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THE INSIDER’S GUIDE TO ALL THINGS EMMYS MINISERIES/MOVIES I JUNE 15, 2016 PLUS Kerry Washington, American Crime, Riley Keough, Roots, All the Way, The Night SARAH Manager and all PAULSON those live musicals GETS REAL HER LONG AND WINDING JOURNEY TO THE PEOPLE V. O.J. SIMPSON FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION “ONE OF THE MOST FASCINATING TRUE CRIME STORIES EVER TOLD” OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY SERIES THE WRAP SPREAD NETFLIX: MAKING A MURDERER PUB DATE: 06/15/16 TRIM: 20” X 12” BLEED: 20.5” X 12.5” FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION “ONE OF THE MOST FASCINATING TRUE CRIME STORIES EVER TOLD” OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY SERIES THE WRAP SPREAD NETFLIX: MAKING A MURDERER PUB DATE: 06/15/16 TRIM: 20” X 12” BLEED: 20.5” X 12.5” FRONT & CENTER / Table of Contents THE WRAP MAGAZINE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Sharon Waxman AWARDS EDITOR CREATIVE DIRECTOR Steve Pond Ada Guerin DEPUTY EDITOR Tim Appelo To be brutally honest, VICE PRESIDENT, SALES I wanted to be Julia Caren Gibbens Roberts. 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It has won many other awards for investigative reporting, columns, criticism and feature writing. TheWrap was named one of the “100 Most Important Online Publishers” in 2010 by OMMA, the magazine of online media, marketing and advertising. GO TO THEWRAP.COM For more of our coverage of Emmy season and all other facets of the entertainment industry visit us at TheWrap.com. For advertising inquiries, contact [email protected] or call (424) 248-0662 2 THEWRAP JUNE 15, 2016 Contents MINISERIES/MOVIES I JUNE 15, 2016 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 16 On a Roll, at Last 4 Awards Beat: Why you can’t kill the Sarah Paulson reflects on the rocky career miniseries that led to The People v. O.J. Simpson 6 By the Numbers: Movies and minis 22 He Said, She Said through the decades In Confirmation, Kerry Washington goes from Scandal to scandal 10 Short Cuts: The Girlfriend Experience, The Night Manager, All the Way and Roots 26 High School Confidential Season 2 of American Crime put a heavy 14 Shindigs & Soirees: The red carpet heats load on a quartet of young actors up 30 Musical Fever 32 Emmy’s Back Pages: When Mary Tyler The new TV trend comes from the stage Moore ruled the Emmys 16 ON THE COVER Sarah Paulson was photographed by Corina Marie at TheWrap Studios on April 3, 2016. FRONT & CENTER / Awards Beat TV’S REAL WALKING DEAD 4.8571 in x The Television Academy tried to 4.0903 in kill the miniseries, but it came back to become the hottest format in this year’s Emmy race BY STEVE POND ILLUSTRATED BY BRIAN TAYLOR he miniseries has been thumb- To its credit, the Academy spotted the (We’re not holding our breath for the return ing its nose at the Television resurgence as soon as it started happening, of, say, Best Kinescope Show or Best Western Academy for a few years now, and dealt in the best way it could. And let’s Series.) but never quite as resounding- face it, this has long been an odd, confus- And now we have Outstanding Limited ly as it did this year. Only five ing genre for the Emmys. The category was Series—the most exciting and competitive Tyears after the Academy decided that there created in 1973 under the unwieldy title Emmy category. There are reasons for this, weren’t enough of the shows being made to of Outstanding Drama/Comedy – Limited among them the advantage that a limited justify the Outstanding Miniseries category, Episodes, which was won by the PBS mini- series offers actors like Dunst, Cumberbatch, and two years after a resurgence in the form series Tom Brown’s Schooldays. Its title was Elba and Isaac, who might otherwise be caused the Academy to change its mind, the changed to Outstanding Limited Series in off making movies. They aren’t the kind of miniseries—or limited series, as 1974 (winners includ- performers who would easily commit to a TV it’s now officially called—isn’t just ed Upstairs, Downstairs, series, which generally requires a five-year alive, it’s hotter than any other Holocaust and the original commitment—but a six- or 10-episode run on form on television. To paraphrase Roots), then to Outstanding a project done with the care and quality of a Was there a more exciting piece Dr. Frankenstein Miniseries in 1986 (when feature film, yet with more freedom and less of television this past season than “ The Murder of Mary Phagan of an eye on the box office, can be irresistible. The People v. O.J. Simpson, a more about the once- and War and Remembrance So the Weinstein Company recently joined daring example of broadcast-net- nearly-defunct won). It merged with forces with Gary Oldman’s Flying Studios work nerve than American Crime? the Outstanding Drama/ to make a miniseries of Truman Capote’s Are there more deserving acting format: It’s alive!” Comedy Special category In Cold Blood, ABC has ordered an eight- contenders this year than Sarah in 1991, giving the award hour gay-rights miniseries from Dustin Paulson, Courtney B. Vance and Sterling K. to Separate But Equal, then unmerged the Lance Black and Gus Van Sant, When We Brown in O.J., Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson following year for a 19-year stretch whose Rise, and Showtime made a deal with rock- and Jesse Plemons in Fargo, Idris Elba in winners included Prime Suspect 2, 3 and er and poet Patti Smith for a TV version of Luther, Oscar Isaac in Show Me a Hero, Tom 5, Angels in America, Elizabeth I and John her award-winning memoir Just Kids. “The Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie in The Night Adams. It was eliminated in 2011 in favor of medium of a television limited series offers Manager, Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock: the Outstanding Miniseries or Movie catego- narrative freedom and a chance to expand The Abominable Bride, Felicity Huffman, ry—which in its three years of existence was upon the themes of the book,” said Smith, a Regina King, Lili Taylor and Timothy Hutton won by one “miniseries,” the first season of gifted storyteller who assuredly would not be in American Crime, Anika Noni Rose and Downton Abbey, and two movies. And then it hitching her wagon to a defunct format. Malachi Kirby in Roots? was uneliminated in 2014, making it the first The lesson: Not only is the limited series To paraphrase Dr. Frankenstein: It’s alive! Emmy category to come back from the dead. not dead, it hardly seems limited, either. W 4 THEWRAP JUNE 15, 2016 FOR YOUR EMMY® CONSIDERATION A NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM RICKY GERVAIS ERIC BANA OUTSTANDING TELEVISION MOVIE OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A LIMITED SERIES, MOVIE OR DRAMATIC SPECIAL — RICKY GERVAIS OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE — RICKY GERVAIS OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A LIMITED SERIES, MOVIE OR DRAMATIC SPECIAL — RICKY GERVAIS THE WRAP REVISION 1 NETFLIX: SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS PUB DATE: 06/15/16 TRIM: 10” X 12” BLEED: 10.5” X 12.5” LIVE: 9.5” X 11.5” FRONT & CENTER / Do the Math MOVIES & MINIS BY THE NUMBERS Entertainers, Nazis and record setters: Tallying the Emmys’ movie and longform categories over the years Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special, 1980-1990 SYNDICATED 1 1 Outstanding Made For Television Movie, 1992-2010 1 1 1 6 5 17 12 miniseries 13 Emmys were were nominated won in 2008 by between 2011 and the miniseries John 2013, when movies Adams, the most and miniseries were ever won by any combined into a program in a single single category. year. 37 nominationsHBO went to the mini- series Roots in 1977, 1 program has 24 actors won 11 consecutive 6 movies were the most ever for a won all seven top for playing real years, 1995-2005, nominated in that program in a single Emmys in its cate- people in movies or found every winning time. year. gory: the miniseries miniseries from 1980 lead actor playing a Angels in America to 2015. real person. (2003), which won 1 miniseries won.