Emmy Awards 2020: Maria Schrader bags an Emmy for her series 'Unorthodox'

German Director Maria Schrader won an Emmy Award for an Outstanding Direction in a Limited Series or Movie. Maria Schrader had helmed Netflix web-series Urthodox. Debuted in March, it was first Netflix series to be primarily Yiddish. Maria Schrader’s Netflix series Urthodox was inspired by Deborah Feldman’s autobiography.

Maria Schrader wins Emmy Award for Urthodox

Deborah Feldman’s autobiography Urthodox: Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots was released in 2012. Maria Schrader was also minated for 8 different minations. story of Urthodox follows story of a woman who flees an arranged marri and moves abroad, to start her new life. However, her past follows her re.

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  or minations in category of Outstanding Direction in a Limited Series or Movie were Little Fires Everywhere (Episode: "Find a Way"), Directed by Lynn Shelton, rmal People (Episode: "Episode 5"), Directed by Lenny Abrahamson, Urthodox, Directed by Maria Schrader, Watchmen (Episode: "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice"), Directed by Nicole Kassell, Watchmen (Episode: "Little Fear of Lightning"), Directed by Steph Green and Watchmen (Episode: "This Extraordinary Being"), Directed by Stephen Williams.

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Damon Lindelof and Cord Jefferson won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie for ir HBO’s Watchmen Episode: Extraordinary Being. 72nd Primetime Emmy Award was originally slated to be held at Microsoft ater in Los Angeles. However, due to Pandemic, ceremony was held virtually from actors’ homes across United States.

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American Television host  Jimmy Kimmel hosted this year’s Emmy Awards. 72nd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards was held from September 14-19. Earlier, on July 28, minations for this year’s Emmy Awards were anunced. Led by HBO mini-series Watchmen, 26 minations were added to its name. HBO’s Succession and Netflix’s Ozark have minated for 18 different awards at Emmys. Amazon Prime Video’s Marvelous Mrs Maisel was led by 20 minations at Emmy Awards, in terms of comedy.

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