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CAPTURING HISTORY TO EDUCATE AND ENTERTAIN FASHION FORWARD

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TAKING CARE OF HER COMMUNITY Shangela (flanked by Bob the Drag Queen,left, and Eureka O’Hara) launched Feed the Queens to ensure drag queens don’t go hungry.

THREE YEARS AGO, Warner Bros. sitcom “Mom” decided to spotlight Planned Parenthood during the Emmy For Your A Platform for Consideration campaign window. It was a move that came with a considerable cash donation ($250,000) but also increased attention on the health organization, as suddenly its name was Philanthropy splashed in headlines alongside heavy-weight talent such as Chuck Lorre, Allison Janney and Anna Faris. Now, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the protests TOP EMMY CONTENDERS ARE MAKING SURE demanding justice and police reform after the murders of Bre- onna Taylor, George Floyd and others, the need to use one’s plat- THE ‘C’ IN ‘FYC’ STANDS FOR CHARITY form to give back has become even greater.

BY DANIELLE TURCHIANO “There are a lot of different movements right now, and people are feeling a lot of different pain,” says D.J. Shangela Pierce, star of HBO’s “We’re Here,” who recently launched the Feed the Queens initiative. “In this time, we have to remember that just because we don’t all have all of the resources, those of us who have a little bit more than others need to help out.” Big awards campaign spenders Amazon, Netﬂix and HBO all announced this year that they were each donating $1 million to help feed those affected by the pandemic: Amazon teamed with - 2020 Jon & Vinny’s restaurant group to prepare meals for No Kid Hun gry, Off Their Plate, the Los Angeles Mission and the Motion Pic- EMMY ture & Television Fund, to name a few. Amazon also dedicated EDITION its For Your Consideration billboard space to promote additional causes that provide aid in this unprecedented time. Meanwhile, HBO

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Netflix supported the Restaurant Employee merits, period. But when COVID happened, initially trying to raise £1 million ($1.25 mil- Relief Fund, while HBO reallocated the [there were] all of these issues with get- lion) to feed National Health Service workers, money it would have spent on its events ting resources that typically the under-re- but the goal was raised to $2.5 million after to the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles Emer- sourced Bronx doesn’t get [and] that seeing so much early success. gency COVID-19 Crisis Fund. Showtime, on situation became more dire,” Lopez says. “It Longtime “Top Chef” host and previous behalf of “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels,” was Black Lives Matter that took up an ini- Emmy nominee Padma Lakshmi recently supported the Farmworkers COVID-19 Pan- tiative, along with places like the World Cen- shot a PSA and participated in a charitable demic Relief Fund, and to support efforts tral Kitchen, feeding these places that were cook-a-thon amid growing concerns about made by the “Desus & Mero” team, the pre- underserved. And it is tragic that munici- people being able to eat as weeks of self-quar- mium cabler also donated to World Central pal services that should be equitably spread antining turned into months. The former was Kitchen and Uplift NYC. through the city, aren’t.” to benefit the James Beard Foundation while “If you want to affect change, that’s where There are few limits to what can be the latter raised funds for Feeding America. money comes in,” says Victor Lopez, exec- accomplished when someone with a pub- Less publicly, she donated to the Marshview utive producer of “Desus & Mero” and pres- lic platform lends time, talent and voice to Community Organic Farm run by Bill and ident, Bodega Boys. “But awareness has its a cause. Sará Green in South Carolina so they could role, and awareness has to be a constant.” Jeff Schaffer (“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” feed 2,000 people affected In late April, Lopez, Desus Nice and the “Dave”) used his comedic writing talent and by the pandemic, and she also donated to bail Kid Mero launched efforts to raise both funds producing power when working with Cal- bond funds around the country, including in and awareness for World Central Kitchen, ifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office on the Brooklyn, Chicago and Louisville. and in late May they expanded their charita- Stay at Home campaign. Working with his “I really believe that a lot of economic ble giving campaigning to also include Uplift wife and collaborator, Jackie Marcus Schaf- developmental problems in various commu- NYC, which provides low-income youth and fer, he called upon famous friends (such as nities and countries around the world have their families with access to key resources, Larry David) to help spread the message to do with cultural norms that keep percep- including food in the time of the pandemic. of the importance of self-quarantining in tion alive that should be dismantled and And although “Desus & Mero” order to stop the spread of the virus. Simi- those cultural reasons are also a big part of was on a planned hiatus when the protests larly, Kevin Bacon (“City on a Hill”) launched why certain economies are not able to get out began, the team was able to use their sizable an #IStayAtHomeFor challenge on YouTube, from under their poverty,” Lakshmi says. online following in support of Black Lives encouraging his fans to do their part to flat- This is all in addition to longer-term Matter, as well. ten the curve, as well. Meanwhile, Damian causes of Lakshmi’s, including Planned Par- “Black Lives Matter exists on its own Lewis (“Billions”) worked with FeedNHS, enthood, Endometriosis Foundation of Amer- ica, and as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations. She also mentors young wwomen in the food business about such tthings as “contract negotiations and other nnuts and bolts things that I never knew about aand had to learn the hard way,” she says.

DEDICATED TO “I need to fashion the world I want to live THE CAUSE iin. I need to lend whatever little power I may Padma Lakshmi hhave gained, because if I don’t, what good is shot a new PSA for mmy power?” the James Beard Foundation to Pierce teamed up with the Actors Fund highlight food tto create Feed the Queens, which was borne concerns amid oout of seeing drag performers out of work COVID-19. aas clubs and events were closed. With so mmany having to choose between paying rent aand eating (or being unable to do either), aand without even one specific organization aalready designated to help her community, Pierce created one. “COVID-19 hit the Black community signifi- cantly, and a lot of those queens of color are out of work and have even more need. So we are taking a portion of our funds and making sure that they are set aside specifically for queens of color,” she says. As the protests raged on, Pierce took to social media to bring attention to the #BlackLivesMatter movement. But she doesn’t see the two causes as completely separate. “We have so much going on in our own individual lives that we forget to see the things that are happening in our communities, and also to see the things that are happening in our world,” she says. “I think what COVID-19 has done is given us a second to look around without the distractions of life.” JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION JAMES

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Mark Mylod

‘THE PRIMARY INTENTION WAS “GAME SEES GAME” ’

By Michael Schneider

MARK MYLOD HAS been one of premium cable’s go-to directors The characters on “Suc- We see Logan smirk as for quite some time, having helmed episodes of Showtime’s cession” are pretty appall- Kendall takes him on. ing. Why do you think What should we read into “Shameless” and “The Affair,” as well as “Entourage” and “Game of viewers can’t help but be that reaction? The pri- Thrones” at HBO. Now Mylod is one of the key directors on “Succession,” drawn to a Cousin Greg or mary intention on the page handling episodes such as Season 2’s “Tern Haven” and the season finale a Tom? The human strug- was “game sees game”: gle is for survival and just to “My son’s a killer after all.” “This Is Not for Tears.” The in-demand director also managed to find time make your way in the world, Hopefully with all things between “Succession” seasons to direct a key episode (“The Rift”) of Steven no matter the extraordinary when we’re doing our jobs Spielberg’s “Amazing Stories” reboot for Apple TV Plus. kind of gilded cage they’re well in “Succession,” there all in and this extraordi- is ambiguity, there is room nary privilege of wealth for interpretation. There that they’re trapped by. You is a theory that it was ‘AMAZING’ ARTISTS can’t help but feel a certain planned between them, it Mark Mylod goes over sympathy for Tom — who was part of the plan. And “The Rift” script with is on so many levels such a I think that’s a possibly actor Kerry Bishé. horrible human and yet is valid theory. in a viper pit, he’s so out of this league. You can’t help How did you wind up but see him as a kind of directing an “Amazing innocent in this context. Stories” episode? I just loved the idea of just doing How did you film the final something that was com- scene of the season, when pletely different in tone, Kendall drops the hammer with a different audience. on his dad? There were A very different grammar months of working our way and a different style of through the production storytelling. day by day, knowing that the scene was coming up What’s it like to direct an and knowing that I had to anthology episode? Would nail it, to find an authentic- you compare it to a mini- ity for it to have the emo- movie? That’s exactly how tional impact it needed. It I treated it. We were try- felt almost like the whole ing to get a little bit of kind season hinged on this one of childhood wonder into moment, which felt like a this. I have a 10-year-old terrible kind of burden. But son and I thought it would obviously massively excit- be lovely to do something ing as well. for once in my life that he could watch and hopefully What made it so intimidat- enjoy. So tonally, I liked ing? It needed to be authen- just tuning in to that with tic. But I think by the time I influences from watch- walked out of that room I felt ing the “Amazing Stories” confident that we had it. from back in the ’80s.

WHERE ELSE YOU’VE SEEN MARK MYLOD’S WORK: “MINORITY REPORT,” “ONCE UPON A TIME,” “UNITED STATES OF TARA” APPLE TV+

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‘SHRILL,’ SEASON 2, EPISODE 5

‘WEDDING’

WRITER: SOLOMON GEORGIO DIRECTOR: SHAKA KING

totally nailing it. In that scene Lolly Adefope where we’re both opening up to each other and apologiz- Nobody brightens a room on Hulu’s “Shrill” like Lolly Adefope’s Fran. Always in the ing to each other, it just hap- corner of series lead Annie (Aidy Bryant), Fran helps her navigate boyfriends, her pened straight away. She’s just incredible. I can’t really cry career and her relationship with her micromanaging mother. Fran is confident in on command, but she can her support, but Season 2 allows her own worries to take center-stage, too. In the very well. fifth episode, the show explores Fran’s history when she attends a family wedding Annie and Fran both have and confronts her Nigerian mother (Délé Ogundiran) on her judgmental stance these tense relationships with toward her homosexuality and choice of profession. their mothers in completely different ways. With Annie, it’s more uncertain. There’s a lot ADEFOPE: In Season tone. Shaka [King, the epi- were all eased into it by know- of subtext to the conversations 1, Fran seems kind of sode’s director] said, “This ing that we could ad lib and between Annie and her mum, indestructible, which is a very isn’t just one person saying a chip in. It didn’t need to feel whereas with Fran and her inspiring character to see, but line and the other person say- like this tense, dramatic scene. mother, it’s too direct. Both of maybe not a whole picture. I ing a line. That kind of con- It was a natural family occa- them are very passionate peo- was really glad that we got to versation you would never see sion. You can see the tension in ple who say what they mean, so see her showing some of her in real life. It’s people chip- Fran’s reactions to what they’re that blows up at the wedding. insecurities and not just being ping in, talking over each saying, but it’s not overly dra- Both [Annie and Fran] are kind this sound adviser for Annie other, laughing. Lots of busi- matic. It’s subtle moments of of jealous of the relationship to take what she needs from. ness going on.” As an actor, discomfort. the other has with their own Fran was able to take what she that helps you to relax into We had a little bit of time mother. In Season 2, they both needs from other characters the role a little bit more. in the few days that we were get to reconcile [those relation- as well. It’s quite a relatable feeling filming that episode where we ships] in some way. We see that [In the fifth episode] the where everyone’s laughing worked together on the sub- it’s not all complete tension. setting of a Nigerian wed- at something that you don’t tleties of the accent and things ding — the common vibrance find funny and you have to like that. I thought Délé was of that — enabled the natural keep everything together. We just an incredible actress, BY J. KIM MURPHY ALLYSON RIGGS/HULUW ALLYSON

VARIETY 15 the time. Hesaw advertisements Live,” for whichhewas writingat of sketches for “Saturday Night tothink around Manhattan, trying New York andhewas walking origin story, itwas thelate-1980s example. seriesasaspecific ter” PotDaniels says, Harry citing“the that Ilike,” inthebooks they’re different genre elementsbecause of story.sity” butalsotoaddthe“inten tech, keep upnotonlywithchanging comedy-sci-fi-murder to mystery ahybrid creating meant century But makingtheshow inthe21st truly thestuff of sciencetruly fiction. so different was that suchanidea decades ago, was whentechnology GregDaniels’mindthree creator a digitalafterlife, were in planted who hashisconsciousness sentto Nathanman named (Robbie Amell) Thanks to Technology Creating aSecond Chance, 16 th ‘UPLOAD’ THE SETUP GREG DANIELS “MY FAVORITE HEALTHY SNACK IS e time. Hesaw a TRADER JOE’S.” THE NEIGHBORHOOD. ALSO THOSE TAKE ONEOFTHOSE ANDWALK AROUND THE CHOCOLATE-COVERED CARAMELS THEN MYFAVORITE UNHEALTHY ONEIS THERE’S ATABLE. IFYOU COULDRENT AND THENADININGROOM PART WHERE A HOUSE, ITWOULDA HOUSE, BETHEPERFECT CHOCOLATE-COVERED CARAMELS FROM WRITERS’ OFFICES.” WRITERS’ ROOM STYLE: INSPIRATION, ITHINK.” I FEELLIKEYOU CAN WRITETO THAT LIVING ROOM PART WITHCOUCHES GREG DANIELS’ INSPIRATIONS: REPORTERS’ NOTEBOOKS ANDILIKETO LYRICS SOIT’S GOODFOR SPARKING BECAUSE IT’S LIVELY BUTIT’S NOT GOT FROM TRADERJOE’S.” PROBABLY AYELLOW BELLPEPPERAND HOW HEBREAKS WRITER’S BLOCK: MOOD MUSIC: FAVORITE WRITERS’ ROOM SNACK: To Danielstell“Upload’s” hear “I like the[mashup]of alotof comedy about ayoungcomedy about the Amazon Prime Video THE SEEDS FOR VREY VARIETY ‘SO WEST’ BY MILESDAVIS, d vertisements vertisements “Upload,” “A LOUNGEY,

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former head of Fox News, who inhabits a much different political world from Crowe’s came AMBITIOUS ARTIST with complications, including Adrien Morot (left) the difficulty of having to deliver got the makeup lines that were “anti-Obama.” process to turn But, Crowe says, “I found that Russell Crowe into Roger Ailes down time in the makeup chair to less than three productive.” hours by the end “The positivity of your of shooting “The Loudest Voice.” makeup and hair people gets under your skin,” he notes. “Not only are they [physically] preparing you to play that character, but they’re preparing you personally as an individual as to how you approach that day.” Morot, meanwhile, says he welcomed input from Crowe in collaborating on the look of Ailes, whether it was shifting a prosthetic slightly or even looking at application technique. “You normally glue prosthet- ics everywhere on the skin so there are no empty air pockets,” says Morot. This is a process that keeps the makeup in place the whole day. Previous experience taught Crowe that if too much latex glue had been applied to the vocal area, it became difficult to talk, so they worked together to ensure Crowe was comfortable in the pieces he had to wear. Morot took Crowe’s sugges- “The first fitting was almost tion and anchored the prosthet- psychologically scarring,” Crowe ics to the chin and didn’t glue A Collaboration says of finding the right prosthet- below the jawline. “It’s usually ics. “It was near to a seven-hour a recipe for disaster,” he says. process.” By the end of that first Except, this time, it worked per- That Led to session, the actor jokes that fectly, giving that natural feel and he looked like “Danny DeVito’s jiggle below his jawline with the taller, older brother.” excess skin. Complete To fully become Ailes, Crowe It also took some of the physi- worked with prosthetic makeup cal pressure off of Crowe’s throat, supervisor Adrien Morot, who which was important because has more than 30 years of expe- the face makeup alone weighed Transformation rience and more than 130 credits about 10 pounds. And in addition to his name. to that, Crowe wore a bodysuit The duo had worked together and a hairpiece with just a few RUSSELL CROWE AND ADRIEN MOROT twice before, but it was “The wispy strands. Morot’s goal was ‘THE LOUDEST VOICE’ Loudest Voice” in which the two to make Crowe feel as comfort- formed the bond that has Crowe able as possible and that Jazz Tangcay saying, “I want to work with him was something he took into on every project.” consideration when designing “His job is preeminent — the makeup. nothing anyone does for the rest Their partnership also RUSSELL CROWE HAS SPENT many hours in the of the day matters,” Crowe con- allowed for faster application. By makeup chair over his decades-long acting career, tinues. “If he doesn’t get his job the end of shooting, they had got- right at the beginning of the day ten the average transformation but the process to transform into Roger Ailes for and you don’t look like the char- time down to only 2½ hours. Showtime’s limited series “The Loudest Voice” was unlike acter, we are all wasting our “We had an energizing atti- any he had experienced before. time.” tude and it had become like a Crowe admits that playing the sporting event,” Crowe says. JOJO WHILDEN/SHOWTIME JOJO

VARIETY 17 Depicting Racism Through the Victim’s POV

‘WATCHMEN’

By Adam B. Vary

IN THE SIXTH EPISODE of HBO’s “Watchmen” adaptation, entitled “This Extraordinary Being,” Angela Abar (Regina King) lives inside her grandfather’s memories of how he became the vigilante Hooded Justice. In one harrowing sequence, Angela experiences how a cabal of white supremacists in the NYPD attacked Will (Jovan Adepo) in an alleyway while a haunting love song plays in the back- ground. The cops dragged Will to Central Park and lynched him, with the camera taking Will’s point of view from inside the black hood they pulled over his face as they hanged him from the tree. After 10 agonizing seconds, they cut him down, and delivered this warning: “You keep your Black nose out of white folks’ business, n-----. Or the next time, we won’t cut you down.”

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STEPHEN WILLIAMS Director

“There was the technical challenge of how do you stay in this character’s point of view while he’s undergoing this horrific experience of being lynched. We started to piece together how we were going to transfer the camera from the operators hands to a device that the grips constructed that would be hoisted into the air over a branch of the tree, held there for the required amount of time, roughly 10 seconds, and then lowered back into the waiting arms of our camera operator, who was then going to continue the sequence as if it were all one un- broken shot. The whole exercise was designed to create as subjectively immersive an experience as possible.”

GREGORY MIDDLETON Cinematographer

“We had to build a custom rig for Will being dragged towards the trees, so we could have the legs being pulled, and have the camera being pulled with them, to keep the person low to the ground and make it really appear like he’s being dragged. And we rigged a small hose up to the matte box [on the camera] to imitate his breathing, so the hood wouldn’t just be a thing sliding over the camera and just hanging there. We wanted to feel it moving, so we had a bladder so you can blow air and you could see his breath, so you could really feel like you were hanging if you were Will.”

JUSTIN REIMER Stunt coordinator

“It was one of the hardest scenes I think I’ve been involved with emotionally because of what is happening in the scene. In terms of a stunt sequence, it’s very simple, but it’s a matter of not over- doing the stunts. You could make that scene where he got hit 100 times and you drag him all over the place. I think we probably took the violence down from originally where we thought it was going to be, so the focus stayed on the emotion. Don’t let the stunt outdo the emotion of the scene.”

TRENT REZNOR Co-composer

“We get this call from Damon: ‘Hey, I hate to ask you [but] for this integral scene, they won’t fucking license us the song [we want]. In fact, the publisher said, “Not only will I not license you that song, I won’t license any song we have for that scene.” We need something that has to sound like it’s from the period, but it also needs to hit all these beats, because we’ve cut the scene. And we have to do it a CORD JEFFERSON week.’ I got the idea of ‘holding you in my embrace,’ as those guys are Co-writer dragging him away — as if it were lovers speaking to each other, but juxtaposed over that scene, what’s happening could feel particularly goosebump-cringey, in a way.” “Damon [Lindelof, showrunner] is a fan of homework in his writers’ room. The assignment for one of them was: What spawns Hooded Justice to go into action on his first night in battle in New York City? So I think about a Black man who wears a noose around his neck. To me, the most obvious connection was that this is somebody who has DAMON LINDELOF suffered from at least one act of serious racial violence, and probably Showrunner the noose that he carries around his neck would be what was used in his attempted lynching. I think by the time that we started discussing this we’d already decided that he would be in the New York police “The one area where there was, I’d say, significant concern and force. Knowing what we know about so many police forces, particularly debate on my part was whether or not to use the n-word in the series, the police force in the 1920s and ‘30s and how they might respond to a period. [But] Cord and many of the other writers of color in the room Black person being in their ranks, it made sense to me that he ran afoul were unanimous about the idea of, ‘That’s even more racist to not use of the other police officers in some way. And so in order to teach him a the word.’ When we got to this scene, Cord was like, ‘This is the time.’ lesson they’re going to lynch him.” So he wrote all that dialogue, and I never touched it.” MARK HILL/HBO

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NANETTE BURSTEIN ‘HILLARY’ & GREG WHITELEY

‘CHEER’; ‘LAST CHANCE U’

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ONE MIGHT THINK that “Last Chance U” and “Cheer” executive producer and director Greg Whiteley’s 2014 documentary experience with Mitt Romney would bond him to Nanette Burstein, who executive produced and directed “Hillary,” a four-part docuseries about Hillary Clinton. It would not be an incorrect assumption, but it would be a limiting one. When Variety brought the ﬁlmmakers together for a candid conversation about their recent Emmy-eligible series, we found they have something much deeper in common: Both of their approaches to storytelling can be summed up by the opening of Burstein’s 2002 documentary “The Kid Stays in the Picture,” CAPTURING A CANDIDATE about Robert Evans. Nanette Burstein (left) during one That project begins with the admission that there are multiple of her lengthy interview sessions sides to a story and only one (very speciﬁc) side will be told with- with Hillary in. The people Burstein and Whiteley choose to follow dictate Clinton for Hulu’s “Hillary.” the stories they will be telling, which means they are telling a person’s truth, as opposed to a universal truth. Here, Burstein and Whiteley discuss that, as well as how to capture vulnerability and authenticity from their subjects, who are often very big personalities; what the role of a documentarian is when it comes to delivering a truth; and how they know when it’s time to turn the cameras off.

How do you approach know that whatever happens, work, like in “The Kid Stays in know I’m getting Robert Evans’ when to lean into your own you have done your best effort. the Picture.” version of events, but his opinions about a subject to version of events is fantastic, shape a narrative? GREG WHITELEY: I think BURSTEIN: It was a very spe- and I feel like I’m getting a NANETTE BURSTEIN: My the- objectivity is a philosophical cific point of view. In the very much greater insight into who sis when starting [‘Hillary’] impossibility. I think what beginning, it was sort of a he is as a person. What I do was, “Here is one of the most you’re trying to do, instead warning to viewers that there feel I need to do as a storyteller recognizable women in mod- of achieving objectivity, is are three sides to every story: is build empathy for my main ern American history — who is you’re trying to be fair. What yours mine and the truth, and subjects. So [in “Cheer”] also one of the most polarizing, I try and do is let the subject no one is lying. It was to say you could take the five main and why is that? How much of matter I’m covering influence that it was not a film that was cheerleaders that receive more that is cultural, and how much my thinking. I want to be going for objectivity; this is cel- of the focus than the others — of that is her own flaws?” I was changed by my interactions ebrating one man’s yarn that Morgan and Jerry are classic always balancing that. With with this person that I’m he’s weaving, which was also underdogs; La’Darius and Gabi subject matter like this, it is hanging out with. I want to a comment on Hollywood and are not; Lexi is somewhere difficult, and even though I’m start with one perspective, and the way it works. in the middle. And Monica is trying as hard as humanly pos- then I want that perspective to certainly not an underdog! sible to vet this, I know I will change and shift in response WHITELEY: But what’s great But you can go deep into their be criticized by some people to who they are. There are a about that is it gives you as a particular day-to-day struggles, who feel differently. And that’s couple of ways you can do this, filmmaker the license to tell a and the audience will start when you have to rely on your and I think there are a couple really great story. And I don’t to buy into what they want. own instincts and editors and of examples in Nanette’s really care if it’s the truth: I Other than facts, which need HULU

24 VARIETY very different, especially with with a politician because it’s people who are more concerned been drilled into them to stay about their public image. A lot on message and, “This is of the more candid moments what you do when a reporter that I personally filmed were asks you a question; here are in interview settings. There your talking points.” But I think was a lot of chatting that went what Nanette is doing with on when [Hillary] was getting “Hillary” and what we’re doing her makeup done. I did tell her with our vérité footage, the sub- when I was going to roll, but I jects are always very conscious think she just didn’t think about that there’s a camera there. it a lot because these interviews And if they’re not, the footage went on for days. And we did starts to feel voyeuristic and it with everyone, but I really kind of creepy, and it’s not any only used it for her for thematic more revealing. I think authen- reasons of peeking behind the ticity is achieved in a way that’s curtain of someone who has more pleasing and more cine- been known to be very guarded matic when the subject is fully and trying to show that they’re aware that they’re being filmed pretty much the same when and they’re making the con- they think the camera’s rolling scious choice to allow you to and when they don’t. be there in these moments that are vulnerable. WHITELEY: We draw from three different buckets BURSTEIN: I completely when we’re making a series agree. I think if subjects aren’t like “Cheer”: We have a bucket aware, because you’re stealing that we call vérité or fly-on- footage, it is creepy and it’s the-wall, where you’re just ethically wrong. And I think the shooting things while they’re audience also, more and more, happening; a bucket where you is savvy and appreciates the sit people down and interview nods to the filmmaking pro- them, and then the third bucket cess. I left in moments where for archival footage — footage people were saying, “Put the on their iPhones from when camera down” because I want they were 13 years old or people to be aware of the film- footage we found on the web making process at all times. that was old news footage. For I think it enhances the authen- us, we always try to lean into ticity of the process. the vérité or fly-on-the-wall bucket; you can capture What did you find was key to dramatic moments that are making these subjects feel moving a story forward as they comfortable enough with the to be reported accurately, are happening, and it starts to cameras to be real? Do you I think what we should do have an edge of dangerousness think it makes a difference as documentarians and to it, and the audience feels if the subject is as used to storytellers in this format is be like they are participating in having cameras around as very upfront and very honest the filmmaking process. We’re Clinton has become? about our own subjectivities, really trying to get to the WHITELEY: Well, first, there’s and then you can allow yourself humanity of who they are, and no one under the age of 19 to be shifted and changed by if you can get them to relax and that hasn’t learned to become what it is you’re filming. be a little bit more vulnerable, comfortable on camera. [But] I think that’s good filmmaking, there is a certain performa- What was your approach whether you’re interviewing tive expectation when a camera to incorporating candid them or shooting them in is on that we have learned we “YOU CAN ALLOW moments around formal a naturalistic setting. A lot of have to wait out or coach our talking head interviews in times with these projects, I way through. There’s a lot of YOURSELF TO these projects? think there’s an assumption footage where we sensed some- BE SHIFTED AND BURSTEIN: There is a lot of that when you sit somebody body was trying to give us what CHANGED BY behind-the-scenes footage of down and you interview them, they think we want, and we the 2016 campaign, which that’s somehow less real than either shied away from them as WHAT IT IS YOU’RE was filmed by people work- if you have a camera in a room main characters or we waited ing for the campaign without those moments out. If you put FILMING.” and people are just interact- the intention of making a doc- ing. Sometimes that’s true. a clock to it, it lasts about nine Greg Whiteley umentary at the time. So it’s I think it’s particularly true minutes, and then it becomes

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exhausting and they go back to questions I wanted to ask, but everything. I didn’t want it to a very rigid schedule we had how they normally are. I was willing to let the conver- feel like it was a film about to stick to. If you’re making a sation go wherever. And so it 2016, per se, so if I got too down show about a football team, BURSTEIN: Hillary is some- took a couple of days for her to the rabbit hole of the election, it makes pretty good sense to one who has been interviewed get used to that kind of inter- it gives a false emphasis and have your climax be the end of more times than we care to view to get fully relaxed. And false narrative to the story. We the season, and if you’re mak- even mention, but she’s always a lot of the interview that is in cut for a year and a half. I shot ing a show about a cheerlead- been interviewed or filmed in a the series comes from after during that period as well. I ing squad, Daytona is a good certain way, and she knows the the first two days because she think you know you’re done place to end it. So for us, nar- person interviewing her has really did change. when A) you don’t have enough ratively, we knew where we an agenda — that news story money to keep going — there wanted to end, and we just had of the day, “Here’s what I need With all of this to consider, are always financial realities to to figure out where we wanted from her.” But she has never, and the months of footage the business — but B) you can to begin. So we did a prelimi- ever been interviewed in this with which you found your- over-edit, and you have to be nary shoot in July and some in way, where it was seven days, selves, what made you feel careful that you don’t get lost in October, but our main run of and I never interrupted her — comfortable saying you were too much feedback. I think you principal photography began ever. Eventually when she done with these stories? just inherently know when you in earnest in January, and we was done telling an anecdote, BURSTEIN: I inherited thou- HAPPY ENDING get to that point of what your just knew that we were build- I would follow up with a sands of hours of behind-the- Covering Navarro original intention was. ing to that day in April when different question, but it was scenes footage of the campaign, College’s road we learned whether or not they to Daytona in WHITELEY: where the conversation led. so I hired two editors and it took “Cheer” culminated For “Last Chance were successful at achieving And certainly, I had pages of us four months to go through in victory. U” and for “Cheer,” we just had their goals. NETFLIX

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This category veteran has been nominated a whopping 17 This six-time prior series nominee explored cuisine from Gordon Ramsay took over the path blazed by Anthony times, but has yet to win. With a track record like that, it’s Reno to Ottawa in the most recent season, proving there Bourdain in the first season of his new exploration series. hard to imagine anything slowing it down. Each episode’s were still a lot of stones to be turned when it comes to He explored diverse cultures from Hawaii’s Hana Coast format is entirely consistent and entertaining, whether interesting eats and even more interesting characters in to the Alaskan Panhandle and dove into their local cui- it leads to surprising riches or disappointment for those the kitchen. Host Guy Fieri himself has also stayed rele- sine as well, with the hope of creating connections with getting items appraised. It’s hard to go wrong with some- vant separately from the show by working to raise money people from all walks of life. It’s a noble path, and one thing so tried and true, and TV Academy voters likely for food-service workers amid the pandemic, and that that could strike the right chords with voters, given won’t want to rock the boat here, celebrating it with yet boost of philanthropic visibility could help score some the ever-increasing importance of the show’s theme of another nom. extra votes. understanding. AL GEOGRAPHIC; LOVE IS BLIND: NETFLIX; QUEER EYE: RYAN COLLERD/NETFLIX; SHARK TANK: ERIC MCCANDLESS/ABC SHARK TANK: COLLERD/NETFLIX; QUEER EYE: RYAN NETFLIX; IS BLIND: LOVE AL GEOGRAPHIC;

Love Is Blind Queer Eye Shark Tank Netflix Netflix ABC

The streaming reality dating series threw strangers into The incumbent winner in this category took the trophy An Emmy favorite with eight noms (four wins), the 11th isolation pods, allowing them to be on hours-long “dates” for the past two consecutive years and is once again a season of the dream-making (or breaking) entrepreneur with each other only by talking through a wall — a novel front-runner after it delivered episodes that embraced series continued to deliver compelling stories in a fam- idea that takes on extra resonance in the social-distanc- the desire to give back quite literally, by making over Jon- ily-friendly package. Whether introducing the panel of ing era. But that was just the start to this series, which athan Van Ness’ former teacher in one episode. In others sharks (and the audience by extension) to an eco-friendly then followed the new couples as they attempted to navi- they helped an arts advocate, a veteran who dedicates cleaning company or the idea of turning deceased loved gate an in-person relationship on a sped-up timeline. The his life to helping homeless vets and a guy who turned his ones’ ashes into diamonds, the show was effortless in the fact that it actually resulted in two weddings was a feat life around after becoming paralyzed. Every episode was way it delivered the drama of who would get investments on its own, but an Emmy nom could be next. a delicate balance of feel-good nature and tear-inducing and who would not. It’s been beloved for so long, it will emotions. take a lot to bump it off the ballot. ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: RAHOUL GHOUSE/PBS; DINERS: DRIVE-INS AND DIVES: FOOD NETWORK; GORDON RAMSEY: UNCHARTED: JUSTIN MANDEL/NATION JUSTIN UNCHARTED: GORDON RAMSEY: NETWORK; AND DIVES: FOOD DRIVE-INS RAHOUL GHOUSE/PBS; DINERS: ANTIQUES ROADSHOW:

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Cheer Couples Therapy Deadliest Catch Netflix Showtime Discovery Channel

Cheerleading is a difficult sport — and the champions The episodes zipped by as Dr. Orna Guralnik guided cou- A 13-time series nominee (three-time winner), this is a on the Navarro College team are warriors. This freshman ples on the verge. Part of the appeal is undoubtedly the proven favorite among TV Academy voters. But the show series gave a deep dive into the diverse personalities, the voyeurism aspects and the inherent inclination of many refuses to rest on its laurels, upping the ante every sea- pain, the disappointments, the hard, hard work and Jerry viewers to compare themselves to the couples they see son with new cinematography innovations to ensure the Harris — the breakout star whose personal backstory of on-screen. But the series delivered genuine moments of most captivating moments are filmed. The storylines in struggle was overshadowed by his loving demeanor and relatable emotion that should have caused deep personal the 16th season didn’t disappoint either, whether they upbeat charisma. It was an extremely buzzy series among reflection too. If Emmy voters are looking to shake this were driven by extreme weather or rivalries within the viewers (many of whom are likely voters too) when it category up with a newcomer this year, this one is worth fishing industry. Competition is growing stiffer in this cat- launched on the streamer in January, and the only thing a second look. egory, but it will take a lot to throw this veteran overboard. slowing its momentum was the COVID shutdown of the usually annual spring Daytona competition. PUL DRAG RACE: UNTUCKED: VH1; WE’RE HERE: JAKES GILES NETTER/HBO HERE: JAKES VH1; WE’RE UNTUCKED: RACE: PUL DRAG

Life Below Zero RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked We’re He re National Geographic VH1 HBO

The popular human-versus-nature — or maybe more like Seeing three prior consecutive noms, including last The premium cabler’s entry into the drag space was a joy- VERY CHANNEL; LIVE BELOW ZERO: BENJI LANPHER/BBC WORLDWIDE; RU BENJI LANPHER/BBC WORLDWIDE; ZERO: CHANNEL; LIVE BELOW VERY human and nature — series has generated a couple of year, this offshoot of competition program incumbent ous, emotional trip as three bona fide stars — Bob the spinoffs, and that could help Emmy voters give this series “RuPaul’s Drag Race” is a shoo-in for additional attention Drag Queen, Eureka O’Hara and Shangela Laquifa Wad- a push into this category for only the second (but consec- here. The show goes behind the scenes of drag to peel ley — staged drag shows in small-town America, expos- utive) time. The most recent (12th) season made a strong back more emotional —and yes, at times shady — layers ing deep-rooted bigotry but trying to change hearts and case for celebration all on its own, though, by exploring of the queens, delivering exponential amounts of wit but minds, all the while giving confidence to suppressed local cabin restoration, teaching the next generation to hunt also deep conversation and even reconciliation. Pop-ins LGBTQIA+ communities. The spectacle was in the big and Iditarod training and racing. from celebrity guests such as Bobby Moynihan kept this glam of the stage shows, but the true soul was in seeing long-running series fresh and full of surprises this sea- new connections made. son too. CHEER: NETFLIX; COUPLES THERAPY: SHOWTIME; DEADLIEST CATCH: DISCO CATCH: DEADLIEST SHOWTIME; COUPLES THERAPY: NETFLIX; CHEER:

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Atlanta’s Missing Cosmos: Possible Free Meek Hillary The Last Dance and Murdered: Wo rld s Amazon Hulu ESPN The Lost Children National Geographic HBO With the topic of racial injustice This four-episode series — and Michael Jordan was at the The follow-up to the 2014 front and center in discussions its subject — made the festival center of this 10-episode series A team of directors (Sam Pollard, “Cosmos: A SpaceTime these days, this streaming rounds to acclaim, as the about the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre Odyssey,” which garnered 13 five-part series should be top series pulled off the trick of season. Between getting insight and Joshua Bennett) dove into Emmy nominations (four wins), of mind for voters too. It turned enlightening viewers about a into the beloved sports figure the ugly systemic and historical illuminated more about the the lens on the explosive very, very public person. Director and the timing of the launch racism of Atlanta that set the universe and used science and case of the titular rapper, who Nanette Burstein shot some (in April, amid a live sports stage for the murders of 28 Black critical thinking to advance took on the biased criminal unusually candid moments of shutdown due to the coronavirus children, teens and young adults its theses — something often justice system to implement the titular former presidential pandemic), all eyes were on this in the late 1970s and early 1980s. lacking in entertainment. important change. There was candidate as she wove a tale of project. Whether voters felt a Between the careful treatment of Admittedly the show grabbed an inspirational message within her political trajectory from her sense of nostalgia, escapism, the complex and timely subject more headlines for misconduct the project, but there were youth through her Oval Office excitement or some combination matter, the team’s history with allegations against its host Neil some hard truths exposed as run. Looking back on the run-up while watching, this series is the Television Academy (12 Emmy deGrasse Tyson than for its well. This could be the start of to the previous presidential surely one that is lingering in noms, including four wins among content, but the Academy has a new relationship between the election as the country gears up their minds and more than likely the team’s members) and the pre- proven to love both him (six Academy and Amazon, a much- for the next gave this series extra to score a nom. mium cabler’s own track record in previous noms) and this franchise, lauded company scoring its first resonance, making it seem like a nonfiction, this is a likely nominee. so it may still sneak on the ballot. nonfiction nom. shoo-in for a nom. MEEK: AMAZON STUDIOS; HILLARY: BARBARA KINNEY/HULU; LAST DANCE: ESPN FILMS/NETFLIX/MANDALAY SPORTS MEDIA/NBA ENTERTAINMENT; ENTERTAINMENT; MEDIA/NBA SPORTS ESPN FILMS/NETFLIX/MANDALAY DANCE: LAST KINNEY/HULU; BARBARA HILLARY: STUDIOS; AMAZON MEEK: LIX; VISIBLE: OUT ON TELEVISION: APPLE TV+ LIX;

McMillions Serengeti Surviving R. Kelly Tiger King Visible: Out HBO Discovery Channel Part II: The Reckoning Netflix on Television Lifetime Apple TV Plus Some of the interviews directors Directors John Downer and Simon Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric James Lee Hernandez and Brian Fuller are no strangers to Emmy Goode’s eight-part saga started SMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS: COSMOS STUDIOS/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC; FREE GEOGRAPHIC; STUDIOS/NATIONAL COSMOS WORLDS: POSSIBLE SMOS: The first part was nominated last Ryan White directed a five- Lazarte got for this six-part (between them they have 15 year in the informational series out as a behind-the-scenes look part series that explored the series about the mid-1990s previous nominations, all in other or special category, and it’s hard at big-cat enthusiasts but quickly LGBTQIA+ experience on televi- McDonald’s Monopoly cheating categories), but this “animal ‘Real to imagine it not getting lauded slid further into the wild personal sion through the years, as told by scandal seemed too good to World’” delivered a messy and again. After inspiring actual life of one such man, Joseph some of today’s leading industry be true. The cast of characters compelling look at life in the wild change (the disgraced singer was “Joe Exotic” Maldonado-Passage, members who identify as commenting on the event were and should be their first time on indicted), even more women felt who is in prison for allegedly LGBTQIA+. Whether discussions as fascinating as the people the nonfiction ballot. The six-part comfortable coming forward and ordering the murder of a rival centered on coming out and how involved in the actual crime. season was a stunning look at sharing their stories. This five- zoo owner. And that’s the tip of the door has been opened for They also meticulously built up a landscape most will never be episode follow-up provided a safe the iceberg with his story. It was the next generation or on looking the story to allow for twists and lucky enough to visit in person. space for that kind of sharing and all many were talking about for back at the misrepresentation surprises, and if voters want to It was narrated by Oscar winner served as an important reminder weeks after it launched, and that or lack of representation, it was go for what is entertaining, they Lupita Nyong’o, who added extra that there are still many strides amount of exposure may have it always an emotional offering that will celebrate this show. cachet to the story. that need to be taken toward still stuck in voters’ heads when certainly deserves a closer look believing survivors. they’re looking over their ballots. from voters. MCMILLIONS: HBO; SERENGETI: GEOFF BELL/DISCOVERY CHANNEL; SURVIVING R. KELLY PART II: THR RECKONING: LIFETIME; TIGER KING: NETF II: THR RECKONING: PART KELLY R. CHANNEL; SURVIVING BELL/DISCOVERY SERENGETI: GEOFF MCMILLIONS: HBO; ATLANTA’S MISSING AND MURDERED: THE LOST CHILDREN: HBO/GETTY; CO CHILDREN: HBO/GETTY; THE LOST AND MURDERED: MISSING ATLANTA’S

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AKA Jane Roe Becoming Chasing Happiness Jane Goodall: The Longest War FX Netflix Amazon The Hope Showtime National Geographic It was the bombshell heard Director Nadia Hallgreen put The beloved Jonas Brothers had “Homeland” executive producers round the world when Norma together a fun and light- to break up the band to become Jane Goodall has become an Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon McCorvey, aka “Jane Roe,” told hearted portrait of former first even stronger — and this hit inspiration for her work with ani- and director Greg Barker (“Man- producer and director Nick lady Michelle Obama as she doc showed that diabetes, mals, but this smart and polished hunt: The Inside Story of the Sweeney that she had been embarked on her book tour; extreme fame and failure can doc focused on her crusades to Hunt for Bin Laden”) lent gravitas paid by anti-abortion groups the doc undoubtedly struck all conspire to undermine family save the planet from the climate- to this look at the longest war to support their cause. It was the right chords with voting and relationships. But the group change crisis. Instead of deliver- in U.S. history — the conflict in a powerful look at a private members of the TV Academy and their rock-solid parents ing stale science facts with doom Afghanistan. It was a reminder person who helped usher in a as they reflected on life with an persevered, peeling back the and gloom, the approach was that yes, we are still over there Supreme Court decision that Obama White House. It was not curtain on the larger-than-life to energize and empower the fighting, almost two decades after impacts women to this day. The a full deep dive into the woman, images of three young men to younger generation to take up 9/11, and that reminder was made emotional piece made headlines but it perfectly captured an prove how relatable they are. the cause too. Its message was by looking at the human cost and and surely picked up new important moment in her life Emmy voters looking to reward a timely but delivered in a way that emotional toll of the violence. viewers, some of whom were and career and showed some star vehicle will tune up this doc. should spark action — even if just Voters who consider themselves likely voters, because of the new sides to such a poised to push it further in the spotlight political won’t be able to pass up media attention. public figure. with a nom. this eye-opening work. EIN/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC; LONGEST WAR, XY CHELSEA: SHOWTIME (2); (2); SHOWTIME XY CHELSEA: WAR, LONGEST GEOGRAPHIC; EIN/NATIONAL

Natalie Wood: What A Secret Love Who Killed XY Chelsea Yellowstone Live Remains Behind Netflix Garrett Phillips? Showtime National Geographic HBO HBO The prolific Ryan Murphy and Chelsea Manning was much It was a massive undertaking Wood’s daughter Natasha Greg- Jason Blum are among the exec- The Oscar-nominated and Emmy- talked about as a whistleblower to capture the grandeur of son Wagner led viewers through utive producers of this feel-good winning Liz Garbus produced in the Army who was sentenced Yellowstone National Park, but it a touching and enlightening doc story of a lesbian couple (Terry and directed this deep dive into to 35 years in an all-male prison was one that paid off in viewers: HBO (2); YELLOWSTONE LIVE: DOMINIC DAVIES/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE: DOMINIC DAVIES/NATIONAL HBO (2); YELLOWSTONE about her mother, who tragically Donahue and Pat Henschel) who the murder of a 12-year-old boy despite being a trans woman. 13 million people tuned in to see HAPPINESS: AMAZON STUDIOS; JANE GOODALL: THE HOPE: MICHAEL HAERTL GOODALL: JANE STUDIOS; AMAZON HAPPINESS: died in 1981 and whose death has have been together for 65 years in a small town in upstate New (She was given a presidential nature up close via strategically been the subject of conspiracy — even when keeping their rela- York, exposing the racial bias pardon in 2017, which is what placed cameras and expertly theories ever since. It’s a compel- tionship a secret because society and police corruption that kept kicked off this emotional doc.) shot footage. When travel is only ling look at a much-loved woman, would not have accepted them. the Phillips family from getting Director Tim Travers Hawkins put being done vicariously through told more intimately than anyone Rather than reach for the tragedy justice. It was an infuriating look together a compelling biopic on media, this project, which else could. Feelings of nostalgia of that part of the story, though, at the failures of the system that Manning’s life and experience returned with an opportunely and love for old Hollywood and it focused on the love they share is supposed to be designed to that left audiences wanting timed second season June 23, family tales will give this an edge and inspiration they provide. protect, and though the doc more, given how much there stands out even more. with some voters, but it could be When embracing the LGBTQIA+ launched a year ago, recent was to cover. overshadowed by the plethora of community is at the forefront of cries for police reform across the more current-events projects in discussions, voters will likely want country should remind voters of the category. to celebrate this sweet story. its relevance. AKA JANE ROE: FX; BECOMING, SECRET LOVE: NETFLIX (2); CHASING LOVE: SECRET BECOMING, FX; ROE: AKA JANE NATALIE WOOD: WHAT REMAINS BEHIND, WHO KILLED GARRETT PHILLIPS: WHO KILLED GARRETT REMAINS BEHIND, WHAT WOOD: NATALIE

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Guilty Pleasure: “Mom” and other sitcoms “I have a great appreciation for good sitcoms, and there are not many of them,” says Gunn. “People have a certain expectation of me and what I would watch, and they probably think I’m watching PBS all the time. I’ll tell you, I’ve loved ‘Mom’ with Allison Janney. It makes me laugh out loud. I’ll say the same thing for ‘The Neighborhood.’”

Deep Cut: “Two Fat Ladies” “It’s a great escape for me, and I’ll be perfectly frank, I watch an episode probably three times a week. It was the first PHOTOFEST PHOTOFEST cooking show to not post recipes within the show. You had to go online to get the recipe. And it means there’s more of a Michael Schneider narrative, it’s more conversational. They do these wonderful vignettes that have nothing to do with advancing the plot but they’re just fun to watch. I recommend it to people all the Tim Gunn’s time, and in my world no one’s ever heard of it!” TV Picks

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