The Penguin made a splash throughout Saturday’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards, taking residence eight awards for The Batman spin-off’s craft and technical work.
The present, which is up for excellent restricted or anthology sequence at subsequent weekend’s fundamental Primetime Emmy Awards, took awards for hairstyling, costumes, prosthetic make-up, visible results, sound enhancing and sound mixing.
Various award winners careworn the significance of behind-the-scenes studio work to the HBO present’s success.
“It’s not just me. It’s all of these people, it’s many more in the studio who are really working their hardest to do something very special,” mentioned Mike Marino, the present’s prosthetic designer, accepting an award for prosthetic make-up.
The technical awards give The Penguin a wholesome lead amongst different highly-nominated restricted sequence forward of the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 14. The present additionally snagged main performing nominations, together with Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti for excellent lead actors.
The spin-off miniseries follows 2022’s The Batman, exploring the rise to energy of Oz Cobb, referred to as The Penguin, in Gotham City’s legal underworld.
Another spin-off from a significant franchise, Andor, additionally ran up spectacular numbers. The Disney+ present, a part of the Star Wars franchise, took residence 4 awards for enhancing, manufacturing design and costumes. The present earned 14 nominations, largely for technical classes, however was neglected of the operating for main performing awards.
Yan Miles, who gained excellent image enhancing for Andor, mentioned engaged on the present was nerve-wracking given the franchise’s wide-reaching success.
“You start seeing sort of stormtroopers on set, and you start seeing those things, you’re like, holy shit, I’m in Star Wars, right? I’m in that universe that I remember as an 8-year-old boy. And that’s pretty cool,” Miles mentioned.
Adolescence, the 12 months’s most critically acclaimed restricted sequence, remains to be anticipated to win the top awards within the classes subsequent week, however gained only one on Saturday, for its cinematography.
Marino, The Penguin prosthetic designer, emphasised the significance of championing human-made artistry throughout his acceptance speech.
“We are all human, and we all are artists working hard to pay bills and you know, make beautiful art,” Marino mentioned. “Even though, look, we’re not saving lives, maybe we’re making people’s lives better when they watch TV or when they attach themselves to a show or something.”
Michael Fontaine, from left, Crystal Jurado, Diana Choi, Mike Marino, Claire Flewin, Yoichi Art Sakamoto, and Bobby Diehl pose within the press room with the award for excellent prosthetic make-up for “The Penguin” throughout evening one of many Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025, in Los Angeles.
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The make-up, Marino mentioned, was paramount for the present’s main actor, Colin Farrell, who performs Oz Cobb, to deliver the character to life.
“He had mentioned that when he looked in the mirror for the first time, when we first did the makeup test, he immediately knew who his character was,” Marino mentioned. “He immediately knew how to speak, he knew how to walk.”
Johnny Han, the general visible results supervisor for The Penguin, helped handle a big group stationed everywhere in the world to create the present. The problem, he mentioned, was “trying to find a consistent vision among so many teams.”
“It took eight episodes for us to really dial that in,” Han mentioned.
