Bruins snag top Emmy nominations

The Animation Workshop’s Professor Chuck Sheetz ’83 directed the “Simpsons” episode “Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind,” nominated for a 2008 Emmy Award as “Outstanding Animated Program.” And he is not alone. Two of Sheetz’ mid-80s classmates in the School’s Animation Workshop garnered nominations this year in the same category: Tom Yasumi ’88 was Animation Director on the “Spongebob Squarepants” episode “Inmates of Summer/Two Faces of Squidward,” and Dominic Polcino ’86, MFA ’91 directed the “Family Guy” episode “Blue Harvest.”

“The three of us worked together at Mattel during the summer of 1988,” Sheetz recalls, “creating animation for a primitive interactive toy, ‘The See and Say Videophone.’ At the time, we were surprised and thrilled just to have paying jobs in animation.”

If a TFT alumni reunion is in the works for the 2008 Emmy Awards telecast on Sunday, September 21, it will be deja vu all over again: three Bruins nominated in major categories have been to this party several times before.

A nomination for “Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series” went to Daniel Attias MFA ’82 for the “No Cannes Do” episode of HBO’s “Entourage.” This is Attias’ second nomination for the Emmys with his work on “Entourage.” The veteran director has also worked on “The Sopranos,” “Deadwood,” “The Wire” and “House,” and was Honored as “Filmmaker of the Year” at 2008’s UCLA Festival of New Creative Work.

Alumna Mariska Hargitay received her fifth nomination in the category Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series for her performance as Olivia Benson on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” A win this year would be her second.

Louis J. Horvitz ’68, a Special Guest at the 2008 Festival, confirms his ownership of the “Outstanding Directing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program” category with his 10th nomination, his seventh for an Academy Award telecast. A win this year would be the 5th for this top gun live event specialist.

Also:

Visiting Professor Conchata Farrell, teaching in the UCLA Arts Camp/Workshop, is a cast member of “Two and a Half Men,” nominated as “Outstanding Comedy Series.”

Visiting Assistant Professor Laura Karpman is nominated for “Outstanding Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or Special” for the “Jerry Was A Man” epsiode of “Masters of Science Fiction.”

And UCLA Professional Program in Screenwriting alum Berkley Johnson has been nominated for Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program” for “Late Night With Conan O’Brien.”

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