The Television Academy tonight celebrated the 76th Emmy Awards, recognising excellence in television programming and individual achievement for the 2023-2024 television season. Both Shogun and Baby Reindeer were big winners on the night, with BSC members Chris Ross BSC and Sam McCurdy BSC involved in the shooting of Shogun and Annika Summerson BSC lensing some of Baby Reindeer. Mr and Mrs … Read more
With still a week to go before the 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards, a majority of the statuettes were already handed out this weekend at the Creative Arts Emmys ceremonies. Winners in 99 categories were announced over Saturday and Sunday night ceremonies at the Peacock Theater at L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles. An edited presentation of the ceremonies will … Read more
As things continue to swelter in the US, our stateside columnist finds it’s not only politics heating up, but Emmy nods, summer films, Hollywood labour disputes – and everything else. In a recent newsletter, American historian Heather Cox Richardson was applying Ernest Hemingway’s line about how one goes bankrupt – “first gradually, and then suddenly” – to … Read more
Based on James Clavell’s 1975 bestselling novel, FX’s hit series Shōgun is set in Japan in 1600 as a civil war looms. The series was directed by Frederick E.O. Toye (4 episodes), Jonathan Van Tulleken (2 episodes), Charlotte Brändström (1 episode), Takeshi Fukunaga (1 episode), Hiromi Kamata (1 episode) and Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour (1 episode). It … Read more
FEUDAL FEUDS Sprawling epic Shōgun allowed cinematographer Christopher Ross BSC to craft a rich tapestry of 17th-century feudal Japan. An English pirate is shipwrecked on the shores of feudal Japan and uses the local political system to ingratiate himself in a game of thrones among warlords competing to be top dog (or shogun). Ultimately, everyone … Read more