Awards
Telluride Awards Analysis: For Career-Best Turn in ‘Nyad,’ Annette Bening Is New Best Actress Frontrunner
The married filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi made their names with docs about extreme athletic accomplishments — see 2015’s Meru, 2018’s Free Solo (for which they won the best documentary feature Oscar) and 2021’s The Rescue — and have now made their narrative directorial debut, Nyad, about one woman’s decades-long pursuit of one of the […]
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News & Documentary Emmys: Dan Rather Among 2023 Gold and Silver Circle Inductees
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has announced the 2023 Gold and Silver Circle Inductees who will be feted at the 44th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards, which will be presented at two individual ceremonies: News on Sept. 27 and documentary on Sept. 28. Longtime television news anchor Dan Rather is among […]
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Emmy-Nominated ‘Last of Us’ Composer Gustavo Santaolalla on Discovering the Third Episode’s Humanity: “It Was a Great Love Story”
When you think of a modern-day Mozart, you may picture a complex, classically trained, strictly disciplined persona whose compositions render a series of intricate masterpieces. Few might hold the image of a native Argentinian who can’t read or write music. Yet, there is Gustavo Santaolalla — a musician, producer and composer who boasts 17 Latin […]
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Streamy Awards: MrBeast Wins Creator of the Year
MrBeast was the big winner at the 2023 Streamy Awards on Sunday night. MrBeast (real name Jimmy Donaldson) won two awards out of the five he was nominated for: creator of the year and collaboration for his rock, paper, scissors video with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, “Surprised he didn’t pick rock every time.” Kai Cenat […]
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‘George & Tammy’ Costume Designer on Finding George Jones’ Sartorial Take on Las Vegas, Discovering Tammy Wynette’s Actual Vintage Dresses
Emmy-nominated costume designer Mitchell Travers didn’t have the luxury to simply re-create the real suits and gowns worn by country music legends George Jones and Tammy Wynette for Showtime’s limited series George & Tammy. In fact, the stature of actor Michael Shannon, who has earned an Emmy nom for his performance as Jones, was an […]
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Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group to Receive IBC’s Highest Honor
IBC (International Broadcasting Convention) will bestow its most prestigious award, the International Honor for Excellence, to Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group in celebration of the studio’s 100th anniversary. The award will be presented Sept. 17 in Amsterdam, during the annual confab’s IBC Innovation Awards ceremony. “We are delighted to accept IBC’s International Honor for Excellence award in […]
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‘The White Lotus’ Costume Designer Created One Last Look Before Tanya’s Plunge
Crafting the farewell ensemble for Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge) — before she shoots up a yacht of murderous gays and tumbles into the sea to her untimely death in the season two finale of HBO’s The White Lotus — was a labor of love for costume designer Alex Bovaird, who has delighted in conjuring up […]
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‘Hocus Pocus 2’ Was a Reunion for Emmy-Nominated Composer
Disney+’s Hocus Pocus 2 was an emotional homecoming for Emmy-nominated composer John Debney, who scored 1993’s Hocus Pocus in the early days of his career. “To be playing some of the themes that I had written as a kid, I almost wanted to cry. It was like having a baby and then not seeing it […]
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“A Beautiful Game”: How the ‘Ted Lasso’ Song Scored a Goal — With a Lyrical Assist From Jason Sudeikis
It all started with music supervisor Tony Von Pervieux’s dream of working with pop music maestro Max Martin for an original Ted Lasso song — and ended with an emotional tearjerker that was so good Jason Sudeikis wrote a specific scene for the tune in the season three finale of the Apple TV+ comedy. Sudeikis […]
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Kid Cudi’s ‘Entergalactic’ Is an Animated Album of Love Songs
For Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi, known professionally as Kid Cudi, Netflix’s animated music special Entergalactic offered more than just the opportunity to create visuals for his 2022 studio album of the same name. It was a break, says executive producer Karina Manashil, from the traditional process of a label giving an artist “two music videos, […]
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Wolf Blitzer, Barbara Kopple to Receive News & Documentary Emmys’ Lifetime Achievement Honors
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) announced Tuesday that anchor, journalist and author Wolf Blitzer and director/producer Barbara Kopple are the lifetime achievement honorees at the 44th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Blitzer will receive his honor at the News ceremony on Sept. 27, and Kopple’s at the Documentary ceremony on […]
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Adam Blackstone Is a Musical Multihyphenate Who Is His Own Competition
It’s 2003 and Jay-Z is planning a farewell concert at Madison Square Garden to celebrate his retirement from music. But his bass player is unavailable. Adam Blackstone, a jack-of-all-trades who plays bass, drums, piano, organ, tuba and sousaphone — and is also a songwriter, producer, composer and everything else under the musical sun — is […]
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