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Georgia has Strong Showing at 57th Annual Emmy® Awards
HBO movie "Warm Springs" brings home five awards
ATLANTA, September 18, 2005 - The 2004 - 2205 Primetime Emmys for programs and individual achievements were awarded today by The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on the "57th Annual Emmy Awards" originating on the CBS Television Network from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
During the live program, "Warm Springs" won 5 Emmys® overall including Outstanding Made for Television Movie, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (Jane Alexander), Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie, Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore), and Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie.
In addition to Emmys in 27 categories announced during the Sunday live show, Emmys in 67 other categories for programs and individual achievements were presented at the Creative Arts Awards on September 11, 2005 from the Shrine Auditorium. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) is learning that Georgia talent is to be taken seriously out west in Hollywood with three Georgians winning Emmy Awards at the 57th Annual Creative Arts Emmy Awards for Programs and Individual Achievements announced at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on September 11. Mary Ellis won an Emmy for Sound Mixing; both Thomas Minton and Frank Galline, S.D.S.A. were both awarded for Art Direction.
A never before amount of Georgia film talent was nominated by the Academy this year, more specifically for the HBO movie "Warm Springs" which chronicled President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first years after contracting Polio in the early 1920's and the unplanned course that discovery charted him and his wife Eleanor upon, eventually leading to the White House. Overall, "Warm Springs" was nominated for an unprecedented 16 Emmy Awards with several of the nominees named from the Georgia based crew.
Congratulations to those Emmy-winning Georgians who were a part of the HBO movie "Warm Springs", named after the town that changed the man that changed the nation.
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