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Art & Crafts from The Ankler

Art & Crafts from The Ankler is dedicated to bringing audiences behind the scenes to examine the careers and contributions of the talented artisans who create and craft the movies and TV series that we love.

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35:36

Art & Crafts: Making of ‘Andor’ Season 2

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2025/08/25

When Dan Gilroy sat down with his brother, Andor creator Tony Gilroy, and fellow writers Tom Bissell and Beau Willimon, to work on the Emmy-nominated show’s second and final season, he knew they had a tall task ahead. “On a lot of shows, climax means spectacle, and throwing a lot of money on the screen and looking for things to break and crash,” Dan Gilroy says to Ankler Media deputy editor Christopher Rosen on the latest episode of the Art & Crafts podcast. “That was not our climax. Our climax is a

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17:07

Art & Crafts: How ‘The Bear’ Sound Team Creates Quiet...

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2025/08/18

The sound design of the FX comedy series The Bear is often so noisy — heated conversations, shattered plates, clanging pots and pans — that when the Emmy Award-winning show goes quiet, it can feel like a primal scream. Never had the power of silence been more apparent on the series than in the season 3 episode “Doors,” which opens at a funeral service for the mother of pastry chef Marcus (Lionel Boyce). “It was a real gift that they gave us that nice quiet moment before devolving into even more

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15:54

Art & Crafts: Baby Noises & Dope Beats: How TV’s Top...

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2025/08/15

The Netflix animated series Love, Death + Robots has featured several innovative and unexpected episodes during its four-season run, but perhaps none as unique as “400 Boys,” where an army of gigantic babies threatens to end the world. “There’s a lot of sound design that we can play around with for something like that,” says supervising sound editor Brad North, MPSE, about the conceit of the episode. On the latest edition of The Ankler’s Art & Crafts podcast, North and fellow Emmy nominee Eliot

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12:27

Art & Crafts: How a Childhood Visit to 7-Eleven Led...

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2025/08/14

“There was a magazine called Famous Monsters of Filmland that they used to sell at a 7-Eleven near my family’s house. And one day, I looked in the back of it, and there was a photo of them putting a man into the Godzilla suit. And I went, ‘Oh, wow, it’s a suit. Somebody makes this stuff,’” saysThe Umbrella Academy visual effects supervisor and Emmy nominee Everett Burrell. “And that was totally the rocket ship in my brain to want to do this.” In a conversation with moderator Rob Legato, ASC, VES,

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20:39

Art & Crafts: ‘Hacks’ to ‘Pachinko’: TV’s Top...

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2025/08/13

In a conversation with set decorator Claire Kaufman, SDSA (and an Emmy Award nominee this year for The Studio), Emmy-nominated production designers Rob Tokarz (HBO Max's Hacks) and Ruth Ammon (Apple TV+'s Pachinko) discuss how they build the intricate sets for their respective shows — and their mutual apprecation. “I was Ruth’s art PA on my first union show — Heroes season 4,” Tokarz says. “I learned so much.” This episode, sponsored by Apple TV+, HBO Max and Universal Television, was recorded at

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22:21

Art & Crafts: Cutting Seth Rogen’s Jokes and More...

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2025/08/12

In a conversation with Molly Shock, ACE, Emmy-nominated editors Eric Kissack, ACE Apple TV+’s The Studio, Jamie Martin, ACE MTV’s RuPaul’s Drag Race and Peggy Tachdjian Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story chat about how their work helps guide the audience in the direction they need to go. “That is ultimately what drives everything we do,” Shock says. “But you all have three very different vehicles by which you are telling your stories.” This episode, sponsored by Apple TV+, MTV and

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21:01

Art & Crafts: 'Hacks', 'Severance' and the Pressure...

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2025/08/11

In a conversation with James Whitaker, ASC, Emmy-nominated cinematographers Adam Bricker, ASC (HBO Max's Hacks) and Jessica Lee Gagné (Apple TV+'s Severance) discuss the pressure that comes with returning to a hit series, how they each evolved the looks of their respective shows during the most recent season and how the production design informs their photography choices. “I didn’t know what season 2 was gonna be about,” Gagné says. “I wanted to do something new. I can’t stand lighting a set the

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21:19

Art & Crafts: Shaking Up Star Wars Lore with ‘Andor’

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2025/05/29

In a conversation moderated by four-time Emmy-nominated cinematographer and director Michael Goi, ASC, three of the creators behind Disney+’s Andor — costume supervisor Kate O’Farrell, production designer Luke Hull and composer Brandon Roberts — detail how they collaborated with creator Tony Gilroy to build the world of his acclaimed Star Wars spinoff series. The two-season drama, set prior to the events of Rogue One, follows Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) as he grows from smuggler to a stalwart of the

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33:47

Art & Crafts: Tales of the Irish Troubles on ‘Say...

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2025/05/28

In a conversation moderated by Emmy-nominated editor Michael Ruscio, ACE, three of the pros behind FX’s Say Nothing — creator and writer Joshua Zetumer, director Michael Lennox and cinematographer Stephen Murphy — delve into the process of crafting the haunting historical drama. Adapted from the nonfiction book of the same name by Patrick Radden Keefe, the scripted series conveys the complexity of the Troubles in Northern Ireland during the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. Lennox, a Northern Ireland native,

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18:27

Art & Crafts LIVE: Grace and Glamour on 'Étoile'

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2025/05/23

In this episode recorded live on May 8 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, production designer François Audouyon (whose credits include A Complete Unknown) moderates a conversation with three of the creators behind Amazon Prime Video’s 'Étoile': production designer Bill Groom, choreographer Marguerite Derricks and director of photography M. David Mullen, ASC. For the comedy set in the rarefied world of professional ballet, the team cast 20 professional dancers in

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18:20

Art & Crafts LIVE: Making a ‘Brutal, Dirty’ Western...

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2025/05/21

In this episode recorded live on May 8 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, director Jennifer Arnold speaks with three of the creators behind Netflix’s American Primeval: director of photography Jacques Jouffret, ASC, makeup department head Howard Berger and sound designer Wylie Stateman. The limited series follows the battle for control of the American West in 1857 through the eyes of a mother (Betty Gilpin) and son, on the run with the help of a steely mountain man

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14:55

Art & Crafts LIVE: Stylish Spycraft on ‘The Day of...

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2025/05/19

In this episode recorded live on May 8 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, cinematographer Nicole Hirsch Whitaker, ASC speaks with three of the creators behind Peacock’s The Day of the Jackal thriller series: director and executive producer Brian Kirk, costume designer Natalie Humphries and director of photography Christopher Ross. The series follows the cat-and-mouse saga of an assassin (Eddie Redmayne) and a British intelligence officer (Lashana Lynch), a twisty

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21:36

Art & Crafts LIVE: Recreating WWII London With ‘Blitz’

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2024/12/06

In this episode recorded live on November 12 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, director Patricia Riggen speaks with four of auteur Steve McQueen’s collaborators on his World War II drama Blitz for Apple Original Films: production designer Adam Stockhausen, editor Peter Sciberras, and supervising sound editors James Harrison and Paul Cotterell. The film recreates events from Germany’s devastating bombardment of London in 1940-41, while also following a mother and

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14:27

Art & Crafts LIVE: The Phantasmagoria of ‘Emilia Pérez’

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2024/12/04

In this episode recorded live on November 12 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Michael Ruscio, ACE, speaks with three of the creators behind director Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez: composers/songwriters Clément Ducol and Camille and editor Juliette Welfling. Netflix’s spectacular Spanish-language musical drama, which centers on a Mexican drug kingpin who transitions to live as a woman, is a genre-bending “phantasmagoria,” as Camille puts it. Welfling, a longtime

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21:20

Art & Crafts LIVE: Making Movie Magic With 'Wicked’'

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2024/11/22

In the second of four episodes recorded live on November 12 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Rob Legato, ASC, speaks with four of the talents behind Wicked, Universal Pictures’ epic musical adventure. Cinematographer Alice Brooks, ASC, editor Myron Kerstein, VFX supervisor Pablo Helman and supervising sound editor John Marquis discuss how they collaborated with director Jon Chu to create an eye-popping spectacle that also conveys the intense bond between Ariana

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15:35

Art & Crafts LIVE: Flights of Imagination in 'The...

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2024/11/20

In the first of four episodes recorded live on November 12 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Michael Goi, ASC, leads a conversation with three of the creators behind The Wild Robot, the $300 million global blockbuster from DreamWorks Animation and Universal Pictures. Composer Kris Bowers, visual effects supervisor Jeff Budsberg, and supervising sound editor Leff Lefferts reveal how they conveyed the evolution of Roz — the film's titular robot — as she is "stepping

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28:26

Art & Crafts LIVE: The Nominees – Outstanding Sound...

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2024/08/15

In the last of four special episodes recorded live on August 1 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Joel D. Catalan, CAS — a sound re-recording mixer who was Emmy-nominated for the NatGeo series Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey — sits down with two of 2024’s Emmy contenders in the category of outstanding sound editing for a comedy or drama series (one hour): Brian J. Armstrong, MPSE, is nominated for FX’s period drama Shogun, and Tim Kimmel, MPSE, got nods for two Netflix

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25:01

Art & Crafts LIVE: The Nominees – Outstanding Costume...

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2024/08/13

In the third of four special episodes recorded live on August 1 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Mona May — the costume designer behind iconic films including Clueless and The Wedding Singer — sits down with two of this year’s Emmy contenders in the category of outstanding period costumes for a limited or anthology series or movie: Lou Eyrich is nominated for her work on FX’s Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, and Safowa Bright Bitzelberger got the nod for

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25:09

Art & Crafts LIVE: The Nominees – Outstanding...

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2024/08/08

In the second of four special episodes recorded live on August 1 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Jeannine Oppewall — a four-time Oscar nominee for art direction on films including L.A. Confidential and The Good Shepherd — sits down with two of this year’s Emmy contenders in production design: Glenda Rovello is nominated for her work on Frasier, from Paramount+ and CBS Studios, and Gianna Costa got the nod for the MTV reality series RuPaul’s Drag Race. Costa

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41:05

Art & Crafts LIVE: The Nominees – Outstanding...

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2024/08/06

In the first of four special episodes recorded live on August 1 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Nicole Hirsch Whitaker (Netflix’s One Piece) sits down with three of this year’s Emmy-nominated directors of photography. Dana Gonzales got the nod for FX’s Fargo; Richard Rutkowski for Apple TV+’s Sugar; and Gary Baum for Frasier from Paramount+ and CBS Studios. These three veterans share their career paths, creative inspirations, aesthetic hacks and the bond they

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