Made In Hollywood Honors For Television 2016 – AFM Local 47 Electronic Media Division Administrator Gordon Grayson, Film Musicians Secondary Markets Fund Executive Director Kim Roberts Hedgpeth, Recording Musicians Association International President Marc Sazer, AFM Local 47 Vice President Rick Baptist. Not pictured: AFM Local 47 Secretary/Treasurer Gary Lasley. (Photo: Linda A. Rapka)
The 4th Annual Made In Hollywood Honors For Television awards honored this year’s Emmy-nominated shows produced in California and the Los Angeles area in a star-studded program the morning of Sept. 7, 2016.
The Los Angeles City Council each year honors Emmy-nominated productions in the fall and Oscar-nominated productions every spring that were created in Hollywood and other California locations and production facilities. Hosted by stage, television and film actor Joe Morton, this year’s autumn event was well attended by city officials, union leaders, guild members and television stars.
Representing AFM Local 47 were AFM Local 47 Vice President Rick Baptist, Secretary/Treasurer Gary Lasley, Electronic Media Division Administrator Gordon Grayson, and Recording Musicians Association International President Marc Sazer. Executive Director Kim Roberts Hedgpeth represented the Film Musicians Secondary Markets Fund, which co-sponsors the MIHH awards.
Musicians were proud to celebrate the many productions that were also scored here in the state: Black-ish, Bob’s Burgers, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Modern Family, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Transparent, The Simpsons, and Veep. (See the full list of Emmy-nominated shows featuring AFM Local 47 musicians here.)
The main talk of the day was California’s Film & TV Tax Incentive Program 2.0, which bumped the state’s credit to $330 million and has proven successful in luring productions back to the state. To date, the California Film Commission reports that six major TV shows have returned to Los Angeles, including Veep from Maryland and American Horror Story from Louisiana.
MIHH is co-sponsored by SAG-AFTRA, FilmL.A., the California Film Commission, Teamsters Local 399, Film Musicians Secondary Markets Fund, the Producers Guild of America, as well as the Los Angeles City Council and Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell. The title sponsor and official site of the MIHH presentations is 1600 VINE, Home To Hollywood, with luxury apartments and townhomes located on the historic site of the Hollywood Brown Derby.
