{"id":1670,"date":"2013-09-18T18:59:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T18:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2017-09-06T20:23:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T20:23:27","slug":"emmy-loves-us-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2013\/09\/18\/emmy-loves-us-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmy Loves Us. Twice."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Emmy Awards are starting off nicely for GAME OF THRONES this year, and fabulously for HBO.<\/p>\n<p>In the Creative Arts Awards given on Sunday (sometimes called the &#39;technical Emmys&#39;), GAME OF THRONES took two awards.<\/p>\n<p>In Outstanding Special Visual Effects, GOT beat out&nbsp; DEFIANCE, FALLING SKIES, HEMLOCK GROVE, and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: BLOOD &amp; CHROME.&nbsp; Our Emmy winners were<\/p>\n<div class=\"category-banner three-column\" style=\"height: 120px ! important; min-height: 120px; position: absolute; top: 56px; left: 41px; display: block;\">Joe Bauer ( Lead Visual Effects Supervisor), J&ouml;rn Grosshans, Visual Effects Supervisor), Doug Campbell, Visual Effects Supervisor), Steve Kullback, Lead Visual Effects Producer), Stuart Brisdon (Special Effects Supervisor), Sven Martin ( Lead Animation Supervisor), Jabbar Raisani (Visual Effects Plate Supervisor), Tobias Mannewitz (Visual Effects Concept Designer), and Adam Chazen (Visual Effects Coordinator).&nbsp; They won for the episode &quot;Valar Dohaeris.&quot;<\/div>\n<p>For Outstanding Makeup For A Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic), the series finished on top of BOARDWALK EMPIRE, THE BORGIAS, GLEE, MAD MEN, and ONCE UPON A TIME.&nbsp; They won for the episode &quot;Kissed By Fire.&quot;&nbsp; The Emmys went to&nbsp; Paul Engelen (Department Head Makeup Artist), Melissa Lackersteen ( Key Makeup Artist), Daniel Lawson Johnston ( Makeup Artist), and Martina Byrne (Makeup Artist).<\/p>\n<p>My heartfelt congratulations to our world-class SFX team and makeup artists.&nbsp; Well deserved.<\/p>\n<p>It takes a lot of people to make a quality show, and the craftsmen and artists who do all the &#39;below the line&#39; jobs contribute just as much as the &#39;above the line&#39; talent like the directors, actors, and writers, though they seldom receive the recognition they deserve.&nbsp;&nbsp; So hats off to our terrific crew&#8230; not only Sunday&#39;s winners, but also all the other nominees from GAME OF THRONES, who lost out to other worthy shows.&nbsp; (You wuz robbed, as we used to say in Bayonne)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"emmy-statuette\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/176600_300.jpg\" title=\"emmy-statuette\" width=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HBO as a whole did even better, completely dominating the awards with 20 wins, way more than any other network.&nbsp; CBS was a distant second with 15, and the totals plunged sharply after that.<\/p>\n<p>For a full list of the winners and nominees:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.hitfix.com\/news\/creative-arts-emmys-2013-complete-winners-list\/1<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/459135\/creative-arts-emmys-2013-complete-list-of-winners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emmy Awards are starting off nicely for GAME OF THRONES this year, and fabulously for HBO. In the Creative Arts Awards given on Sunday (sometimes called the &#39;technical Emmys&#39;), GAME OF THRONES took two awards. In Outstanding Special Visual Effects, GOT beat out&nbsp; DEFIANCE, FALLING SKIES, HEMLOCK GROVE, and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: BLOOD &amp; CHROME.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,53,16,15,11],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}