Netflix is celebrating its first Emmys series wins with the trophies for “The Crown” for outstanding drama series and “The Queen’s Gambit” for outstanding limited or anthology series at the 2021 ceremony on Sept. 19.
Netflix was nominated for the most Emmys out of any network this year, with 29 nods. For outstanding series honors, the streamer also received nominations for “Cobra Kai,” “Emily in Paris” and “The Kominsky Method” in the comedy category, and “Bridgerton” in the drama category.
Accepting the award for “The Crown,” creator Peter Morgan kept his speech brief.
“Thank you to the Television Academy,” he said. “Thank you, Netflix. Thank you, Sony. Thanks a lot. Thank you to one or two people not here because we start shooting in a couple of hours. Michael Casey, in particular. Andy Stebbing, Eve Swannell. Thank you, Ben Caron, who is in New York, a wonderful director. Julian Jarrold, Paul Whittington… anybody else?...
Netflix was nominated for the most Emmys out of any network this year, with 29 nods. For outstanding series honors, the streamer also received nominations for “Cobra Kai,” “Emily in Paris” and “The Kominsky Method” in the comedy category, and “Bridgerton” in the drama category.
Accepting the award for “The Crown,” creator Peter Morgan kept his speech brief.
“Thank you to the Television Academy,” he said. “Thank you, Netflix. Thank you, Sony. Thanks a lot. Thank you to one or two people not here because we start shooting in a couple of hours. Michael Casey, in particular. Andy Stebbing, Eve Swannell. Thank you, Ben Caron, who is in New York, a wonderful director. Julian Jarrold, Paul Whittington… anybody else?...
- 9/20/2021
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
Film editor Michelle Tesoro likens constructing the tense chess matches in The Queen’s Gambit — Netflix’s limited series about fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon, played by Anya Taylor-Joy — to cutting dialogue scenes, even though few words are spoken during the hushed games.
Writer-director Scott Frank set a goal: Make the competitive matches dramatic, as well as something that both pros and the uninitiated could follow. To that end, chess consultants Bruce Pandolfini, who worked with exec producer William Horberg on 1993’s Searching for Bobby Fischer, and Garry Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster and former world champion, helped ...
Writer-director Scott Frank set a goal: Make the competitive matches dramatic, as well as something that both pros and the uninitiated could follow. To that end, chess consultants Bruce Pandolfini, who worked with exec producer William Horberg on 1993’s Searching for Bobby Fischer, and Garry Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster and former world champion, helped ...
- 1/12/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Film editor Michelle Tesoro likens constructing the tense chess matches in The Queen’s Gambit — Netflix’s limited series about fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon, played by Anya Taylor-Joy — to cutting dialogue scenes, even though few words are spoken during the hushed games.
Writer-director Scott Frank set a goal: Make the competitive matches dramatic, as well as something that both pros and the uninitiated could follow. To that end, chess consultants Bruce Pandolfini, who worked with exec producer William Horberg on 1993’s Searching for Bobby Fischer, and Garry Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster and former world champion, helped ...
Writer-director Scott Frank set a goal: Make the competitive matches dramatic, as well as something that both pros and the uninitiated could follow. To that end, chess consultants Bruce Pandolfini, who worked with exec producer William Horberg on 1993’s Searching for Bobby Fischer, and Garry Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster and former world champion, helped ...
- 1/12/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A version of this story about “The Queen’s Gambit” first appeared in the December issue of TheWrap magazine.
Beth Harmon, the chess prodigy played by Anya Taylor-Joy in Netflix’s breakout hit “The Queen’s Gambit,” knows how to properly execute a perfect Fork Maneuver and beat any unsuspecting newcomer with a Scholar’s Mate. But before Taylor-Joy could feel comfortable doing either of those things, she had to take a crash course in all things chess from the hypercompetitive players around which the series is centered.
“I had never played chess before,” she said. “I knew that the chess community was a very passionate one, and I applaud that. It was really important to me that I understood the theory of chess really well.”
Taylor-Joy’s Harmon is a Cold War-era orphan who, after getting addicted to tranquilizer pills at a way-too-young age, takes up the game under the tutelage of Mr.
Beth Harmon, the chess prodigy played by Anya Taylor-Joy in Netflix’s breakout hit “The Queen’s Gambit,” knows how to properly execute a perfect Fork Maneuver and beat any unsuspecting newcomer with a Scholar’s Mate. But before Taylor-Joy could feel comfortable doing either of those things, she had to take a crash course in all things chess from the hypercompetitive players around which the series is centered.
“I had never played chess before,” she said. “I knew that the chess community was a very passionate one, and I applaud that. It was really important to me that I understood the theory of chess really well.”
Taylor-Joy’s Harmon is a Cold War-era orphan who, after getting addicted to tranquilizer pills at a way-too-young age, takes up the game under the tutelage of Mr.
- 12/24/2020
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
The hottest show of the moment in the dumpster fire of a year that is 2020 is about… chess. Safe to say no one really saw that coming, including the “The Queen’s Gambit” cinematographer Steven Meizler.
“[The reception has] been really surreal and very overwhelming. I didn’t think it was going to be this big,” Meizler tells Gold Derby at our Meet the Experts: TV Cinematography panel (watch above). “I knew we had a good show, but it’s also about chess, which is not really the most exciting thing in the world. I know we tried very hard to make it exciting, but to actually get this reaction and this sort of moment, it feels really great.”
Based on Walter Tevis’ novel of the same name, “The Queen’s Gambit” follows chess prodigy Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) in the ‘60s and reunites Meizler with longtime collaborator Scott Frank, with whom he most recently worked on “Godless.
“[The reception has] been really surreal and very overwhelming. I didn’t think it was going to be this big,” Meizler tells Gold Derby at our Meet the Experts: TV Cinematography panel (watch above). “I knew we had a good show, but it’s also about chess, which is not really the most exciting thing in the world. I know we tried very hard to make it exciting, but to actually get this reaction and this sort of moment, it feels really great.”
Based on Walter Tevis’ novel of the same name, “The Queen’s Gambit” follows chess prodigy Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) in the ‘60s and reunites Meizler with longtime collaborator Scott Frank, with whom he most recently worked on “Godless.
- 12/7/2020
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Netflix’s stylish drama The Queen’s Gambit might just be the surprise hit of the fall. As adapted by a 1983 Walter Tevis novel of the same name, the show’s storytelling is on point, its production design spectacular, and star Anya Taylor Joy’s outfits…truly staggering.
But the real key to The Queen’s Gambit appeal is its focus on one of the world’s oldest and most popular games: chess. Thanks to the show (and also probably the global pandemic), chess is having a bit of a moment right now. According to eBay, the retail site saw a remarkable 273% surge in sales of chess sets in the first 10 days of the Netflix series’ release.
This makes some sense given how The Queen’s Gambit is able to make the classic game feel fresh, kinetic, and damn near sensual. There’s no doubt that the series’ treatment of chess highlights the...
But the real key to The Queen’s Gambit appeal is its focus on one of the world’s oldest and most popular games: chess. Thanks to the show (and also probably the global pandemic), chess is having a bit of a moment right now. According to eBay, the retail site saw a remarkable 273% surge in sales of chess sets in the first 10 days of the Netflix series’ release.
This makes some sense given how The Queen’s Gambit is able to make the classic game feel fresh, kinetic, and damn near sensual. There’s no doubt that the series’ treatment of chess highlights the...
- 11/13/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Harry Melling has had a big year. He was seen onscreen as an ambitious pharmaceutical CEO (The Old Guard), a Southern preacher with a twisted relationship with spiders (The Devil All the Time) and now, a chess champion in Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit. The series stars Anya Taylor-Joy as orphaned chess prodigy Beth, with Melling playing Harry Beltik, the Kentucky champ.
For Melling, the role was his first introduction into the world of chess and saw him train under famed coach Bruce Pandolfini, who taught the cast how to move the pieces with purpose.
“There is actually quite a ...
For Melling, the role was his first introduction into the world of chess and saw him train under famed coach Bruce Pandolfini, who taught the cast how to move the pieces with purpose.
“There is actually quite a ...
- 11/4/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Harry Melling has had a big year. He was seen onscreen as an ambitious pharmaceutical CEO (The Old Guard), a Southern preacher with a twisted relationship with spiders (The Devil All the Time) and now, a chess champion in Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit. The series stars Anya Taylor-Joy as orphaned chess prodigy Beth, with Melling playing Harry Beltik, the Kentucky champ.
For Melling, the role was his first introduction into the world of chess and saw him train under famed coach Bruce Pandolfini, who taught the cast how to move the pieces with purpose.
“There is actually quite a ...
For Melling, the role was his first introduction into the world of chess and saw him train under famed coach Bruce Pandolfini, who taught the cast how to move the pieces with purpose.
“There is actually quite a ...
- 11/4/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Just like in any other high-level, battle-of-wits competitions, chess has its own tells. And while there may be plenty to suss out in matches between long-time players, there’s one quick way to spot a pretender.
For chess lifer Bruce Pandolfini, that was one of the key ways to help make sure that the performers on screen in the new Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit” didn’t break the illusion right away.
“Perhaps the most important thing is how they grab and move the pieces. So you really want them to look natural and we worked on that a lot,” Pandolfini said. “It’s like looking at someone handling a baseball bat. If they grab it in the middle, you know they don’t like baseball. There’s a certain flow and fluency to it that you want to try to capture, if you can.”
Pandolfini is no stranger to...
For chess lifer Bruce Pandolfini, that was one of the key ways to help make sure that the performers on screen in the new Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit” didn’t break the illusion right away.
“Perhaps the most important thing is how they grab and move the pieces. So you really want them to look natural and we worked on that a lot,” Pandolfini said. “It’s like looking at someone handling a baseball bat. If they grab it in the middle, you know they don’t like baseball. There’s a certain flow and fluency to it that you want to try to capture, if you can.”
Pandolfini is no stranger to...
- 10/30/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
In the great 1993 chess movie Searching for Bobby Fischer, elementary-school-age prodigy Josh finds himself caught between two mentors: Bruce Pandolfini, an aloof master of the game who favors a slow and risk-averse approach to the board, and Vinnie, who hustles tourists in the park and is always encouraging Josh to play as swiftly and boldly as he can.
The real Bruce Pandolfini was one of the technical advisors for The Queen’s Gambit, a new miniseries about a female chess genius coming of age against the backdrop of the Cold War.
The real Bruce Pandolfini was one of the technical advisors for The Queen’s Gambit, a new miniseries about a female chess genius coming of age against the backdrop of the Cold War.
- 10/20/2020
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Netflix’s period piece miniseries The Queen’s Gambit spans a decade in the life of fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy), a wunderkind whose natural aptitude for anticipating her opponents’ moves is blunted by her addiction to the tranquilizer pills with which she credits her wins. Following gawky teenage Beth through her early tournaments in the 1950s to the aloof redheaded beauty wowing spectators in Europe in the ’60s—and leaving a trail of defeated men in her wake—the seven-hour series was faced with the challenge of making every chess scene equally thrilling to enthusiasts and non-fans alike.
The key, Taylor-Joy explains to Den of Geek, was in having every single game be recognizably unique. “[Series creator and director] Scott [Frank] and I would have a lot of conversations about both the chess and the addiction scenes, and how we were going to make each of them different and each of them fresh,...
The key, Taylor-Joy explains to Den of Geek, was in having every single game be recognizably unique. “[Series creator and director] Scott [Frank] and I would have a lot of conversations about both the chess and the addiction scenes, and how we were going to make each of them different and each of them fresh,...
- 10/19/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
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