Today’s the day: the 70th Annual Emmy Award nominees were announced in Hollywood, and for the first time since 2005, Star Trek is in the running for television’s top honors.
Star Trek: Discovery was nominated today for two Emmy Awards stemming from the 2017-2018 season, for the work completed by the series’ production team.
Makeup artists Glenn Hetrick and James MacKinnon, along with the entire prosthetics team, landed a nomination for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series for their work specifically in the Season 1 finale, “Will You Take My Hand?”, which featured plenty of Klingons on Qo’noS, as well as appearances from Tellarite, Vulcan, and Kelpien Starfleet officers, plus Discovery bridge officers Airiam and Detmer, each with their own special appliances.
OUTSTANDING PROSTHETIC MAKEUP FOR A SERIES, LIMITED SERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL
Glenn Hetrick, Special Makeup Effects Department Head
James Mackinnon, Special Makeup Effects Department Head
Hugo Villasenor, Special Makeup Effects Artist
Rocky Faulkner, Special Makeup Effects Artist
Chris Bridges, Additional Makeup Effects Artist
Shane Zander, Additional Makeup Effects Artist
Neville Page, Prosthetic Designer
Michael O’Brien, Prosthetic Designer
In addition, Supervising Sound Editor Jon Mete and his team have been nominated in the area of Outstanding Sound Editing, for the USS Discovery’s escape from the Mirror Universe (“What’s Past is Prologue”) — an episode which featured mixed-era sound effects of the ISS Charon’s computer systems, the violent battle between Terran forces and the human rebels led by Gabriel Lorca, and the crazy trip through the Mycelial Network back to the prime universe.
OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING FOR A COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES (ONE HOUR)
Jon Mete, Supervising Sound Editor
Tim Farrell, Sound Designer
Chris Assells, Sound Editor
Matt Taylor, ADR Editor
T. Ashley Harvey, Dialogue Editor
Angelo Palazzo, Sound Effects Editor
Peter D. Lago, MPSE, Sound Effects Editor
Chris Scarabosio, Sound Effects Editor
Matt Decker, Music Editor
Trevor Sperry, Foley Artist
Ale Ulrich, Foley Artist
Prior to this year, Star Trek was last recognized by the Emmy Awards in 2005, when the final season of Star Trek: Enterprise received nominations in Hairstyling, Prosthetic Makeup, and Stunt Coordination for episodes that year.
The last win for the franchise was 2004’s “Countdown,” where the Enterprise episode nabbed the Emmy for Visual Effects.
In Trek-adjacent Emmy news, Black Mirror’s dark twist on Trek tropes, their episode “USS Callister,” was nominated for seven Emmy Awards in the “Limited Series or Movie” classification, including a nod for lead actor Jesse Plemmons.
The 70th Annual Emmy Awards will air on September 17 at 8PM on NBC.