Our Members
Win Emmys
at 50th Annual Awards
Nominations for the 50th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards for the period June 1, 1997 through May 31, 1998, were announced on July 23rd by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
On August 29th at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium fifty-five Emmy categories were awarded at a black-tie presentation, followed by dinner and dancing. The "above the line" awards presentations
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There was a total of 390 separate nominations, compiled by the independent accounting firm of Ernst & Young. Nominations were made by active Academy members who voted for programs and other peer categories of their expertise. For example, performers, in addition to voting for programs, voted for performers, while writers voted for writers, directors for directors, etc.
Peer panels made up of active Academy members screened nominations during the month of August in the L.A. area and, in secret ballots, selected the Emmy winners.
Dozens of Editors Guild members were nominated for Emmys. Congratulations to the many who won.
Picture Editing
The winner for outstanding single-camera picture editing for a series was Heather MacDougall for The X-Files: Kill Switch. Members also nominated were Thomas R. Moore for Ally McBeal: Cro-Magnon, Alec Smight for Chicago Hope: Brain Salad Surgery, Kevin Casey for ER: Exodus, Casey Rohrs for The X-Files: Mind's Eye and Lynne Willingham for The X-Files: The Post-Modern Prometheus.The winner for outstanding single-camera picture editing for a miniseries or a movie was Eric Sears for Gia. Also nominated were: Steven Cohen for Don King: Only In America, Laurie Grotstein for From The Earth To The Moon: Can We Do This? (Part 1), and Richard Pearson for From The Earth To The Moon: 1968 (Part 4).
The Emmy for outstanding multi-camera picture editing for a series was awarded to Ron Volk for Frasier: Room Service. Also nominated were Janet Ashikaga for Frasier: Roz and the Schnoz; Leslie Tolan, Paul Anderson, and Sean Lambert for The Larry Sanders Show: Flip; Tucker Wiard for Murphy Brown: Opus One; and Skip Collector for Seinfeld: The Finale.
Sound Editing
The Emmy for outstanding sound editing for a series went to Walter Newman, supervising sound editor; Darren Wright, sound editor; Darleen Stoker-Kageyama, Cathy Flynn-Morris, dialogue editors; Tom Harris, ADR editor; Michael D. Dittrick, music editor for ER: Exodus.
Also nominated were Mark Crookston, sound supervisor; Maciek Malish, Gabrielle Reeves, Ken Gladden, Debby Ruby Winsberg, Donna Beltz, Michael Kimball, Susan Welsh, Jarmil Maupin, sound editors; and Jeff Charbonneau, music editor, for Millennium: Owls; Matthew Sawelson, sound supervisor; Dennis Gray, Brad Katona, Eric A. Norris, Myron Nettinga, Joe Earle, and Ron Evans, sound editors, for Soldier Of Fortune, Inc.: Last Chance; Cindy Rabideau, supervising sound editor; Mark J. Cleary, Rick Hinson, sound effects editors; Raymond E. Spiess III, Robert Guast-ini, dialogue editors; William Angarola, ADR editor; Jay Richardson, music editor; Jimmy Moriana and Michael Broomberg, Foley artists, for The Visitor pilot ; and Thierry Couturier, supervising sound editor; Maciek Malish, Jay Levine, Gabrielle Reeves, Michael Goodman, Ira Leslie, Chris Fradkin, Rick Hinson, Michael Kimball, sound editors; and Jeff Charbonneau, music editor, for The X-Files: The Red and the Black.
The winners for outstanding sound editing for a miniseries, movie or special were Michael Graham, supervising sound editor; Greg Schorer, co-supervising sound editor; Kristi Johns, Suzanne Angel, ADR editors; Mark Friedgen, Bob Costanza, Rob Webber, Gary Macheel, Rick Steele, Lou Thomas, Adriane Marfiak, Anton Holden, Michael Lyle, David Eichhorn, Mark Steele, Tim Terusa, Rusty Tinsley, sound editors; and Kim Naves, music editor; for Rough Riders: Part 2.
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Patrick M. Griffith won an Emmy for outstanding achievement in non-fiction programming for his work as supervising sound editor on National Geographic Explorer: Rat.
Sound Mixing
The winners for outstanding sound mixing for a comedy series or a special were Nello Torri, Kurt Kassulke, and Peter R. Kelsey, re-recording mixers, for Ally McBeal: Boy to the World. Also nominated were: John F. Reiner, Andre Caporaso, and Robert Douglass, re-recording mixers, for Frasier: Beware Of Greeks; Charlie McDaniel III and John Bickelhaupt, re-recording mixers, for Home Improvement: A Night to Dismember; Ed Golya and John Bickelhaupt, re-recording mixers, for The Larry Sanders Show: Flip; and Todd Grace, Kathy Oldham and Craig Porter, re-recording mixers, for Third Rock from the Sun: 36! 24! 36! Dick!
Robert Douglass won an Emmy for outstanding sound mixing for a variety or music series or special, as one of the team which mixed The 70th Annual Academy Awards for ABC.
The winners for outstanding sound mixing for a drama series were re-recording mixers Rusty Russell Smith and William Freesh for Chicago Hope: Brain Salad Surgery. Also nominated were: re-recording mixers Michael E. Jiron, A.D. Concors and Allen L. Stone for ER: Exodus; re-recording mixers Robert Appere, and Ken Burton for NYPD Blue: A Box of Wendy; and re-recording mixers David J. West and Kurt Kassulke for The X-Files: The Red and the Black.
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Technical Directing
Gene Crowe won the Emmy for outstanding technical direction for a series for E.R: Ambush. Also nominated was Craig Shideler for Home Improvement: A Night To Dismember.
John B. Field was nominated for outstanding technical direction for a special for The Kennedy Center Honors.
Emmy plaques for engineering were awarded to Avid Real-Time Multicamera Systems and Tektronix Heavyworks Multistream Editing Systems. Engineering statuettes went to Digital Projection International's POWER Displays incorporating Texas Instruments' Digital Micromirror Device; Tiffen Camera Filters; Philips Digital Video Systems and Eastman Kodak's Spirit DataCine.
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Reprinted from
The Motion Picture Editors Guild Newsletter
Vol. 19, No. 5 - September/October 1998
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