Netflix’s “Black Mirror” returns to the Emmy Awards after a four-year break with its sixth season that premiered back in June 2023. The trajectory of the Charlie Brooker anthology series at the Emmys has been a tumultuous journey, particularly in recent years. The science-fiction dystopia used to dominate the limited/movie genre, winning Best Television Movie for three consecutive years at its height, before the Television Academy ruled that it must compete for the drama categories for its fifth season in 2020, ending its streak. Then the following year, the top category for limited series was changed to Best Limited or Anthology Series, placing “Black Mirror” back into the genre, but in the more competitive limited series race rather than the standalone television movies.
Despite the many radical switches, the program has managed an impressive eight wins out of 14 nominations overall. With its new string of six anthology episodes that star various actors including Salma Hayek,...
Despite the many radical switches, the program has managed an impressive eight wins out of 14 nominations overall. With its new string of six anthology episodes that star various actors including Salma Hayek,...
- 5/17/2024
- by Christopher Tsang
- Gold Derby
Netflix’s anthology series “Black Mirror” has a pretty impressive BAFTA record, amassing a total of 24 nominations at both the BAFTA TV Awards and the BAFTA TV Craft Awards since 2012. Like the Creative Arts Emmys, the Craft Awards are dedicated to honoring the below-the-line categories. This year’s Craft Awards, which were just held on Sunday, added to the BAFTA record of “Black Mirror” by awarding them five nominations and two victories (more on those wins later).
Specifically, it was the fifth and final episode of the sixth season of “Black Mirror,” “Demon 79” that was nominated. We caught up with several key creatives behind this episode when we attended Sunday’s Craft Awards, which were hosted at the Brewery in East London by British documentarian and TV host Stacey Dooley. Firstly, we spoke to “Black Mirror” creator Charlie Brooker and his co-writer on “Demon 79” Bisha K. Ali, who was the...
Specifically, it was the fifth and final episode of the sixth season of “Black Mirror,” “Demon 79” that was nominated. We caught up with several key creatives behind this episode when we attended Sunday’s Craft Awards, which were hosted at the Brewery in East London by British documentarian and TV host Stacey Dooley. Firstly, we spoke to “Black Mirror” creator Charlie Brooker and his co-writer on “Demon 79” Bisha K. Ali, who was the...
- 4/29/2024
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
BAFTA has announced the winners of the BAFTA Television Craft Awards, presented at a ceremony held on Sunday night in London. The awards celebrate the creativity, skill, and craft of behind-the-scenes television talent and the best programs of 2023.
The following won two BAFTAs each:
Charlie Brooker and Bisha K Ali won the Writer Drama category and Stephan Pehrsson won for Photography & Lighting Fiction for Demon 79 (Black Mirror). Nikki Parsons, Ollie Bartlett and Richard Valentine won the Director: Multi-camera category, and Julio Himede, Tim Routledge, Kojo Samuel, Michael Sharp and Dan Shipton won Entertainment Craft Team for Eurovision Song Contest 2023. The Editing Team behind Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland won Editing: Factual and the documentary’s composer Simon Russell won Original Music: Factual. Atli Örvarsson won Original Music: Fiction and Gavin Bocquet and Amanda Bernstein won Production Design for their work on Silo. The Sound Team behind Slow Horses won Sound: Fiction,...
The following won two BAFTAs each:
Charlie Brooker and Bisha K Ali won the Writer Drama category and Stephan Pehrsson won for Photography & Lighting Fiction for Demon 79 (Black Mirror). Nikki Parsons, Ollie Bartlett and Richard Valentine won the Director: Multi-camera category, and Julio Himede, Tim Routledge, Kojo Samuel, Michael Sharp and Dan Shipton won Entertainment Craft Team for Eurovision Song Contest 2023. The Editing Team behind Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland won Editing: Factual and the documentary’s composer Simon Russell won Original Music: Factual. Atli Örvarsson won Original Music: Fiction and Gavin Bocquet and Amanda Bernstein won Production Design for their work on Silo. The Sound Team behind Slow Horses won Sound: Fiction,...
- 4/28/2024
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Wednesday Addams returns to the screen for the first live-action adaptation since the 1998 straight-to-video feature "Addams Family Reunion." In very capable hands, "Wednesday" arrives with raven's wings on Netflix and sees cinematic visionary Tim Burton returning to the director's chair. With a body of work that includes "Beetlejuice," "Edward Scissorhands," and "Corpse Bride," Burton has the pedigree to tackle the beloved franchise. Cartoonist Charles Addams' creepy clan first appeared in the pages of The New Yorker in 1938. Over the next several decades, 149 more panels appeared that led to a sitcom in the 1960s, a 1970s Saturday morning cartoon series, two outstanding '90s feature films, a 1992 animated series, another live-action series in 1999, and an animated theatrical reboot in 2019. You could say Burton had his work cut out for him.
Somehow the popularity of the Addamses has never waned. Audiences flock to this creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky family like maggots...
Somehow the popularity of the Addamses has never waned. Audiences flock to this creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky family like maggots...
- 11/23/2022
- by Bee Scott
- Slash Film
American drama web series Utopia review is here. The upcoming series adapted by ‘Gone Girl’ fame Gillian Flynn from the 2013 British original is scheduled to premiere on September 25, 2020 on Prime Video. The adaptation stars Sasha Lane, Rainn Wilson, Desmin Borges, Javon Walton, Dan Byrd, Christopher Denham, Cory Michael Smith and John Cusack in pivotal roles.
Watch the official trailer of Utopia: When the conspiracy in the elusive comic Utopia is real
https://youtu.be/dFSKBllxRIw Utopia Review
So, it’s been more than six months to the deadly Corona Covid-19 pandemic and still we are locking/unlocking our hopes. Remember, during the early days of lockdown we all searched for Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion and said Hey… how can this be true… on celluloid nine years ago.
Now, The Gone Girl fame Gillian Flynn in Amazon Prime's Utopia Season 1 – the Gillian Flynn’s adaptation of the cult British revolution...
Watch the official trailer of Utopia: When the conspiracy in the elusive comic Utopia is real
https://youtu.be/dFSKBllxRIw Utopia Review
So, it’s been more than six months to the deadly Corona Covid-19 pandemic and still we are locking/unlocking our hopes. Remember, during the early days of lockdown we all searched for Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion and said Hey… how can this be true… on celluloid nine years ago.
Now, The Gone Girl fame Gillian Flynn in Amazon Prime's Utopia Season 1 – the Gillian Flynn’s adaptation of the cult British revolution...
- 9/16/2020
- by Vishal Verma
- GlamSham
When composer Daniel Pemberton first saw a cut of “USS Callister (Black Mirror)” he thought, “This is brilliant, but it’s a shame I can’t do it.” The prolific musician was in-between working on the films “Molly’s Game” (2017) and “All the Money in the World” (2017), and felt he didn’t have the time to fully commit to the project. It didn’t help that it was “the most complicated episode of ‘Black Mirror'” he’d ever seen. But he decided to take the plunge anyway and scored his first Emmy nomination in the process. Watch our exclusive video interview with Pemberton above.
See Stephan Pehrsson (‘Black Mirror: USS Callister’ cinematographer) was inspired by ‘different iterations’ of ‘Star Trek’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
This installment of the Netflix anthology series stars Jesse Plemons as Robert Daly, a lonely tech engineer who has created a virtual reality game based on his favorite science-fiction TV series.
See Stephan Pehrsson (‘Black Mirror: USS Callister’ cinematographer) was inspired by ‘different iterations’ of ‘Star Trek’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
This installment of the Netflix anthology series stars Jesse Plemons as Robert Daly, a lonely tech engineer who has created a virtual reality game based on his favorite science-fiction TV series.
- 8/20/2018
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
Last year Netflix scored Emmy victories for Best TV Movie and Best Movie/Mini Writing for the “Black Mirror” episode “San Junipero.” Can it pick up more hardware this season with its acclaimed episode “USS Callister”? Gold Derby recently spoke with stars Cristin Milioti and Jimmi Simpson, as well as cinematographer Stephan Pehrsson. Scroll down and click on their names below to be taken to their full interviews.
“This was a dream role. I would do this role for the rest of my life,” reveals Milioti. She plays Nanette, a tech-savvy new employee at a video game company. When head coder Robert (Jesse Plemons) becomes smitten with the new hire he creates a digital clone of her to live like a slave in his own personal copy of the game. His game resembles classic “Star Trek,” but he rules it cruelly as the captain.
See Jesse Plemons (‘USS Callister’):...
“This was a dream role. I would do this role for the rest of my life,” reveals Milioti. She plays Nanette, a tech-savvy new employee at a video game company. When head coder Robert (Jesse Plemons) becomes smitten with the new hire he creates a digital clone of her to live like a slave in his own personal copy of the game. His game resembles classic “Star Trek,” but he rules it cruelly as the captain.
See Jesse Plemons (‘USS Callister’):...
- 7/1/2018
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
At last year’s Emmys Netflix scored two big wins for anthology series “Black Mirror” thanks to the “San Junipero” installment: Best TV Movie and Best Writing for Charlie Brooker. The streaming network could be in for a similar haul this year, this time for the fan-favorite outing “USS Callister.” Eleven of Gold Derby’s 16 Emmy Experts predict that “USS Callister (Black Mirror),” its official title on the Emmy ballot, will win Best TV Movie, resulting in leading 15/8 odds. Will any of the program’s Emmy-eligible performers — Jesse Plemons, Cristin Milioti, Jimmi Simpson or Michaela Coel — go along for the ride? Let’s take a closer look.
See Hey, Emmy voters: Look for ‘Black Mirror’ under U as in ‘USS Callister’
Best Movie/Limited Series Actor: Jesse Plemons as Robert Daly
Plemons is no stranger to the Emmys, earning a bid for “Fargo” (2016) and being a part of nominated series...
See Hey, Emmy voters: Look for ‘Black Mirror’ under U as in ‘USS Callister’
Best Movie/Limited Series Actor: Jesse Plemons as Robert Daly
Plemons is no stranger to the Emmys, earning a bid for “Fargo” (2016) and being a part of nominated series...
- 6/14/2018
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Cinematographer Stephan Pehrsson wanted to capture “the different iterations of ‘Star Trek‘” for the “Black Mirror” episode “U.S.S. Callister.” This installment of Charlie Brooker‘s acclaimed anthology series centers on Robert Daly (Jesse Plemmons), a lonely coder who creates a virtual reality video game based on his favorite sci-fi series, casting himself as the dictatorial captain. Cristin Milioti co-stars as Nanette, the beautiful new hire who becomes a digital clone in his imagined universe. Watch our exclusive video interview with Pehrsson above.
See Cristin Milioti relishes the captain’s chair in ‘Black Mirror’ episode ‘U.S.S. Callister’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
“We started off with the classic ’60s look,” Pehrsson explains, referring to the original William Shatner-led version of “Trek.” To do this he used “a 4:3 format with a very static camera” and “Dutch framing.” His lighting also featured “nice eye-light” for Plemmons and “beautiful, glossy frames for the female actors” like Milioti.
See Cristin Milioti relishes the captain’s chair in ‘Black Mirror’ episode ‘U.S.S. Callister’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
“We started off with the classic ’60s look,” Pehrsson explains, referring to the original William Shatner-led version of “Trek.” To do this he used “a 4:3 format with a very static camera” and “Dutch framing.” His lighting also featured “nice eye-light” for Plemmons and “beautiful, glossy frames for the female actors” like Milioti.
- 6/4/2018
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
It's kind of amazing to see a single hour of British television show up a $163 million Hollywood movie, and that's the happy outcome of "Doctor Who's" third episode of Season 7 -- "A Town Called Mercy" -- which blends sci-fi and Western tropes far more successfully than last summer's big budget movie dud "Cowboys & Aliens."
What better setting for the Doctor (Matt Smith) to work out his mini-crisis of morality than the American West, caught in the midst of an intergalactic battle between a cyborg Gunslinger (Andrew Brooke), his conflicted creator (Adrian Scarborough) and an upstanding Sheriff (Ben Browder)? Before the hour is up there's a stop at the saloon, an angry mob, a quick draw competition, multiple heroic deaths, breathtaking shots of desert scenery and a public duel at high noon.
What really moves the season's overall arc forward in "A Town Called Mercy" is a deeper look at the Doctor's state of mind.
What better setting for the Doctor (Matt Smith) to work out his mini-crisis of morality than the American West, caught in the midst of an intergalactic battle between a cyborg Gunslinger (Andrew Brooke), his conflicted creator (Adrian Scarborough) and an upstanding Sheriff (Ben Browder)? Before the hour is up there's a stop at the saloon, an angry mob, a quick draw competition, multiple heroic deaths, breathtaking shots of desert scenery and a public duel at high noon.
What really moves the season's overall arc forward in "A Town Called Mercy" is a deeper look at the Doctor's state of mind.
- 9/16/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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