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''McMillions'' (stylized as ''McMillion$'') is a documentary miniseries about the McDonald's Monopoly promotion scam that occurred between 1989 and 2001. Directed by James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte, the series details how the scam was perpetrated by Jerry Jacobson, the head of security for the agency that ran the promotion, and how he recruited a wide range of accomplices. The series premiered in the US on February 3, 2020, on HBO, and all episodes were made available in the UK on May 27, 2020, on Sky Documentaries. ''McMillions'' was nominated for five Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. Premise ''McMillions'' "examines the $24 million worth of fraud that corrupted the McDonald's Monopoly game between 1989 and 2001, in which there were almost no legitimate million-dollar winners in the contest." Through six episodes, the documentary introduces the FBI and other legal authorities who investigated the Monopoly g ...
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McDonald's Monopoly
The McDonald's Monopoly game is a sales promotion run by fast food restaurant chain McDonald's, with a theme based on the Hasbro board game ''Monopoly''. The game first ran in the U.S. in 1987 and has since been used worldwide. The promotion has used other names, such as ''Monopoly: Pick Your Prize!'' (2001), ''Monopoly Best Chance Game'' (2003–2005), ''Monopoly/Millionaire Game'', ''Prize Vault'' (2013–2014), ''Money Monopoly'' (2016–present), ''Coast To Coast'' (2015–present) in Canada, ''Golden Chances'' (2015), ''Prize Choice'' (2016), ''Win Win'' (2017), ''Wiiiin!!'' (2018), ''V.I.P.'' (2021) and Double Peel (2022–present) in the UK. History The promotion has been offered in the United States, Canada, Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, and United Kingdom since 1987. Argentina and Brazil were included in 2013 as well as South Korea in 20 ...
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72nd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
The 72nd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards honored the best in artistic and technical achievement in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2019, until May 31, 2020, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards were presented across five ceremonies; the first four were held on September 14 through 17, 2020, and were streamed online, while the fifth was held on September 19 and broadcast on FXX. They were presented in a virtual ceremony due to the COVID-19 pandemic; Nicole Byer hosted the event. A total of 106 Creative Arts Emmys were presented across 100 categories. The ceremonies preceded the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, held on September 20. ''The Mandalorian'' and ''Watchmen'' led all programs with seven wins each, followed by ''Saturday Night Live'' with six and ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' with five. ''Watchmen'' was also the most-nominated program with 15 nominations; ''The Mandalorian'' followed with 14, while ''The Marvelous Mrs. Ma ...
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Pinar Toprak
Pinar Toprak (born 18 October 1980) is a Turkish-American composer for film, television and video games. She is most well known for composing the score to the hit Marvel movie '' Captain Marvel'' (2019). She has won three International Film Music Critics Association Awards for '' The Lightkeepers'' (2009), '' The Wind Gods'' (2013), and ''The'' ''Tides of Fate'' (2018), as well as the fanfare of Skydance Media from 2010 to 2022 and contributed music for ''Fortnite''. Toprak was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, where she began her classical musical education at the age of five. After studying composition and multiple instruments at the conservatory she moved to Chicago to study jazz, before continuing on to Boston for a degree in film scoring from Berklee College of Music. She then moved to Los Angeles, earned a master's degree at California State University, Northridge in composition at age 22, and has quickly become an active and reinvigorating composer in Hollywood. She jo ...
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Archie Gips
Archie Gips is an American filmmaker and producer raised in New Rochelle, New York, who resides in Los Angeles. He is a cofounder and partner/president of Unrealistic Ideas, a production company that specializes in nonscripted formats. His partners are Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson. Early life Gips studied broadcast journalism at Syracuse University before moving to Chicago, where he was trained at The Second City and wrote several plays and sketch shows, including the comedy revue ''Saturday Morning Live''. He received his masters in film from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he won the top Graduate Screenwriting Student Award and New York Picture Company Award for Best Comedic Screenplay. In an online interview, Gips says he was heavily influenced by his father, Philip Gips a graphic designer who created iconic film posters for such films as '' Rosemary's Baby'', and his mother, Barbara Gips a copywriter who penned the classic ''Alien'' tagline, "In ...
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TCA Award For Outstanding Achievement In News And Information
The TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in News and Information is an award given by the Television Critics Association. Winners and nominees Networks with multiple wins *PBS - 14 *ABC - 6 *CNN - 6 *HBO - 3 *Discovery Channel – 2 *ESPN - 2 *National Geographic Channel – 2 See also *Peabody Awards *Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series *Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special References External links Official website {{TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in News and Information News News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different Media (communication), media: word of mouth, printing, Mail, postal systems, broadcasting, Telecommunications, electronic communication, or through the tes ...
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Mark Wahlberg
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971), former stage name Marky Mark, is an American actor, businessman, and former rapper. He has received multiple accolades, including a BAFTA Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, nine Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. Wahlberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1971. In the 1990s, Wahlberg was a member of the music group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, with whom he released the albums '' Music for the People'' (1991) and ''You Gotta Believe'' (1992). Wahlberg made his screen debut in ''Renaissance Man'' (1994) and had his first starring role in ''Fear'' (1996). He received critical praise for his performance as porn actor Dirk Diggler in '' Boogie Nights'' (1997). In the early 2000s, he ventured into big-budget action movies, such as '' The Perfect Storm'' (2000), ''Planet of the Apes'' (2001), and ''The Italian Job'' (2003). He was nominated for the Academy Aw ...
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Primetime Emmy Award For Outstanding Sound Editing For A Nonfiction Or Reality Program (Single Or Multi-Camera)
The Primetime Emmy Award The Primetime Emmy Awards, or Primetime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Bestowed by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), the Primetime ... for Outstanding Outstanding Sound Editing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program (Single or Multi-Camera) is awarded to one television documentary, nonfiction or reality series each year. In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place: __TOC__ Winners and nominations 1970s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Notes References External links Academy of Television Arts and Sciences website {{Primetime Emmy Award categories Sound Editing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) ...
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Sky Documentaries
Sky Documentaries is a British pay television channel owned and operated by Sky, a division of Comcast, which launched on 27 May 2020. Sky Documentaries broadcasts imported programming from US networks HBO and Showtime, alongside new original programming. The channel can also be watched via a live stream and box sets on Sky's streaming service, Now. __TOC__ Programming Sky Documentaries currently broadcast a variety of documentary series, both on the live TV feed and on demand: *'' After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News'' *'' Allen v. Farrow'' *''Agnelli'' *''Bitter Pill: Primodos'' *'' Exterminate All the Brutes'' *'' Epstein’s Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell'' *''Framing Britney Spears'' *'' The Go-Go’s'' (also broadcast on Sky Arts in March 2021) *''Hawking'' *'' Hillary'' *''Janet Jackson'' *'' The Kingmaker'' *''Lancaster'' *''Look Away'' *''McMillions'' *''McQueen: The Lost Movie'' *''The Plastic Nile'' *'' Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind'' *''Superswede' ...
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Primetime Emmy Award For Outstanding Picture Editing For A Nonfiction Program
The Primetime Emmy Award for Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program is awarded to one television documentary or nonfiction series each year. Prior to 2006, nonfiction and reality programs competed together until the Outstanding Picture Editing for Reality Programming category was created. In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place. __TOC__ Winners and nominations 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Programs with multiple nominations ;10 nominations * ''American Masters'' ;4 nominations * '' Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown'' ;2 nominations * ''America Undercover'' * '' Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations'' * ''Planet Earth II'' * ''This American Life'' * ''Vice A vice is a practice, behaviour, or habit generally considered immoral, sinful, criminal, rude, taboo, depraved, degrading, deviant or per ...
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Primetime Emmy Award For Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Series
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series is handed out annually at the Creative Arts Emmy Award ceremony. The award was established in 2013 as the awards restructured previous categories for Outstanding Nonfiction Series and Outstanding Nonfiction Special. The category was called Outstanding Nonfiction Series from 1998–2012. Prior to 1998, the category was called Outstanding Informational Series. Winners and nominations 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Programs with multiple wins ;10 wins * ''American Masters'' ;2 wins * ''American Experience'' * ''Planet Earth'' Programs with multiple nominations ;20 nominations * ''American Masters'' ;15 nominations * ''Biography'' The nomination total for ''Biography'' includes two nominations for Outstanding Informational Series in 1996 and 1997. ;13 nominations * ''Inside the Actors Studio'' ''Inside the Actors Studio'' moved in 2013 to Outstanding Informational Series or Special. The nomin ...
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36th TCA Awards
The 36th TCA Awards were announced on September 14, 2020, via an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The nominees were announced by the Television Critics Association The Television Critics Association (TCA) is a group of approximately 200 United States and Canadian television critics, journalists and columnists who cover television programming for newspapers, magazines and web publications. The TCA accepts app ... on July 9, 2020. Winners and nominees Shows with multiple nominations The following shows received multiple nominations: Shows with multiple wins The following shows received multiple wins: Notes References External links Official website {{DEFAULTSORT:TCA Awards, 36 2020 television awards 2020 in American television TCA Awards ceremonies ...
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Primetime Emmy Award For Outstanding Music Composition For A Documentary Series Or Special
This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special. The category was created in 2019. Documentary programs previously competed for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special. Winners and nominations 2010s 2020s Multiple nominations ;2 nominations *Miriam Cutler Miriam Cutler is an American composer best known for her documentary film work. Life and career Cutler is a Los Angeles-based film composer, scoring and performing music for over 20 years. She began her musical career as songwriter and clarine ... * Steven Price References {{Primetime Emmy Award categories Film music awards Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special ...
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