The NBC Sports Group on Thursday was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards for its coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the Sochi Games. All of the nominations were in production fields. Several other sports-related projects received nominations, ranging from Fox' Super Bowl XLVIII Halftime Show to ESPN's "30 for 30" production of "Hillsborough" (THE DAILY).
| CATEGORY |
NOMINEE |
PROGRAMMING |
| Outstanding Special Class Program |
NBC |
Sochi Games Opening Ceremony |
| Outstanding Art Direction For Variety, Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Program |
NBC |
Sochi Games Opening Ceremony |
Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction
For A Variety Special |
NBC |
Sochi Games Opening Ceremony |
| Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control For Miniseries, Movie Or Special |
NBC |
Sochi Games Opening Ceremony |
Outstanding Short-Format Live-Action
Entertainment Program |
Fox |
Super Bowl XLVIII Halftime Show |
Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction
For A Variety Special |
Fox, NFL Network |
Super Bowl XLVIII Halftime Show |
| Outstanding Short-Format Nonfiction Program |
ESPN Films |
30 For 30 Shorts |
| Exceptional Merit In Documentary Filmmaking |
ESPN Films |
"Hillsborough" (30 For 30 Soccer Stories) |
| Outstanding Short-Format Nonfiction Program |
A&E Digital Studios |
"I Was There: Boston Marathon Bombings" |
| Outstanding Commercial |
Nike, Wieden + Kennedy |
"Possibilities" |
YOU ONLY LIEV ONCE: HBO's "Hard Knocks" has won several Sports Emmy Awards during its run, and actor Liev Schreiber, who provides the voiceover for the show, on Friday said working on various sports shows and documentaries is his "favorite stuff" to do. Schreiber, who was promoting the new season of Showtime's "Ray Donovan," said, "It's really fun when you're teamed up with the right people, and HBO has some incredible sports programming." He added, "To be perfectly honest, I'm imitating John Facenda, to all of the purists out there who know who that is." Schreiber said Facenda, who was the legendary voice of NFL Films, "would do this epic narration and you had these very, very florally written things." Schreiber "It’s uniquely suited to sports" ("Today," NBC, 7/11).
