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Darran Tiernan, a veteran Irish director of photography with over 30 years of experience, won the Emmy for best cinematography on a TV series (one hour) at the 78th Emmy Awards for Spider-Noir. The show secured five Emmys despite being cancelled after just one season. The ceremony at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles saw comedy-horror Widow's Peak take the most awards with eight, while Apple TV led platforms with 19 wins, followed by HBO Max and Netflix.
Darran Tiernan, in the business for more than 30 years, got his start shooting commercials before racking up credits on shows like The Penguin, Westworld and Perry Mason.
Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesDarran Tiernan, one of Ireland’s busiest directors of photography, has secured the award for best cinematography on a TV series at the 78th Emmy Awards. It has been a down-and-up week for Spider-Noir, which landed five Emmys days after it emerged that the show had been cancelled following just one season. Spider-Noir also won for stunt co-ordination, title design, special visual effects and sound editing.
Tiernan, in the business for more than 30 years, got his start shooting commercials before racking up credits on such high-end shows as The Penguin, Westworld and Perry Mason.
“I’m from, where it was hard to work on films, especially when I was growing up in the 1990s,” he told ShotDeck recently. “It was only just starting to happen when My Left Foot, Jim Sheridan’s film, came out and put us on the map, shot by the great Irish cinematographer Jack Conroy.
”Solicitor James MacGuill, who acted in several landmark cases, dies aged 63Ticketmaster accused of attempting to mislead Oasis fans on Croke Park tickets Taking place over two nights at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles, the ceremony for “craft” categories crowned the comedy-horror Widow’s Peak as the biggest winner with eight Emmys. In second place was the Super Bowl halftime show with seven.
Also scoring well were DTF St Louis, the US version of The Traitors and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The most garlanded “platform” of the night was Apple TV, securing 19 wins. HBO Max and Netflix followed with 16 and 13 Emmys, respectively, confirming the dominance of streamers over old-school broadcast television at such awards ceremonies.
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