Remeber when I posted at June, 11th that the cast and crew of Mad Men including Vincent Kartheiser were on the Emmy Ballot Performer list and that the final announcement will be on July 17th? At the end they received 16 final nominations - but Vincent didn't make it. Nevertheless, lets keep our fingers crossed that the show will receive as much Emmys as possible, because that might let continue them to another season - Mad Men ist still a show, nobody watches... The final Emmy nominations were be announced yesterday from the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre 5:35 AM. Here is the complete list from Fox Business:


Die Academy of Television Arts & Sciences hat gerade die endgültigen Nominierungen für ihre 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards bekannt gegeben, und Vincent Kartheiser ist nicht dabei, obwohl Mad Men insgesamt 16 Nominierungen erhalten hat. Diese wurden gestern im Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre um 5:35 AM bekannt gegeben. Hier ist laut Fox Business die komplette Liste:

• Outstanding Drama Series:- Producers
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Jon Hamm
• Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: John Slattery
• Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series: Robert Morse
• Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series:"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (Pilot)-- Alan Taylor
• Two nominations for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (Pilot): Matthew Weiner & "The Wheel":Matthew Weiner, Robin Veith
• Two nominations for Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (Pilot): Bob Shaw, Production Designer; Henry Dunn, Art Director; Rena DeAngelo, Set Decorator & "Shoot": Dan Bishop, Production Designer; Christopher Brown, Art Director; Amy Wells, Set Decorator
• Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series: Kim Miscia, Casting Director (Pilot); Beth Bowling, Casting Director (Pilot); Laura Schiff, Casting Director (Series); Carrie Audino, Casting Director (Series)
• Outstanding Cinematography for a One-Hour Series -- "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" - Phil Abraham, Director of Photography
• Outstanding Costumes for a Series -- "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes": John A. Dunn, Costume Designer; Lisa Padovani, Assistant Costume Designer
  
• Outstanding Hairstyling for a Single-Camera Series -- "Shoot" -- Gloria Pasqua Casny, Department Head Hairstylist; Lucia Mace, Key Hairstylist; Anthony Wilson, Additional Hairstylist; Barbara Cantu, Additional Hairstylist
• Outstanding Main Title Design -- Mark Gardner, Designer/Director; Steve Fuller, Designer/Director; Cara McKenney, Main Title Producer
• Outstanding Makeup for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic) "The Hobo Code" -- Debbie Zoller, Department Head Makeup Artist; Ron Pipes, Key Makeup Artist; Suzanne Diaz, Additional Makeup Artist
• Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special -- "Nixon Vs. Kennedy" -- Debbi Zoller, Department Head Makeup Artist; Joel Harlow, Special Makeup Effects Artist; Brian Penikas, Additional Special Makeup Effects Artist; Jake Garber, Additional Special Makeup Effects Artists

So none of the girls made it either - it seems they prefer "old men" besides JH ;-)

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences just announced their 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards Ballot - and Vincent Kartheiser and his Mad Men cast & crew members are nominated!
In the categories below, the members can vote for 0-10 performers (TV-Shows). So now Vincent and his fellow colleagues have to be chosen, if so, they would be this year's Emmy nominees :-) So let's have our fingers crossed!
The final Emmy nominations will be announced from the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre 5:35 AM at July 17, 2008.


Die Academy of Television Arts & Sciences hat gerade die Wahlzettel für ihre 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards bekannt gegeben, Sowohl Vincent Kartheiser als auch seine Kollegen von Mad Men sind vor-nominiert! wenn sie es schaffen, werden sie für einen Emmy nominiert. Also laßt uns die Daumen drücken!
Die endgültigen Nominierungen werden am 17 Juli 2008 im Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre um 5:35 AM bekannt gegeben.


Outstanding Drama Series
094
Mad Men


Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series
049
as Don Draper
Jon Hamm
Mad Men


Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series
179
as Peggy Olson
Elisabeth Moss
Mad Men


Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series
428
Vincent Kartheiser
Mad Men

498
as Roger Sterling
John Slattery
Mad Men


Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
690
as Joan Holloway
Christina Hendricks
Mad Men

695
as Betty Draper
January Jones
Mad Men

751
as Rachel Menken
Maggie Siff
Mad Men

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series
927
as Bertram Cooper
Robert Morse
Mad Men


Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series
1017
as Midge Daniels
Rosemarie DeWitt
Mad Men



Sources:
Emmy Ballot Performer
Emmy Ballot Program

My MacBook was sick for the last 2 days, therefore I have a couple of news for you today:

Nominees: Best Show You're Not Watching

Logo nominated Vincent Kartheiser's Mad Men as one of the shows in their categoriy: Best Show You're Not Watching. Logo is the new lesbian & gay network from MTV Networks. For what it's worth it: it's an audience award, so everybody can vote for it here:

Vote !

So you all know what to do, right?

Sources: Debora on Basket of Kisses and fitzwilliamlogo on [madmen_tv]

New Mad Men article & image from Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair provided a new picture of the Mad Men cast and a nice short article about the show, unfortunately it doesn't say anything about my favoured characters Vincent's Pete and Elisabeth Moss' Peggy, but, you can't have everything :-) :

( Full Vanity Fair Article )





Sources: Vanity Fair

The L.A. Times: Can Mad Men, Dexter, Damages or Tudors reap Emmy bids?

Some LAT journalists talk about their thoughts on the upcoming Emmy nominations:

( Full NYT acticle )

Sources: L.A. Times


Logo hat Vincent Kartheiser's Mad Men für einen Award in der Kategorie: Best Show You're Not Watching nominiert :-). Hinter Logo verbirgt sich der schwul/lesbische Bereich von MTV. Das schöne an diesem Award ist, dass jede(r) mit abstimmen kann:

Abstimmen !

Ihr wißt also, was Ihr zu tun habt?

Ansonsten hat es diese Woche sowohl in der Vanity Fair als auch in der L.A. Times kleine Artikel mit Bildern zu Mad Men gegeben. Es war nichts über Vincent darin enthalten, nur eine paar allgemeine Bemerkungen zu der Show bzw. Vermutungen darüber, wer dieses Jahr für einen Emmy nominiert wird.

Vincent, I wish you all the luck in the world :-)

Vincent Kartheiser turns 29 today and I decided to use his birthday to remember my favoured scenes of his movies and TV Shows. Of course this list is personal, not the slightest impartial and it's meant to be that way :-)

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag, Vincent! Ich wünsche Dir alles Liebe & Gute :-)

Vincent Kartheiser wird heute 29 Jahre alt und ich habe beschlossen, seinen Geburtstag zum Anlaß zu nehmen, mich an die Film- & TV-Szenen zu erinnern, die mir besonders gut gefallen haben. Natürlich ist diese Aufzählung persönlich und nicht mal ansatzweise objektiv. Es gibt diesen Artikel nur in englisch, auf deusch findet Ihr auf meiner Fanseite mehr Informationen und Filmbesprechungen.

The Unsaid

Where the journey began...

It was August 2001, when this movie was first shown in Germany at the Fantasy Film Festival - and I was the projectionist responsible for it. I remember watching it and for the first time I saw this young, to me totally unknown actor, who impressed me from the start. The audience expect at the beginning, that Vincent's character Thomas is a victim of some cruel event in the past and it took a while to figure, that he is the suspect instead. I especially remember the scene, were he's dating this nice girl and just seem to be a normal teenager, and than, in an instant, just snaps.

Vincent is brilliant in delivering violence and madness and he can play such a character in a way, that you still want to save him rather than seeing him caught and punished. The Unsaid won the Audience Award at the Marrakech International Film Festival in 2001.

 

Crime & Punishment in Suburbia

"Don't touch me unless you love me"

Vincent said during a BBC interview in 2003, that are more good teenage movies out there than you expect, and Crime & Punishment is definitely on of them. Vincent, who is the narrator of the story too, plays Vincent, a sensitive, intellectual outsider at his school, who is deeply in love with a beautiful female star in his class, but so far not have been noticed by her. As a passionate photographer, he stalks her and therefore he see things happen to her, things everybody else try superficially to ignore. When she finally falls from grace, he is the only person left who's truly be there for her.

The movie deals with a lot of heavy issues such as rape, vengeance & forgiveness, and the good thing is, that it doesn't try to find simple answers as so many American movies do. When the female hero and her boyfriend finally kill her nemesis, she didn't "rides into the sunset" afterwards, holding hands with him, she - and even more, he - rather have to deal with the consequences, not only because of the legal, but the emotionally outcomes too.

 

This is certainly one of my all-time-favourite-Vincent-movies and I can definitely recommend the soundtrack. Crime & Punishment didn't win any awards; it just had a couple of nominations, i.e. at the Sundance Festival the Grand Jury Prize. Well you can't have everything :-)

 

 

Angel

"I always had a thing for older women" :-)

There is a lot to say about the TV show Angel and Vincent's Connor in particular and it's all been said and done quite a while ago. One of my favoured Vincent stories is, that I almost stopped watching Angel for a couple of reasons during season 3 and the I only kept going, because a friend of mine (who was a few episodes ahead of me) told me, that Connor would be back as a teenager - and that he would be brilliant. The funny thing is, that she didn't know that I was watching Vincent's work at that time and I for some reason didn't noticed, that he was in a TV show :-)


So I stayed and I didn't regret it. I liked the "idea" of Connor, although I didn't always liked how he was written. There was a time during season 4 when I had the feeling, that the writers were uncertain, how to deal with the character, and I still give Vincent credit how he delivered his lines, despite the fact, that they don't always made sense, considering what happened the episode(s) before. I even liked the whole Cordelia/Connor relationship, because for me it stands exemplary for what all Joss Whedon shows are about: to break the characters, explore their dark sides and throw them "over the next cliff", just to find out, how they deal with it, even when it means, that the audience's expectations (including mine) don't necessarily get fulfilled. This is one thing you learn as a Joss Whedon Fan very soon: to not take yourself to seriously, if you can't handle that, you better find yourself some nice, happy soap :-) And I'm really tired of watching American movies where the 40 year old male hero gets the 20 year old girl, so I always enjoy when I have a chance to watch something different :-)))

At the end I can say, I made my peace with season 4, especially with last 3 episodes, which are just brilliant and I liked the way, Connor was brought back in season 5. "The Origin" was certainly worth waiting for it that long and it propitiate me after all the things I didn't enjoyed so much in the past. Kelly A. Manners & Terrence O'Hara , I love you for that one :-)). And of course, Angel won some awards too: in 2004 the Saturn Award for Best Network Television Series, after being nominated 2003 (and 2005)

Dandelion

"Sometimes I think, love is something we create to make us feel better"

Dandelion delivers its story without many dialogues and focuses more on emotions and impressions. Not everything is explained, so the audience has the chance to make up their own mind about the character's motivation. This gives us the opportunity to project our own experiences at the them and it leads - at least me - to the interesting situation, that this movie always leaves me in a different mood, which depends very much on my personal feelings I had that day.

I showed Dandelion over the years to most of my co-workers at the movie theater, and when I already had a bad day, it could made me really depressed, because I focused on the sad love story. On good days, it's longing for life could made me just happy and excited and at on one of this typically, German, rainy days, it became my "summer" movie, wishing I could just lay in the sun as Vincent's character Mason, allowing my thoughts to drift away....

Dandelion is a movie about people who stopped communicating with each other and the consequences of it. It's cinematography is extraordinary and the cast amazing. It won 3 awards for best movie and for its cinematography at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the RiverRun International Film Festival in 2004.

 

Killing Zelda Sparks

"I'm gonna kill her with my words"

Killing Zelda Sparks is a bloody, black comedy, which is just fun to watch - if you like this particular genre what I do; hey, I'm the Fantasy Film Festival girl, remember? So I watched it with my co-workers form the FFF and we all loved it - although Vincent was right: the wig IS bad - but anyway, you don't have to be a Fan of him to enjoy the movie. After watching it, I'm always sitting there with a big, fat smile at my face. The chemistry between Vincent and Geoffrey Arend is brilliant, most of the dialogues are just fabulous and witty, although at some point in the middle the editing isn't that good and you can tell, that the filmmakers are not that experienced.

I have so many favoured scenes that I hardly know where to start. I love it, when Vincent's Graig goes mad, he is so funny to watch, when his face turns red, he's barely able to speak any more and you wait the whole time for him to explode - and then it doesn't happen! And when it happens, you remember immediately why Vincent is so believable as a psycho.

And be careful: there are twists which take part in the 2nd part of the movie, so I can only recommend NOT to read too much about it and just watch it, you will be surprised. And because of that, seeing it the 2nd time is even better ;-)

Killing Zelda Sparks won the Heineken Red Star Award at the San Diego Film Festival in 2007.

Mad Men

"It's just a bachelor party, dear"

Mad Men is the show for which Vincent finally received his very own award as Breakthrough Star of the Year. Although the first season has 13 episodes, one of my favoured moments still is a scene from the pilot, where he talk to his fiancée at the phone while having fun with his co-workers in the his office. This scene delivers basically everything you need to know about his character Pete: He's funny, charming, caring, lying, cheating & ambitious all in the same moment. Pete is all grey-shaded and Vincent told me, that it will stay that way :-) The episode, which focuses most on his character, is 1.04 New Amsterdam, in which the audience can find out more about his background and the demons he's fighting.

Mad Men basically won every award this year a show can possibly win, including a Golden Globe as best TV Drama and another one for the best male lead. Let's hope that this helps the show to continue, because the ratings aren't that good. Again, Vincent seems to be part of a project which delights the film reviewers more that the common audience.

The Celebration for SAG, WGA and DGA Nominations for Mad Men was quite a while ago on January 25, 2008 at The Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood, California, but today I found some new pics with Vincent at the contactmusic page which I want to share. As we all know, Mad Men finally received 2 Awards: DGA & WGA :-) , the last one actually on Feb. 9th and AMC announced proudly yesterday:

"On Saturday, February 9, the Writers Guild of America announced the winners of this year's WGA Awards, naming Mad Men the Best New Series of 2007. The award honors the series as a whole rather than a specific episode. Writers for the first season include Lisa Albert, Bridget Bedard, Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Tom Palmer, Chris Provenzano, Robin Veith, and Matthew Weiner.That makes two Golden Globes, one Directors Guild Award, and one Writers Guild Award. Not bad."

Not bad at all :-)))

Die AMC Feier zur Nominierung von Mad Men hatte zwar schon am 25. Januar stattgefunden, ich habe aber bei contactmusic neue nette Bilder mit Vincent gefunden und möchte diesem niemand vorenthalten. We wir alle wissen, hat  Mad Men bei diesen Awards 2 abbekommen: DGA & WGA :-)






Isn't  that how we remember Vincent from the Starfury con? And it's nice to find finally some pics which him are not watermarked :-)

Source: Contactmusic

It's winter solstice and a beautiful day in my country: everything is covered with glazed frost now and in the morning, when I was on may way to work, everything was mystically befogged, but I'm afraid it will not stay that way for long, at least not in my part of Germany, which is usually a little bit warmer. The second pic is from my friend's place yesterday, isn't it amazing? Tonight I'm going to celebrate with my friends, so I wish you all a beautiful mid winter evening :-))


Es ist Wintersonnenwende und ein wunderschöner Tag, alles ist mit Reif bedeckt, heute morgen fuhr ich auf dem Weg zur Arbeit durch geheimnisvollen Nebel, aber ich befürchte, es wird wie immer nicht lange halten, dazu ist es hier einfach nicht kalt genug. Das zweite Bildchen wurde gestern von meinem Freund gemacht, ist es nicht einfach nur wunderbar? Heute abend werde ich mit meinen Freunden Wintersonnenwende feiern, daher wünsche ich Euch allen einen schönen Tag :-))

Actors Screen Guild Nomination für Vincent's Mad Men

Mad Men received at Dec 20st a nomination in the category DRAMA ENSEMBLE. It seems to be a good year for Mad Men and Vincent :-)
Mad Men wurde am 20. Dezember in der Sparte Bestes Ensenmble nominiert, so wie die Auszeichnungen derzeit hageln, scheint es ein wirklich gutes Jahr für die Show und damit letzlich auch für Vincent gewesen zu sein :-)

Source/Quelle:
Screen Actors Guild
Variety

The nominations for the Golden Globes includes this time Vincent's Mad Men in the category Best Television Series - Drama :-) John Hamm is nominated for Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama additionally. The event will take place on January 13th 2008 in L.A. at 8 pm. Let's keep our's fingers crossed :-)
To see all nominations go to http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/

Vincents Mad Men ist dieses Mal bei den Golden Globe Nominierungen in der Kategorie Best Television Series - Drama vertreten :-) John Hamm ist zusätzlich für Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama aufgestellt. Die Verleihung wird am 13. Januar 2008 in L.A. um 8 pm Ortszeit stattfinden und hoffentlich wieder von PRO7 übertragen werden. Dann lasst uns mal alle die Daumen halten :-)
Die restlichen Nominierungen findet Ihr hier: http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/