Coralie Fargeat's The Substance and Jacques Audiard's Emilia Pérez are among the winners of the European Film Academy's 2024 Excellence Awards, celebrating arts and crafts achievements in eight categories. The winners, which are decided by a specialist eight-member jury, will receive their trophies…

There is no show out there like RuPaul's Drag Race. A reality drag competition series that has run for 16 seasons with repeated Emmy nominations, year after year? "Drag Race is so unique it almost shouldn't exist," says EP Tom Campbell. "The fact that it does is so much about RuPaul and his vision and his…

For a competition series like The Traitors, it’s important for cinematographers Siggi Rosen-Rawlings and Matt Wright to keep the players as immersed in the game as possible. While the players compete in a series of challenges and conspire with each other to root out the traitors, the pair is hard at work…

Production designer Ben Norman has been working as a designer of reality show challenges for a few years, though never on a competition quite on the scale of Squid Game: The Challenge. To be fair, there hasn’t really been a reality competition on the scale of the Netflix series before, which brings…

Dark secrets lay deep below the icy surface in HBO’s detective anthology drama True Detective: Night Country. Set in the frigid fictional town of Ennis, Alaska, the show follows officers Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis), who team up after a group of scientists vanish in the…

"The zen garden is the type of garden that's providing people more freedom in a sense of point of view, because it's meant to be viewed from a certain distance, and from whichever angles you are seeing objects in the garden, it provides a relativity between those rocks or the landscape and how you see…

No matter how popular a clothing style may be in the world of high fashion, trends are made to come and go. This Emmy season has costume designers doing the work of interpreting those trends for a new era. Related Stories …

Coming into a series that has been on for two seasons doesn't always leave a lot of room for new ideas, but costume designer Christina Flannery says she was thrilled with the opportunity to embellish and elevate the established characters for the third season of The Righteous Gemstones. "Time had passed…

When makeup designer Miho Suzuki began working on Lessons in Chemistry, she decided the makeup needed to follow the story arc of Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson). "In the beginning, she couldn't afford to put herself together with lots of makeup and hair and fancy clothes, because she was so focused on her…

It's been nearly a decade since the original film came out, so the animation required some updates before Inside Out 2 would be ready to go. For this, Pixar had a team of both new and returning craftspeople working tirelessly to rework the world and introduce a new set of emotions to tell a new story for…

Whether exploring post-apocalyptic wastelands or the far reaches of space, it's easy to get lost in the visual language of a video game world. Transitioning that experience into a cinematic storytelling form is no easy task, but this season has seen more than a few production designers square up to the…