Last year, Emmy voters saw fit to nominate seven women directors across six categories, and “The Handmaid’s Tale’s” Reed Morano became the first woman to win for Outstanding Director for a Drama Series. This year it was down to four: Carrie Brownstein (“Portlandia”), Lynn Novick (“The Vietnam War”), Amy Sherman-Palladino (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) and Kari Skogland (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) were the sole women in their respective categories, all first-time nominees.
It wasn’t easy to get there, we found out. Here are their stories.
Carrie Brownstein
Variety Sketch Series: “Portlandia” Season 8, one Emmy nomination.
Network: IFC/The Sundance Channel
Career highlights: “Sleater-Kinney” punk indie trio, web comedy duo ThunderAnt (with Fred Armisen), NPR blog “Monitor Mix,” 2015 memoir “Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl.”
Home base: Los Angeles
Episode 1, “Riot Spray”: At the start of their eighth and final season, Brownstein and “Portlandia” co-creator and costar...
It wasn’t easy to get there, we found out. Here are their stories.
Carrie Brownstein
Variety Sketch Series: “Portlandia” Season 8, one Emmy nomination.
Network: IFC/The Sundance Channel
Career highlights: “Sleater-Kinney” punk indie trio, web comedy duo ThunderAnt (with Fred Armisen), NPR blog “Monitor Mix,” 2015 memoir “Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl.”
Home base: Los Angeles
Episode 1, “Riot Spray”: At the start of their eighth and final season, Brownstein and “Portlandia” co-creator and costar...
- 8/7/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
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