Romanian Dragos Stanomir wins Creative Emmy award for “Hatfields & McCoys” TV miniseries sound

Dragos Stanomir won a Creative Arts Emmy award on Saturday for the best sound mix for a TV miniseries, for the “Hatfields & McCoys”. The series was shot and produced in Romania. The prize is offered by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

For this year, Romanian Dragos Stanomir shares the award for “Sound Editing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special, Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Miniseries Or A Movie” with Christian Cooke and Brad Zoern. This is the first award for the Romanian film making industry at the Creative Emmy event. Stanomir worked as production mixer, while the other two as pre-recording mixers.

Two other Romanians were nominated at the technical Emmmy awards: Şerban Porupcă, for “Best Art Direction for a mini-series”, and Adina Bucur, for “Outstanding Costumes For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special”, both for “Hatfields & McCoys”. The Technical Emmy awards will be followed by the main Emmy Awards, scheduled for September 23.

The making of the film took place in 2011, mostly in the Castel Film Studios in Romania, on locations in Arges and Brasov, over a period of 13 weeks, during which time Kevin Costner, the main actor, was seen in several locations.

The “Hatfields & McCoys” mini-series received 16 nominalizations, which include: Outstanding Miniseries or A Movie, Outstanding Lead Actor in Miniseries or A Movie – Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton, Outstanding Supporting Actor in A Miniseries or A Movie – Tom Berenger, Outstanding Supporting Actress in A Minieseries or A Movie – Mare Winningham, Outstanding Directing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Dramatic Special – Kevin Reynolds, Director, Outstanding Sound Editing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special, Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Miniseries Or A Movie, Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special, Outstanding Art Direction For A Miniseries Or Movie, Outstanding Costumes For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special, Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Miniseries Or A Movie, Outstanding Makeup For A Miniseries Or A Movie (Non-Prosthetic), Outstanding Music Composition For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Original Dramatic Score), Outstanding Hairstyling For A Miniseries Or A Movie and Outstanding Casting For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special.

According to broadwaworld.com, the mini-series was produced by Leslie Greif’s Production Company, Thinkfactory Media, and Kevin Costner as producing partner, chronicles the bloody hostilities between two clans that escalated to the point of near war between two states. The Hatfield-McCoy saga begins with “Devil” Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy. Close friends and comrades during the Civil War, they returned to their neighboring homes – Hatfield in West Virginia, McCoy just across the Tug River border in Kentucky – to increasing tensions, misunderstandings and resentments that soon exploded into all-out warfare between the two families. As hostilities grew, friends, neighbors and outside forces joined the fight, bringing the two states to the brink of another Civil War.

Oana Vasiliu