‘Barry’s’ Bill Hader and ‘Watchmen’s’ Nicole Kassell among DGA Awards winners

Tulsa native Bill Hader has been honored for his directorial skills on his acclaimed HBO dark comedy series “Barry.”  

Already a two-time Emmy Award winner for his acting on the series, Hader won Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series Saturday for his work on the episode “ronny/lily” at the 72nd annual Directors Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles.

In the dramatic television series category,  Nicole Kassell won the DGA Award for helming the pilot of HBO’s “Watchmen.” As previously reported, the first episode, titled “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice,” recreated the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and established the acclaimed show as set in an alternate-reality version of Tulsa. 

‘Barry’ picks up four nominations for Critics Choice Awards

BARRY (HBO) – 4

Best Comedy Series

Best Actor in a Comedy Series – Bill Hader

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Anthony Carrigan

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Henry Winkler (link)

The Critics Choice Awards air January 12th, 2020, on the CW network beginning 7EST

‘Barry’ up for Golden Globe awards

See full list of nominees here!

Emmy nominee Henry Winkler talks about his “ensemble-loving” cast of Barry, and working with Bill Hader.

(via peopleTV)

Bill Hader Isn’t Letting Barry’s 17 Emmy Nominations Go to His Head

“Getting Emmy recognition—or like, WGA and DGA awards and stuff—it’s kind of mind-boggling. That’s all very, beyond gratifying,” he said. At the same time, he added, being from Oklahoma, he can’t take the Hollywood circus too seriously.

Barry co-creator Alec Berg, he continued, is “the same way. That’s probably why we get along so well. I called him this morning and said, Hey, we got 17 nominations, and he went, Wow, look at us! And that was about it. And then we talked about something else.”

You seem grounded, I suggested to Hader.

“I guess,” he laughed. “Or we’re depressed. Grounded, or fucking mentally disturbed.”

(via Vanity Fair)

71st Emmy Nominations Live Stream

(the live stream will begin at 11:30AM EST-here’s a time zone calculator ! Good luck, cast of Barry HBO!)

Bill Hader would be the first HBO series lead actor to win multiple Emmys since that OTHER mobster

HBO has been an Emmy juggernaut for so long that it might be surprising to learn only one lead actor has ever won multiple times for a series on the premium network: James Gandolfini (“The Sopranos”). But he might finally have company this year. Bill Hader (“Barry”) is the front-runner to win his second straight Best Comedy Actor prize for playing another killer in the mob world. I guess crime really does pay. (via Gold Derby)