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Computer graphics and virtual production innovator Paul E. Debevec will receive the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award during the Television Academy’s 74th Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards.
Also during the Sept. 28 ceremony, camera maker Arri will be honored with the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award, and seven innovations will be recognized with Engineering Emmys.
The Engineering Emmys will be awarded to developments in areas including virtual production, remote collaboration and audio. That includes Industrial Light & Magic for its StageCraft virtual production tools, which have been used on series including The Mandalorian.
Sohonet will receive an Engineering Emmy for its ClearView Pivot remote collaboration tool. Additional honorees are Disguise Systems, for the disguise platform that enables interaction between CG and practical elements and environments, including use with LED walls; Geoffrey Crawshaw and William Brinkley, for the Leostream remote access software; Shure...
Computer graphics and virtual production innovator Paul E. Debevec will receive the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award during the Television Academy’s 74th Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards.
Also during the Sept. 28 ceremony, camera maker Arri will be honored with the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award, and seven innovations will be recognized with Engineering Emmys.
The Engineering Emmys will be awarded to developments in areas including virtual production, remote collaboration and audio. That includes Industrial Light & Magic for its StageCraft virtual production tools, which have been used on series including The Mandalorian.
Sohonet will receive an Engineering Emmy for its ClearView Pivot remote collaboration tool. Additional honorees are Disguise Systems, for the disguise platform that enables interaction between CG and practical elements and environments, including use with LED walls; Geoffrey Crawshaw and William Brinkley, for the Leostream remote access software; Shure...
- 7/28/2022
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Industrial Light and Magic’s StageCraft suite of virtual production tools and Arri were among the recipients of this year’s Engineering, Science and Technology Emmy Awards.
The Television Academy on Thursday unveiled the 2022 recipients of the awards that honor an individual, company or organization for developments in broadcast technology. The lifetime achievement honor will be bestowed to Paul Debevec for his contributions to imaging and other technology that powers virtual production.
“Innovation is a vital part of television production; and the talented engineers, scientists and technologists we have recognized are essential to the growth of our industry, said Frank Scherma, chairman and CEO of the Academy. “These pioneering companies and visionaries have leveraged the power of technology to elevate television and storytelling in fundamental ways.”
Added Committee Chair John Leverence, “Earlier this year the Academy formed the Science & Technology Peer Group representing members who are involved in the strategy...
The Television Academy on Thursday unveiled the 2022 recipients of the awards that honor an individual, company or organization for developments in broadcast technology. The lifetime achievement honor will be bestowed to Paul Debevec for his contributions to imaging and other technology that powers virtual production.
“Innovation is a vital part of television production; and the talented engineers, scientists and technologists we have recognized are essential to the growth of our industry, said Frank Scherma, chairman and CEO of the Academy. “These pioneering companies and visionaries have leveraged the power of technology to elevate television and storytelling in fundamental ways.”
Added Committee Chair John Leverence, “Earlier this year the Academy formed the Science & Technology Peer Group representing members who are involved in the strategy...
- 7/28/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
John Leverence, who has overseen the rules and growth of the Emmy Awards for 39 years, is retiring, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced Friday. Leverence will continue to serve as a consultant for the 2020 Emmy season.
Julie Shore, another veteran TV Academy staffer, will succeed Leverence under a new title: vp awards and member services. The awards department and membership department were previously separate, but will now be streamlined.
The TV Academy also confirmed that it will no longer allow DVD screeners to be sent to its membership, a move "aimed at saving the television industry tens ...
Julie Shore, another veteran TV Academy staffer, will succeed Leverence under a new title: vp awards and member services. The awards department and membership department were previously separate, but will now be streamlined.
The TV Academy also confirmed that it will no longer allow DVD screeners to be sent to its membership, a move "aimed at saving the television industry tens ...
- 1/31/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Television Academy has unveiled a slew of rules changes for the 2020 Emmy Awards including adjustments for ‘hanging episodes’, alterations to kids voting and extra assessments for self-published series.
The Board of Governors has approved more than a dozen changes to the rules.
Hanging episodes, those episodes currently outside the current year’s eligibility, will now be eligible if they are broadcast or posted on a member-accessible platform, including the network’s streaming platform or the Television Academy’s own platform in their final form by May 31, 2020. In recent years, series including Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, won even though the majority of episodes aired in 2018.
However, this does not apply to the limited series category, where all episodes of the show must be broadcast, streamed or aired on the Television Academy’s own platform by May 31, 2020 to qualify. If the limited series has episodes that air after this date,...
The Board of Governors has approved more than a dozen changes to the rules.
Hanging episodes, those episodes currently outside the current year’s eligibility, will now be eligible if they are broadcast or posted on a member-accessible platform, including the network’s streaming platform or the Television Academy’s own platform in their final form by May 31, 2020. In recent years, series including Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, won even though the majority of episodes aired in 2018.
However, this does not apply to the limited series category, where all episodes of the show must be broadcast, streamed or aired on the Television Academy’s own platform by May 31, 2020 to qualify. If the limited series has episodes that air after this date,...
- 12/17/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Live television events, such as award shows or concerts featuring Jennifer Lopez or John Legend ripping up the stage, can make a TV audience feel like they’re sitting in the front row. But are they the same thing as a taped show of a comic standing at the mic? The Emmys don’t think so, which is why they’ve reorganized the previously murky variety special class categories into variety special (live) and variety special (pre-recorded).
“[Now] it’s a more apples-to-apples competition, with live-to-air variety specials in one category and live-to-tape variety specials in another,” says John Leverence, senior vice president of awards at the Television Academy.
With “special class” a loose term, prior years saw a mélange of diverse special events crowded together and competing against each other. But producers who have worked on both types of special programs maintain that nothing rivals the high-stakes of live shows.
“[Now] it’s a more apples-to-apples competition, with live-to-air variety specials in one category and live-to-tape variety specials in another,” says John Leverence, senior vice president of awards at the Television Academy.
With “special class” a loose term, prior years saw a mélange of diverse special events crowded together and competing against each other. But producers who have worked on both types of special programs maintain that nothing rivals the high-stakes of live shows.
- 6/18/2018
- by Jacqueline Cutler
- Variety Film + TV
[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from Season 3 of “Catastrophe.”]
Before her death in December, Carrie Fisher had already been recognized by the Television Academy via two previous Emmy nominations. But those nods – one in 2008, as a guest actress on “30 Rock,” and the other in 2011 for her special “Wishful Drinking” – ultimately didn’t translate to a win. Now, there’s a really good chance TV Academy voters will be moved to pay tribute to the beloved actress with an overdue posthumous statue.
While she appears on the big screen in the upcoming “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” Fisher made her final TV appearance on the Amazon comedy “Catastrophe,” which recently released its third season. Fisher portrays Mia, the rather obnoxious mother of Rob (Rob Delaney), an American man who moved to London to marry his one-week fling Sharon (Sharon Horgan) after she became pregnant.
Read More: How Carrie Fisher Left ‘Catastrophe’ on the Perfect, Ad-Libbed Note, and the Future of...
Before her death in December, Carrie Fisher had already been recognized by the Television Academy via two previous Emmy nominations. But those nods – one in 2008, as a guest actress on “30 Rock,” and the other in 2011 for her special “Wishful Drinking” – ultimately didn’t translate to a win. Now, there’s a really good chance TV Academy voters will be moved to pay tribute to the beloved actress with an overdue posthumous statue.
While she appears on the big screen in the upcoming “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” Fisher made her final TV appearance on the Amazon comedy “Catastrophe,” which recently released its third season. Fisher portrays Mia, the rather obnoxious mother of Rob (Rob Delaney), an American man who moved to London to marry his one-week fling Sharon (Sharon Horgan) after she became pregnant.
Read More: How Carrie Fisher Left ‘Catastrophe’ on the Perfect, Ad-Libbed Note, and the Future of...
- 5/25/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Peak TV finally got the Primetime Emmy Awards that it deserves.
Sure, “Game of Thrones” and “Veep” repeated their wins Sunday in the top drama and comedy series categories (giving HBO its second year of winning both). And legends like Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jeffrey Tambor continued their trophy dominance.
But underneath that, a whole new generation of fresh faces picked up their first-ever Emmys on Sunday night. Actors and actresses that seemed like long-shots just a few years ago were instead embraced by a large voting body that appears ready to embrace the new talent earning raves in this new golden era of Peak TV. Superstars and newbies alike hit the stage, and even the surprise winners were hard to argue.
Read More: Emmys 2016: Full Winners List
Rami Malek, Tatiana Maslany, Sarah Paulson, Sterling K. Brown, Courtney B. Vance, Kate McKinnon and Ben Mendelsohn were just some of the...
Sure, “Game of Thrones” and “Veep” repeated their wins Sunday in the top drama and comedy series categories (giving HBO its second year of winning both). And legends like Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jeffrey Tambor continued their trophy dominance.
But underneath that, a whole new generation of fresh faces picked up their first-ever Emmys on Sunday night. Actors and actresses that seemed like long-shots just a few years ago were instead embraced by a large voting body that appears ready to embrace the new talent earning raves in this new golden era of Peak TV. Superstars and newbies alike hit the stage, and even the surprise winners were hard to argue.
Read More: Emmys 2016: Full Winners List
Rami Malek, Tatiana Maslany, Sarah Paulson, Sterling K. Brown, Courtney B. Vance, Kate McKinnon and Ben Mendelsohn were just some of the...
- 9/19/2016
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
Now that Emmy voting is about to start, let's clear up some of the confusion surrounding new changes in the balloting process. John Leverence, the Television Academy's VP of Awards, tells Gold Derby: "All voters eligible to vote in a category’s nominating round are now eligible to vote in that category’s final round, so long as they meet two additional requirements: much like the former Blue Ribbon Panel process, voters must watch the required amount of submitted material online and attest to no specific conflicts of interest with the nominees." -Break- In past years, voters watched DVDs of the nominees' work and their ballot participation was restricted. Academy members could vote in two peer-group categories and two program races, but now they may vote in as many as they like as long as the categories are within their peer group (or best program) and they watch the required video before casting ballots.
- 6/6/2015
- Gold Derby
For all the times they’ve been derided as being old and out of touch, Golden Globes voters are sometimes in the forefront of trends. And one of those instances came on Sunday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gave two of its top television awards – Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical and Best Actor in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical – to “Transparent” and its star Jeffrey Tambor.
The emotional win for Jill Soloway’s series was the first for a web-based series at the Golden Globes and a first for Amazon as...
The emotional win for Jill Soloway’s series was the first for a web-based series at the Golden Globes and a first for Amazon as...
- 1/12/2015
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Are you confused about the placement of "True Detective" as a Drama Series and "Treme" as a miniseries in the Emmy derby? And baffled over so many actors competing in the guest categories who are obviously supporting players in their TV series? Fret no more! TV Academy Evp of Awards John Leverence chats at length about all of that and more with Gold Derby editors Tom O'Neil and Chris Beachum in this webcam video. -Break- Leverence has been on the job since 1980, overseeing the many fluctuations in Emmy voting ever since. He's widely respected because he obviously cares a lot about awards and getting them right. Various aspects of the voting process may seem like a wild mystery to you, but just wait till you hear his clear-as-a-country-creek explanations. Below: Video or audio podcast options. Download the podcast at Gold Derby's iTunes page. Follow Gold Derby on Facebook, Twitter, Inst.
- 7/15/2014
- Gold Derby
John Leverence has been promoted to the newly created post of senior vp awards at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Leverence, who signed a multiyear deal to extend his employment contract with the academy, has supervised ATAS' awards functions, including the Emmys, since 1980. Leverence, who was vp awards at the academy, was the key staff executive responsible for introducing such innovations as at-home voting and online voting into ATAS' awards process. Leverence reports to Todd Leavitt, president and chief operating officer of the academy.
A change in the nominations protocol for the top Primetime Emmy series categories likely eased the path for rookies Joan of Arcadia and Arrested Development to land noms for best drama and comedy series, respectively. Officials at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences believe it is an Emmy first that both top series categories featured first-year shows. For the first time this year, Emmy voters could nominate up to 10 series in the top categories. Voters had been limited to five picks on the nominations ballot, but the expansion was part of a series of tweaks in Emmy rules and procedures that were approved by the ATAS board of governors in February. ATAS vp awards John Leverence cited two factors in analyzing why there was a higher volume of new entrants in key races this year: "The tightness of the races and the expansion of the votes. Those two are intertwined factors," he said, "and it's not unreasonable to think that there was an influence because of that."...
- 7/15/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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