Industry heavyweights Atticus Ross (“Shogun”), Michael Minkler (“Masters of the Air”) and Robert Elswit (“Ripley”) were among those who led the Creative Art Emmy nominations on Wednesday morning.
FX’s “Shogun” dominated the Emmy nominations Wednesday morning, landing 25 nods. The drama series based on James Clavell’s epic novel landed musician and composer Ross a nomination for music composition for a series while costume designer Carlos Rosario was also nominated.
Speaking with Variety, Rosario explained how he created over 2300 designs for the series set in feudal Japan.
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Elswit, who reunited with directed Steven Zaillian for Netflix’s “Ripley,” earned his first Primetime Emmy nod. The Oscar winning DP (“There Will Be Blood”) sat down for Variety’s Inside the Frame series and explained how he wanted to get inside Tom Ripley’s (Andrew Scott) mind and give the series a painterly effect.
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“This goes back to his way of bringing Caravaggio into the movie,” Elswit said. Zaillian wanted to create a painterly feeling of what a night exterior painting would’ve looked like in the late 16th century. “They tended to exaggerate the night light that came from the moon and the stars,” said Elswit.
Costume designer Shawna Trpcic, who died last year, earned a posthumous nomination in the outstanding fantasy/sci-fi costumes category for her work on the “Star Wars” series “Ahsoka.”
“Ahsoka” additionally delivered sound editing nominations to a team of “Star Wars” franchise vets from Skywalker Sound, including five-time Oscar-nominee Matthew Wood (“Star Wars” movies “The Force Awakens,” ‘The Rise of Skywalker” and “The Last Jedi”), four-time Emmy winner Bonnie Wild (“The Mandalorian”) and two-time Oscar nominee David Acord (“The Force Awakens,” “The Rise of Skywalker”).
The outstanding prosthetic makeup category was all about the art of transformation. Prosthetics designer and two-time Emmy winner Vincent Van Dyke landed a nomination in the category for Prime Video’s “Fallout.”
On “Fallout,” Van Dyke and makeup department head Jake Garber transformed Walton Goggins into the Ghoul. In total, nine pieces of thin silicon were applied to Goggins’ face. But he also wore silicone pieces on his hand. The transformation initially started at five hours, but Van Dyke and Garber whittled it down to under two hours.
Florian Hoffmeister, the Oscar-nominated DP behind “Tar” and Emmy winner for “Great Expectations,” earned an Emmy nom for “True Detective: Night Country” (cinematography for a limited or anthology series or movie).
Three-time Emmy winning DP Gary Baum earned a pair of nominations in the multi-camera series (half-hour) category, for episodes of “Frasier” and “How I Met Your Father.”
The competitive category for cinematography in a one-hour series includes two noms for “The Crown” (Sophia Olsson for “Ritz” and Adriano Goldman for “Sleep, Dearie Sleep”) and two for “Shogun” (Christopher Ross “Anjin” and Sam McCurdy “Crimson Sky”).
Veteran Marvel VFX supervisor Christopher Townsend–who was Oscar nominated for “Shang Chi,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” and “Iron Man 3”–earned his first Emmy nom as VFX supervisor on “Loki.”
Three-time Oscar winner Minkler (“Dreamgirls,” “Chicago,” “Black Hawk Down”) earned two nominations for “Masters of the Air,” in both sound editing and mixing. He previously won an Emmy for “The Pacific.”
In sound mixing, Academy Award -winner Steve Pederson (“Apollo 13”) and 16-time Oscar nom Greg P. Russell are the nominated rerecording mixers on “Shogun”; and three-time Oscar winning rerecording mixer Gary Rizzo (“Dunkirk”, “Inception,” “Interstellar”) earned a nom for “The Beach Boys.”
In sound editing, two-time Oscar nominated supervising sound editor Martin Hernandez (“The Revenant,” “Birdman”) was cited this morning for “True Detective: Night Country.”
And in mixing, re-recording mixer Tony Volante earned a pair of noms for nonfiction programming, for “Jim Henson Idea Man” and “STAX: Soulsville, U.S.A..”
A string of series received double nominations in picture editing: “Fallout” for editor Ali Comperchio “The End” episode) and Yoni Reiss (“The Ghouls” episode); “Only Murders in the Building,” for Shelly Westerman and Payton Kocj (“Sitzprobe” episode) and Peggy Tachdjian (“The White Room” episode); “True Detective: Night Country” for Matt Chesse (“Part 4” and Brenna Rangott (“Part 6”); “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” for Anthony Miale (“Boeing” segment) and Ryan Barger (“The Sad Tale of Henry the Engine” segment); and “SNL” for Ryan Spears (“I’m Just Pete” segment) and Paul Del Gesso and Kristie Ferriso (Bowen’s Straight” segment).
