Emmys flashback: Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg produce winning tributes to the Greatest Generation

Jacob Sarkisian
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Executive producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have reunited for a third historical mini-series, this time taking to the skies with Apple TV+’s “Masters of the Air.” The series follows the members of the 100th Bomb Group, a Boeing B-17 heavy bomber unit that operated in the Air Force during WWII. This isn’t Hanks and Spielberg’s first war-time series, however. They previously executive produced “The Pacific,” which charted the US Marine Corps’ actions in the Pacific Theater of Operations. Before that, they created “Band of Brothers,” which dramatized the story of the Easy Company of the US Army, who went on a mission in Europe during WWII.

“Masters of the Air” looks to be a major Emmys player this year, particularly as it stars popular actors Callum Turner, Austin Butler, and Barry Keoghan. However, before we look ahead at that series’ Emmy potential, lets look back at the Emmy history of Hanks and Spielberg’s “The Pacific” and “Band of Brothers.”

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We’ll be listing both their Primetime Emmy wins and nominations and their Creative Arts Emmy triumphs and bids, too.

“Band of Brothers” (2002) — Seven wins, 20 nominations

Wins:

  • Best Miniseries

  • Best Achievement in Interactive Television Programming

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Directing, David Frankel, Tom Hanks,David Nutter, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, Phil Alden Robinson, Mikael Salomon, and Tony To

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Casting

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Single-Camera Picture Editing — (“Day of Days”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Sound Editing — (“Day of Days”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Sound Mixing — (“Carentan”)

Nominations:

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Writing, Erik Bork, E. Max Frye, Tom Hanks, Erik Jendresen, Bruce C. McKenna, John Orloff, andGraham Yost

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Cinematography — (“The Last Patrol”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Single-Camera Picture Editing — (“Replacements”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Art Direction — (“The Breaking Point”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Hairstyling — (“Crossroads”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) — (“Why We Fight”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Prosthetic Makeup — (“Day of Days”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Sound Mixing — (“Day of Days”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Sound Mixing — (“The Breaking Point”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Special Visual Effects — (“Day of Days”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Special Visual Effects — (“Replacements”)

  • Best Stunt Coordination — (“Carentan”)

  • Best Main Title Design

“The Pacific” (2010) — Eight wins, 23 nominations

Wins:

  • Best Miniseries

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Casting

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Art Direction

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Makeup (Non-Prosthetic)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Prosthetic Makeup

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Sound Editing — (“Peleliu Landing”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Sound Mixing — (“Basilone”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Special Visual Effects — (“Peleliu Landing”)

Nominations:

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Directing, David Nutter and Jeremy Podeswa — (“Iwo Jima”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Directing, Tim Van Patten — (“Okinawa”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Writing, Robert Schenkkan and Michelle Ashford — (“Iwo Jima”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Writing, Bruce C. McKenna and Robert Schenkkan — (“Home”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Cinematography — (“Peleliu Landing”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Single-Camera Picture Editing — (“Peleliu Landing”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Single-Camera Picture Editing — (“Iwo Jima”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Single-Camera Picture Editing — (“Okinawa”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Special Costumes — (“Melbourne”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Music Composition — (“Home”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Sound Mixing — (“Peleliu Landing”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Sound Mixing — (“Iwo Jima”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Sound Mixing — (“Okinawa”)

  • Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Special Visual Effects — (“Guadalcanal/Leckie”)

  • Best Main Title Design

Hanks and Spielberg got off to a great start with seven wins and 20 overall nominations for “Band of Brothers” but Emmy voters liked “The Pacific” even more, awarding it eight wins and 23 bids overall.

The most decorated episodes across both series was “Day of Days” from “Band of Brothers” and “Peleliu Landing” from “The Pacific.” Both received five bids overall and two wins each.

The category their shows have excelled the most in has been Best TV Movie/Miniseries/Special Sound Mixing, with a total of seven nominations and two wins in this area. Plus, both series won Best Miniseries and were nominated for both directing and writing. Can “Masters of the Air” continue that trend?

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