OFTA TV Hall of Fame |
| Television Programs |
PGA Hall of Fame - Television Programs |
Primetime Emmy |
| Outstanding Achievement in Costuming for a Miniseries or a Special |
| Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Special |
| Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for a Miniseries or a Special |
| Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special (Dramatic Underscore) |
| Outstanding Achievement in Special Visual Effects |
| Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or a Special |
| Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or a Special |
| Outstanding Directing in a Miniseries or a Special |
| Outstanding Editing for a Miniseries or a Special - Single Camera Production |
| Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special |
| Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special |
| Outstanding Miniseries |
| Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries or a Special |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special |
TCA Award |
| Outstanding Achievement in Drama |
| Program of the Year |
This is the most moving experience I have had in a lifetime of television watching. One feels transported into a world that reveals the scope of human capabilities: love, hate loyalty, treachery benevolence, meanness magnanimity, misanthropy heroism.
Sequels are always looked upon with mistrust. Too often when something good and successful gets prolonged it turned out that the producer just wanted to milk a worthy cow dry.
Robert Mitchum, a real life Holocaust denier, was about 25 years too old for his character in this boring mini-series, plus he looked ill and infirm.
Like I wrote before on 'part one' of this tremendous saga, 'The Winds of War' ('WoW'), the only thing one wants after viewing the first part, is to watch the conclusion! Having read both books, and seen both series many times, I can only bow my head to the writer and maker of the 'mini-films': Herman Wouk and Dan Curtis.
I am a WWII buff (and history in general as well). This series (hardly a "mini") covers both the European and Pacific theaters of WWII thru the eyes of the Victor Henry family.
I doubt anyone could afford to produce this miniseries today. I saw it when it first aired and I watched it again this month on DVD and it is amazing how well it holds up.
If ever the word "sprawling" applied to a television miniseries, this is the one. It's like watching the unfolding of World War II through the hundred eyes of a housefly, each lens yielding a different perspective.
I was not at all happy with the replacement of Ali McGraw with Jane Seymour; Jan Michael Vincent with Hart Bochner and some of the other changes. Thank God they left Robert Mitchum alone despite his age.
If you want to measure how much television production and mass entertainment has regressed over 20 years you should check "War and Remembrance" and compare it with trash aired on television and theaters right now. Characters straight from Herman Wouk's original novel are dramatic , have feelings , fears , struggles , personal agonies , accomplishments and failures.
