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Beatles doco hit at Emmys

- Kylie Klein-Nixon kylie.klein-nixon@stuff.co.nz

Sir Peter Jackson’s Beatles documentar­y, Get Back, has won all five categories it was nominated for in the 2022 Emmys.

Jackson has also won the Emmy for Outstandin­g Directing of a documentar­y/Nonfiction Programme.

The eight-hour, three-part doco is nominated in five categories at the Creative Arts Emmys, which are announced over two days ahead of the full Emmy ceremony on Wednesday.

Get Back beat out Netflix’s The Andy Warhol Diaries and jeenyuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, HBO’s 100 Foot Wave, and the documentar­y tipped to beat Jackson’s epic, Showtime’s We Need To Talk About Cosby.

Jackson pipped director Andrew Rossi for The Andy Warhol Diaries; comedy legends Judd Apatow for George Carlin’s American Dream, and Amy Poehler for Lucy And Desi; Ian Denyer for Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy, and W. Kamau Bell for We Need To Talk About Cosby.

Get Back editor Jabez Olssen won Outstandin­g Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Programme, beating George Carlin’s American Dream, Lucy And Desi, Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy, Netflix’s The Tinder Swindler, and We Need To Talk About Cosby.

The film has also won Outstandin­g Sound Editing For A Nonfiction Or Reality Programme, for Wingnut Films’ Martin Kwok, Emile De La Rey, Matt Stutter, Michael Donaldson, Stephen Gallagher, Tane Upjohn-Beatson, Music Editor; Simon Riley; and Outstandin­g Sound Mixing For A Nonfiction Or Reality Programme for Michael Hedges, Brent Burge, Alexis Feodoroff, and Giles Martin.

It is understood Jackson and some of the WingNut Films team are in the US for the ceremony, which is not being screened live.

A highlights package will appear during the full Emmy Awards ceremony on Wednesday.

Industry paper Variety tipped Jackson to win the directing category for Part 3: Days 17-22, the final episode of the documentar­y, and Get Back to win each of the categories it’s in.

It noted the Wellington-made doco could be nudged out by Showtime’s zeitgeist-tapping, UScentric We Need to Talk About Cosby, however.

An early winner on the day was late Marvel star Chadwick Boseman, who won Outstandin­g Character Voice-Over

Performanc­e for his role as Star Lord T’Challa, in the animated Disney+ show What If...?, for the episode, What If... T’Challa Became A Star-Lord?, and former US President Barack Obama, who won Outstandin­g Narrator for Our Great National Parks.

After the nomination­s were announced, co-producer Clare Olssen, of Jackson’s film company Wingnut Films, said they were thrilled to receive the news and were incredibly proud of the team.

‘‘[The Emmy nomination­s] speak to the exceptiona­l filmmaking talent we have here in Wellington.’’

Ahead of the awards, editor Jabez Olssen said working on the film had been ‘‘one of the great privileges of my career’’.

‘‘To now be nominated for an Emmy Award is a true honour,’’ he

said. ‘‘I am so thrilled that our work has been recognised this way.’’

The documentar­y is compiled from hundreds of hours of visual and audio film made during the recording of Let It Be, at a period when the legendary band was close to breaking up.

Jackson has managed to tease a tense, engaging narrative from the recordings, including cliffhange­r episode endings, and a moving live recording of the band’s last public performanc­e together, with Stuff reviewer James Croot describing it as ‘‘stunning’’.

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