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HBO Sweeps Up 26 Awards And HBO Original Series Elizabeth Wins 9 Awards
HBO has once again dominated the Emmy? Awards with the most wins of any network, sweeping a total of 26 Emmy? wins for its highly-acclaimed HBO Original Series and Movies at this year’s 58th Annual Primetime Emmy? Awards, 12 more than the next closest competitor. The results were announced today at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
The Emmy? Award-winning HBO Original Series that will come to Asian television soon include ENTOURAGE Season 3, ROME Season 2, SIX FEET UNDER Season 5 and new seasons of THE SOPRANOS.
HBO’s Emmy? wins this year include:
ELIZABETH I — This two-part HBO Miniseries is an epic story of a legendary queen's appetite to love, and to be loved.
Emmy? wins this year include four primetime Emmy? Awards and five Creative Arts Emmy? Awards.
Outstanding Miniseries
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie (Helen Mirren)
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie (Jeremy Irons)
Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special (Tom Hooper)
Outstanding Casting For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Doreen Jones)
Outstanding Art Direction For A Miniseries Or Movie
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Miniseries Or A Movie (Beverley Mills)
Outstanding Costumes For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Mike O’neill, Samantha Horn)
Outstanding Hairstyling For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Fae Hammond, Su Westwood)
THE GIRL IN THE CAF? — A funny and poignant love story that combines comedy with a powerful humanitarian message about the story of lonely civil servant Lawrence (Bill Nighy) and his life-changing relationship with Gina (Kelly Macdonald), the mysterious young woman he meets in a caf? near his office. The HBO Original Film won three primetime Emmy? Awards.
Outstanding Made For Television Movie
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie (Kelly Macdonald)
Outstanding Writing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Dramatic Special (Richard Curtis)
THE SOPRANOS — The series that gives an inside look at the family life of a modern-day mob boss won a prime-time Emmy? Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (Terence Winter).
ENTOURAGE — This hit comedy series takes a look at the day-to-day life of Vincent (Vince) Chase, a hot young actor in modern-day Hollywood, and his entourage. Jeremy Piven, who plays Vince’s superagent, Ari, won a primetime Emmy? Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Two new episodes of ENTOURAGE currently airs on HBO (UBC 12) every Tuesday night at 8 pm.
ROME — An epic drama of love and betrayal, masters and slaves, and husbands and wives that chronicles the turbulent times and experiences of two plebeian Roman soldiers who become unwittingly entwined in the pivotal events that led to the fall of a republic and the creation of an empire. The first season of this epic series won four Creative Arts Emmy? Awards. Look out for the new season of ROME coming soon to Asian television.
Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-Camera Series
Outstanding Costumes For A Series
Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series
Outstanding Hairstyling For A Series
BAGHDAD ER — 12-time Emmy? winner Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill were allowed unprecedented access to the 86th Combat Support Hospital in Iraq. Over a two-month period, they captured the day-to-day lives of doctors, nurses, medics, soldiers and chaplains in the Army's premier medical facility. BAGHDAD ER chronicles those two months, paying tribute to the heroism of U.S. military and medical personnel while offering an unflinching and at times graphic look at the realities of war. This HBO Original Movie won four Creative Arts Emmy? Awards.
Outstanding Sound Editing For Nonfiction Programming (Single Or Multi-Camera)
Outstanding Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming Single-Camera Productions
Outstanding Directing For Nonfiction Programming
Exceptional Merit In Nonfiction Filmmaking
SIX FEET UNDER — This HBO Original Series that features the extended Fisher family whose personal trials and tribulations are played out against the solemn backdrop of an independent funeral home in Los Angeles. Winning two Creative Arts Emmy? Awards, the fifth and final season of SIX FEET UNDER premieres simultaneously on HBO (UBC 12) on 10 October at 9 pm.
Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries, Movie Or A Special
Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series (Patricia Clarkson)
Other HBO Emmy? wins include CLASSICAL BABY 2 for Outstanding Individual Achievement In Animation, and I HAVE TOURETTE’S BUT TOURETTE’S DOESN’T HAVE ME for Outstanding Children’s Program.
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