow appraise aspects of these shows and the creative people whose work the Emmys have recognized with nominations.
Barry
HBO
(8 noms: Half-hour narrative program production design; comedy series casting; single-camera comedy series picture editing (x2); music composition for a series; half-hour series sound editing; half-hour series sound mixing; comedy or variety stunt coordination)
There’s a lot of drama as well as sly humor in HBO’s dark comedy about a hit man (Bill Hader) trying to get out...
Barry
HBO
(8 noms: Half-hour narrative program production design; comedy series casting; single-camera comedy series picture editing (x2); music composition for a series; half-hour series sound editing; half-hour series sound mixing; comedy or variety stunt coordination)
There’s a lot of drama as well as sly humor in HBO’s dark comedy about a hit man (Bill Hader) trying to get out...
- 8/2/2019
- by Iain Blair and Randee Dawn
- Variety Film + TV
When it comes to Emmy nominations for below-the-line talent, traditional broadcaster NBC more than held its own in the major Creative Arts categories, tying HBO and besting juggernaut Netflix. The Peacock network broadcast three of the 13 shows that amassed seven or more noms in such areas as cinematography, production design and editing. HBO also had three shows in that arena; FX and Netflix each scored two, while Amazon, Hulu and Showtime each had one. Here’s an appraisal of those strongly crafted programs by some of the artisans who helped create them.
Atlanta / FX (seven noms)
The challenges facing editor Kyle Reiter on “Atlanta” were not the usual ones, “where you’re fixing problems and searching for the best takes,” he says. All the performances are so good that “there are an infinite number of ways of dealing with it, and it’s simply daunting.” It helped, he adds, that...
Atlanta / FX (seven noms)
The challenges facing editor Kyle Reiter on “Atlanta” were not the usual ones, “where you’re fixing problems and searching for the best takes,” he says. All the performances are so good that “there are an infinite number of ways of dealing with it, and it’s simply daunting.” It helped, he adds, that...
- 8/3/2018
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
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