SANTA MONICA, Calif., and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July
16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- LIONSGATE's ® (NYSE: LGF)
acclaimed series ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, MAD MEN, NURSE JACKIE and
MANHATTAN, and its limited series
HOUDINI earned a total of 24 Emmy® nominations today, including an
eighth consecutive Outstanding Drama Series nomination for
four-time Emmy® winner MAD MEN (AMC); a Drama Series nomination for
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK (Netflix); and four lead acting nominations
including MAD MEN's Jon Hamm (his eighth consecutive
drama nod) and Elisabeth Moss (her
fifth nomination in this category), NURSE JACKIE's Edie Falco (an Emmy® winner and six-time nominee
for this role), and Adrien Brody,
who landed his first Emmy nomination for HOUDINI.
MAD MEN's 11 nominations also include nods for Christina
Hendricks as Supporting Actress (her sixth nomination), two
Writing nominations, as well as nods for Production Design,
Casting, Editing, Hairstyling and Makeup.
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK scored a total of 4 nominations,
including nods for Uzo Aduba as Supporting Actress,
Pablo Schreiber as Guest Actor, and
Casting, along with its Drama Series nomination.
In addition to Edie Falco's
nomination for NURSE JACKIE and Adrien
Brody's nomination for HOUDINI, Lionsgate picked up 6
additional HOUDINI nods in the Directing, Cinematography, Picture
Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Makeup categories, as
well as a Main Title Design nomination for MANHATTAN.
"We're extremely proud of our incredible roster of nominated
shows and we thank the TV Academy for this tremendous recognition,"
said Kevin Beggs, Chairman,
Lionsgate Television Group. "These nominations underscore our
commitment to producing highly entertaining and original programs
that resonate deeply with viewers and inspire broader cultural
conversation."
This year's nominations are as follows:
MAD MEN:
Outstanding Drama Series
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series – Jon Hamm
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series – Elisabeth Moss
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series – Christina
Hendricks
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series – "Person to Person" –
Matthew Weiner
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series – "Lost Horizon" – Semi
Chellas, Matthew Weiner
Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Period Program (One
Hour or More) -- Dan Bishop, Shanna Starzyk, Claudette
Didul
Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series – Laura Schiff, Carrie
Audino
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series
–"Person to Person" – Tom Wilson
Outstanding Hairstyling for a Single-Camera Series – Theraesa
Rivers, Arturo Rojas, Valerie Jackson, Ai
Nakata
Outstanding Make-Up for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic)
– Lana Horochowski, Ron Pipes, Maurine
Burke, Jennifer Greenberg
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK:
Outstanding Drama Series
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series – Uzo
Aduba
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series – Pablo Schreiber
Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series – Jennifer Euston
NURSE JACKIE:
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series – Edie Falco
MANHATTAN:
Outstanding Main Title Design – Dan
Gregoras, Jeremy Cox,
Jon Hassell, Griffin Frazen
HOUDINI:
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series of Movie –
Adrien Brody
Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic
Special – Uli Edel
Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or Movie – Night 1
– Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Limited Series or a
Movie – Night 1 – Sabrina Plisco,
David Beatty
Outstanding Sound Editing for a Limited Series, Movie or a Special
– Night 1 – Michael J. Benavent,
David Beadle, Timothy A. Cleveland, Rachel Corrales, Paul
Diller, Gary Megregian,
Ryan Maguire, Michael Sana, John
Snider, Robert Ulrich,
Lance Wiseman, Jim Harrison, Joan
Rowe
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Limited Series or a Movie – Night 1
– Tamas Csaba, Onnalee Blank, Ken
Burton
Outstanding Makeup for a Limited Series or a Movie (Non-Prosthetic)
– Night 1 – Gregor Eckstein
After seven groundbreaking seasons and 92 episodes, MAD MEN
recently concluded its celebrated run on AMC as one of the most
honored series in television history. The program has won dozens of
awards, including three Golden Globes® for Best Drama and four
Emmys® for Outstanding Drama Series, tying the all-time record for
Emmy® wins in the category. Additional honors include a Peabody
Award, three Producers Guild Awards and six Writers Guild Awards
among many others, and for seven consecutive years the series has
been named as one of AFI's Top 10 Outstanding Television Programs.
Set in New York in the 1960's, Mad Men has riveted
audiences with its depiction of the seductive and intriguing world
of Madison Avenue advertising, winning acclaim for its brilliantly
drawn characters and its historical authenticity in costume and
design. The outstanding ensemble cast includes Golden Globe®
winner Jon Hamm, January Jones, Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, Christina Hendricks, John Slattery, Aaron
Staton, Rich Sommer,
Christopher Stanley, Jessica Pare, Jay R.
Ferguson, Kevin Rahm,
Kiernan Shipka and Mason Vale Cotton. Produced by Lionsgate, the
series is created, written and executive produced by
Emmy® and Golden
Globe® winner Matthew Weiner in
association with Weiner Bros. Scott
Hornbacher and Janet Leahy are also executive
producers.
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, now in production on its fourth season,
is the most-watched original series on Netflix in all of its
territories around the world. The critically acclaimed series has
become a global pop culture phenomenon, earning 12 Emmy nominations
– the most of any comedy series – and three Emmy wins last
year. The program was named in 2014 and 2015 to AFI's annual
list of the Top 10 Television Programs of the Year, and its
numerous additional honors include two SAG Awards, a Peabody, a
Producers Guild Award, two People's Choice Awards, four Critics'
Choice TV Awards and four Golden Globe®
nominations. Heartbreaking and hilarious, Orange is the New
Black stars Taylor Schilling as Brooklynite Piper Chapman
whose decade-old relationship with a drug runner results in her
arrest and 15-month detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her
debt to society, Piper must trade her comfortable New
York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected
conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric and outspoken group of
inmates. The series' diverse ensemble also includes Uzo
Aduba, Jason Biggs, Danielle Brooks, Laverne
Cox, Michael J. Harney, Natasha Lyonne, Selenis
Leyva, Taryn Manning, Adrienne C. Moore, Kate
Mulgrew, Dascha Polanco, Laura Prepon, Nick
Sandow, Yael Stone, Lorraine
Toussaint and Samira Wiley. Orange is the
New Black is executive produced by Jenji Kohan and
produced by Lionsgate.
NURSE JACKIE, which recently concluded its seventh and final
season on Showtime, stars Edie Falco as a strong-willed,
fiercely loyal, deeply dedicated but very flawed emergency nurse
working in a New York City hospital. Between chronic back
pain and a personal life constantly on the edge of collapse, she
struggles to relieve the pain and stay one step ahead of total
disaster. Falco has earned numerous honors for this role,
including an Emmy® Award for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, an
additional five Emmy® nods in this category, and seven SAG
Award nominations, making her the most nominated TV performer
in SAG Awards history with a total of 21
nominations. Merritt Wever was also recognized for her
work on the show with her first Supporting Actress Emmy® for a
comedy in 2013. Paul Schulze, Dominic Fumusa, Anna
Deavere Smith, Peter Facinelli, Ruby Jerins, Stephen
Wallem and Mackenzie Aladjem also
star. Co-produced by Lionsgate and Showtime Networks, the
series was created by Evan Dunsky, Liz
Brixius & Linda Wallem and is executive produced
by Clyde Phillips, Tom Straw, Richie
Jackson, Liz Flahive and Caryn Mandabach.
MANHATTAN, described by Time
Magazine as "the TV season's secret weapon," has earned
widespread critical acclaim and will launch its second season on
WGN America this fall. Created by Sam
Shaw and directed by Emmy Award®-winning director
Thomas Schlamme, the series is set
against the backdrop of the greatest race against time in the
history of science -- the mission to build the world's first atomic
bomb – and follows the brilliant but flawed scientists and their
families in Los Alamos as they attempt to coexist in a world where
secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives. The
ensemble cast includes Emmy®-nominated actor John Benjamin Hickey, Olivia Williams, Ashley
Zukerman, Rachel Brosnahan,
Katja Herbers, Helen Prins, Alexia
Fast, Christopher Denham,
Harry Lloyd, Michael Chernus and Daniel Stern. Multiple Emmy® and Golden
Globe® nominee William Petersen has
joined the cast as a regular for season two, which will also
feature Mamie Gummer and
Griffin Dunne, among others, in
recurring roles. Manhattan
is produced by Lionsgate Television, Skydance Television and
Tribune Studios.
Academy Award® winner Adrien
Brody stars HOUDINI, an event miniseries that premiered on
HISTORY in September 2014 and tells
the story of The Great Harry Houdini from his humble beginnings at
circus sideshows to sold-out concert halls across the globe. Along
the way to becoming America's first world-renowned superstar, he
engages in espionage, battles spiritualists, and encounters the
greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Arthur Conan Doyle and Rasputin. The scripted
miniseries also stars Kristen
Connolly and Evan
Jones. Houdini is a Lionsgate/A+E Studios
co-production, written by Academy Award® nominee Nicholas Meyer and directed by Academy Award®
nominee Uli Edel. Gerald W. Abrams and Andras Hamori are executive producers.
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global content leader with a strong and diversified presence in
motion picture production and distribution, television programming
and syndication, home entertainment, digital distribution, new
channel platforms, video games and international distribution and
sales. Lionsgate currently has more than 30 television shows on
over 20 different networks spanning its primetime production,
distribution and syndication businesses, including such
critically-acclaimed hits as the multiple Emmy Award-winning Mad
Men and Nurse Jackie, the broadcast network series
Nashville, the syndication
success The Wendy Williams Show, the hit series Orange is
the New Black, the critically-acclaimed drama Manhattan and the breakout series
The Royals.
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successes as the blockbuster first three installments of The
Hunger Games franchise, the first two installments of the
Divergent franchise, The Age of Adaline,
CBS/Lionsgate's The DUFF, John
Wick, Now You See Me, Roadside Attractions'
Love & Mercy and A Most Wanted Man,
Lionsgate/Codeblack Films' Addicted and Pantelion Films'
Instructions Not Included, the highest-grossing
Spanish-language film ever released in the U.S.
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approximately 16,000 motion picture and television titles that is
an important source of recurring revenue and serves as the
foundation for the growth of the Company's core businesses. The
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