GOLDEN GLOBE® WINNER EDIE FALCO EARNS
FOURTH COMEDY NOMINATION FOR NURSE
JACKIE
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1
RECEIVES NOMINATION FOR BEST ORIGINAL SONG
SANTA MONICA, Calif. and
VANCOUVER, British Columbia,
Dec. 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/
-- Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), a premier next generation global
content leader, earned five Golden Globe® nominations today, topped
by a nod for its groundbreaking ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK (Netflix)
for Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical.
ORANGE's Taylor Schilling and
NURSE JACKIE's Edie Falco scored
nominations for lead actress in the comedy series category and
ORANGE's Uzo Aduba received a Golden
Globe® nod for supporting actress in the series, miniseries or
motion picture made for television category.
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY -- PART 1 received a
nomination for Best Original Song, Motion Picture for "Yellow
Flicker Beat" (Lorde).
This latest nomination for two-time Golden Globe® winner
Edie Falco marks her fourth NURSE
JACKIE nod for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television
Series, Comedy or Musical, and her 11th Golden Globe®
nomination overall. Taylor
Schilling's nomination for ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK is her
second for this role.
"We thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for this tremendous
recognition of Orange is the New Black and the
incomparable Edie Falco," said
Kevin Beggs, Chairman, Lionsgate
Television Group. "Orange has become another landmark
series for Lionsgate thanks to the brilliance and daring of Jenji
Kohan and the richness and diversity its cast. We
congratulate all of the extraordinary artists on both sides of the
camera for their remarkable work."
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, which is set to launch its third season
in 2015, is the most-watched original series on Netflix in all of
its territories around the world. The critically acclaimed series
has rapidly become a global pop culture phenomenon, with breakout
star Laverne Cox featured on the
cover of the June 9, 2014 issue of
Time and the series landing at #2 on Facebook's list of the Most
Talked-About Shows on TV in the U.S. this year. The series
was nominated for 12 Emmys in 2014 – the most of any comedy
series – and won three Emmy Awards. Its numerous additional honors
include a Peabody Award, a People's Choice Award, a GLAAD Media
Award and three Critics' Choice TV Awards. This month, the series
added two Writers Guild nominations to its four previous nods, and
scored two SAG nominations, a Producers Guild nomination and six
NAACP nominations, and was named a second time to AFI's annual list
of the top 10 TV programs of the year.
The heartbreaking and hilarious series stars Taylor
Schilling as Brooklynite Piper Chapman whose decade-old
relationship with a drug runner results in her arrest and 15-month
detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society,
Piper must trade her comfortable New York life for an
orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and
camaraderie amidst an eccentric and outspoken group of
inmates. The series' diverse ensemble also
includes Uzo Aduba, Jason Biggs, Danielle
Brooks, Laverne Cox, Michael J. Harney, Natasha Lyonne,
Selenis Leyva, Taryn Manning, Adrienne C.
Moore, Kate Mulgrew, Dascha Polanco, Laura
Prepon, Nick Sandow, Yael Stone, Lorraine
Toussaint and Samira Wiley. Orange is the New
Black is executive produced by Jenji Kohan and produced by
Lionsgate.
NURSE JACKIE, which will launch its seventh season in 2015,
stars Edie Falco as a strong-willed, fiercely loyal, deeply
dedicated but very flawed emergency nurse working in a New
York City hospital. Between chronic back pain and a personal
life constantly on the edge of collapse, she struggles to relieve
the pain and stay one step ahead of total disaster. Falco has
earned numerous honors for this role, including an Emmy® Award for
Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, an additional four Emmy® nods
in this category, and six SAG Award nominations, making her
the most nominated TV performer in SAG Awards history with a
total of 21 nominations. Merritt Wever was also
recognized for her work on the show with her first Supporting
Actress Emmy® for a comedy in 2013. Paul
Schulze, Dominic Fumusa, Anna Deavere Smith, Peter
Facinelli, Ruby Jerins, Stephen
Wallem and Mackenzie Aladjem also
star. Co-produced by Lionsgate and Showtime Networks, the
series was created by Evan Dunsky, Liz
Brixius & Linda Wallem and is executive produced
by Clyde Phillips, Tom Straw, Richie
Jackson, Liz Flahive and Caryn Mandabach.
ABOUT LIONSGATE
Lionsgate is a premier next generation global content leader
with a strong and diversified presence in motion picture production
and distribution, television programming and syndication, home
entertainment, digital distribution, channel platforms and
international distribution and sales. The Company currently has
more than 30 television shows on over 20 different networks
spanning its primetime production, distribution and syndication
businesses, including such critically-acclaimed hits as the
multiple Emmy Award-winning Mad Men and Nurse Jackie,
the comedy Anger Management, the broadcast network series
Nashville, the syndication
success The Wendy Williams Show and the critically-acclaimed
hit series Orange is the New Black.
Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent
successes as the blockbuster first three installments of The
Hunger Games franchise, the first installment of the
Divergent franchise, Now You See Me, John Wick, Warm Bodies, Roadside
Attractions' A Most Wanted Man, Lionsgate/Codeblack Films'
Addicted and Pantelion Films' Instructions Not
Included, the highest-grossing Spanish-language film ever
released in the U.S.
Lionsgate's home entertainment business is an industry leader in
box office-to-DVD and box office-to-VOD revenue conversion rates.
Lionsgate handles a prestigious and prolific library of
approximately 16,000 motion picture and television titles that is
an important source of recurring revenue and serves as the
foundation for the growth of the Company's core businesses. The
Lionsgate and Summit brands remain synonymous with original,
daring, quality entertainment in markets around the world.
www.lionsgate.com
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