Shogun Dominates at Creative Emmys; Italian Talent Shines in Visual Effects
With the overwhelming triumph of Shogun, Hollywood kicks off the awards season in what has been the darkest year in decades for the industry’s employment figures.
The Creative Emmys Awards, held on Saturday and Sunday at the Peacock Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, honor a multitude of technical categories over two days. These awards serve as a prelude to the so-called “television Oscars,” whose 76th edition is scheduled for next Sunday, hosted by the father-son duo Dan and Eugene Levy.
As predicted, the clear winner of the night was FX’s show about political intrigue in feudal Japan, which took home 14 of the 16 statuettes it was nominated for. These included Emmys for costume design, makeup, editing, stunt coordination, visual effects, cinematography, and the award for Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series, won by Néstor Carbonell (Lost, The Morning Show, or Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight).
With last night’s wins, the series set in 17th-century Japan has already claimed the most awards this year, ahead of the September 15th ceremony, where it is up also for Best Drama Series and Best Actor in a Drama Series for lead Hiroyuki Sanada.
(Back in May, Shogun switched categories, moving from Limited Series to Drama Series).
In second place, another favorite of this television season (for shows aired between June 1, 2023, and May 31, 2024) is the second season of The Bear, competing in the comedy category. The struggles, neuroses, and burns of the Berzatto clan brought other seven Emmys to FX, including awards for cinematography in a comedy series and editing for the episode Fishes, a flashback of a nightmarish Christmas dinner. The episode also won Guest Actor Emmys for Jon Bernthal, playing Mike Berzatto, and Jamie Lee Curtis, his mother, the alcoholic and depressed family matriarch.
“I’m the luckiest girl in the world. Reaching this level of depth, complexity, and intelligence has been the most thrilling experience of the past two years,” said the 65-year-old actress while holding her first Emmy, just 18 months after winning her first Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Ripley, the series filmed in Italy for Showtime and Netflix, with Andrew Scott portraying the charming con artist created by Patricia Highsmith in the mid-1950s, boasted a large delegation of Italian crew members at the Peacock Theatre (97% of the crew being local, according to Italian producer Enzo Sisti).
It managed to secure three awards in the Limited Series category: the prestigious Emmy for cinematography won by Robert Elswit (Oscar-winner for There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson); the award for sound editing; and visual effects for the episode Il sommerso. The Italian company EDI (Effetti Digitali Italiani) joined the team with the supervision of Gaia Bussolati, retouching over 100 scenes across six of the eight episodes. On the Emmy-winning episode, Bussolati shared: “We recreated the Sanremo landscape, which serves as the backdrop for one of the story’s key moments. The scene of the beachgoers playing on the shore was originally filmed in Anzio, and the lighthouse in the background is the one from Capo d’Anzio. We then surrounded it with mountains and a Ligurian landscape. It was very stimulating”, added Bussolati, who wasn’t in Los Angeles yesterday.
“The nomination is the real prize,” said a satisfied Alessandra Querzola, who was nominated for set decoration (her third Emmy nod, in addition to one Oscar nomination for Blade Runner 2049). “Of course, when you consider all the television produced worldwide in a year, making it to the top five is a reward in itself. The final choice is influenced by many factors, not just merit,” added Maurizio Argentieri, nominated for sound mixing.
Veteran producers Enzo Sisti and Clayton Townsend now await next Sunday, when Ripley will compete against Baby Reindeer, Fargo, True Detective, and Lessons in Chemistry for Best Anthology or Limited Series.
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With the overwhelming triumph of Shogun, Hollywood kicks off the awards season in what has been the darkest year in decades for the industry’s employment figures.
The Creative Emmys Awards, held on Saturday and Sunday at the Peacock Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, honor a multitude of technical categories over two days. These awards serve as a prelude to the so-called “television Oscars,” whose 76th edition is scheduled for next Sunday, hosted by the father-son duo Dan and Eugene Levy.
As predicted, the clear winner of the night was FX’s show about political intrigue in feudal Japan, which took home 14 of the 16 statuettes it was nominated for. These included Emmys for costume design, makeup, editing, stunt coordination, visual effects, cinematography, and the award for Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series, won by Néstor Carbonell (Lost, The Morning Show, or Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight).
With last night’s wins, the series set in 17th-century Japan has already claimed the most awards this year, ahead of the September 15th ceremony, where it is up also for Best Drama Series and Best Actor in a Drama Series for lead Hiroyuki Sanada.
(Back in May, Shogun switched categories, moving from Limited Series to Drama Series).
In second place, another favorite of this television season (for shows aired between June 1, 2023, and May 31, 2024) is the second season of The Bear, competing in the comedy category. The struggles, neuroses, and burns of the Berzatto clan brought other seven Emmys to FX, including awards for cinematography in a comedy series and editing for the episode Fishes, a flashback of a nightmarish Christmas dinner. The episode also won Guest Actor Emmys for Jon Bernthal, playing Mike Berzatto, and Jamie Lee Curtis, his mother, the alcoholic and depressed family matriarch.
“I’m the luckiest girl in the world. Reaching this level of depth, complexity, and intelligence has been the most thrilling experience of the past two years,” said the 65-year-old actress while holding her first Emmy, just 18 months after winning her first Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Ripley, the series filmed in Italy for Showtime and Netflix, with Andrew Scott portraying the charming con artist created by Patricia Highsmith in the mid-1950s, boasted a large delegation of Italian crew members at the Peacock Theatre (97% of the crew being local, according to Italian producer Enzo Sisti).
It managed to secure three awards in the Limited Series category: the prestigious Emmy for cinematography won by Robert Elswit (Oscar-winner for There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson); the award for sound editing; and visual effects for the episode Il sommerso. The Italian company EDI (Effetti Digitali Italiani) joined the team with the supervision of Gaia Bussolati, retouching over 100 scenes across six of the eight episodes. On the Emmy-winning episode, Bussolati shared: “We recreated the Sanremo landscape, which serves as the backdrop for one of the story’s key moments. The scene of the beachgoers playing on the shore was originally filmed in Anzio, and the lighthouse in the background is the one from Capo d’Anzio. We then surrounded it with mountains and a Ligurian landscape. It was very stimulating”, added Bussolati, who wasn’t in Los Angeles yesterday.
“The nomination is the real prize,” said a satisfied Alessandra Querzola, who was nominated for set decoration (her third Emmy nod, in addition to one Oscar nomination for Blade Runner 2049). “Of course, when you consider all the television produced worldwide in a year, making it to the top five is a reward in itself. The final choice is influenced by many factors, not just merit,” added Maurizio Argentieri, nominated for sound mixing.
Veteran producers Enzo Sisti and Clayton Townsend now await next Sunday, when Ripley will compete against Baby Reindeer, Fargo, True Detective, and Lessons in Chemistry for Best Anthology or Limited Series.
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