Primetime Emmy Awards winners revealed–with Adolescence scooping six

Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne on stage

The 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards winners have been revealed–with Adolescence scooping the most prizes on the night with six. This included three for writer, producer and star Stephen Graham, while British actor Owen Cooper made history as the youngest male ever to win an Emmy Award. These successes came after a similarly fruitful night for … Read more

Brompton Technology helps Synapse Virtual Production expand creative horizons

Based in Los Angeles, Synapse Virtual Production is an immersive entertainment collective composed of industry-leading creatives and technicians across film and television, advertising, music videos, live events, broadcast, esports, and more. Blending their artistic instincts and technical expertise, the Synapse team specialises in virtual production with a creative-first approach, using their hard-won knowledge so that clients … Read more

Creative Arts Emmys: Cinematography winners revealed

The 2022 Creative Arts Emmy Awards showcased the achievements of the best behind-the-camera talent in American television over the past year, with six categories dedicated to cinematography. Saturday saw CBS’ Adele: One Night Only and Disney+’s The Beatles: Get Back earn five wins apiece. On Sunday, HBO and HBO Max enjoyed a raft of wins … Read more

ClearView Pivot wins 2022 Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Award

Sohonet, the global experts in remote collaboration, connectivity, on-set communications and network security for the media and entertainment industry, has been honoured with an Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Award for the second time. This year, the Television Academy awarded the Outstanding Achievement in Engineering, Science and Technology Emmy to Sohonet’s ClearView Pivot, a high-quality, … Read more

Television Academy honours ARRI with an Engineering Emmy

The Television Academy announced the recipients of the 74th Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards. ARRI was awarded the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award for its more than a century of designing and manufacturing camera and lighting systems as well as its development of systemic technological solutions and service networks for a worldwide complex … Read more

Teradek receives Emmy Award for its Bolt 4K

Teradek has announced that their Bolt 4K wireless video transmission system for on-set monitoring has been awarded an Engineering Emmy by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on October 21 at the 73rd annual event. Presented by the Television Academy Engineering Committee, Technology and Engineering Awards honor development and innovation in broadcast technology and … Read more

Ghost VFX artists on Star Trek: Discovery episode ‘Su’Kal’

Ghost VFX artists received a 2021 Emmy for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Single Episode for the Star Trek: Discovery installment ‘Su’Kal’. Led by supervising producer and lead VFX supervisor Jason Michael Zimmerman, the Emmy-winning Ghost team included VFX supervisor Ivan Kondrup Jensen and VFX producer Kristen Prahl. Also taking home Emmys were VFX supervisor Ante … Read more

The 73rd Emmy nominations have been announced

Nominations for the 73rd Emmy Awards have been announced, recognising a wealth of innovative storytelling, exceptional new programs, and a robust and diverse group of talent nominees. The live virtual ceremony was hosted by father-daughter duo Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us) from Los Angeles and Jasmine Cephas Jones (Blindspotting) from New York along with Television … Read more

June 2021: Heating up

This particular dispatch is being written during America’s de facto kickoff to the season ahead: “Summer,” if you’re looking at the weather and contemplating how many wildfires we’re about to go through on the West Coast, and wondering how crowded and unmasked your Memorial Day barbecue should be. “Emmy season,” if you’re thinking of a … Read more

Jakob Ihre FSF / Chernobyl

Melt Down Jakob Ihre FSF / Chernobyl Melt Down Jakob Ihre FSF / Chernobyl BY: Valentina Valentini Chernobyl is HBO’s haunting five-part miniseries that follows detailed accounts of those who tried to mitigate the disaster in the aftermath of the 1986 nuclear power plant explosion in the Soviet Union. The critically-acclaimed show about the doomed … Read more

September 2019: Emmy Night Elation

Emmy Night Elation Across the Pond / Mark London Williams Emmy Night Elation Across the Pond / Mark London Williams And so, as we head into “contender” season for the Oscars, ASC awards, and the other stops in L.A.’s late winter rondele of weekends-in-formal-wear, we pause to gather some insights from the current crop of … Read more

September 2018: “The Jane Goodall of Cinematography”

The Jane Goodall of Cinematography Across The Pond / Mark London Williams The Jane Goodall of Cinematography Across The Pond / Mark London Williams LEAD IMAGE: Ellen Kuras, captures Jane, National Geographic’s documentary on Jane Goodall, in Tanzania. Credit: National Geographic L.A. has always been a town filled with self-congratulations – though D.C. gives it … Read more

September 2017:
The Swirl Of Award Fever

The swirl of award fever Across The Pond / Mark London Williams The swirl of award fever Across The Pond / Mark London Williams It’s not only crisis and calamity (and in L.A., ash!) in the air this fall, but around town there’s already the swirl of award fever, as showbiz heads to one of … Read more