Although first submitted in lead alongside his “Escape at Dannemora” co-star Benicio del Toro, Paul Dano will now be contending in the Best Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actor category. Will his lead-to-supporting escape translate into an Emmy win?
In “Dannemora,” directed by Ben Stiller, Dano plays David Sweat, the real-life former inmate at Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York, who in 2015 helped his fellow inmate Richard Matt (del Toro) orchestrate an escape from the maximum-security prison. With the help of prison worker Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell (Patricia Arquette), both men managed to successfully escape. After a three-week manhunt, however, Matt was killed by the police while Sweat was captured and then sent to Auburn Correctional Facility, a new maximum-security prison.
Dano visibly transforms into Sweat, a man convicted for being involved in the killing of a police officer with two accomplices, as they were caught unloading looted firearms. Despite...
In “Dannemora,” directed by Ben Stiller, Dano plays David Sweat, the real-life former inmate at Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York, who in 2015 helped his fellow inmate Richard Matt (del Toro) orchestrate an escape from the maximum-security prison. With the help of prison worker Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell (Patricia Arquette), both men managed to successfully escape. After a three-week manhunt, however, Matt was killed by the police while Sweat was captured and then sent to Auburn Correctional Facility, a new maximum-security prison.
Dano visibly transforms into Sweat, a man convicted for being involved in the killing of a police officer with two accomplices, as they were caught unloading looted firearms. Despite...
- 3/29/2019
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: [Spoilers Ahead!] Showtime’s Golden Globe-nominated limited series Escape At Dannemora draws nearer to a close, as prisoners David Sweat (Paul Dano) and Richard Matt (Benicio Del Toro) get closer to escape while Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell (Patricia Arquette) wavers on her role in their crime. The episode lifted the veil on who the three of them really are, and it is not pretty. In fact, it is shocking and the only decision for viewers is to decide which one of them is more despicable. The series has drawn praise, but director and executive producer Ben Stiller awoke to find that the real Mitchell attacked him and the series from behind bars. In a front page jailhouse interview with the New York Post — the tabloid that several years ago coined her ‘Shawskank’ for allegedly helping the two prisoners escape after having sex with them and planning to bump off her prison employee...
- 12/24/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Richard Matt and David Sweat’s 2015 upstate New York prison break was compared to The Shawshank Redemption because the duo cut through the walls of their cells and took a long tunnel to freedom. But if their methods were cinematic, their personalities — and that of Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell, the prison employee who helped them — were far from it, which presents a stumbling block for Showtime’s otherwise entertaining Escape at Dannemora. The seven-part miniseries — it debuts on Nov. 18th — has abundant talent in front of the camera and behind it.
- 11/14/2018
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Ben Stiller and Patricia Arquette were co-stars in David O. Russell’s 1996 “Flirting With Disaster.” At the time, Stiller’s directing career limited to “The Ben Stiller Show” and “Reality Bites;” his now-cult favorite “The Cable Guy” was about to flop. Arquette was a burgeoning star and indie film darling thanks to her work in “True Romance” and “Ed Wood,” but she had yet to snag her Oscar, let alone the preceding Golden Globe and Emmy nominations.
Now the two are reinventing themselves, again. Each transform for the viewer in real time — figuratively for Stiller, quite literally with Arquette — in “Escape at Dannemora,” Showtime’s seven-part limited series about two inmates breaking out of the Clinton Correctional facility in 2015 and the woman who helped them do it. It’s Stiller’s first real drama as a director, and he’s created a thriller with the cold, blue look and feel...
Now the two are reinventing themselves, again. Each transform for the viewer in real time — figuratively for Stiller, quite literally with Arquette — in “Escape at Dannemora,” Showtime’s seven-part limited series about two inmates breaking out of the Clinton Correctional facility in 2015 and the woman who helped them do it. It’s Stiller’s first real drama as a director, and he’s created a thriller with the cold, blue look and feel...
- 11/13/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Gene Palmer, the suspended prison guard at Clinton Correctional Facility who unwittingly aided last June's escape of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt, accepted a negotiated plea deal on Monday and was sentenced to six months in jail, Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie tells People. Palmer, 57, pleaded guilty to three charges: felony and misdemeanor charges of promoting prison contraband and a misdemeanor charge of official misconduct. Palmer previously admitted to passing prisoners Matt and Sweat a package of frozen hamburger meat containing hacksaw blades used in their escape. Prison guard Joyce "Tillie" Mitchell pleaded guilty last July to...
- 3/1/2016
- by Greg Hanlon, @GregHanlon
- PEOPLE.com
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