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Associate Adjunct Professor John Simmons (B.A. ’82) received a Creative Arts Emmy Award (Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series) as the director of photography for the “Go Hollywood” episode of Nickelodeon’s Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn during the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which took place over two nights, Saturday, Sept. 10 and Sunday, Sept. 11 at the Microsoft Theater at L.A. Live in Downtown Los Angeles. The Creative Arts Emmy Awards honor outstanding artistic and technical achievement in a variety of television program genres, guest performances in weekly series, as well as exceptional work in the animation, reality and documentary categories.

Including Simmons, eight UCLA alumni and faculty have been named 2016 Emmy Awards nominees. An additional 29 UCLA alumni, faculty and board members have involvement with 16 Emmy nominated projects. The Creative Arts Emmy Awards will air on FXX on Saturday, Sept. 17. The 68th Emmy Awards ceremony, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, takes place on Sunday, Sept. 18 and airs live on ABC.

NOMINEES

LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Will Forte (B.A. '93), The Last Man on Earth

OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A VARIETY SPECIAL
Louis J. Horvitz (B.A. '68), director
The 58th Grammy Awards

OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A VARIETY SERIES
James Anderson (B.A. '76); Saturday Night Live

OUTSTANDING SHORT FORM VARIETY SERIES
Making a Scene with James Franco
James Franco (lecturer; B.A. '08), host/principal performer

OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR A MULTI-CAMERA SERIES
John Simmons (associate adjunct professor), director of photography, Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A NARRATIVE PROGRAM (Half-hour or less)
Don Diers (B.A. '83), set decorator, The Muppets

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A NARRATIVE CONTEMPORARY OR FANTASY PROGRAM (One hour or more)
Mark Worthington (lecturer), production designer, American Horror Story: Hotel

OUTSTANDING CASTING FOR A LIMITED SERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL
Victoria Thomas ('83), Roots

INVOLVEMENT IN NOMINATED PROJECTS

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
Black-ish
Lisa McQuillan (M.F.A. '11), writer

Master of None
James Ponsoldt ('10) director and executive producer

Modern Family
Reginald Hudlin (executive board member), director

Silicon Valley
Tom Bartlett (B.A. '86), leadman
Anna Khaja (B.A. '97), actress

Transparent
Marielle Heller (B.A. '01), director
Silas Howard (M.F.A. '10), director

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
Better Call Saul
Tony Fanning (lecturer), production designer

Homeland
Daniel Attias (M.F.A. '83), director
David Boito (B.A. '86), in-house producer (editorial department)
Philip Carr Neel (B.A. '73), film editor

The Americans
Daniel Attias (M.F.A. '83), director

OUTSTANDING TELEVISION MOVIE
All the Way
Larry Kemp (B.A. '72), dialogue and ADR supervisor
Hilary Parkin (B.A. '08), costumer

OUTSTANDING VARIETY SPECIAL
38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors
Martin Scorsese (executive board member), presenter
John Williams, presenter

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED PROGRAM
Bob's Burgers (Episode: "The Horse Rider-er")
Young Chan Jeon (M.F.A. '07), storyboard artist/storyboard revisionist

South Park (Episode: "You're Not Yelping")
Neil Ishimine (M.F.A. '06), animator
Dave Koch (B.A. '92), animator

The Simpsons (Episode: "Halloween of Horror")
Mike B. Anderson (M.F.A. '90), director and supervising director
Nancy Cartwright (B.A. '81 Theater), voice actor
Susan Egan, voice actor
Sam Grinberg (M.F.A. '15), animation production assistant
Richard Sakai (B.A. '77), producer
Harry Shearer (B.A. '64), voice actor
David Silverman (B.A. '79), consulting producer
Daniel Vega (M.F.A. '09), animation digital production assistant

OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES
American Crime
Lisa Wiegand (M.F.A. '98), cinematographer

Roots
David Beatty (B.A. '83), film editor

The People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story
Dean Hendler (B.A. '85), still photographer

Posted: September 12, 2016