FX’s The Bear, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series – 2023, was cut on Adobe Premiere Pro by editors Joanna Naugle and Adam Epstein. In fact, Naugle won an Emmy for her work on this season’s “System” episode.
You can watch Naugle and Epstein talk to postPerspective‘s Randi Altman about their work on Season 1 here.
With the Emmy Awards ceremony being held on January 15, postPerspective decided to provide a look back at some of our interviews featuring Emmy-nominated artists. The pieces included in this issue provide just a glimpse of all of our award coverage. For more on the nominated shows, please visit this link.
The Last of Us, HBO’s series based on the videogame of the same name, is full of zombies created by a parasitic fungus. And like the game, it’s an intimate character study that tells the story of Joel (Pedro Pascal), a smuggler, who has to protect and escort Ellie (Bella Ramsey), a teenage girl with a rare immunity to the plague,
By Iain Blair
The Last of Us, HBO’s series based on the videogame of the same name, is full of violence and zombies created by a parasitic fungus. And, like the game, it’s an intimate character study that tells the story of Joel (Pedro Pascal), a smuggler, who has to protect and escort Ellie (Bella Ramsey),
The Netflix limited series Beef tells the story of two Los Angeles residents from opposite ends of the economic and social spectrum. Danny (Steven Yeun) is a struggling contractor living in gritty Koreatown and Amy (Ali Wong) is a successful lifestyle guru living in the wealthy suburb of Calabasas. Their lives become inextricably linked after a road-rage incident in a parking lot that quickly escalates into a full-blown feud.
Created by Taika Waititi and Sterlin Harjo, Reservation Dogs is a comedy series about four Native American teens growing up on a reservation in Oklahoma. The multi-nominated, multi-award-winning show got an Emmy nod this year for Outstanding Sound Editing for the episode “This Is Where the Plot Thickens.” Supervising sound editor Patrick Hogan shares the nomination with David Beadle,
Born in Cairo but living in Los Angeles, Mohamed El Manasterly was a DJ before transitioning to editing. His says his knowledge of music serves as a guiding force in his edits, style, and ability to create seamless transitions within his work.
El Manasterly was one of the editors on the docuseries Welcome to Wrexham,
HBO Max’s A Black Lady Sketch Show is an Emmy Award-winning, half-hour sketch comedy show. “It’s written, produced by and starring Black women on,” explains editor Malinda Zehner Guerra. “Robin Thede is the creator and star of the series. Its hilarious world of characters have been brought to life across four seasons by some of the funniest women in comedy including Quinta Brunson,
By Iain Blair
The Netflix limited series Beef tells the story of two Los Angeles residents from opposite ends of the economic and social spectrum. Danny (Steven Yeun) is a struggling contractor living in gritty Koreatown and Amy (Ali Wong) is a successful lifestyle guru living in the wealthy suburb of Calabasas.
Damian Del Borrello, MPSE, is a New Zealand-based sound designer with more than 15 years of experience crafting soundscapes for TV and film. Most recently, he served as the supervising sound editor of Amazon Studios’ The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, a prequel to the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film franchises.
Paris Barclay is one of television’s most successful and honored directors. A two-time Emmy Award winner, he’s directed nearly 200 episodes of television, including such series as The West Wing, ER, Glee, CSI, The Shield, Scandal and NYPD Blue.
The Netflix series Wednesday is a modern take on the class TV show, The Addams Family. It stars Jenna Ortega and Wednesday Addams, who while attending Nevermore Academy, attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, stop a killing spree and solve the mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago.
By Iain Blair
Paris Barclay is one of television’s most successful and honored directors. A two-time Emmy Award winner, he’s directed nearly 200 episodes of television, including such series as The West Wing, ER, Glee, CSI, The Shield, Scandal and NYPD Blue. He received his ninth Emmy nomination for an episode of the Netflix show Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
Amazon’s Daisy Jones & The Six, which many believe was inspired by the story of Fleetwood Mac, was created by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, and is based on the 2019 novel of the same name by Taylor Jenkins Reid. It follows a rock band that finds huge success in the 1970s but breaks up due to tensions among the group.
Editor Jamie Kennedy, ACE, was nominated for an Emmy for Roku’s Weird: The Al Yankovic Story in the category of Outstanding Picture Editing for A Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. The film, a fictionalized version of the parody singer’s life starring Daniel Radcliffe, was directed by Eric Appel and shot by DP Ross Riege.
The White Lotus, created, written and directed by Mike White, is a dark comedy series that follows the drama surrounding wealthy people on their lavish vacations. With a large cast and shocking, intertwined storylines, it is no surprise that it snagged 23 Emmy nominations — for both acting and craft — for its second season.