After winning a Critics Choice Award earlier this year, Michael Kenneth Williams (“Lovecraft Country”) entered Emmy season as a front-runner. And it would be a historic victory as there still have been no Black winners for Best Drama Supporting Actor — ever. But with only one of last year’s eight nominees eligible to return, this race is far from a done deal. And the Expert journalists we’ve surveyed from major media outlets are divided.
Williams has four previous Emmy nominations: three for Best Movie/Limited Supporting Actor and one for Best Informational Program as a producer (“Vice”). He has yet to win, but 14 Experts think this is his year.
See‘Lovecraft Country’ casting directors Kim Coleman and Meagan Lewis on finding actors who could ‘speak the truth’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
In “Lovecraft Country” he plays Montrose, who struggles with being Black and gay in 1950s Chicago while trying to mend his relationship...
Williams has four previous Emmy nominations: three for Best Movie/Limited Supporting Actor and one for Best Informational Program as a producer (“Vice”). He has yet to win, but 14 Experts think this is his year.
See‘Lovecraft Country’ casting directors Kim Coleman and Meagan Lewis on finding actors who could ‘speak the truth’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
In “Lovecraft Country” he plays Montrose, who struggles with being Black and gay in 1950s Chicago while trying to mend his relationship...
- 6/21/2021
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
“If you watch the first 40 minutes of it, you think you’re watching a version of ‘Green Book’ … and suddenly giant man-eating monsters come out and rip people’s heads off,” says “Lovecraft Country” editor Marta Evry about the complex tonal shifts in the HBO series, which layers a supernatural mystery on top of the everyday horrors of American racism in the 1950s. Watch our exclusive video interview with Evry and her fellow editors Bjørn T. Myrholt and Ian S. Tan above.
See‘Lovecraft Country’ composer Laura Karpman on creating ‘gothic R&b’ with ‘an orchestra that literally rocks’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
“The hardest part about this was really balancing two things,” Evry adds about combining the show’s historical and metaphorical elements, which she had to tackle right from the get-go when she came in to edit the premiere episode, “Sundown.” That was certainly also true for Myrholt, one of whose episodes was “I Am,...
See‘Lovecraft Country’ composer Laura Karpman on creating ‘gothic R&b’ with ‘an orchestra that literally rocks’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
“The hardest part about this was really balancing two things,” Evry adds about combining the show’s historical and metaphorical elements, which she had to tackle right from the get-go when she came in to edit the premiere episode, “Sundown.” That was certainly also true for Myrholt, one of whose episodes was “I Am,...
- 6/8/2021
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
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