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Over his career Michael J. Fox has won five Emmys, and now an acclaimed documentary about him could win a bunch more.<\/p>\n
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie from Apple TV+ earned seven nominations this morning, the most of any nonfiction film or series. It was recognized in the marquee category of Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series, as well as Outstanding Directing for a Documentary\/Nonfiction for Davis Guggenheim \u2013 the Oscar-winning director of An Inconvenient Truth. The feature doc also scored nominations for cinematography, picture editing, sound editing, sound mixing and music for John Powell\u2019s score.<\/p>\n
The documentary examines Fox\u2019s improbable rise from Canada to the heights of Hollywood fame, first on TV in Family Ties and later in films including the immensely successful Back to the Future franchise. And it chronicles his long struggle with debilitating Parkinson\u2019s disease, a condition with which he was first diagnosed at age 29.<\/p>\n
Guggenheim told Deadline he\u2019s gratified for the Emmy love. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of wonderful, mostly because I think people are starting to really understand who Michael J. Fox is as a human being,\u201d the director said. \u201cHe was so open in the movie, so emotional, so unafraid, so candid and so real \u2014 and that\u2019s a big risk for someone to take to put himself in a documentary, and the world embraced him. I\u2019m just so happy. I\u2019m happy mostly for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guggenheim also said he was thrilled to be sharing the Emmy spotlight with so many fellow nominees from Still. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe movie was a true creative collaboration, especially with me and Michael Harte, the editor,\u201d Guggenheim noted. \u201cHe brought so much to this movie. Every article talks about how form-breaking the editing is. I\u2019m happy he\u2019s getting recognized. And John Powell\u2019s score, which is not a typical documentary score. It\u2019s very brave and it\u2019s very bold. And my full creative team, all the producers and the sound team, it really is a full creative team effort. Too often it\u2019s just the director that gets recognized. So that\u2019s very gratifying for me to see everyone else be honored.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fox\u2019s 2021 memoir Michael J. Fox: No Time Like the Future, described as \u201ca moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality,\u201d became a New York Times bestseller. At Sundance, where Still premiered, Fox told Deadline he didn\u2019t hesitate when the Oscar-winning Guggenheim came calling.<\/p>\n
\u201c[When] Davis Guggenheim would like to do a documentary about you \u2013 whether you\u2019re in the business or not \u2013 you\u2019re going to want to do that, work with someone of that quality, and I certainly did,\u201d Fox said in January. \u201cHe understood that the writing I\u2019d done and what the feeling was behind it, it was not a \u2018Oh, what terrible things happened to you with Parkinson\u2019s\u2019 story, it was a story about what great things happen to you when you\u2019re alive.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series category, Still will face off against Being Mary Tyler Moore (HBO Max), Judy Blume Forever (Prime Video), My Transparent Life (Prime Video), and the Netflix Pamela Anderson doc Pamela, A Love Story.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m in great company,\u201d Guggenheim noted. \u201cIt\u2019s just such an exciting time to be making documentaries because there\u2019s a feeling of like, there are no more boundaries. You can try anything, and if you tell a good story and you tell it honestly, there\u2019s nothing you can\u2019t do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guggenheim told us his daughter Stella made an important editorial contribution to the film.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were locking picture. That\u2019s a nervous moment when you say, \u201cOkay, this is it. No more changes,\u2019\u201d Guggenheim recalled. \u201cAnd my daughter Stella said, \u2018Hey, remember that shot where Michael J. Fox is looking straight to camera, very quietly, right into the lens?\u2019 And I go, \u2018Yeah.\u2019 She goes, \u2018Have you ever thought about putting that at the very end of the movie?\u2019 And so me and the editor, Michael Harte, put it in. I was like, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s it. That\u2019s our movie, and that\u2019s our title, Still.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
Guggenheim continued, \u201cWe put it in and it was perfect. It was the last thing we did. And it\u2019s my favorite part of the movie because it just captures the essence of this movie. Michael\u2019s always moving, moving, moving; the whole world is moving, moving, moving. But he has found something so meaningful in his life and that is being shared now through the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n
The documentary categories will be presented at the Creative Arts Emmys in Los Angeles, currently scheduled for two nights \u2014 September 9 and 10. A highlights show will be broadcast on FXX on Saturday, September 16, two nights before the Primetime Emmy show, scheduled to air live on Fox on Monday, September 18. Of course, all of this must considered tentative, because the ongoing Writers Guild strike and the possibility of an actors strike could force postponement.<\/p>\n
Guggenheim said he has \u201cno idea\u201d about the likelihood of a delayed ceremony.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone is saying something a little different. I try not to get preoccupied by it,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen it\u2019s time to show up, I\u2019ll show up.\u201d <\/p>\n
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