Jack Egan The unveiling by the Television Academy of the nominations for the 70th Emmy Awards yesterday represents a significant changing of the guard. Netflix, the web-based streaming giant, flexed its growing production muscle and came out on top for the first time with 112 nominations. Premium cable service HBO, which has been king of the hill
The leaders of the pack at the Television Academy’s annual Creative Arts Emmy Awards came from all ends of the TV spectrum — with NBC’s Saturday Night Live, Westworld on HBO and Netflix’s Stranger Things each picking up five awards. HBO’s criminal melodrama The Night Of; Netflix documentary 13th about racial injustices in the country’s prison system;
In what’s being hailed as the Platinum Age or Peak TV, Television Academy members this year have been asked to pick through what can best be described as an embarrassment of riches to decide what shows and performers to nominate for the 2017 Emmys. With the Television Academy on Thursday officially announcing the nominees for
California has long been at the cutting edge among states, and indeed many nations, when it comes to tackling serious environmental challenges. These range from preserving its long beautiful coastline from accelerating erosion, to imposing tough air pollution standards on its millions of autos to taming greenhouse and carbon emissions that are considered a prime
The Salesman, the new film from award-winning Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi, is a multi-layered, neo-realist drama that evolves into a mystery with strong moral overtones. The plot centers on a married couple in modern-day Tehran, Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti) and Emad (Shahab Hosseini). They are actors in a theater company and as artists they belong to
Tune-filled and bittersweet, La La Land proved to be a juggernaut when nominations for the 2017 Oscars were announced on Tuesday by the Motion Picture Academy. The original musical for the big screen, a rarity among films these days, La La Land was nominated in 14 categories. That ties the all-time-record set by All About
Contemporary film musical La La Land sported a record-breaking haul at The 74th annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night — making it the overwhelming favorite going into next month’s Academy Awards. That means the movie could be set to make history again, as no original musical has won the Oscar for best picture since
The Golden Globe Awards by many standards should not be taken too seriously. The voters consist of just some 80 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, working for far away publications. But over the years the Golden Globes has assumed its own status as an awards powerhouse. It holds a prime spot, near the
The film Manchester by the Sea is the achingly human story of Lee Chandler, an ordinary individual from a working-class family who leads a quotidian existence in a small New England fishing town. But a careless lapse on his part leads to a horrific event, leaving him haunted and struggling to cope in its aftermath.
Los Angeles, home to the largest Iranian community in the world outside of Iran itself, has evolved into a central showcase for that country’s arts and culture community, especially Tehran’s vibrant filmmaking scene. A recurring event on the calendar, the 8th annual Iranian Short Film Festival, sponsored by the Farhang Foundation, culminated this past weekend