From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox television From the Earth to the Moon is a 1998 American twelve-part television miniseries co-produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Tom Hanks and Michael Bostick. The series aired on HBO from April 5 to May 10, 1998. In docudrama format, it tells the story of the Apollo program during the 1960s and early 1970s. Largely based on Andrew Chaikin's 1994 book, A Man on the Moon, the series is known for its accurate telling of the story of Apollo and the special effects under visual director Ernest D. Farino. The series takes its title from, but is not based upon, Jules Verne's 1865 science fiction novel From the Earth to the Moon.

Hanks appears in every episode, introducing each of the first eleven.[1] The twelfth and final episode, represented in pseudo-documentary format, is narrated by Blythe Danner, interspersed with a reenactment of the production of Georges Méliès' 1902 film Le Voyage dans la Lune, also in part inspired by Verne's novel. Hanks narrates and appears in these scenes as Méliès' assistant, with Tchéky Karyo as Méliès.

Cast

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The miniseries has a fairly large cast. It portrays 30 of the 32 astronauts who flew, or were preparing to fly, the 12 missions of the Apollo program. (The only two Apollo astronauts not portrayed by credited actors are Apollo 13 Command Module pilot Jack Swigert, who is heard but not seen in Episode 8, and Apollo 17 Command Module pilot Ronald Evans, who has a brief appearance in the liftoff scene of Apollo 17 in the final episode.) Members of many of the astronauts' families, and other NASA and non-NASA personnel, are also portrayed.

Several fictional (or fictionalized) characters are also included, notably television newscaster Emmett Seaborn (Lane Smith) who appears in nine of the 12 episodes.

Astronaut David Scott, from Apollo 15, was the chief technological consultant.[2]

Episodes

The 12 episodes, each directed by a different person, use a variety of viewpoints and themes, while sequentially covering the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Lane Smith portrays Emmett Seaborn, a seasoned reporter for a fictional television network who covers the U.S. space program from its earliest days, providing continuity for most of the episodes.

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Integration with existing films

The miniseries, concentrating on the Apollo space program, was produced with an intent not to repeat other dramatic portrayals of events of the space race.

Project Mercury, which was portrayed in the 1983 film The Right Stuff, was briefly summarized in the first episode. Miniseries producers Hanks, Howard and Grazer, who had previously produced the 1995 film Apollo 13, shot the episode "We Interrupt This Program" from the perspective of the media covering that flight, as the film had already covered the story from the point of view of the crew and the mission control team.

Production

Many of the actors had opportunity to interact and form friendships with the real life astronauts they were portraying. Brett Cullen, who played Apollo 9 Command Module pilot and Apollo 15 commander David Scott, was invited to the Scott family home each time an episode he appeared in was first televised. Two short clips from the final scenes of Apollo 13 were used in "That's All There Is"; a splashdown sequence, and a view of the recovery ship USS Iwo Jima (portrayed by USS New Orleans).

The original series was shot in Super 35, intended to be viewed on standard television sets of the time in 1.33:1 aspect ratio. With the proliferation of widescreen flat-panel TV sets the series was remastered in the 1.78:1 aspect ratio and re-released in 2005 as a 5-disc DVD box set. As is the case with most material shot in this format, the widescreen framing causes the loss (in some shots) of the top and bottom parts of the frames from the original broadcast, but reveals additional information on the left and right. This is not always noticeable because of careful transfer process, but in some scenes important details are lost. For example, in the first episode, when the Gemini 8 / Agena assembly is tumbling around in space with a stuck thruster, the thruster is not visible in the new widescreen version, as it is cut off by the top of the frame. Some captions have also been compromised.[3]Template:Better source needed

Parts of the miniseries were filmed at the Disney-MGM Studios (now Disney's Hollywood Studios) in Orlando, Florida. Scenes of the moonwalks were shot inside the blimp hangars on a former Marine base in Tustin, California. Approximately half the area inside was converted to the Moon's surface, with the remainder used to hold production trailers. To simulate lunar surface gravity, weather balloons filled with helium were attached to the backs of the actors playing the astronauts in the lunar extravehicular activity scenes, effectively reducing their weights to one-sixth.

The score of "Spider" prominently features an imitation of the main title theme from the 1963 World War II movie The Great Escape, and Tom Kelly jokes about having a crew digging a tunnel out of the Grumman plant. The episode also featured a real Apollo Lunar Module (LM-13), which had been built for the Apollo 18 mission but was never used due to budget cuts.

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Nominee(s) Result Ref.
1998
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Artios Awards Best Casting for Mini-Series Meg Liberman, Marc Hirschfeld, and
Deborah Brown 		Nominated [4]
Online Film & Television Association Awards Best Miniseries Nominated [5]
Best Direction of a Motion Picture or Miniseries Nominated
Best Writing of a Motion Picture or Miniseries Won
Best Ensemble in a Motion Picture or Miniseries Nominated
Best Costume Design in a Motion Picture or Miniseries Nominated
Best Editing in a Motion Picture or Miniseries Won
Best Lighting in a Motion Picture or Miniseries Won
Best Music in a Motion Picture or Miniseries Nominated
Best New Titles Sequence in a Motion Picture or Miniseries Nominated
Best New Theme Song in a Motion Picture or Miniseries Nominated
Best Production Design in a Motion Picture or Miniseries Nominated
Best Sound in a Motion Picture or Miniseries Nominated
Best Visual Effects in a Motion Picture or Miniseries Nominated
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Miniseries Tom Hanks, Tony To, John Melfi,
Graham Yost, Michael Bostick,
Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Erik Bork,
Bruce Richmond, and Janace Tashjian 		Won [6]
Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Movie Tom Hanks (for "Can We Do This?")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Nominated
Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries or a Movie Graham Yost (for "Apollo One")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Nominated
Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or a Movie Richard Toyon, Kitty Doris-Bates,
Seth Reed, Amy Wells, and Michele Poulik
(for "Le Voyage Dans La Lune")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Nominated
Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or a Movie Craig Fincannon, Mark Fincannon,
Marc Hirschfeld, Sharon Klein,
Meg Liberman, Lisa Mae Wells Fincannon,
and Deborah Brown 		Won
Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or a Movie Gale Tattersall (for "Can We Do This?")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Nominated
Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries or a Movie Chrisi Karvonides-Dushenko
(for "Le Voyage Dans La Lune")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Nominated
Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special Vicky Phillips and Lynda Gurasich Won
Outstanding Makeup for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special Gina Lamendola, Greg Cannom, and
Ve Neill 		Nominated
Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Movie (Dramatic Underscore) Michael Kamen (for "1968")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Nominated
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie Laurie Grotstein (for "Can We Do This?")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Nominated
Richard Pearson (for "1968")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Nominated
Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special Richard Taylor, Barbara Issak,
Brian Thomas Nist, Joe Earle,
Christopher Brooks, Jerry Edemann,
David Melhase, James A. Williams,
Benjamin Beardwood, Dennis Gray,
Alyson Dee Moore, and Patricia Nedd
(for "Can We Do This?")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Nominated
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Miniseries or a Movie Joe Foglia, Scott Millan, and Brad Sherman
(for "1968")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Nominated
Joe Foglia, Rick Ash, and Adam Sawelson
(for "That's All There Is")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Nominated
Joe Foglia, Kevin Patrick Burns, and
Todd Orr (for "La Voyage Dans La Lune")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Nominated
Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special David Altenau, Tony Cutrono, Burt Dalton,
Ernest Farino, Matthew Gratzner,
John Hoffman, Evan Jacobs, Adam Lovell,
Eroc Moralls, James Roberts, and
Ariel Velasco-Shaw (for "1968")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Nominated
Television Critics Association Awards Program of the Year Won [7]
Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries and Specials Won
1999
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		American Cinema Editors Awards Best Edited Two-Hour Movie for Non-Commercial Television Richard Pearson (for "1968")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Nominated [8]
Art Directors Guild Awards Excellence in Production Design Award – Television Movie or Mini-Series Richard Toyon, Kitty Doris-Bates, and
Seth Reed 		Won [9]
Cinema Audio Society Awards Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television – Movie of the Week,
Mini-Series or Specials 		Joe Foglia, Kevin Patrick Burns, and
Todd Orr (for "Le Voyage Dans La Lune")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Won [10]
Costume Designers Guild Awards Excellence in Costume Design for Television Chrisi Karvonides-Dushenko Nominated [11]
Critics' Choice Awards Best Picture Made for Television Won [12]
Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television or Miniseries Jon Turteltaub (for "That's All There Is")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Nominated [13]
Golden Globe Awards Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television Won [14]
Producers Guild of America Awards Best Long-Form Television Tom Hanks, Tony To, John P. Melfi,
Graham Yost, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard,
Michael Bostick, Erik Bork,
Bruce Richmond, and Janace Tashjian 		Won [15]
Visionary Award Tom Hanks Won
Satellite Awards Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television Won [16]
Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television Kevin Pollak Nominated
Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television David Clennon Won
Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television Rita Wilson Won
Writers Guild of America Awards Television: Episodic Drama Graham Yost (for "Apollo One")Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Nominated [17]
Young Artist Awards Best Educational TV Show or Series Won [18]
2005
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Satellite Awards Outstanding Overall DVD Won [19]

See also

References

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