You all might not have been able to see much of it due to how insanely dark every shot was, but apparently someone has seen something in the gargantuan The Long Night episode of Game of Thrones, because it’s already managed to pick up a fairly staggering five Emmy Awards.
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The third episode of the long-running HBO series’ eighth and final season copped a total of seven nominations at the recently-completed Creative Arts Emmy Awards – the slightly flowery name they use for “awards we deem not important enough to give out on the same night as the acting ones.”
Over the course of the two-night award ceremony, The Long Night won big. Real big.
In fact, it managed to scoop a grand total of five awards from its batch of seven nominations, which might seem a bit puzzling until you realise none of the awards had anything to do with whoever decided to light the whole thing with a tea candle.
The Long Night picked up Creative Arts Emmy gongs in the following categories, all of which are fair mouthfuls by themselves which makes weaving them into a run-on sentence too big of a hill to climb for a Monday:
- Outstanding Make-up for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic)
- Outstanding Music Composition for Series (Original Dramatic Score)
- Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series
- Outstanding Sound Editing for A Comedy or Drama Series (One-Hour)
- Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One-Hour)
So there you go. It’s interesting to note that it scored the Emmy for non-prosthetic make-up, but lost the Emmy for prosthetic make up to an episode of Star Trek: Discovery, even despite the presence of, y’know, [waves vaguely at the Army of the Dead] all of that.
This isn’t the last opportunity for The Long Night to add to its Emmy total either. When the quote-unquote “real” Emmy Awards go out next Monday, the episode has three more chances to add to its total thanks to nominations in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (for Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy), Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (for Maisie Williams as Arya Stark) and Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series categories.
So there you bloody go. The night is long and full of gongs. Get around it.
