While True Detective star Matthew McConaughey was considered the frontrunner in the lead drama actor race at the 2014 Emmy Awards, it was director Cary Joji Fukunaga who scored the shows sole win at Mondays ceremony for Outstanding Directing. The seasons only director, Fukunaga won the gong for Who Goes There, which featured a six-minute, single-take tracking shot at the close of the hour.
The series also won four awards at the Creative Arts Emmys ceremony, including casting, makeup, main title design and cinematography. McConaughey and costar Woody Harrelson lost out to Breaking Bad lead Bryan Cranston, and the departing AMC series also took home the Outstanding Drama award.
Detective may have suffered from competing in the crowded drama category, when most pundits considered the anthology show a miniseries, in the same vein as Fargo and American Horror Story. A similar fate befell Orange is the New Black, which competed in the comedy category and lost to Modern Family, instead of vying for the drama prize.
Fukunaga reflected that being the only director of the season presented a lot of difficult challenges and an immense amount of work, but that being the sole auteur on a TV show is appealing because you ensure that your vision, along with the writers vision, will be continuous. He pointed to the work of Steven Soderbergh on Cinemaxs The Knick as an example of a director establishing a particular template for a new series. Steve had to go and one-up me with one more episode, he joked, of the dramas ten-episode order.
Though he admitted that Breaking Bad and other, more established series deserve to win the awards, Fukunaga conceded that any kind of recognition is great for the show its awesome that people are recognizing the value of the quality of the work.
Addressing the shows recent plagiarism controversy and McConaughey and Harrelsons playful response during the telecast Fukunaga said, I think they treated it just right. You have to make fun of it, you cant take that seriously.
The director will not be returning for season two of True Detective, and wryly told reporters, I definitely cannot tell you whos been cast or any of the plot points. Instead, hell return to film, having recently wrapped Beasts of No Nation with Idris Elba, which hell be editing until January.
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