HBO/Max’s The Last of Us and The White Lotus, Netflix’s Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities and Wednesday, Apple TV Plus’ Hello Tomorrow! and Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power all were nominated for outstanding main titles on Wednesday as part of the 75th Annual Primetime Emmy nominations.
Plains of Yonder, which was nominated for HBO/Max’s The White Lotus last year, returns this year with not one, but two nominations: The White Lotus, which moved to Sicily, Italy from Maui for season two, and Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The Lord of the Rings’ composer, Howard Shore, also was nominated for his main-titles score.
Main-title mainstay Elastic – and creative directors Andy Hall and Nadia Tzuo – made the list with HBO/Max’s rookie drama The Last of Us, which was this year’s second most-nominated show with 24.
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Another mainstay, Imaginary Forces, scored with the retro-future opening title sequence for Apple TV Plus’ Hello Tomorrow!
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The Mill got on the board with its intricate main titles for Netflix’s horror anthology series, Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities. That show’s composer, Holly Amber Church, also is nominated for outstanding original main-titles music.
Finally, Filmograph earned a spot with its gothic main titles for Netflix’s Wednesday, which was nominated for 12 Emmys on Wednesday, including outstanding comedy series. Wednesday’s composer, Danny Elfman, also earned two nominations for his recasting of the classic Adams Family theme song in the show’s score and main-title music.
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Also nominated for main-titles music are Nicholas Britell for Disney Plus’ Andor. That brings Britell’s nomination tally to three with nods for the scores of HBO/Max’s Succession as well Andor. While the main titles for Andor are straightforward, the Britell-penned music changed each episode.
Laura Karpman also is nominated for her bright theme for Disney Plus’ Ms. Marvel with main on end titles by Perception.
The 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards are slated to air Monday, September 18 on Fox, but with the ongoing writers’ strike – and now the actors’ strike – they are likely to be delayed until the strikes conclude.
Below are the nominees for outstanding main title:
Netflix’s Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet Of Curiosities
CREDITS
Client: Netflix
Executive Creative Producer: Guillermo del Toro
Executive Producer: J. Miles Dale
Post Producer: Julie Lawrence
Production: The Mill
Director: Chet Hirsch
Creative Director: Mike Schaeffer
Senior Producer: Tanya Ferguson
Associate Producer: Claire Stiefel
VFX: The Mill
Creative Director: Chet Hirsch
Art Director: David Rowley
Concept Designer: Chet Hirsch
Designers: Akshay Tiwari, Chris Szeto, Michelle Mayer
Lead Animator: David Rowley
Modelers: Akshay Tiwari, Rakesh Maruthi Pujari, Sandeep Kumar Yadav
Apple TV Plus’ Hello Tomorrow!
CREDITS
Client: Apple TV Plus
Agency: Imaginary Forces
Creative Director: Ronnie Koff
Designer: Ronnie Koff
Editor: Lexi Gunvaldson
Animator: Christoph Gabathuler, Fernando Lazzari
Intern: Kaisey Mccallion
Compositor: Juan Monasterio
Producer: Steve Garfinkel
Coordinator: Spencer Ruehl, Nic Luong
HBO/Max’s The Last Of Us
CREDITS
Client: HBO
Design Studio: Elastic
Creative Director: Andy Hall & Nadia Tzuo
Production Coordinator: Hannah Rowswell
Head of CG: Kirk Shintani, Andy Wilkoff
Senior Producer/Head of Production: Paul Makowski
Executive Producer: Kate Berry
Managing Director: Jennifer Sofio Hall
Design & Lighting & Texture: Nadia Tzuo, Gryun Kim, Mike Zeng, Min Shi
Animation & Compositing: Gryun Kim, Lee Buckley, Nadia Tzuo
Camera & Layout: Nadia Tzuo
Houdini Dynamics: Jun Kim, Miguel Salek
Zbrush Modeler: Mike Dupree, Min Shi, Nadia Tzuo
Rigging: Jade Smrz, Alice Panek
Editor: Rachel Fowler
Color Management: Andrew Young
Prime Video’s The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power
CREDITS
Client: Prime Video, Amazon Studios
Lead Studio: Plains of Yonder
Directors: Katrina Crawford & Mark Bashore
Creative Director: Anthony Vitagliano
Art Directors: Katrina Crawford, Anthony Vitagliano
Editor: Mark Bashore
Producers: Jennifer Senkler, Jon Derovan
Animation and Visual Effects Studio: Nexus Studio
Animation Director: Fernando Domínguez Cózar
Executive Producers: Laura Breaden, Colin Davis
Producer: Nicole López Naguil, Josephine Gallagher
Production Manager: Edith Chappey
VFX Supervisor: Germán Díez
Houdini Artist: Nico Domerego
Compositor: Alexandre Gaudiano, Chiara Feriani, Victori Jalabert, Stéphane Lugiery
Animator: Dylan White
VFX Editor: Mark van Heusden
3D Visual Effects Studio: Makmac
3D Art Director, Lead 3D Artist: Mauro Gimferrer
3D Artist: Marcos Coral, J.A Duran
Live Action: 37 Films
1st Assistant Director: Alex Pozuelo
Executive Producer: Héctor Bobo
Producer: Pilar de Andrés
Head of Production: Josué Corral
Executive Coordinator: Lucía Gonzalez
Production Manager: Alvaro Regalado
Production Coordinator: Belén Zauer
Runner: Ismael Vera, Antonio Gómez
VFX Assistant: Lucía Colom
DOP: Pablo Vallejo
Phantom Operator: Carlos Alvarez
Bolt Operator: Nicolás Alsina, Marc Debon
DIT: Vico Martín, Carlo Rho
Making of Operator: Carlos García Vidal
Gaffer: Javier Villareal
Spark / Studio Assistant: Robinson Berrio
Art Technical Advisor: Victor del Hoyo
Sand Artist: Jimena Aragoneses
On-Set Editor: Diego Falcone
Additional Visual Effects: The Key VFX
VFX Production Coordinator: Blanca Escudero, Silvia Cerrada Jiménez
Calligrapher: Daniel Reeve
Composer: Howard Shore
HBO/Max’s The White Lotus
CREDITS
Client: HBO/Max
Agency: Plains of Yonder
Directed By: Katrina Crawford, Mark Bashore
Illustrator: Lezio Lopes
Visual Effects & Animation: Cian McKenna
Still Photography: Dan McComb, Katrina Crawford
Editors: Mark Bashore, Katrina Crawford
Producer: Paul Williamson
Music: Cristobal Tapia de Veer & Kim Neundorf
Netflix’s Wednesday
CREDITS
Client: MGM Television / Netflix
Director: Tim Burton
Agency: Filmograph
Creative Director: Aaron Becker
Executive Producer: Seth Kleinberg
Producer: Troy Miller
Design: Joseph Ahn
Animation: James Ramirez, Lee Nelson, Hsien Lun Su
Modeling, Animation: Eric Keller
Special Thanks: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Andrew Mittman, Steve Stark, Natalie Testa, Nick Iannelli, Tommy Harper, Luca Rojas, Katherine Hul
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