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Primetime Emmy Award For Outstanding Directing For A Limited Series, Movie, Or Dramatic Special
This is a list of the winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. Chronology of category names Over the years, the scope of this award has evolved and the name with which it has been presented reflects those changes: * 1975: Director of the Year – Special * 1976: Outstanding Directing in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy * 1977: Outstanding Directing in a Special Program * 1978–1979: Outstanding Directing in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy * 1980–1986: Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or Special * 1987–1992: Outstanding Directing in a Miniseries or Special * 1993–1996: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Miniseries or Special * 1997–1998: Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or Special * 1999–2000: Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or Movie * 2001–2002: Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special * 2003–2015: Outstanding Directing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Emmys are presented in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming. The award categories are divided into three classes: the regular Primetime Emmy Awards, the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards to honor technical and other similar behind-the-scenes achievements, and the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards for recognizing significant contributions to the engineering and technological aspects of television. First given out in 1949, the award was originally referred to as simply the " Emmy Award" until the International Emmy Award and the Daytime Emmy Award were created in the early 1970s to expand the Emmy to other sectors of the television industry. The Primetime Emmy Awards generally air every September, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 In Television
The year 1972 involved some significant events in television. Below is a list of notable television-related events. Events *January 3 – ''Show Boat'' is aired for the first time on network television, on NBC *January 21 – The first convention of Star Trek fans is held in New York City's Statler-Hilton hotel *Mid-February – John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-host an entire week on ''The Mike Douglas Show'' *February 19 – Sammy Davis Jr. makes a guest appearance on ''All in the Family'' *March 18 – After losing a 15-year court battle over the legality of its business relationship with ''The Herald-Traveler'', CBS' Boston, Massachusetts affiliate WHDH-TV Channel 5 signs off the air. At 3 a.m. on March 19, WCVB takes over the Channel 5 frequency, simultaneously switching affiliations to the ABC network following CBS' loss of interest in the channel during the long legal wrangle. *March 27 - '' The Amateur's Guide to Love'' begins on the air, making it CBS' first attempt to make ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
This is a list of episodes for the television series '' Kojak''. The first five seasons ( Pilot + 118 ep.) were aired on CBS from 1973 until 1978. CBS also commissioned a pair of TV movies in 1985 and 1987. ABC revived ''Kojak'' in 1989 for five additional TV movies, the last of which aired in 1990. Series overview Episodes Pilot movie (1973) Season 1 (1973–74) Season 2 (1974–75) Season 3 (1975–76) Season 4 (1976–77) Season 5 (1977–78) TV movies (1985–90) References External links * {{DISPLAYTITLE:List of ''Kojak'' episodes Kojak Episodes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
25th Primetime Emmy Awards
The 25th Emmy Awards, later known as the 25th Primetime Emmy Awards, were handed out on May 20, 1973. The ceremony was hosted by Johnny Carson. This would be the final ceremony that included daytime categories, as the Daytime Emmy Awards premiered the next year. Winners are listed in bold and series' networks are in parentheses. The top shows of the night were ''All in the Family'' which won its third consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, and '' The Waltons''. ''The Waltons'', in its first season, had the most major nominations heading into the ceremony (9), and won the most major awards on the night with five. Winners and nominees Source: Programs Acting Lead performances Supporting performances Single performances Directing Writing Most major nominations ;By network "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories. * CBS – 64 * ABC – 31 * NBC – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1973 In Television
The year 1973 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in that year. Events *January 4 – The record breaking, long-running comedy series in the United Kingdom and the world, ''Last of the Summer Wine'', starts as a 30-minute pilot on BBC1's Comedy Playhouse show. The first series starts on November 12; the 295th and last episode is broadcast on 29 August 2010. *January 12 – ''Family Affair'' airs for the final time, in daytime reruns on CBS in the United States. Reruns will later eventually moved to syndication. *January 13 – ''The Lawrence Welk Show'' airs its ''Salute to Mexico'' episode where Anacani makes her debut with the Champagne Music Makers. That episode also marks the final time Sandi Griffiths and Sally Flynn appear together as the act of ''Sandi & Sally'' *January 14 – Elvis Presley's '' Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite'' television special is seen around the world by over 1 billion viewers, setting a reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Garland
Patrick Ewart Garland (10 April 1935 – 19 April 2013) was a British director, writer and actor. Career Garland was educated at St Mary's College, Southampton, and St Edmund Hall, Oxford where he studied English and was Literary Editor of Isis, President of the Oxford University Poetry Society and President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. His poetry had appeared in John Lehmann's ''The London Magazine'' and the annual PEN anthology during his teens. He was photographed in Oxford at 23 by Lord Snowdon and later. His maternal grandfather was an artist and editor of Connoisseur Magazine, Herbert Granville Fell. His appearances as an actor included '' An Age of Kings'', where he played Prince John in '' Henry IV, Part 2'' and Clarence in ''Richard III'', among others. Garland started Poetry International in 1967 with Ted Hughes and Charles Osborne. He was a director and producer for the BBC's Music and Arts Department (1962–1974), and worked on its ''Monitor'' se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snow Goose (film)
''The Snow Goose'' is a 1971 British television drama film based on the 1941 novella '' The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk'' by Paul Gallico. It won a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Film and was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Production. It was also nominated for a nine Primetime Emmy Awards, winning one for Jenny Agutter for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Drama. The film was shown in the United States on 15 November 1971 as part of the anthology series Hallmark Hall of Fame. Plot The film follows the relationship between Fritha (Jenny Agutter), an orphaned young girl, and Philip Rhayader (Richard Harris), a lighthouse keeper in the fishing village Great Marsh in Essex in the United Kingdom. The two meet as Rhayader helps Fritha care for a snow goose she has found, despite his solitary lifestyle. The bird has been injured by hunters shooting at it. Set at the beginning of World War II, the film uses the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bogart
Paul Bogart (né Bogoff; November 13, 1919 – April 15, 2012) was an American television director and producer. Bogart directed episodes of the television series '''Way Out'' in 1961, '' Coronet Blue'' in 1967, '' Get Smart'', '' The Dumplings'' in 1976, '' All In The Family'' from 1975 to 1979, and four episodes of the first season of '' The Golden Girls'' in 1985. Among his films are '' Oh, God! You Devil'', '' Torch Song Trilogy'', ''Halls of Anger'', ''Marlowe'', '' Skin Game'' (both starring James Garner), and '' Class of '44''. He won five Primetime Emmy Awards during his long career, from sixteen nominations. In 1991, he was awarded the ''French Festival Internationelle Programmes Audiovisuelle'' at the Cannes Film Festival. Background Paul Bogart was born on November 13, 1919 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, as Paul Bogoff. After serving in the U.S. Army Air Forces during the Second World War, Bogart began his career in show-business as a puppeteer with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Look Homeward, Angel
''Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life'' is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe. It is Wolfe's first novel, and is considered a highly autobiographical American coming-of-age story. The character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself. The novel briefly recounts Eugene's father's early life, but primarily covers the span of time from Eugene's birth in 1900 to his definitive departure from home at the age of 19. The setting is a fictionalization of his home town of Asheville, North Carolina, called Altamont, Catawba, in the novel. A restored version of the original manuscript of ''Look Homeward, Angel'', titled ''O Lost'', was published in 2000. Genesis and publication history Thomas Wolfe's father, William Oliver Wolfe, ordered an angel statue from New York and it was used for years as a porch advertisement at the family monument shop on Patton Avenue (now the site of the Jackson Building). W. O. Wolfe sold the statue to a family in Hende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Christmas Story
''A Christmas Story'' is a 1983 American Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on Jean Shepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book '' In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash'', with some elements from his 1971 book ''Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters''. It stars Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, and Peter Billingsley and is a seasonal classic in North America. It has been shown in a marathon annually on TNT since 1997 and on TBS since 2004 titled "24 Hours of ''A Christmas Story''", consisting of 12 consecutive airings of the film from the evening of Christmas Eve to the evening of Christmas Day annually. It is often ranked as one of the best Christmas films. The film was released on November 18, 1983. Filmed partly in Canada, it earned two Canadian Genie Awards in 1984. In 2012, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buzz Kulik
Seymour "Buzz" Kulik (July 23, 1922 – January 13, 1999) was an American film director and producer. He directed 72 films and television shows, including the landmark CBS television network anthology series ''Playhouse 90'' and several episodes of ''The Twilight Zone''. Kulik went on to direct made-for-tv movies, such as '' Brian's Song''. He was also the television adviser for Edmund Muskie during his 1972 campaign for President. Filmography * '' Collector's Item'' (1958 TV film) * '' Perry Mason Case of the Pint-Sized Client'' (1958 TV) * ''The Explosive Generation'' (1961) * '' Kings of Broadway'' (1962 TV film) * ''The Yellow Canary'' (1963) * '' Ready for the People'' (1964) * '' Kentucky Jones'' (1964–1965 TV series) * ''Warning Shot'' (1967) * '' Campo 44'' (1967 television pilot film) * '' Sergeant Ryker'' (1968, shot in 1963 as a television feature) * '' Villa Rides'' (1968) * ''Riot'' (1969) * ''A Storm in Summer'' (1970) * '' Vanished'' (1971 TV miniseries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian's Song
''Brian's Song'' is a 1971 ABC Movie of the Week that recounts the life of Brian Piccolo (James Caan), a Chicago Bears football player stricken with terminal cancer after turning pro in 1965, told through his friendship with teammate Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams). Piccolo's and Sayers's sharply differing temperaments and racial backgrounds made them unlikely to become friends but they did, becoming the first interracial roommates in the history of the National Football League. The film chronicles the evolution of their friendship, ending with Piccolo's death in 1970. The production was such a success on ABC that it was later shown in theaters by Columbia Pictures Thomas, Bob ("TV 'Brian's Song' on movie screens", ''The Dallas Morning News'', April 29, 1972, page 2 with a major premiere in Chicago; however, it was soon withdrawn for lack of business. Critics have called the movie one of the finest television movies ever made.Harry Bowman. "Broadcast Beat V column 'Brian's Song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
