There are few producers in live television with the kind of career Don Mischer has had in television, a career spanning six decades and just about every major event from the Oscars to the Olympics to Obama and all in between. Just a sampling of his credits include the Opening Ceremonies of both the 1996 Summer Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics; the Super Bowl Halftime Shows with Michael Jackson, Prince, Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen; the Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial; Motown 25; the Democratic National Convention; the 100th anniversary of Carnegie Hall; the Academy Awards and Emmy Awards; and so many many other events in our lives.
Mischer has won 15 Emmys, a record 10 DGA Awards, the Peabody, the 2012 Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television from the PGA, and the 2019 DGA Lifetime Achievement Award for Television, along with just about every other honor you can think of for a career in television.
Mischer has won 15 Emmys, a record 10 DGA Awards, the Peabody, the 2012 Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television from the PGA, and the 2019 DGA Lifetime Achievement Award for Television, along with just about every other honor you can think of for a career in television.
- 12/29/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Game of Thrones’ Director David Nutter to Receive Lifetime Achievement Honor at the 2024 DGA Awards
Veteran TV director David Nutter has been selected to receive the Directors Guild of America’s lifetime achievement award for distinguished achievement in directing. He will receive the honors at the 76th Annual DGA Awards ceremony on Saturday, February 10, 2024.
Nutter is only the sixth director to receive the recognition, following James Burrows, Robert Butler, Joe Pytka, Don Mischer and Robert A. Fishman.
“David has had a truly phenomenal directing career on so many of the most high-profile series in episodic television,” said DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter. “To quote the cover of our own DGA Quarterly, David is truly the ‘King of the Pilots.’ His passion, creativity, and mastery of the craft over his expansive career underscores exactly why David serves as an inspiration to fellow directors everywhere. On behalf of the Guild, I’m beyond thrilled to celebrate David’s talents and contributions to the art of directing.”
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Nutter is only the sixth director to receive the recognition, following James Burrows, Robert Butler, Joe Pytka, Don Mischer and Robert A. Fishman.
“David has had a truly phenomenal directing career on so many of the most high-profile series in episodic television,” said DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter. “To quote the cover of our own DGA Quarterly, David is truly the ‘King of the Pilots.’ His passion, creativity, and mastery of the craft over his expansive career underscores exactly why David serves as an inspiration to fellow directors everywhere. On behalf of the Guild, I’m beyond thrilled to celebrate David’s talents and contributions to the art of directing.”
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- 12/14/2023
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Think about some of the most iconic moments in modern TV history, and there’s a good chance Don Mischer was in the control room.
Michael Jackson performing the Moonwalk for the first time on “Motown 25.” Muhammad Ali making a surprise appearance to light the Atlanta Olympics opening ceremony torch. Prince pulling off arguably the most lauded Super Bowl halftime show ever, in the pouring rain. President Obama’s historic inauguration.
Mischer was behind all those events — and too many more to mention, including three Oscar telecasts. Each one has a story, and as Mischer recalls, the behind- the-scenes drama was often harrowing. Ask him about the time he got into a fight with authorities in China, leading his team to prep a van in case they had to flee for the U.S. Embassy. Or the time he and Barbara Walters got dangerously close to offending the shah of Iran,...
Michael Jackson performing the Moonwalk for the first time on “Motown 25.” Muhammad Ali making a surprise appearance to light the Atlanta Olympics opening ceremony torch. Prince pulling off arguably the most lauded Super Bowl halftime show ever, in the pouring rain. President Obama’s historic inauguration.
Mischer was behind all those events — and too many more to mention, including three Oscar telecasts. Each one has a story, and as Mischer recalls, the behind- the-scenes drama was often harrowing. Ask him about the time he got into a fight with authorities in China, leading his team to prep a van in case they had to flee for the U.S. Embassy. Or the time he and Barbara Walters got dangerously close to offending the shah of Iran,...
- 11/15/2023
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Bill Murray first came to national attention when he joined “Saturday Night Live” in its second season to replace the departed Chevy Chase. Like many of his SNL colleagues of the era Murray was able to parlay his television success into a film career. He first made his film mark in comedies but in later years would take on increasingly dramatic films as well, earning an Oscar nomination as Best Actor for “Lost in Translation” (2003). Murray would return to TV in 2015 for the HBO limited series “Olive Kitteridge,” for which he won an Emmy as Best Supporting Actor playing a suicidal man who becomes involved with the title character (Frances McDormand).
Murray’s career got off to a somewhat shaky start when he was cast in the first season of “Saturday Night Live” but unfortunately for Murray it was the wrong “SNL.” Instead of the classic program for NBC (for...
Murray’s career got off to a somewhat shaky start when he was cast in the first season of “Saturday Night Live” but unfortunately for Murray it was the wrong “SNL.” Instead of the classic program for NBC (for...
- 9/14/2023
- by Robert Pius, Misty Holland and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Over a career spanning six decades, Don Mischer has directed TV specials and events featuring the likes of Prince, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Muhammad Ali and Taylor Swift (among many others). He’s now putting his memories of some of those experiences on paper.
The multi-time Emmy winner’s memoir, :10 Seconds to Air: My Life in the Director’s Chair, is set to be published on Nov. 14 from Unnamed Press and Rare Bird. The book will trace Mischer’s path from his childhood in Texas to directing and producing Oscar and Emmy telecasts, Super Bowl halftime shows and a host of TV specials ranging from 1983’s Motown 25 — where Michael Jackson debuted his moonwalk — to the inauguration of Barack Obama as president.
Mischer was a student at the University of Texas at Austin in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. As he recounts in the book, he lent...
The multi-time Emmy winner’s memoir, :10 Seconds to Air: My Life in the Director’s Chair, is set to be published on Nov. 14 from Unnamed Press and Rare Bird. The book will trace Mischer’s path from his childhood in Texas to directing and producing Oscar and Emmy telecasts, Super Bowl halftime shows and a host of TV specials ranging from 1983’s Motown 25 — where Michael Jackson debuted his moonwalk — to the inauguration of Barack Obama as president.
Mischer was a student at the University of Texas at Austin in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. As he recounts in the book, he lent...
- 8/29/2023
- by Rick Porter
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Do you remember what you were doing the evening of May 16, 1983? Well, you may have been one of the 47 million people tuned into NBC’s landmark special “Motown 25: Yesterday, Today and Forever.”
It was the star-studded celebration hosted by Emmy nominee Richard Pryor which saw Michael Jackson reuniting with his brothers for a medley of their Jackson 5 hits including “I Want You Back,” “The Love You Save” and “I’ll Be There.”
But it was Jackson’s solo performance of his blockbuster No. 1 hit “Billie Jean” from his breakthrough album “Thriller” which galvanized the audience. It was an electrifying turn where he introduced the fedora, black sequin jacket and glove and his momentous moonwalk routine during the bridge of the song, all of which became his trademarks when performing “Billie Jean.” The New York Times described the routine as “astonishing. He is clearly the heir apparent to the dazzling androgyny...
It was the star-studded celebration hosted by Emmy nominee Richard Pryor which saw Michael Jackson reuniting with his brothers for a medley of their Jackson 5 hits including “I Want You Back,” “The Love You Save” and “I’ll Be There.”
But it was Jackson’s solo performance of his blockbuster No. 1 hit “Billie Jean” from his breakthrough album “Thriller” which galvanized the audience. It was an electrifying turn where he introduced the fedora, black sequin jacket and glove and his momentous moonwalk routine during the bridge of the song, all of which became his trademarks when performing “Billie Jean.” The New York Times described the routine as “astonishing. He is clearly the heir apparent to the dazzling androgyny...
- 5/15/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Editor’s Note: Decorated live event TV director-producer Don Mischer, a fifteen-time Emmy Award winner, has worked frequently with country legend Willie Nelson, who turns 90 today. The following is a chapter from Mischer’s forthcoming book,10 Seconds To Air: A Life in the Director’s Chair, written by him and Sara Lukinson.
On the Road With Willie Nelson: The Bus, The Rattlesnakes, Roadside Joints and Always The Music
Maybe it’s because we both came out of the same Texas soil, or maybe it’s because when I was in junior high school, I played a double-neck fender steel guitar with country bands and Willie was my idol and inspiration. But Willie Nelson has always had a special place in my heart.
Then, after my career got going and we started working together, I realized something else about him: he is always the same Willie, whether we are traveling around...
On the Road With Willie Nelson: The Bus, The Rattlesnakes, Roadside Joints and Always The Music
Maybe it’s because we both came out of the same Texas soil, or maybe it’s because when I was in junior high school, I played a double-neck fender steel guitar with country bands and Willie was my idol and inspiration. But Willie Nelson has always had a special place in my heart.
Then, after my career got going and we started working together, I realized something else about him: he is always the same Willie, whether we are traveling around...
- 4/29/2023
- by Don Mischer
- Deadline Film + TV
The Breakthrough Prize ceremony, which honors “scientists changing the world” with sizable cash prizes, came to Hollywood for the first time on Saturday night, having previously been held in San Francisco — and the world’s top innovators were surrounded by more stars than one can see in a telescope.
The ninth edition of the event — which was founded and is financially supported by Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Julia Milner and Yuri Milner and Anne Wojcicki, and has come to be known as “the Oscars of science” — took place on the open-air roof of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
James Corden hosted, as has been the case in previous years; presenters included Kristen Bell, Lily Collins, Danny DeVito, Robert Downey Jr. (alongside Zuckerberg), Gal Gadot, Ashton Kutcher, Brie Larson, Edward Norton, Leslie Odom Jr., Chris Pine and Chloe Zhao; John Legend and will.i.am performed; and audience members included Christina Aguilera,...
The ninth edition of the event — which was founded and is financially supported by Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Julia Milner and Yuri Milner and Anne Wojcicki, and has come to be known as “the Oscars of science” — took place on the open-air roof of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
James Corden hosted, as has been the case in previous years; presenters included Kristen Bell, Lily Collins, Danny DeVito, Robert Downey Jr. (alongside Zuckerberg), Gal Gadot, Ashton Kutcher, Brie Larson, Edward Norton, Leslie Odom Jr., Chris Pine and Chloe Zhao; John Legend and will.i.am performed; and audience members included Christina Aguilera,...
- 4/16/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Danette Herman was one of the key staff members of the Academy Awards ceremonies from the 1970s into the 2010s, beginning as a production assistant and rising through the ranks to become the show’s executive in charge of talent and coordinating producer. One of the few women to serve in key positions at the Oscars, she was with the show during the years of its highest ratings and largest cultural impact.
As the Academy prepares for the 95th Oscars ceremony, Herman asked TheWrap if she could share some memories of past shows, from an encounter with Katharine Hepburn in 1974 to a pair of anniversary shows in which she assembled historic groups of past winners. —Steve Pond
Congratulations to the Academy on 95 years of the Academy Awards. Almost 40 of those years are my history, also.
It began in April 1968 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. The 40th Academy Awards were hosted by Bob Hope,...
As the Academy prepares for the 95th Oscars ceremony, Herman asked TheWrap if she could share some memories of past shows, from an encounter with Katharine Hepburn in 1974 to a pair of anniversary shows in which she assembled historic groups of past winners. —Steve Pond
Congratulations to the Academy on 95 years of the Academy Awards. Almost 40 of those years are my history, also.
It began in April 1968 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. The 40th Academy Awards were hosted by Bob Hope,...
- 3/10/2023
- by Danette Herman
- The Wrap
CBS Sports director Robert A. Fishman will receive one of the DGA Awards’ highest honors, the lifetime achievement award for distinguished achievement in television direction, at the org’s annual event in February.
Directors Guild of America President Lesli Linka Glatter announced the kudo on Tuesday. Fishman is only the fifth director to receive the TV direction lifetime achievement honor. Fishman will receive the accolade at the 75th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, February 18, 2023.
“The DGA is thrilled to recognize Bob Fishman for his unprecedented contributions to the direction of live sporting events over a legendary 50-year career,” Glatter said in a statement. “From the first live coverage of the Daytona 500 to Tanya Harding’s broken lace drama at the 1994 Olympics to the NCAA Final Four this year, Bob has been the quintessential storyteller in live sports, directing across the broadest possible spectrum. Bob’s mantra has always been, ‘Don’t miss the live action.
Directors Guild of America President Lesli Linka Glatter announced the kudo on Tuesday. Fishman is only the fifth director to receive the TV direction lifetime achievement honor. Fishman will receive the accolade at the 75th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, February 18, 2023.
“The DGA is thrilled to recognize Bob Fishman for his unprecedented contributions to the direction of live sporting events over a legendary 50-year career,” Glatter said in a statement. “From the first live coverage of the Daytona 500 to Tanya Harding’s broken lace drama at the 1994 Olympics to the NCAA Final Four this year, Bob has been the quintessential storyteller in live sports, directing across the broadest possible spectrum. Bob’s mantra has always been, ‘Don’t miss the live action.
- 12/20/2022
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
The new Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences CEO Bill Kramer said in an interview Tuesday that he has big ideas for the Oscars, one of which is having a producer who can handle the show across “multiple years.”
“I think bringing on producers for multiple years is advisable and we are working on that, as well,” Kramer told the Academy’s A.Frame digital magazine on Tuesday. “The 95th gives us a great opportunity to knit together the incredible legacy of the Oscars, the diverse and powerful work we do across the Academy, and our vision for the future.”
This would be a shift for the Academy. For years, the Academy has typically cycled through various guest producers of the Oscars show, including the likes of Will Packer (with Shayla Cowan) earlier this year and Steven Soderbergh (with Jesse Collins and Stacey Sher) the year before that during...
“I think bringing on producers for multiple years is advisable and we are working on that, as well,” Kramer told the Academy’s A.Frame digital magazine on Tuesday. “The 95th gives us a great opportunity to knit together the incredible legacy of the Oscars, the diverse and powerful work we do across the Academy, and our vision for the future.”
This would be a shift for the Academy. For years, the Academy has typically cycled through various guest producers of the Oscars show, including the likes of Will Packer (with Shayla Cowan) earlier this year and Steven Soderbergh (with Jesse Collins and Stacey Sher) the year before that during...
- 8/16/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Director Lesli Linka Glatter was elected President of the Directors Guild of America at the union’s National Biennial Convention in Los Angeles on Saturday night.
Glatter replaced Thomas Schlamme, who was guild president for the last four years.
Glatter has been on the Guild’s National Board since 2003, most recently as First Vice-President, and before that as Fifth Vice-President. She’s been a member of three negotiating committees including the most recent, which brought in new residuals for directors in paid video on demand and other areas.
Additionally, 160 delegates representing more than 18,000 members of the DGA elected a new slate of officers and members of the National Board of Directors, which included Ron Howard, Barry Jenkins, Ava DuVernay, Paris Barclay and others.
“I am honored to have been chosen by my peers to serve as President, and am committed to continuing our Guild’s great legacy of protecting the...
Glatter replaced Thomas Schlamme, who was guild president for the last four years.
Glatter has been on the Guild’s National Board since 2003, most recently as First Vice-President, and before that as Fifth Vice-President. She’s been a member of three negotiating committees including the most recent, which brought in new residuals for directors in paid video on demand and other areas.
Additionally, 160 delegates representing more than 18,000 members of the DGA elected a new slate of officers and members of the National Board of Directors, which included Ron Howard, Barry Jenkins, Ava DuVernay, Paris Barclay and others.
“I am honored to have been chosen by my peers to serve as President, and am committed to continuing our Guild’s great legacy of protecting the...
- 9/19/2021
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
Editor’s note: One in a series of stories tied to the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
Tomorrow’s 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks also marks the 20th anniversary of the somber annual ceremony commemorating the lives lost at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and aboard Flight 93.
The idea came from Michael Bloomberg who, shortly after being sworn in as mayor of New York on January 1, 2002, set out to create an annual commemoration. Upon recommendation by Jeffery Katzenberg, Bloomberg’s Deputy Mayor, Patti Harris, invited veteran live event producer-director Don Mischer to come to New York and meet with the mayor about helping to create the event. Mischer and fellow producer David Goldberg have been helming the commemoration ceremony since its inception.
“It wasn’t easy – there was no precedent for it. Yet through time, this commemoration has become increasingly important to the families of those we lost on that tragic day,...
Tomorrow’s 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks also marks the 20th anniversary of the somber annual ceremony commemorating the lives lost at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and aboard Flight 93.
The idea came from Michael Bloomberg who, shortly after being sworn in as mayor of New York on January 1, 2002, set out to create an annual commemoration. Upon recommendation by Jeffery Katzenberg, Bloomberg’s Deputy Mayor, Patti Harris, invited veteran live event producer-director Don Mischer to come to New York and meet with the mayor about helping to create the event. Mischer and fellow producer David Goldberg have been helming the commemoration ceremony since its inception.
“It wasn’t easy – there was no precedent for it. Yet through time, this commemoration has become increasingly important to the families of those we lost on that tragic day,...
- 9/11/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
When the Smithsonian Institution launched a new series of events this week called Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past, it included a streamed forum from Los Angeles, where participants were immersed in an LED set and their discussion interspersed with taped testimonials on race from a diversity of Americans.
It’s just a start of what producers hope will draw participants from around the country in a conversation on race, using what is called “experiential” media.
Smithsonian tapped Don Mischer’s production company, which in 2020 launched Dm.Experiential, after Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch had worked with him on the ABC special Taking The Stage: African American Music and Stories that Changed America, tied to the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
“Our jobs is to sort of take our experience producing entertainment and help tell the story in a human way so that it connects and resonates,...
It’s just a start of what producers hope will draw participants from around the country in a conversation on race, using what is called “experiential” media.
Smithsonian tapped Don Mischer’s production company, which in 2020 launched Dm.Experiential, after Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch had worked with him on the ABC special Taking The Stage: African American Music and Stories that Changed America, tied to the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
“Our jobs is to sort of take our experience producing entertainment and help tell the story in a human way so that it connects and resonates,...
- 8/28/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Even though this year’s Directors Guild of America ceremony is taking place virtually, there is no way to watch the DGA Awards online. But you’re in luck — Gold Derby has access to Saturday’s show and we’ll be revealing all of the 2021 winners as they happen live. Scroll down for our minute-by-minute breakdown of all of the champions, the A-list presenters and the special honors for this 73rd annual ceremony.
As a reminder, these kudos honor the best helmers of the year in film and television, as voted on by more than 18,000 members of the directing guild. The all-important DGA feature film category, which will be presented last, will serve as an important bellwether of the Best Director Oscar. Why? Because the guild and the academy have only disagreed eight times over the past seven decades, including last year when Sam Mendes (“1917”) won the DGA but Bong Joon Ho...
As a reminder, these kudos honor the best helmers of the year in film and television, as voted on by more than 18,000 members of the directing guild. The all-important DGA feature film category, which will be presented last, will serve as an important bellwether of the Best Director Oscar. Why? Because the guild and the academy have only disagreed eight times over the past seven decades, including last year when Sam Mendes (“1917”) won the DGA but Bong Joon Ho...
- 4/10/2021
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Editors note: It’s been 10 months since live entertainment went dark at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, and it may be another 10 months before live venues can safely reopen. Participating in a virtual conference held Saturday by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that by the “early to mid-fall, you can have people feeling safe performing onstage as well as people in the audience.” For performers and other entertainment workers sidelined by the pandemic, that relief may not come soon enough as they deplete savings and go from one odd job to another. Given the urgency of the situation and in light of the new White House administration coming in next week, veteran event producer Don Mischer, who has produced/directed Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Olympics opening ceremonies, Super Bowl halftime shows and the Obama inauguration, is speaking up for people in the arts. Taking a...
- 1/12/2021
- by Don Mischer
- Deadline Film + TV
Reginald Hudlin, one of the executive producers of this year’s unique (to say the least) virtual 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards show, has actually produced the Oscars in 2016. But even that did not prepare him for what he is experiencing at the helm of this year’s Emmys.
“We’ve all seen the Emmys, this is the 72nd one. This is not that. This is going to be something else. And what that is none of us 100% know. This has never been done before,” he told me in a conversation this morning from his car as he was driving to rehearsals and a virtual press conference among other things as the big show nears its Sunday airdate. “As experienced as this entire production team is — we have all done the biggest awards shows — no one has done anything like this. And given how the show is live we won’t...
“We’ve all seen the Emmys, this is the 72nd one. This is not that. This is going to be something else. And what that is none of us 100% know. This has never been done before,” he told me in a conversation this morning from his car as he was driving to rehearsals and a virtual press conference among other things as the big show nears its Sunday airdate. “As experienced as this entire production team is — we have all done the biggest awards shows — no one has done anything like this. And given how the show is live we won’t...
- 9/16/2020
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Today marks the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The tragic event in American history is being commemorated with somber ceremonies remembering and honoring the men, women and children killed at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and aboard Flight 93.
The coronavirus pandemic changed the way the commemoration event was put together this year while keeping its scope — and spirit — intact. Produced under Covid-19 protocols, today’s ceremony at the World Trade Center in New York features drummers, bagpipers, trumpeters and West Side Story star Shereen Pinentel performing the national anthem.
“I’m directing the Commemoration ‘virtually’ from a high-tech facility Amv (All Mobil Video) on Culver Blvd in Marina del Rey,” said director-producer Don Mischer, sitting next to producer David J. Goldberg. “We have a crew of about 25 on the site at the World Trade Center.”
Mischer has a long history with the event.
“David Goldberg and I have...
The coronavirus pandemic changed the way the commemoration event was put together this year while keeping its scope — and spirit — intact. Produced under Covid-19 protocols, today’s ceremony at the World Trade Center in New York features drummers, bagpipers, trumpeters and West Side Story star Shereen Pinentel performing the national anthem.
“I’m directing the Commemoration ‘virtually’ from a high-tech facility Amv (All Mobil Video) on Culver Blvd in Marina del Rey,” said director-producer Don Mischer, sitting next to producer David J. Goldberg. “We have a crew of about 25 on the site at the World Trade Center.”
Mischer has a long history with the event.
“David Goldberg and I have...
- 9/11/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
ABC has set 9/11 Remembered: The Day We Came Together, an hour-long dedication special filmed on May 15, 2014, marking President Barack Obama’s opening of the 9/11 Memorial Museum at the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. The special will air on the anniversary of the horrific attacks on Friday, September 11 at 8 Pm on ABC, and will be made available the following day on demand and on Hulu.
The special includes speeches by Obama, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, other dignitaries, survivors and family members. It will feature stories about those who died and those who survived, their families, and the first responders who rushed to help them.
Performances include a 300-voice children’s choir singing “Somewhere,” the New York Philharmonic performing “Fanfare for the Common Man,” and “Amazing Grace” sung by Tony Award-nominated singer Lachanze.
“The tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, will forever be etched into our hearts, and the memories...
The special includes speeches by Obama, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, other dignitaries, survivors and family members. It will feature stories about those who died and those who survived, their families, and the first responders who rushed to help them.
Performances include a 300-voice children’s choir singing “Somewhere,” the New York Philharmonic performing “Fanfare for the Common Man,” and “Amazing Grace” sung by Tony Award-nominated singer Lachanze.
“The tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, will forever be etched into our hearts, and the memories...
- 9/1/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: This could get messy. The TV Academy this morning announced the rundown for the virtual 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards, which includes five nights of Creative Arts Emmy Awards, followed by the 72nd Emmy Awards telecast on Sept. 20.
There is a major shakeup in the lineup for the Sept. 20 show which airs on ABC. It will feature 23 categories, along with the Governors Award presentation, usually held during the Creative Emmys.
The four categories relocated from the Emmy Awards ceremony to the Creative Arts include one writing and one directing category, for variety writing/directing. That reduces the number of writing and directing awards handed out on the main telecast to three each, bellow the four the WGA and the DGA are contractually guaranteed by the TV Academy.
It appears that the changes have been made without input from the guilds.
“The DGA has not signed off on this,” a spokesperson for the DGA told Deadline.
There is a major shakeup in the lineup for the Sept. 20 show which airs on ABC. It will feature 23 categories, along with the Governors Award presentation, usually held during the Creative Emmys.
The four categories relocated from the Emmy Awards ceremony to the Creative Arts include one writing and one directing category, for variety writing/directing. That reduces the number of writing and directing awards handed out on the main telecast to three each, bellow the four the WGA and the DGA are contractually guaranteed by the TV Academy.
It appears that the changes have been made without input from the guilds.
“The DGA has not signed off on this,” a spokesperson for the DGA told Deadline.
- 8/7/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Producer/director Reginald Hudlin, whose credits include the 2016 Oscars, will become the first-ever Black executive producer of the Primetime Emmys, Variety has learned exclusively.
Done+Dusted will return to produce the telecast, while Hudlin will serve as an executive producer along side host Jimmy Kimmel and Done+Dusted’s Guy Carrington, David Jammy and Ian Stewart.
ABC and the Television Academy is set to announce the Emmys producing team later today. Last year, Done+Dusted produced the kudocast alongside Don Mischer Prods.
“I’m excited to collaborate with this outstanding team as we produce a show that celebrates the best of what we do and reflects this moment in history,” said Hudlin, who earned an Emmy nomination for producing the Oscars, and whose awards show credits also include executive producing the NAACP Image Awards for nearly a decade.
The Emmys are set to air on Sunday, Sept. 20 with Kimmel presiding.
Done+Dusted will return to produce the telecast, while Hudlin will serve as an executive producer along side host Jimmy Kimmel and Done+Dusted’s Guy Carrington, David Jammy and Ian Stewart.
ABC and the Television Academy is set to announce the Emmys producing team later today. Last year, Done+Dusted produced the kudocast alongside Don Mischer Prods.
“I’m excited to collaborate with this outstanding team as we produce a show that celebrates the best of what we do and reflects this moment in history,” said Hudlin, who earned an Emmy nomination for producing the Oscars, and whose awards show credits also include executive producing the NAACP Image Awards for nearly a decade.
The Emmys are set to air on Sunday, Sept. 20 with Kimmel presiding.
- 7/23/2020
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
On the heels of last week’s rebroadcast of John Ridley’s powerful 2017 documentary Let It Fall, about the 1992 riots in Los Angeles, ABC is again reaching into its vaults from 2017 for a re-broadcast of the two-hour special Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories that Changed America. The network special, which originally aired on January 11, 2017, commemorated the opening of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. Quincy Jones and Don Mischer teamed to produce the momentous event, and in light of everything that has happened in this country in the weeks since George Floyd’s horrendous death, the pair felt the time could not be better to bring this program back.
Mischer tells Deadline that when he and Jones sent a letter to Bob Iger suggesting an encore of the special, he responded enthusiastically to the idea within 10 minutes.
Mischer tells Deadline that when he and Jones sent a letter to Bob Iger suggesting an encore of the special, he responded enthusiastically to the idea within 10 minutes.
- 6/24/2020
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Editors’ Note: Live events were hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, with sweeping cancellations of festivals, sports and awards shows. Don Mischer is one of the doyens of the live-event business. During his long career, he has produced/directed dozens of high-profile special event-telecasts from the Oscars and Primetime Emmys to Olympics opening ceremonies, the Obama Inauguration, and Super Bowl halftime shows, winning 15 Emmys, 10 DGA Awards and a Peabody Award among many honors. In a column for Deadline, Mischer speaks about the crucial role live audiences have played in creating some of the most memorable moments in TV special history, and how profoundly the audience is missed in the Covid-19 era of virtual events. He also lays out his vision for how live events would look for the foreseeable future as he is prepping for the 2020 The Breakthrough Prize, still on track for November,...
- 5/14/2020
- by Don Mischer
- Deadline Film + TV
People are eager to return to the old normal, and the fate of awards shows is not the top priority, but it is a concern. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences on April 28 addressed the question of eligibility in a time of coronavirus, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. did the same. But the question remains about the fate of ceremonies, no matter when the world opens up again.
In the history of major awards, no show was ever cancelled, but adjustments were occasionally needed. To paraphrase Tolstoy, happy kudocasts are all alike; every crisis-stricken award show is stricken in its own way.
Nobody expects a dramatic change in the upcoming kudocasts. But as Monty Python reminded us, nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition either. Here are some past examples of how people adjusted.
Emmys
The award for the most beleaguered ceremony goes to the 53rd annual Emmys. It was scheduled for Sept.
In the history of major awards, no show was ever cancelled, but adjustments were occasionally needed. To paraphrase Tolstoy, happy kudocasts are all alike; every crisis-stricken award show is stricken in its own way.
Nobody expects a dramatic change in the upcoming kudocasts. But as Monty Python reminded us, nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition either. Here are some past examples of how people adjusted.
Emmys
The award for the most beleaguered ceremony goes to the 53rd annual Emmys. It was scheduled for Sept.
- 5/1/2020
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
The publicity campaigns that drove Warner Bros’ Joker and Disney+’s The Mandalorian took top honors Friday at the 57th annual Icg Publicists Awards at the Beverly Hilton.
Joker, which is up for a leading 11 Oscars on Sunday, won the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Motion Pictures Publicity Campaign. Season 1 of Disney+’s Star Wars stand-alone series The Mandalorian, won the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Television Publicity Campaign.
Steven Huvane from Slate PR won the guild’s Les Mason Award for career achievement at the annual luncheon, with client and recent SAG Awards winner Jennifer Aniston a surprise presenter to hand him his trophy. “You really are some of the hardest working people in this town,” she told the crowd in the ballroom. “I know I apologize on behalf of all of us.”
Other winners today included Rachel Aberly from 42 West, who was named Publicist of the Year. Clark Collis from...
Joker, which is up for a leading 11 Oscars on Sunday, won the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Motion Pictures Publicity Campaign. Season 1 of Disney+’s Star Wars stand-alone series The Mandalorian, won the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Television Publicity Campaign.
Steven Huvane from Slate PR won the guild’s Les Mason Award for career achievement at the annual luncheon, with client and recent SAG Awards winner Jennifer Aniston a surprise presenter to hand him his trophy. “You really are some of the hardest working people in this town,” she told the crowd in the ballroom. “I know I apologize on behalf of all of us.”
Other winners today included Rachel Aberly from 42 West, who was named Publicist of the Year. Clark Collis from...
- 2/7/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka and Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
While the prospect of a sequel series to Ron Howard‘s 1988 fantasy feature “Willow” has gotten fans frothing at the mouth, Howard told Variety that Disney Plus still hasn’t made a final decision on the show as of yet.
Reports that Howard was in talks to develop the series with writer Jonathan Kasdan emerged last May, and Howard said that the scripts for the project are pretty much complete, but that a big yes from Disney was yet to come their way.
“We’re working on it, it’s not greenlit, but I was just on the phone today discussing it with Jonathan who has written the scripts,” Howard said. “It’s in serious development, but there’s nothing to announce quite yet.”
Reports had also emerged that Warwick Davis, who played the titular Nelwyn dwarf in the original movie, was in talks to reprise the role in a “more mature” version.
Reports that Howard was in talks to develop the series with writer Jonathan Kasdan emerged last May, and Howard said that the scripts for the project are pretty much complete, but that a big yes from Disney was yet to come their way.
“We’re working on it, it’s not greenlit, but I was just on the phone today discussing it with Jonathan who has written the scripts,” Howard said. “It’s in serious development, but there’s nothing to announce quite yet.”
Reports had also emerged that Warwick Davis, who played the titular Nelwyn dwarf in the original movie, was in talks to reprise the role in a “more mature” version.
- 1/29/2020
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Gold Derby had a featured spot on the red carpet for Tuesday’s TV Hall of Fame ceremony in North Hollywood. The Television Academy inducted five more legends:
ABC and Disney executive Bob Iger (presented by Kerry Washington)
Nickelodeon and Oxygen executive Geraldine Laybourne (presented by Anne Sweeney)
Actor/producer Seth MacFarlane (presented by Don Mischer)
Director Jay Sandrich (presented by James Burrows)
Actress Cicely Tyson (presented by Shonda Rhimes)
Previous inductee Ron Howard opened the ceremony with a few remarks about this type of honor and each of the recipients.
Seetv Hall of Fame: Top 50 best choices who should be inducted next
Enjoy our six short red carpet chats with the following people (click the name for the video link):
Edward Asner — Emmy winner and former SAG President
James Burrows — Emmy-winning director and producer
Ron Howard — Oscar, Emmy and Grammy winner
Geraldine Laybourne — 2020 Hall of Fame inductee
Don...
ABC and Disney executive Bob Iger (presented by Kerry Washington)
Nickelodeon and Oxygen executive Geraldine Laybourne (presented by Anne Sweeney)
Actor/producer Seth MacFarlane (presented by Don Mischer)
Director Jay Sandrich (presented by James Burrows)
Actress Cicely Tyson (presented by Shonda Rhimes)
Previous inductee Ron Howard opened the ceremony with a few remarks about this type of honor and each of the recipients.
Seetv Hall of Fame: Top 50 best choices who should be inducted next
Enjoy our six short red carpet chats with the following people (click the name for the video link):
Edward Asner — Emmy winner and former SAG President
James Burrows — Emmy-winning director and producer
Ron Howard — Oscar, Emmy and Grammy winner
Geraldine Laybourne — 2020 Hall of Fame inductee
Don...
- 1/29/2020
- by Chris Beachum and Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Directors Guild Awards Live Blog 2020: ‘1917,’ ‘Watchmen,’ ‘Barry’ among DGA winners [Updating Live]
To the frustration of many awards watchers, the annual Directors Guild of America ceremony doesn’t air live on TV. But worry not — Gold Derby has you covered with our informative play-by-play of the ceremony. Follow along with our updating live blog on Saturday, January 25 as we reveal all of the 2020 DGA Awards winners as they happen. We’ll also let you know the superstar presenters for the three film races and eight television categories plus the honorary awards.
Last year’s ceremony previewed the upcoming Academy Awards when the DGA voters named their Best Director winner as Alfonso Cuaron (“Roma”). In fact, he was the sixth in a row to prevail at both kudos, following Guillermo del Toro for “The Shape of Water” (2017), Damien Chazelle for “La La Land” (2016), Alejandro G. Inarritu for “The Revenant” (2015), Inarritu for “Birdman” (2014) and Cuaron for “Gravity” (2013).
SEE2020 DGA Awards winners: Full list of...
Last year’s ceremony previewed the upcoming Academy Awards when the DGA voters named their Best Director winner as Alfonso Cuaron (“Roma”). In fact, he was the sixth in a row to prevail at both kudos, following Guillermo del Toro for “The Shape of Water” (2017), Damien Chazelle for “La La Land” (2016), Alejandro G. Inarritu for “The Revenant” (2015), Inarritu for “Birdman” (2014) and Cuaron for “Gravity” (2013).
SEE2020 DGA Awards winners: Full list of...
- 1/26/2020
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
The International Cinematographers Guild Publicists said today that Sheryl Main will receive its Henri Bollinger Award for special merit at the 57th annual Icg Publicists Awards Luncheon next month.
Named after the award-winning entertainment industry publicist, the Henri Bollinger Award recognizes a person who epitomizes the definition of special merit in the field of entertainment.
“I can think of nobody more deserving of receiving the Henri Bollinger Award than Sheryl Main,” Icg National Executive Director Rebecca Rhine said.
Main began her career in film production in New York City working on projects with Oscar-winning directors John Avildsen (Rocky) and John Huston (Prizzi’s Honor) before relocating to Los Angeles. There she worked on the Bruce Willis-Cybill Shepherd series Moonlighting, before moving to Warner Bros. Pictures as Senior Publicist/Project Executive in the International Film Publicity department.
She became a unit publicist in 2000 and teamed with action star Arnold Schwarzenegger...
Named after the award-winning entertainment industry publicist, the Henri Bollinger Award recognizes a person who epitomizes the definition of special merit in the field of entertainment.
“I can think of nobody more deserving of receiving the Henri Bollinger Award than Sheryl Main,” Icg National Executive Director Rebecca Rhine said.
Main began her career in film production in New York City working on projects with Oscar-winning directors John Avildsen (Rocky) and John Huston (Prizzi’s Honor) before relocating to Los Angeles. There she worked on the Bruce Willis-Cybill Shepherd series Moonlighting, before moving to Warner Bros. Pictures as Senior Publicist/Project Executive in the International Film Publicity department.
She became a unit publicist in 2000 and teamed with action star Arnold Schwarzenegger...
- 1/22/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Gregg Smith, an actor and dancer whose three-decade collaboration with director and choreographer Kenny Ortega included casting dancers for such films and TV productions as Dirty Dancing, Newsies, Hocus Pocus, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink, To Wong Fu, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar and various Oscar and Emmy specials, died Jan. 1. The San Fernando Valley resident was 73.
His death was confirmed today by Ortega. No cause of death was released.
After performing in the influential 1968 Off Broadway rock musical Your Own Thing, Smith appeared in the original national touring company of Hair and the L.A. production of Jesus Christ Superstar. He would later appear in Ortega’s Newsies and Stephen Spielberg’s Hook.
He met Ortega in the early 1970s when the two were cast in Hair, and he would subsequently cast dancers in nearly every stage,...
His death was confirmed today by Ortega. No cause of death was released.
After performing in the influential 1968 Off Broadway rock musical Your Own Thing, Smith appeared in the original national touring company of Hair and the L.A. production of Jesus Christ Superstar. He would later appear in Ortega’s Newsies and Stephen Spielberg’s Hook.
He met Ortega in the early 1970s when the two were cast in Hair, and he would subsequently cast dancers in nearly every stage,...
- 1/17/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Hours before the 2007 Super Bowl in Miami, Florida, producer Don Mischer called up Prince to tell him he’d probably have to perform his halftime show in the middle of a torrential downpour. “I want you to know it’s raining,” Mischer said. “Are you Ok?” Prince had a very simple response: “Can you make it rain harder?”
Prince knew that the horrid weather would only add to the drama of his show, which he packed with surprise covers like “We Will Rock You,” “All Along the Watchtower” and “Best...
Prince knew that the horrid weather would only add to the drama of his show, which he packed with surprise covers like “We Will Rock You,” “All Along the Watchtower” and “Best...
- 1/17/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Oh, the irony! I’ve been covering Hollywood industry awards as a journalist for 30 years and now I’m nominated for the Press Award bestowed by Hollywood’s leading PR guild: Icg Publicists. It’s so gracious of them – thank you, huzzahs to all – but now I’ll get a toxic dose of what I report on all the time: nominee jitters.
Uh-oh: do my Hollywood industry peers really, really like me? Should I campaign aggressively? Rent out billboards on Sunset Boulevard? What should I wear on Feb. 7 when the winner is revealed at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in the same room where the Golden Globes are doled out?
Lucky for me, I know the drill. I’ve been nominated, and lost, twice in the past. Only 16 more defeats and I’ll be the Susan Lucci of the Publicists’ Award! So, please, save me: spread the word across town — Vote for Tom!
Uh-oh: do my Hollywood industry peers really, really like me? Should I campaign aggressively? Rent out billboards on Sunset Boulevard? What should I wear on Feb. 7 when the winner is revealed at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in the same room where the Golden Globes are doled out?
Lucky for me, I know the drill. I’ve been nominated, and lost, twice in the past. Only 16 more defeats and I’ll be the Susan Lucci of the Publicists’ Award! So, please, save me: spread the word across town — Vote for Tom!
- 1/14/2020
- by Tom O'Neil
- Gold Derby
The Publicists Guild is out with the remaining nominees for its 2020 ICG Publicists Awards, which will be doled out February 7 at the Beverly Hilton. Read the list below.
Up for the Publicist of the Year Award are Rachel Aberly (42 West), Michelle Alt (Paramount), unit publicist Carol McConnaughey and a pair from Walt Disney Studios: Kira Feola and Alex Kang.
Vying for the Les Mason Award for Career Achievement in Publicity are unit publicists Gabriela Gutentag and Peter J. Silbermann, Slate PR’s Stephen Huvane, Warner Bros’ Maureen O’Malley and Paramount’s David Walderman.
The guild, Iatse Local 600, previously revealed that Emmy winner and past Oscar nominee Ava DuVernay will receive its Television Showman of the Year Award and 15-time Emmy winner Don Mischer, will be honored with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
The nominations for the Maxwell Weinberg Awards for film and TV publicity campaigns were unveiled last week and in November,...
Up for the Publicist of the Year Award are Rachel Aberly (42 West), Michelle Alt (Paramount), unit publicist Carol McConnaughey and a pair from Walt Disney Studios: Kira Feola and Alex Kang.
Vying for the Les Mason Award for Career Achievement in Publicity are unit publicists Gabriela Gutentag and Peter J. Silbermann, Slate PR’s Stephen Huvane, Warner Bros’ Maureen O’Malley and Paramount’s David Walderman.
The guild, Iatse Local 600, previously revealed that Emmy winner and past Oscar nominee Ava DuVernay will receive its Television Showman of the Year Award and 15-time Emmy winner Don Mischer, will be honored with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
The nominations for the Maxwell Weinberg Awards for film and TV publicity campaigns were unveiled last week and in November,...
- 1/14/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
So with the New Year upon us I decided that I wanted to mix things up a little bit and bring something new to the website/podcast. I thought about how the whole website started with the 365 movies in 365 days and wondered maybe something like that would be pretty cool. Then I remembered an epsiode of Community where Abed watched a load of Nic Cage movies in a whole weekend and it sent him a bit mental.
Thus the Nicolas Cage Appreciation Society was born… A tribute to the 1 time Oscar winner, 5 times Razzie nominated, method-acting icon. With a total of 103 movie credits (at the time of writing). With every one of them better than the last, this should be a pretty interesting dive into the legacy of one of the greatest actors of our time. I will be writing up reviews on the site but also listen into the...
Thus the Nicolas Cage Appreciation Society was born… A tribute to the 1 time Oscar winner, 5 times Razzie nominated, method-acting icon. With a total of 103 movie credits (at the time of writing). With every one of them better than the last, this should be a pretty interesting dive into the legacy of one of the greatest actors of our time. I will be writing up reviews on the site but also listen into the...
- 1/13/2020
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
Judd Apatow will host the 72nd annual DGA Awards – his first time since 2018 – and Don Mischer will return as Awards Chair for the third consecutive year, DGA president Thomas Schlamme announced today.
The event is set for Jan. 25 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles.
“I am so excited to host again as part of my campaign for the Lifetime Achievement Award,” said Apatow in a statement.
Said Schlamme, “As a top filmmaker, comic and massive industry force, Judd has such a special and unique perspective on where we are as an industry, and as a culture. He was just as brilliant as he was hysterical as host of our Awards two years ago – and we’re thrilled to welcome him back.”
Mischer said, “A great host for the DGA Awards needs to make the evening fun, give the audience a different perspective on the challenges of being a...
The event is set for Jan. 25 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles.
“I am so excited to host again as part of my campaign for the Lifetime Achievement Award,” said Apatow in a statement.
Said Schlamme, “As a top filmmaker, comic and massive industry force, Judd has such a special and unique perspective on where we are as an industry, and as a culture. He was just as brilliant as he was hysterical as host of our Awards two years ago – and we’re thrilled to welcome him back.”
Mischer said, “A great host for the DGA Awards needs to make the evening fun, give the audience a different perspective on the challenges of being a...
- 1/9/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The publicity campaigns for Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame, Netflix’s The Irishman, Warner Bros’ Joker, Columbia Pictures’ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Paramount’s Rocketman and Universal’s Us have been nominated for the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Motion Picture Publicity Campaign for the 57th annual Icg Publicists Awards.
The award, which honors guild members for achievements in publicity and promotion during the calendar year, will be bestowed February 7 at the 57th annual luncheon at the Beverly Hilton.
“This year’s nominated campaigns are diverse and creative, covering the spectrum from superhero, comedy, drama, horror and musical,” said Tim Menke, Icg Publicists Awards Chair. “Congratulations to the teams of publicists who orchestrated and implemented these exceptional and successful strategic campaigns bringing people into theaters around the world.”
Last year, Warner Bros took the movie crown for Crazy Rich Asians.
This year’s noms join Netflix’s Season 3 of Stranger Things...
The award, which honors guild members for achievements in publicity and promotion during the calendar year, will be bestowed February 7 at the 57th annual luncheon at the Beverly Hilton.
“This year’s nominated campaigns are diverse and creative, covering the spectrum from superhero, comedy, drama, horror and musical,” said Tim Menke, Icg Publicists Awards Chair. “Congratulations to the teams of publicists who orchestrated and implemented these exceptional and successful strategic campaigns bringing people into theaters around the world.”
Last year, Warner Bros took the movie crown for Crazy Rich Asians.
This year’s noms join Netflix’s Season 3 of Stranger Things...
- 1/8/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
“Avengers: Endgame” and “Us” are among the nominees for the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Motion Picture Publicist Campaign to be presented at the 5th annual Icg Publicists Awards, the International Cinematographers Guild (Icg) Publicists announced Wednesday.
The six films nominated are “Avengers: Endgame,” “The Irishman,” “Joker,” “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,” “Rocketman” and “Us.”
The awards show will take place on Feb. 7 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The Icg represents approximately 9,000 members who work in film, TV and commercials. The award honors active members working on motion pictures whose achievements in promotions was exemplary.
Also Read: 'Avengers: Endgame,' 'Little Women' Among Film Nominees for Casting Society's Artios Awards
“This year’s nominated campaigns are diverse and creative, covering the spectrum from superhero, comedy, drama, horror and musical. Congratulations to the teams of publicists who orchestrated and implemented these exceptional and successful...
The six films nominated are “Avengers: Endgame,” “The Irishman,” “Joker,” “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,” “Rocketman” and “Us.”
The awards show will take place on Feb. 7 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The Icg represents approximately 9,000 members who work in film, TV and commercials. The award honors active members working on motion pictures whose achievements in promotions was exemplary.
Also Read: 'Avengers: Endgame,' 'Little Women' Among Film Nominees for Casting Society's Artios Awards
“This year’s nominated campaigns are diverse and creative, covering the spectrum from superhero, comedy, drama, horror and musical. Congratulations to the teams of publicists who orchestrated and implemented these exceptional and successful...
- 1/8/2020
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Ava DuVerNay will receive the Television Showman of the Year award at the 57th annual Icg Publicists Awards.
“Ava DuVernay is the talented force behind some of the most acclaimed works in television and film,” said Publicists Awards Co-chair Sheryl Main in making the announcement Thursday. “Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Ava was an entertainment publicist for 12 years with her own firm. She appreciates the importance of creative strategic marketing campaigns and supports the roles of publicists in making a movie. We are proud to honor Ava, her expanding career and growing body of work.”
Winner of Emmy, BAFTA and Peabody Awards, Oscar nominee DuVernay’s directorial work includes the historical feature film Selma, the criminal justice documentary 13th, and Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time, which made her the highest grossing black woman director in American box office history. Her limited series When They See Us, based on the...
“Ava DuVernay is the talented force behind some of the most acclaimed works in television and film,” said Publicists Awards Co-chair Sheryl Main in making the announcement Thursday. “Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Ava was an entertainment publicist for 12 years with her own firm. She appreciates the importance of creative strategic marketing campaigns and supports the roles of publicists in making a movie. We are proud to honor Ava, her expanding career and growing body of work.”
Winner of Emmy, BAFTA and Peabody Awards, Oscar nominee DuVernay’s directorial work includes the historical feature film Selma, the criminal justice documentary 13th, and Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time, which made her the highest grossing black woman director in American box office history. Her limited series When They See Us, based on the...
- 12/19/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Don Mischer has been named the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Cinematographers Guild Publicists.
He will be honored at the 57th Annual Icg Publicists Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Feb. 7.
“Having spent the early years of my career working in live event television, the name Don Mischer is legendary to me. I am so pleased that Don will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Icg Publicists Awards. I can’t think of anyone more deserving of this honor,” said Icg national president Lewis Rothenberg.
Mischer has received 15 Emmy Awards and a record 10 Directors Guild of America Awards for outstanding directorial achievement. His credits include “We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial,” “The Kennedy Center Honors,” the ABC special “Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories That Changed America,” the 100th Anniversary of Carnegie Hall,” and...
He will be honored at the 57th Annual Icg Publicists Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Feb. 7.
“Having spent the early years of my career working in live event television, the name Don Mischer is legendary to me. I am so pleased that Don will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Icg Publicists Awards. I can’t think of anyone more deserving of this honor,” said Icg national president Lewis Rothenberg.
Mischer has received 15 Emmy Awards and a record 10 Directors Guild of America Awards for outstanding directorial achievement. His credits include “We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial,” “The Kennedy Center Honors,” the ABC special “Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories That Changed America,” the 100th Anniversary of Carnegie Hall,” and...
- 12/4/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Prolific producer and director Don Mischer will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Cinematographers Guild Publicists Awards in February.
“Having spent the early years of my career working in live event television, the name Don Mischer is legendary to me. I am so pleased that Don will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Icg Publicists Awards,” Icg National President Lewis Rothenberg said in a statement today. “I can’t think of anyone more deserving of this honor.”
As president of Don Mischer Productions, his credits include We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at theLincoln Memorial; The Kennedy Center Honors; and the ABC special Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories That Changed America, which celebrated the September 2016 opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Among his other credits are the Super Bowl Halftime shows; the Opening Ceremonies of both the Winter and Summer Olympic Games; as well as the 83rd, 84th, and 85th Academy Awards; the 71st Emmy Awards; and the annual 9/11 Memorial Commemoration at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan.
Over the years, Mischer has received 15 Emmys and a record 10 DGA Awards.
He will be honored at the 57th Annual Icg Publicists Awards ceremony, at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Friday, February 7, 2020.
“Having spent the early years of my career working in live event television, the name Don Mischer is legendary to me. I am so pleased that Don will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Icg Publicists Awards,” Icg National President Lewis Rothenberg said in a statement today. “I can’t think of anyone more deserving of this honor.”
As president of Don Mischer Productions, his credits include We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at theLincoln Memorial; The Kennedy Center Honors; and the ABC special Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories That Changed America, which celebrated the September 2016 opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Among his other credits are the Super Bowl Halftime shows; the Opening Ceremonies of both the Winter and Summer Olympic Games; as well as the 83rd, 84th, and 85th Academy Awards; the 71st Emmy Awards; and the annual 9/11 Memorial Commemoration at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan.
Over the years, Mischer has received 15 Emmys and a record 10 DGA Awards.
He will be honored at the 57th Annual Icg Publicists Awards ceremony, at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Friday, February 7, 2020.
- 12/4/2019
- by Anita Bennett
- Deadline Film + TV
When the best part of your Emmy Awards broadcast tonight is the short sendoffs to series that have finished including Games of Thrones and Veep, you might want to get your gaze out of the rearview mirror before you lose control.
Sadly, that’s not what the host-free 71st Primetime Emmy Awards chose to do. Which is why the just over three-hour result skidded all over the small-screen equivalent of the street on Sunday.
Yes, there were big wins for HBO’s GoT and Chernobyl in the Drama and Limited Series categories, Amazon’s Fleabag for Comedy and Netflix’s Bandersnatch from the Black Mirror team in the Outstanding Television Movie slate. There was a censorship bleep for Succession creator Jesse Armstrong quoting Donald Trump, though it was a night of relatively few direct hits at Hollywood’s Potus piñata.
There was also history made by Pose star Billy Porter...
Sadly, that’s not what the host-free 71st Primetime Emmy Awards chose to do. Which is why the just over three-hour result skidded all over the small-screen equivalent of the street on Sunday.
Yes, there were big wins for HBO’s GoT and Chernobyl in the Drama and Limited Series categories, Amazon’s Fleabag for Comedy and Netflix’s Bandersnatch from the Black Mirror team in the Outstanding Television Movie slate. There was a censorship bleep for Succession creator Jesse Armstrong quoting Donald Trump, though it was a night of relatively few direct hits at Hollywood’s Potus piñata.
There was also history made by Pose star Billy Porter...
- 9/23/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Pop star Halsey has been tapped to perform during the Emmy Awards on Sunday, while comedians Adam Devine and Thomas Lennon will also contribute to the telecast.
With no Emmy host this year, producers Don Mischer Prods. and Done+Dusted are relying more on presenters and other contributors to keep the show moving, Halsey, whose hits include “Now or Never,” “Bad At Love” and “Without Me,” will “perform a rendition of a classic song for the In Memoriam tribute.”
DeVine, whose credits include “Workaholics” and “Adam DeVine’s House Party,” will “perform a musical tribute to variety programming,” while Lennon will serve in a new role as “Emmy Awards commentator.”
Meanwhile, the Television Academy has also announced a third round of presenters, including most of the performers who won the guest actor and actress Emmys at the Creative Arts awards last weekend: Cherry Jones (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), Luke Kirby...
With no Emmy host this year, producers Don Mischer Prods. and Done+Dusted are relying more on presenters and other contributors to keep the show moving, Halsey, whose hits include “Now or Never,” “Bad At Love” and “Without Me,” will “perform a rendition of a classic song for the In Memoriam tribute.”
DeVine, whose credits include “Workaholics” and “Adam DeVine’s House Party,” will “perform a musical tribute to variety programming,” while Lennon will serve in a new role as “Emmy Awards commentator.”
Meanwhile, the Television Academy has also announced a third round of presenters, including most of the performers who won the guest actor and actress Emmys at the Creative Arts awards last weekend: Cherry Jones (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), Luke Kirby...
- 9/20/2019
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
A “Veep” reunion is on tap this Sunday on the Emmy stage, as producers reveal the second round of presenters at this year’s ceremony.
Emmy nominee Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who’s poised to make history on Sunday if she wins (giving her the title for most Emmy wins ever by a performer), will be joined on stage by her fellow “Veep”-mates Anna Chlumsky, Gary Cole, Kevin Dunn, Clea Duvall, Tony Hale, Sam Richardson, Reid Scott, Timothy Simons, Sarah Sutherland and Matt Walsh.
Other casts presenting include the “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” trio of Kim Kardashian West, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner.
Also tapped to present at this year’s 71st Emmy Awards: Anthony Anderson (“Black-ish”), Ike Barinholtz (“Bless the Harts”), Cedric the Entertainer and Max Greenfield (“The Neighborhood”), Bill Hader (“Barry”), Gwyneth Paltrow (“The Politician”), Amy Poehler (“Duncanville”), Maya Rudolph (“The Good Place”), RuPaul (“RuPaul’s Drag Race...
Emmy nominee Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who’s poised to make history on Sunday if she wins (giving her the title for most Emmy wins ever by a performer), will be joined on stage by her fellow “Veep”-mates Anna Chlumsky, Gary Cole, Kevin Dunn, Clea Duvall, Tony Hale, Sam Richardson, Reid Scott, Timothy Simons, Sarah Sutherland and Matt Walsh.
Other casts presenting include the “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” trio of Kim Kardashian West, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner.
Also tapped to present at this year’s 71st Emmy Awards: Anthony Anderson (“Black-ish”), Ike Barinholtz (“Bless the Harts”), Cedric the Entertainer and Max Greenfield (“The Neighborhood”), Bill Hader (“Barry”), Gwyneth Paltrow (“The Politician”), Amy Poehler (“Duncanville”), Maya Rudolph (“The Good Place”), RuPaul (“RuPaul’s Drag Race...
- 9/17/2019
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
The Emmys are hostless this year, so the Television Academy is zeroing in on big names for its first round of presenters. Producers Don Mischer Productions and Done+Dusted have announced the initial group of talent to hand out awards at the 71st Emmy Awards on Sunday, September 22.
They include nominees Stephen Colbert (“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”), Viola Davis (“How to Get Away with Murder”), Michael Douglas (“The Kominsky Method”), Jimmy Kimmel (“Jimmy Kimmel Live”), Seth Meyers (“Late Night With Seth Meyers” and “Documentary Now”) and Billy Porter (“Pose”).
Also presenting are Angela Bassett (“9-1-1”), Taraji P. Henson (“Empire”), Terrence Howard (“Empire”), Peter Krause (“9-1-1”), Naomi Watts (“The Loudest Voice”) and Zendaya (“Euphoria”).
Set to reunite on stage is the cast of “Game of Thrones,” most of whom are also nominees: Alfie Allen, Gwendoline Christie, Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Sophie Turner, Carice van Houten,...
They include nominees Stephen Colbert (“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”), Viola Davis (“How to Get Away with Murder”), Michael Douglas (“The Kominsky Method”), Jimmy Kimmel (“Jimmy Kimmel Live”), Seth Meyers (“Late Night With Seth Meyers” and “Documentary Now”) and Billy Porter (“Pose”).
Also presenting are Angela Bassett (“9-1-1”), Taraji P. Henson (“Empire”), Terrence Howard (“Empire”), Peter Krause (“9-1-1”), Naomi Watts (“The Loudest Voice”) and Zendaya (“Euphoria”).
Set to reunite on stage is the cast of “Game of Thrones,” most of whom are also nominees: Alfie Allen, Gwendoline Christie, Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Sophie Turner, Carice van Houten,...
- 9/11/2019
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Done+Dusted partner Guy Carrington was in the production truck last year at the Emmys when director Glenn Weiss, who had just won the Emmy for helming the Oscars, surprised the Microsoft Theater audience by proposing to his girlfriend.
“For me in the truck, it was a horrifying moment,” says Carrington, who told me it added about seven minutes to a show that was already running long. “But at the same time, it was gold. It’s what a show like this needs. You watch the clock tick away … but you know that this is going to be a moment that everyone is going to talk about.”
This year, Done+Dusted and Don Mischer Prods., which are jointly producing the Emmys for Fox on Sept. 22, are hoping for a few more Glenn Weiss-like elements. Without a host to create any watercooler moments, it will be up to the show’s...
“For me in the truck, it was a horrifying moment,” says Carrington, who told me it added about seven minutes to a show that was already running long. “But at the same time, it was gold. It’s what a show like this needs. You watch the clock tick away … but you know that this is going to be a moment that everyone is going to talk about.”
This year, Done+Dusted and Don Mischer Prods., which are jointly producing the Emmys for Fox on Sept. 22, are hoping for a few more Glenn Weiss-like elements. Without a host to create any watercooler moments, it will be up to the show’s...
- 9/5/2019
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
With no host to promote this year’s Primetime Emmys, Fox is turning to the entire world for marketing support. The network is set to air the first promo for this year’s ceremony, and it features the Emmy statue showing up at landmarks across the world.
Panic! at the Disco’s “Hey Look Ma, I Made It” is the soundtrack to the spot, which begins with a voice proclaiming that “the world has woken to Emmy fever, in their own backyards, to celebrate Hollywood’s golden night, leaving cities twinkling like stars.” The promo is set to air Monday night on Fox during “So You Think You Can Dance.”
Among the locations featured in the promo: Los Angeles, London, Las Vegas, Brazil, Chicago, St. Louis, Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Niagara Falls, Easter Island, India, and New York. The idea for the first promo, according to the network, is to highlight...
Panic! at the Disco’s “Hey Look Ma, I Made It” is the soundtrack to the spot, which begins with a voice proclaiming that “the world has woken to Emmy fever, in their own backyards, to celebrate Hollywood’s golden night, leaving cities twinkling like stars.” The promo is set to air Monday night on Fox during “So You Think You Can Dance.”
Among the locations featured in the promo: Los Angeles, London, Las Vegas, Brazil, Chicago, St. Louis, Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Niagara Falls, Easter Island, India, and New York. The idea for the first promo, according to the network, is to highlight...
- 8/26/2019
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
The Emmy Awards’ production team has added Danette Herman, Al Gurdon, Florian Wieder and Raj Kapoor to its ranks, producers announced today. The newcomers arrive as the Emmy telecast nears with a Sunday, Sept. 22 airdate on Fox.
The announcement was made by the telecast’s executive producers Don Mischer, Charlie Haykel and Juliane Hare at Don Mischer Productions, and Ian Stewart and Guy Carrington at Done+Dusted.
Both Herman and Gurdon return this year in their respective roles as talent producer and lighting designer, while Wieder has been brought on to serve as production designer and Kapoor as screens producer.
Additionally, Done+Dusted’s Hamish Hamilton will direct the live telecast, airing from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
The announcement marks talent producer Herman’s 24th year as talent producer at the Emmy Awards. She also has had long-term relationships with the Kennedy Center Honors, the Academy Awards and the Producers Guild Awards,...
The announcement was made by the telecast’s executive producers Don Mischer, Charlie Haykel and Juliane Hare at Don Mischer Productions, and Ian Stewart and Guy Carrington at Done+Dusted.
Both Herman and Gurdon return this year in their respective roles as talent producer and lighting designer, while Wieder has been brought on to serve as production designer and Kapoor as screens producer.
Additionally, Done+Dusted’s Hamish Hamilton will direct the live telecast, airing from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
The announcement marks talent producer Herman’s 24th year as talent producer at the Emmy Awards. She also has had long-term relationships with the Kennedy Center Honors, the Academy Awards and the Producers Guild Awards,...
- 8/20/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The Emmys won’t have a host this year, but it will have several semi-hosts anchoring various portions of the telecast, Fox alternative entertainment president Rob Wade told Variety.
The network and Emmy producers are currently sending out offers to several stars to host segments devoted to awards in key categories including comedy, drama, variety, limited series and unscripted.
“What we’ll have is we’ll have a kind of lead host for each of those sections,” Wade said. “And they’ll come out and introduce the category, and then we’ll have presenters in between. And then that lead host will come back and finish the category… Offers are out to those people now and we’ve started to get feedback.”
Key awards — including outstanding drama and comedy — will still be saved for the end of the night.
Joint producers Done+Dusted and Don Mischer Prods. are also mulling...
The network and Emmy producers are currently sending out offers to several stars to host segments devoted to awards in key categories including comedy, drama, variety, limited series and unscripted.
“What we’ll have is we’ll have a kind of lead host for each of those sections,” Wade said. “And they’ll come out and introduce the category, and then we’ll have presenters in between. And then that lead host will come back and finish the category… Offers are out to those people now and we’ve started to get feedback.”
Key awards — including outstanding drama and comedy — will still be saved for the end of the night.
Joint producers Done+Dusted and Don Mischer Prods. are also mulling...
- 8/7/2019
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
For the fourth time in history, the Primetime Emmy Awards are going host-less.
Fox, which carries the ceremony this year, and the Television Academy have decided to not have a host on the show, which takes place a month and a half from now, on September 22. Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier just confirmed the news during the network’s TCA executive session.
“Our job is to assess as to how to elevate the program in the year that we have it,” Collier said of the Primetime Emmys, which rotate annually among the Big 4 networks. “If you have a host and an opening, that’s 15 or 20 minutes you can‘t have to salute the shows.”
The last time the Emmys went without a host was in 2003, also on Fox. The other previous host-less Emmy broadcasts were in 1998 (NBC) and 1975 (CBS).
This year’s Academy Awards, which were host-less by necessity...
Fox, which carries the ceremony this year, and the Television Academy have decided to not have a host on the show, which takes place a month and a half from now, on September 22. Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier just confirmed the news during the network’s TCA executive session.
“Our job is to assess as to how to elevate the program in the year that we have it,” Collier said of the Primetime Emmys, which rotate annually among the Big 4 networks. “If you have a host and an opening, that’s 15 or 20 minutes you can‘t have to salute the shows.”
The last time the Emmys went without a host was in 2003, also on Fox. The other previous host-less Emmy broadcasts were in 1998 (NBC) and 1975 (CBS).
This year’s Academy Awards, which were host-less by necessity...
- 8/7/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
There will be no host on this year’s Primetime Emmy telecast. Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier confirmed the news on Wednesday morning during the network’s portion of the Television Critics Assn. press tour.
Variety first reported in June that the network, producers and Television Academy were leaning toward going host-less with this year’s ceremony. And such a move seemed increasingly likely as the Emmys drew closer without a host announcement. With just a month and a half to go before the Sept. 22 event, securing a host at this late date would have been unlikely (though not impossible).
But it has been apparent that Fox is looking to shake up this year’s telecast, which included the unique decision to pair two different producers together to oversee the show: Don Mischer Prods. and Done+Dusted. Their mandate: Team up to give the Emmys a makeover.
Going without a host is part of that.
Variety first reported in June that the network, producers and Television Academy were leaning toward going host-less with this year’s ceremony. And such a move seemed increasingly likely as the Emmys drew closer without a host announcement. With just a month and a half to go before the Sept. 22 event, securing a host at this late date would have been unlikely (though not impossible).
But it has been apparent that Fox is looking to shake up this year’s telecast, which included the unique decision to pair two different producers together to oversee the show: Don Mischer Prods. and Done+Dusted. Their mandate: Team up to give the Emmys a makeover.
Going without a host is part of that.
- 8/7/2019
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
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