For the second year in a row, Star Trek: Discovery has earned recognition by television’s highest honor: the series has earned four Emmy Award nominations for Season 2’s production.
Announced today by the Television Academy, the series once again saw praise for the technical efforts of Discovery’s production team.
Sound Supervisor Matthew Taylor and his team have been nominated in the area of Outstanding Sound Editing, for the USS Discovery’s climactic battle along side the USS Enterprise in “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2,” the season finale — plus Michael Burnham’s time-twisting trip through history.
OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING FOR A COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES (ONE HOUR)
Better Call Saul — “Talk” (AMC)
Game of Thrones — “The Long Night” (HBO)
Gotham — “Legend of the Dark Night: I am Bane” (Fox)
Star Trek: Discovery — “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2” (CBS All Access)
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan — “Pilot” (Amazon)
Next up, VFX supervisor Jason Zimmerman and his team were tapped for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for their incredible work on “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2,” which featured not only the Starfleet vs. Control space battle but the final journey of the USS Discovery out of the 23rd century to a time unknown.
OUTSTANDING SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Game of Thrones — “The Bells” (HBO)
Star Trek: Discovery — “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2” (CBS All Access)
The Man in the High Castle — “Jahr Null” (Amazon)
The Orville — “Identity, Part II” (FOX)
The Umbrella Academy — “The White Violin” (Netflix)
Once more, 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 “If Memory Serves,” the standout return of the Talosians — and the disfigured Vina — as well as Star Trek alien races like Vulcans, Andorians, Tellarites, along with Kelpien officer Saru and enhanced officer Airiam as well.
OUTSTANDING PROSTHETIC MAKEUP FOR A SERIES, LIMITED SERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL
American Horror Story: Apocalypse — “Apocolypse Then” (FX)
Game of Thrones — “The Long Night” (HBO)
Star Trek: Discovery — “If Memory Serves” (CBS All Access)
Chernobyl (HBO)
Fosse/Verdon (FX)
Creative director Ana Criado and her team of animators and artists also landed a nomination for their work in the opening credits of the series, with Discovery’s first nomination for Outstanding Main Title Design.
The credits were updated at the start of Season 2, and continued to be modified as the story of the season progressed across the fifteen-episode run of the show.
OUTSTANDING MAIN TITLE DESIGN
Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes (Netflix)
Game of Thrones (HBO)
Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access)
True Detective (HBO)
Warrior (Cinemax)
Unfortunately, while there were several nods to the cast made in yesterday’s Saturn Awards nominations, there was no recognition here this year — and perhaps more disappointingly, no nomination for the outstanding work by Discovery costume designer Gersha Phillips and her team, who worked to create dozens of incredible new outfits for Season 2, from the practical Red Angel suits worn by Sonja Sohn and Sonequa Martin-Green, to the updated Starfleet uniforms worn by Captain Pike and the Enterprise crew.
The 2019 Emmy Award winners will be announced on September 22.