Into the West (miniseries)
Into the West | |
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Starring | Various |
Narrated by | Matthew Settle |
Music by | Geoff Zanelli |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 6 |
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Executive producer | Steven Spielberg |
Producer | Larry Rapaport |
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Editors |
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Running time | 552 minutes |
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Original release | |
Network | TNT |
Release | June 10 July 22, 2005 | –
Into the West is a 2005
The miniseries begins in the 1820s and is told mainly through the third person narration of Jacob Wheeler (
The show has a large cast, with about 250 speaking parts. The series features well-known performers including
It was filmed in Drumheller, Alberta and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Episodes
Episode 1: "Wheel to the Stars"
Growling Bear (
Later, during a buffalo jump hunt led by White Feather's older brothers Running Fox (Matthew Strongeagle) and Dog Star (Pony Boy Osuniga), many people from the village are killed during the stampede, but White Feather is miraculously spared when the spirit of deceased Growling Bear appears to protect him. The tribe renames him Loved by the Buffalo and begin to regard him as a holy man healing people by taking their pain upon himself. This causes Soaring Eagle to become jealous and he tries to undermine Loved by the Buffalo (Simon Baker) by blaming him for an outbreak of pox and then leaving him for dead. Growling Bear appears to Loved by the Buffalo again, teaching him a song to cure the outbreak.
Loved by the Buffalo's sister, Thunder Heart Woman (Sarah Weston), is married off to a white trapper, Thomas Lebeck (Scott Heindl). Loved by the Buffalo gives Thunder Heart Woman the wooden medicine wheel necklace as a parting gift. Dog Star (Michael Spears) and Running Fox (Zahn McClarnon) marry two sisters and begin families, but Loved by the Buffalo realizes that his destiny lies on a different path.
At about the same time, a young
Once the brothers reach
Jacob catches up with Fletcher and trapping party captain Jedediah Smith who once again rebuffs him, but he convinces them to take him in. Jacob stitches Smith's scalp after a bear attack and prefers Smith's company rather than fraternizing with a Mojave tribe they trade with for horses in the Sierra Nevada. Eventually he becomes a trusted member of the party. Jacob accompanies Smith's party to California, where they are arrested by the Mexican Capitan de Salamanca (Francesco Quinn) for trespassing and held at the San Gabriel Mission. The party is charged with stealing the horses they bought from the Mojave (a brand is shown). The Mexicans fear that if they are freed, the party will show other Americans how to go to California. Smith negotiates their expulsion, promising they would never return to California under pain of death. On the way back, they return to the Mohave camp and are attacked; many are killed including Fletcher, who guards Smith and Jacob's narrow escape through a cave. Loved by the Buffalo undergoes a Sun Dance.
Thunder Heart Woman's (Tonantzin Carmelo) trapper husband Lebeck is killed in an attack by the Crow, her infant daughter is captured, and she is sold into slavery. Later, Jacob sees her being auctioned off at a trapper rendezvous and attempts to buy her in order to return Thunder Heart Woman to her people. Trapper Johnny Fox (Gary Busey) rifle duels Jacob for the right to purchase her. Jacob is victorious, shooting then stabbing Fox one-handed after being shot in his left forearm. Thunder Heart Woman gives Jacob the wooden medicine wheel necklace as a token of her gratitude. When they return to the tribe, Jacob marries Thunder Heart Woman and begins to live with her family as part of the Lakota tribe.
Running Fox trades for a horsecart, much to the dismay of his brothers, who see white goods as a corruption of Lakota culture. When Loved by the Buffalo sees Jacob repairing the wheel, he is reminded of a vision he had during his Sun Dance in which a wooden wheel smashes a stone wheel. Loved by the Buffalo realizes that the wooden wheel symbolizes the wagon wheels of the whites and that the stone wheel is the medicine wheel of the Lakota culture. Loved by the Buffalo takes Jacob and Thunder Heart Woman to a sacred hilltop where a stone medicine wheel has been erected and tells him about the four great powers that it symbolizes. Loved by the Buffalo leaves the tribe to try to prevent the vision of Growling Bear from coming to pass.
Episode 2: "Manifest Destiny"
After living among the Lakota people, Jacob decides to take his wife and daughter Margaret Light Shines east to Wheelerton, Virginia. Jacob's family gives Thunder Heart Woman a much colder reception than her family gave him. After living in Wheelerton for a time, Jacob decides to take his family, now including a young son Abraham High Wolf, back west.
This time, Jacob's brother Jethro (Skeet Ulrich) decides to come along. They are also accompanied by Jacob's three young female cousins; Leah Wheeler (Emily Holmes), Rachel Wheeler (Jessica Capshaw), and Naomi Wheeler (Keri Russell). The three girls have been unlucky in love and are lured by the tales of excitement out west.
Meanwhile, Thunder Heart Woman's two oldest brothers, Dog Star and Running Fox argue over whether or not to adopt white technology. The disagreement comes to a boil and the two agree to part ways, splitting the tribe.
After working their way west for several years, the Wheeler clan arrives at
The wagon train passage is filled with dangers: Leah Wheeler is thrown from the wagon during the crossing of a river and drowns, and the young son of the black pioneers is killed by stampeding cattle during a thunder storm. But life also continues: Rachel and Naomi take husbands from among the wagon trail guides. Later, while traversing a
Cholera breaks out, killing the wife of the black pioneer. Those exposed, including Jacob, Thunder Heart Woman, the children, and Jethro must stay behind under quarantine while the main body of the wagon train carries on. Naomi and her husband, who have not been exposed, go on with the others. Jethro is afflicted with symptoms of cholera but recovers, and no new outbreaks occur after Jacob orders that all drinking water be boiled. They rush to catch up with the main body, but find it was attacked by Cheyenne warriors, and all except Naomi were killed.
Naomi, taken into captivity, is sold to Cheyenne chief Prairie Fire (Jay Tavare), who takes her as his wife. The thought of a forced marriage to an Indian is repulsive to Naomi, who has always considered them as barely human savages. She chants nursery rhymes, which put off his amorous advances. In time, she begins to see Prairie Fire in a different light and she grows to become happy in her new life. She eventually gives birth to a son, whom he names One Horn Bull.
Jacob returns to the rest of the wagons, and they are soon attacked. The Indians are fought off, but an arrow is shot through Jacob's upper chest, and he begs to be left behind to recover on his own terms as the trail would kill him faster. After the party leaves, Jacob is rescued by a party led by Running Fox, that stumble across him half-dead. After recovering his strength, Jacob spends several months in the mountains. Haunted by the faces of the children he sent on with his wife and brother, Jacob eventually tries to find them in California. He searches several years for his family but cannot find them, and eventually gives them up for dead.
The Mexican–American War erupts and Jacob joins John C. Frémont's militia to fight the Mexican Army. During a supply stop in one of the settlements, he sees his wife at a distance, but before he can go over to greet her, he sees her and his brother Jethro embrace and kiss. They also have a new child, Cornflower. Dejected that his wife and brother have become romantically involved but not wanting to disrupt their happiness, he decides to leave without making his presence known. Before he goes, he gives the wooden medicine wheel necklace to his young son, who does not realize the man is his father.
Meanwhile, Dog Star and Running Fox are still estranged. The other tribes that have been trading with the whites for rifles, particularly the Crow, have grown stronger, and the Lakota are now at a disadvantage. Seeking guidance, Dog Star visits the stone medicine wheel, where he meets Loved by the Buffalo. Loved by the Buffalo tells his brother that his lifetime quest is to preserve the traditional ways. The whites at the forts refuse to trade
Thunder Heart Woman finds the wooden medicine wheel necklace and realizes that her husband is still alive. She feels that it is best not to go after him, but their daughter Margaret Light Shines Wheeler (Sage Galesi) is determined to find him.
Episode 3: "Dreams and Schemes"
Jethro and Thunder Heart Woman remain together in California and a daughter, Corn Flower (Chantelle Webster), is born to them. While working at the Wheeler ranch, now dubbed Rancho Paradiso, Jethro encounters a 49er named Martin Jarrett (Sean Astin) who brings him the first news about the California gold rush. Jethro soon follows him to the nearby American River to prospect for gold, although he returns home each night.
Jethro dreams of quick riches but all he finds are a few small grains. Undeterred, he begins to spend more and more time looking for gold. Without Jethro's labor, the ranch begins to run into difficulties, with essential repairs being left undone. Jethro also takes to drinking heavily to counter the frigid waters of the river and becomes abusive towards Thunder Heart Woman and the children. After one too many arguments turn violent, Abe High Wolf Wheeler (Tyler Posey) decides to leave.
Jethro's cousin, David Wheeler (Balthazar Getty), arrives as a 49er and becomes Jethro's partner in prospecting for gold. Angered by the successes of a group of Chinese immigrant miners, Jethro and David drive them off and steal their claim. After finding a huge nugget of gold, Jethro and David argue over how they will split their new fortune. David insists that half of the nugget should be divided amongst each other, especially when David was the first to find it. Greedy over the find, Jethro coldly replies that it was his claim, so David is entitled to perhaps a quarter of the money, maybe even a third of it just because they happen to be related. After Jethro falls asleep, David steals the nugget and heads toward San Francisco. Jethro follows him downriver and the both of them exchange gun fire in desperation. As David tries to escape in a canoe, Jethro attempts to board the canoe and David kills him with an oar to the head. Right afterwards, David loses his balance due to the weight of the gold nugget in his pack, falls into the river, and drowns when the weight of the nugget takes him to the bottom. To support her family, Thunder Heart Woman starts to sell food and supplies to the miners.
Meanwhile, Margaret Light Shines Wheeler has taken a job in a guest house in San Francisco, but continues to look for her father. Jacob remained with the army, but became disillusioned at the treatment of Native Americans in
While working in the photo studio, a local wheelwright tells Margaret a trapper in the mountains has fixed a broken wagon wheel for some settlers. Certain that it's her father, Margaret convinces Biggs to join her looking for the trapper's camp. When they find the camp, Jacob at first takes them for thieves and nearly shoots them. Margaret shows him the wooden medicine wheel necklace and he realizes that she is his daughter. Jacob then goes to Rancho Paradiso and is reunited with his family.
On the plains, white encroachment has become an undeniable problem for the tribes. Running Fox and Dog Star join several other chiefs—including Conquering Bear (Graham Greene)—at the signing of the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851). All three agree that the peace is precarious but decide to give the agreement a chance.
A little later, Loved by the Buffalo is visiting Conquering Bear's village. A cow escapes from a passing
A few years later, another Wheeler cousin, Samson Wheeler (
Jacob Wheeler's sons take different paths. Abe Wheeler (
Dog Star's son, Brings Horse (Nathaniel Arcand) is shot by an army sniper when he climbs a telegraph pole to investigate the wires strung from the top and cutting them. Sleeping Bear (Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse), Dog Star's surviving son, pledges revenge against the whites for what they have done.
Episode 4: "Hell on Wheels"
In December 1863, Clara Wheeler makes her journey to Omaha and finds her cousins, Daniel Wheeler (
The race is on as the
In March 1864, while photographing California Governor
While Ethan photographs the people of Black Kettle's camp, Margaret works to establish peace between the Cheyenne and the local Governor and Army. On September 28, 1864, Black Kettle holds council with Colorado Territory Governor
Margaret and Ethan decide to continue their journey, but, on November 29, 1864, the night before they have planned to leave, Colonel Chivington attacks Black Kettle's village at the head of the Third Colorado Cavalry. Most of the village, including Ethan, are killed at the
Further altercations between the Indians and the American settlers leads Red Cloud (Raoul Trujillo) to begin to gather the forces that will lead to Red Cloud's War. On December 21, 1866, a large band of Cheyenne and Sioux under Crazy Horse (Tatanka Means) attack a supply train near Fort Phil Kearny. Capt. Fetterman (Dylan Kenin) leads a relief party of 80 men. Ignoring orders not to venture beyond Lodge Trail Ridge, he led his troops into an ambush. He and his entire party were killed in the attack, later called the Fetterman Massacre.
Abe Wheeler continues to work on the railroad until the
Meanwhile, Daniel Wheeler is seeking fortune by collaborating with Central Pacific Railroads and creating railroad boomtowns, exploiting the debaucheries of new settlers. He starts with North Platte, Nebraska with his sons Robert and Jackson as assistants, and by May 1868 they are in Cheyenne. Robert brings Clara along, and romance develops between them, while Daniel strongly disapproves their relationship. Robert disagrees with Daniel's corruptive way of business, and grows distant from his father. After the Transcontinental Railroad is completed, Robert and Clara decide to strike out on their own, leaving behind the life dominated by the greedy Daniel.
Episode 5: "Casualties of War"
Red Cloud (Raoul Trujillo) continues to talk of peace with the whites at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, but many young men leave to join Sitting Bull (Eric Schweig), including cousins White Bird (Kalani Queypo)—son of Sleeping Bear and grandson of Dog Star (Gil Birmingham)—and Red Lance (Eddie Spears)—grandson of Running Fox (Russell Means) and son of White Crow (David Midthunder). Red Lance's younger brother, Voices That Carry (Nakotah Larance), wants to go with his brother, but is required to stay behind with his grand-uncle Dog Star because of his youth. Red Cloud thinks that the "peace talkers" from Washington will honor the Treaty of Fort Laramie and keep other whites out of the Black Hills.
Robert Wheeler is operating a
Margaret Light Shines (
In June 1876, Jacob Wheeler Jr. (Tyler Christopher) is still a scout for Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer (Jonathan Scarfe) and the 7th U.S. Cavalry. On the morning of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer dispatches Jacob Jr. with a message to Captain Frederick Benteen. Jacob Jr. gives a letter for his parents to a friend who is assigned to Major Marcus Reno's group, in case he should not survive Custer's plan. As he foresaw, Jacob is killed before he finds Benteen, as Crazy Horse and a Lakota-Northern Cheyenne combined force wipe out Custer's cavalry detachment. Among those who are also killed is White Bird. Voices That Carry brings the body of his cousin back to Dog Star in Red Cloud's camp.
After the final letter from Jacob Jr. reaches them, Jacob (John Terry) and Thunder Heart Woman (Sheila Tousey) go to Hillsgate in an effort to find Jacob Jr.'s resting place. They meet Robert and Clara, who take them to the scene of the battle. It is then learnt that Robert and Clara had a son, William, who died from a fever. Clara is unable to let go of the painful memory and there is some strain in her relationship with Robert.
Following the defeat of the Sioux and their allies later in 1876, the United States "purchased" the Black Hills region (no actual purchase was ever completed and this area is under dispute to this day).
In 1879, Richard Henry Pratt returns to Hillsgate, and invites Robert and Clara to join him in teaching at an experimental school in Pennsylvania designed to "civilize" Native American children. Pratt persuades the Lakota that their children need to learn the white men's ways. He takes 125 Lakota children to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. President Rutherford B. Hayes had arranged for the Carlisle Barracks to be made available. Among the children is Voices That Carry, who encourages the other Native Americans to resist assimilation. Voices That Carry's numerous attempts to undermine the process upset Pratt, but Robert tries to convince the boy to work hard so he can record the story of his people. Voices That Carry and Robert form a tentative friendship. After 6 months in Carlisle, Robert falls out with Pratt over his strict teaching methods, and heads back for home with Clara, who is now bearing their second child. Before they set off, Clara leaves her typewriter to Voices That Carry.
Episode 6: "Ghost Dance"
Ten years have passed since the end of Episode 5. Robert (
After Sitting Bull is "accidentally" killed by Indian Police sent by the Indian Agent, the Ghost Dance rebellion grows, which in turn leads to more brutality toward the Native Americans. Indian Agent Daniel Royer (
Jacob Wheeler (John Terry) and his wife Thunder Heart Woman (Sheila Tousey) decide to move to South Dakota to settle in with the people they care about—Robert and Clara. Margaret Light Shines walks past and sees a missing person search notice (put up by Robert) and realizes her family is nearby. She is taken back by Robert and reunites with her parents.
While on the journey back to the reservation settlement, the groups stop and rest at a valley called
The survivors of the massacre are marched back to the reservation. Word goes round rapidly about the slaughter and Margaret Light Shines goes out to the field at Wounded Knee to photograph the massacre. While there, she meets and photographs the newspaper reporter who sold her the camera, who is looking with horror at the sight of the hundreds of frozen dead bodies which he indirectly had contributed to. She is also reunited with her uncle Loved By the Buffalo, who is performing the death rites for the deceased. Margaret brings him to meet her parents, Thunder Heart Woman and Jacob Wheeler.
Loved By the Buffalo and Jacob Wheeler meet again, closing a circle that began many years ago, and Loved By the Buffalo comes to realize that his destiny was not to prevent what was destined to happen, but to preserve it and the memory of his people; to teach the young Lakota children the ways of their people. "So long as there are still a few Lakota left who understand the traditional ways of their people, the tribe, history, and the memories and lessons of our past can still be preserved so that future generations may also learn from them."
The final scene shows Loved By the Buffalo sitting with a group of Lakota children, Margaret, and Thunder Heart Woman, teaching them the past of the people and his own experiences. At the same time miles away, Robert and Clara are expecting another child. Jacob is sitting on the porch with Robert and Clara's son Jedediah (Dax Ansley), telling him about his own experiences, past, and the lessons he has to teach.
- "The only history a man knows for certain is that small part he owns for himself."—Jacob Wheeler
- "I always told my children—you are one part Lakota and one part Virginia—be proud of both."—Jacob Wheeler
- "When you tell these stories, you touch the Grandmothers and Grandfathers."—Loved by the Buffalo
Cast
Listed below are the major characters and the actors who play them. Some of the characters are portrayed at different ages by different actors.[1]
- Loved by the Buffalo: played by Chevez Ezaneh,
- Thunder Heart Woman: played by Sarah Weston, Tonantzin Carmelo, Sheila Tousey
- Running Fox: played by Mathew Strongeagle, Zahn McClarnon, Russell Means
- Dog Star: played by Pony Boy Osuniga, Michael Spears, Gil Birmingham
- Growling Bear: played by Gordon Tootoosis
- Jacob Wheeler: played by Matthew Settle, John Terry
- Jethro Wheeler: played by Skeet Ulrich
- Nathan Wheeler: played by Alan Tudyk
- Jedediah Smith: played by Josh Brolin
- James Fletcher: played by Will Patton
- Johnny Fox: played by Gary Busey
- Naomi Wheeler: played by Keri Russell
- Rachel Wheeler: played by Jessica Capshaw
- Leah Wheeler: played by Emily Holmes
- Stephen Hoxie: played by Beau Bridges
- Preacher Hobbes: played by Derek de Lint
- Prairie Fire: played by Jay Tavare
- Margaret (Light Shines) Wheeler: played by Chantry Bruised Head, Summer Rae Birdyellowhead, Sage Galesi, Irene Bedard
- Jacob (Touch the Sky) Wheeler Jr.: played by Samuel Patrick Chu, Tyler Christopher
- Abraham (High Wolf) Wheeler: played by Benjamin Smoke, Tyler Posey, Christian Kane
- Conquering Bear: played by Graham Greene
- Clara Wheeler: played by Rachael Leigh Cook, Joanna Going
- David Wheeler: played by Balthazar Getty
- Samson Wheeler: played by Matthew Modine
- Martin Jarrett: played by Sean Astin
- Hannah Wheeler: played by Georgie Collins
- Ethan Biggs: played by Daniel Gillies
- Robert Wheeler: played by Warren Kole, Craig Sheffer
- Daniel Wheeler: played by Lance Henriksen
- John Chivington: played by Tom Berenger
- George Armstrong Custer: played by Jonathan Scarfe
- Thomas C. Durant: played by Forrest Fyre
- Black Kettle: played by Wes Studi
- Red Cloud: played by Raoul Trujillo
- White Crow: played by William Joseph Elk III, David Midthunder
- Red Lance: played by Malachi Tsoodle-Nelson, Eddie Spears
- Richard Henry Pratt: played by Keith Carradine
- Douglas Hillman: played by Judge Reinhold
- Sitting Bull: played by Eric Schweig
- Crazy Horse: played by Tatanka Means
- Voices That Carry: played by Nakotah LaRance, Chaske Spencer
- Daniel Royer: played by David Paymer
- Yellow Bird: played by Billy Merasty
- Kicking Bear: played by Brandon Oakes
- Spotted Elk: played by George Aguilar
- Sleeping Bear: played by Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse
Wheeler family tree
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Accolades
Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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2005
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International Film Music Critics Association Awards | Best Original Score for Television | Geoff Zanelli | Nominated | [4] |
Online Film & Television Association Awards | Best Miniseries | Won | [5] | ||
Best Actress in a Motion Picture or Miniseries | Tonantzin Carmelo | Nominated | |||
Best Direction of a Motion Picture or Miniseries | Won | ||||
Best Editing in a Motion Picture or Miniseries | Won | ||||
Best Lighting in a Motion Picture or Miniseries | Won | ||||
Best Makeup/Hairstyling in a Motion Picture or Miniseries | Won | ||||
Best Music in a Motion Picture or Miniseries | Won | ||||
Best Production Design in a Motion Picture or Miniseries | Won | ||||
Best Sound in a Motion Picture or Miniseries | Won | ||||
Best Visual Effects in a Motion Picture or Miniseries | Nominated | ||||
Best New Theme Song in a Series, Motion Picture or Miniseries | Nominated | ||||
Best New Titles Sequence in a Series, Motion Picture or Miniseries | Won | ||||
Satellite Awards | Best Miniseries | Nominated | [6] | ||
2006
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American Society of Cinematographers Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the Week/Mini-Series/Pilot | Alan Caso (for "Wheel to the Stars") | Nominated | [7] |
Art Directors Guild Awards | Excellence in Production Design Award – Television Movie or Mini-series | Marek Dobrowolski, Guy Barnes, Rick Roberts, Jackie Bagley, Janet Lakeman, Amy Morrison, and James F. Oberlander |
Nominated | [8] | |
Artios Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Television Mini Series | Meg Liberman, Cami Patton, Rene Haynes, and Jo Edna Boldin |
Nominated | [9] | |
Critics' Choice Awards | Best Picture Made for Television | Nominated | [10] | ||
First Americans in the Arts Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor Performance in a TV Movie/Special | Zahn McClarnon | Won | ||
Outstanding Lead Actress Performance in a TV Movie/Special | Tonantzin Carmelo | Won | |||
Outstanding Supporting Actor Performance in a TV Movie/Special | Tyler Christopher | Won | |||
Outstanding New Performance by an Actor in a Film | Nakotah LaRance | Won | |||
Golden Globe Awards | Best Miniseries or Television Film
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Nominated | [11] | ||
Golden Reel Awards | Best Sound Editing – Dialogue and Automated Dialogue Replacement | G. Michael Graham, Kristi Johns, William C. Carruth, Anton Holden, Charlie Kolander, Tim Terusa, Rusty Tinsley, and Burton Weinstein (for "Manifest Destiny") |
Nominated | [12] | |
Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley for Long Form Television | G. Michael Graham, Sean Byrne, Bob Costanza, Mike Dickeson, Gary Macheel, Adriane Marfiak, Lou Thomas, Tim Chilton, and Jill Schachne (for "Manifest Destiny") |
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NAMIC Vision Awards | Best Drama | Nominated | |||
Best Dramatic Performance | Irene Bedard | Won | |||
Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Miniseries | Steven Spielberg, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, William Mastrosimone, Kirk Ellis, Larry Rapaport, and David A. Rosemont |
Nominated | [13] | |
Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie | Marek Dobrowolski, Rick Roberts, Guy Barnes, Paul Healy, and Wendy Ozols-Barnes |
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Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special | Meg Liberman, Cami Patton, Rene Haynes, Candice Elzinga, Rhonda Fisekci, and Jo Edna Boldin |
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Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or Movie | Alan Caso (for "Wheel to the Stars") | Nominated | |||
William Wages (for "Dreams and Schemes") | Nominated | ||||
Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special | Michael T. Boyd and Joe McClosky (for "Hell on Wheels") |
Nominated | |||
Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special | Iloe Flewelling (for "Manifest Destiny") | Nominated | |||
Mary Hedges Lampert and Jennifer Santiago (for "Casualties of War") |
Nominated | ||||
Outstanding Makeup for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Non-Prosthetic) | Tarra D. Day (for "Ghost Dance") | Nominated | |||
Gail Kennedy (for "Wheel to the Stars") | Nominated | ||||
Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special | Gail Kennedy and Matthew W. Mungle (for "Wheel to the Stars") |
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Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score) | Geoff Zanelli | Won | |||
Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special | G. Michael Graham, Kristi Johns, Billy B. Bell, Bob Costanza, Mike Dickeson, Gary Macheel, Lou Thomas, Adriane Marfiak, Anton Holden, Burton Weinstein, Tim Terusa, Charlie Kolander, Rusty Tinsley, Jim Schultz, Jill Schachne, and Tim Chilton (for "Manifest Destiny") |
Nominated | |||
Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie | Bayard Carey, Rick Alexander, and Richard D. Rogers (for "Hell on Wheels") |
Nominated | |||
George Tarrant, Rick Alexander, and Richard D. Rogers (for "Dreams and Schemes") |
Won | ||||
Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special | Tim McHugh, Craig Weiss, Glenn Campbell, Chris DeCristo, Christopher Moore, Niel Wray, Don Mccoy, George Garcia, and Eric Ehemann (for "Hell on Wheels") |
Nominated | |||
Producers Guild of America Awards | David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television | Steven Spielberg, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, David A. Rosemont, Kirk Ellis, and Larry Rapaport |
Nominated | [14] | |
Rosie Awards | Best Make-Up Artist | Gail Kennedy | Won | [15] | |
Saturn Awards | Best Television Presentation | Nominated | [16] | ||
Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie | Tonantzin Carmelo | Nominated | [17] | |
Visual Effects Society Awards | Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Broadcast Program, Commercial or Music Video | Cedric Tomacruz, David Bailey, and Valeri Pfahning (for "Wheel to the Stars", "Manifest Destiny", and "Dreams and Schemes") |
Won | [18] | |
Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast Program, Commercial or Music Video | Jared Jones, Jason Korber, Geeta Basantani, and Ryan Dutour (for "Wheel to the Stars") |
Nominated | |||
Western Heritage Awards | Television Feature Film | Won | [19] | ||
Western Writers of America Awards | Best Drama Script | Kirk Ellis (for "Hell on Wheels") | Won[a] | [20] | |
2007
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Costume Designers Guild Awards | Outstanding Made for Television Movie or Miniseries | Michael T. Boyd | Nominated | [21] |
Home release
A four disc DVD box set was released on October 4, 2005. There are producer, director, and cast interviews among the six episodes of the series and other various features.[3]
Soundtrack
A two-disc album of Geoff Zanelli's music was released in 2013 by La-La Land Records.
Notes
- ^ Tied with Thadd Turner for Miracle at Sage Creek.
References
- Internet Movie Database.
- ISBN 0-451-41188-9.
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- ^ "Sound editors sing praise". Variety. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
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- ^ "Alberta Film & Television Awards Winners 1974–2012" (PDF). Rosie Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 15, 2021. Retrieved August 13, 2021.
- ^ "Past Saturn Awards". Saturn Awards.org. Archived from the original on September 14, 2008. Retrieved May 7, 2008.
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