Game of Thrones Information

Game of Thrones is an American epic fantasy television series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is titled A Game of Thrones. Filmed in a Belfast studio and on location elsewhere in Northern Ireland, Malta, Croatia, Iceland, and Morocco, it premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011.

The series, set in the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos at the end of a decade-long summer, interweaves several plot lines. The first follows the members of several noble houses in a civil war for the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms; the second covers the rising threat of the impending winter and the mythical creatures of the North; the third chronicles the attempts of the exiled last scion of the realm's deposed dynasty to reclaim the throne. Through its morally ambiguous characters, the series explores issues of social hierarchy, religion, civil war, sexuality, crime and punishment. It is the most recent big-budget work to have contributed to the popularity of the fantasy genre in mainstream media.

Highly anticipated since its early stages of development, Game of Thrones has received universal acclaim by critics, although its use of nudity has been criticized. The series has won numerous awards and nominations "? including two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Drama Series, a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Television Series " Drama, a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in Long Form, and a Peabody Award. Among the ensemble cast, Peter Dinklage won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor " Series, Miniseries or Television Film for his role as Tyrion Lannister.

Plot

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The series roughly follows the multiple storylines of the A Song of Ice and Fire series. Set in the fictional Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, Game of Thrones chronicles the violent dynastic struggles among the realm's noble families for control of the Iron Throne. As the series opens, additional threats are beginning to rise in the icy North and in the eastern continent of Essos.

Cast and characters

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Like the novels it adapts, Game of Thrones has a sprawling ensemble cast, estimated to be the largest on television. During the production of the third season, 257 cast names were recorded. The following overview reduces the list of characters in Game of Thrones to those played by the actors credited as part of the main cast.

Sean Bean is Lord Eddard "Ned" Stark, head of the Stark family whose members are involved in most of the series's intertwined plot lines. He and his wife Catelyn Tully (Michelle Fairley) have five children: the eldest, Robb (Richard Madden), the dainty Sansa (Sophie Turner), the tomboy Arya (Maisie Williams), the adventurous Bran (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) and the toddler Rickon (Art Parkinson). The family's outsiders are Ned's hostage and ward Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen) and Ned's bastard son Jon Snow (Kit Harington). Additionally, the Starks come to be served by the errant warrior Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie).

Ned's old friend King Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy) shares a loveless marriage with Queen Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey). In defiance of her father, the fabulously wealthy Lord Tywin Lannister (Charles Dance), Cersei has taken her twin, the "Kingslayer" Ser Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) as her secret lover. She loathes her younger brother, the clever dwarf Tyrion (Peter Dinklage), who is attended by his mistress Shae (Sibel Kekilli) and the sellsword Bronn (Jerome Flynn). Cersei's oldest child is Prince Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson), who is guarded by the scarfaced warrior Sandor "the Hound" Clegane (Rory McCann). The king's "Small Council" of advisors includes the crafty Lord Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish (Aidan Gillen) and the eunuch spymaster Varys (Conleth Hill).

After Robert Baratheon's death, Joffrey's throne is contested by Robert's two brothers. Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane) is advised by the foreign priestess Melisandre (Carice van Houten) and the former smuggler Ser Davos Seaworth (Liam Cunningham), while Renly Baratheon (Gethin Anthony) is married to the ambitious noblewoman Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer), but secretly loves her brother Ser Loras (Finn Jones).

With his friend Samwell Tarly (John Bradley), Jon Snow serves in the Night's Watch that guards the ancient northern Wall. After a raid under Lord Commander Jeor Mormont (James Cosmo), he falls in love with one of his Wildling foes, the red-haired Ygritte (Rose Leslie). Meanwhile, across the Narrow Sea, siblings Viserys (Harry Lloyd) and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) " the exiled children of the king overthrown by Robert Baratheon " are on the run for their lives, trying to win back the throne. Daenerys has been married to Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa), the leader of the nomadic Dothraki, and is guarded by the exiled knight Ser Jorah Mormont (Iain Glen).

Production

Conception and development

The series began development in January 2007. HBO, after acquiring the rights to the novels with the intent of turning them into a cable television series, hired David Benioff and D. B. Weiss to write and executive produce the series, which would cover one novel's worth of material per season. Initially, it was planned that Benioff and Weiss would write every episode save one per season, which author and co-executive producer George R. R. Martin was attached to write. Jane Espenson and Bryan Cogman were later added to each write one episode of the first season.

"The Sopranos in Middle-earth" is the tagline Benioff jokingly suggested for the television adaptation, referring to its intrigue-filled content and dark tone combined with a fantasy setting. In a 2012 study, the series was listed second out of 40 recent U.S. TV drama series by deaths per episode, with an average of 14. Traditional high fantasy is described as generally incidental to the series, with HBO programming chief Michael Lombardo finding the storytelling appealing rather than the low-key magic or the exotic milieu, in spite of the network's new developmental policy to "[take] shots at shows that we wouldn't have taken a shot at five years ago".

The budget of Game of Thrones has been compared to that of the TV series Rome. The pilot reportedly cost HBO between , and the total budget for the first season has been estimated at . In the second season, the show obtained a 15% increase in budget in order to be able to stage the most important battle in the "clash of kings", the civil war that is the season's focus.

HBO hired expert language creator David J. Peterson from the Language Creation Society to develop the Dothraki language " "possessing its own unique sound, extensive vocabulary of more than 1,800 words and complex grammatical structure" " to be used in the series. The first and second drafts of the pilot script, written by Benioff and Weiss, were submitted in August 2007 and June 2008, respectively. While HBO found both drafts to their liking, a pilot was not ordered until November 2008, with the 2007"2008 Writers Guild of America strike possibly delaying the process.

Adaptation schedule

Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss intend to adapt the entirety of the still incomplete A Song of Ice and Fire novel series, if HBO permits it. They envision the series to have a scope of some 80 hours, about eight seasons' worth of material. However, Benioff and Weiss have no intention of padding Game of Thrones out so as to wait for George R.R. Martin (who has taken up to six years to write an installment of A Song of Ice and Fire) to finish writing the last two novels. Knowing the broad outlines of Martin's intended ending for A Song of Ice and Fire, and concerned that extending Game of Thrones to ten seasons would kill its sense of momentum, they consider it possible (if not preferable) that the TV series ends before the last novel is published.

As of 2013, three seasons have been ordered and filmed:

Season	Ordered	Filming	Premiere	Novel adapted
Season 1	March 2, 2010	Second half of 2010	April 17, 2011	A Game of Thrones
Season 2	April 19, 2011	Second half of 2011	April 1, 2012	A Clash of Kings
Season 3	April 10, 2012	Second half of 2012	March 31, 2013	About the first half of A Storm of Swords

HBO has not yet announced that it has ordered a fourth season of Game of Thrones, but actor Charles Dance said to reporters in early March 2013 that six scripts for season 4 had already been written and distributed to the actors.

Benioff and Weiss have said that they think of Game of Thrones as an adaptation of the novel series as a whole, rather than of individual books, which gives them the liberty to move scenes back and forth across books according to the requirements of the screen adaptation. For instance, the final episode of season 1 includes a few moments from the second novel, and the second half of season 2 introduces elements from the beginning of the third novel.

The three seasons ordered so far each consist of ten episodes. Most episodes from the first and second season run for about 52 minutes, while many of the third season's episodes are to be 56 or 57 minutes long. The series' pilot and the second season finale run for more than an hour, as is also likely for the third season's finale.

Filming

Principal photography for the first season was scheduled to begin on July 26, 2010. The primary location was the Paint Hall Studios in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Exterior scenes in Northern Ireland were filmed at Sandy Brae in the Mourne Mountains (standing in for Vaes Dothrak), Castle Ward (Winterfell), Saintfield Estates (the Winterfell godswood), Tollymore Forest (outdoor scenes), Cairncastle (the execution site), the Magheramorne quarry (Castle Black) and at Shane's Castle (the tourney grounds). Doune Castle in Stirling, Scotland, was also used in the original pilot episode for exterior and interior scenes at Winterfell.

The first season's southern scenes were filmed in Malta, a change in location from the sets in Morocco used for the pilot episode. The city of Mdina was used for scenes in King's Landing, and filming also took place at Fort Manoel (representing the Sept of Baelor), at the Azure Window on the island of Gozo (the Dothraki wedding site), and at San Anton Palace, Fort Ricasoli, Fort St Angelo and St. Dominic monastery (all used for scenes in the Red Keep).

For the second season, shooting of the Southern scenes shifted from Malta to Croatia, where the city of Dubrovnik and its walls allowed exterior shots of a seaside walled medieval city. Dubrovnik and Fort Lovrijenac were used for scenes in King's Landing and the Red Keep, and the island of Lokrum, St. Dominic monastery and the Rector's Palace as well as the Dubac quarry for scenes in Qarth. Scenes set north of the Wall, in the Frostfangs and at the Fist of the First Men, were filmed in Iceland in November 2011, on the Svínafellsjökull glacier and near Smyrlabjörg and Vík on Höfðabrekkuheiði.

The third season returned to Morocco, including the city of Essaouira, to film Daenerys's scenes in Essos. The production employed three units ("Dragon", "Wolf" and "Raven") filming in parallel, six directing teams, 257 cast members and 703 crew members. One scene featuring a live bear, Little Bart, was filmed in Los Angeles.

Costuming

The show's costumes are inspired by many cultures, such as Japanese and Persian. Dothraki outfits resemble that of the Bedouins (one was made out of fish skins to resemble dragon scales), and the Wildlings wear fur side in and skin side out like the Inuit. Wildling bone armor is made of molds taken of real bones and assembled with string and latex resembling catgut. While extras who portray Wildlings and the Night's Watch wear hats as would be normal in a cold climate, main actors usually do not so viewers can identify the characters. Björk's Alexander McQueen high-neckline dresses inspired Dormer's unusual funnel-neck outfit, and prostitute costumes are designed to be quickly removed. All clothing, whether for Wildlings or for women at the royal court, is aged for two weeks to improve realism on high-definition television.

About two dozen wigs are used for actors such as Headey, Dormer, Van Houten, and Clarke. Made of human hair and up to two feet in length, they cost up to $7,000 each and are washed and styled like real hair. Applying the wigs is a lengthy process; Clarke, for example, requires about two hours to style her brunette hair with a platinum-blonde wig and braids. Other actors such as Gleeson and Turner receive frequent haircoloring. For characters such as Clarke and her Dothrakis, hair, wigs, and costumes are processed so they appear as if they have not been washed in weeks.

Effect in Northern Ireland

The series receives funding from Northern Ireland Screen, a government agency financed by Invest NI and the European Regional Development Fund. The first two seasons received UK£6.5 million from Invest NI and, according to government estimates, caused £43 million to be spent in the regional economy.

Invest NI also expects the series to generate tourism revenue. According to a government minister, the series has given Northern Ireland the most worldwide publicity in its history outside politics and the Troubles. Northern Ireland Screen is preparing a bus tour of the series's filming locations for 2013.

Availability

Broadcast

The first season of Game of Thrones premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and the second season on April 1, 2012. On the same day or in the subsequent weeks or months, the series also began airing in several other countries.

Broadcasters carrying Game of Thrones include:

Country	Channel(s)
	Top Channel, Fox Life
	OSN Series
	HBO
	Showcase
	Sky Atlantic HD, TNT Serie, RTL II
	HBO
	2BE, beTV, Prime, La Deux
	HBO
	HBO
	HBO
	HBO
	HBO Canada, Super "?cran, Showcase
	HBO
	HBO
	HBO
	HBO
	HBO
	NovaCinema 1, NovaCinemaHD
	HBO
	HBO Nordic, C More, TV3
	HBO
	Fox Life, ETV2
	HBO Nordic, C More, Yle TV2
	Orange Cinéma Séries, [[Canal+]]
	Sky Atlantic HD, TNT Serie, RTL II
	NovaCinema 1, NovaCinemaHD
	HBO Latin America
	HBO
	HBO
	Stöð 2
	HBO
	HBO
	Sky Atlantic
	Yes Oh
	Sky Cinema 1
	Star Channel
	Fox Life, Sony TV Baltic

Country	Channel(s)
	Fox Life, BTV
	HBO
	HBO Asia
	HBO
	HBO
	HBO
	HBO Nederland, RTL 4
	SoHo, Prime
	M-Net
	HBO Nordic, C More, NRK
	HBO
	HBO
	HBO
	HBO
	HBO
	Syfy
	HBO
	HBO
	Fox Life
	HBO
	HBO Asia
	HBO
	HBO
	M-Net
	[[Canal+ (Spanish satellite broadcasting company)|Canal+]], Antena 3
	HBO Nordic, C More, SVT1
	TNT Serie
	HBO
	HBO Asia
	HBO
	CNBC-e, Star TV, e2
	TET
	Sky Atlantic, Sky1, Pick TV
	HBO
	HBO
	HBO Asia
	M-Net

Home video

The ten episodes of the first season of Game of Thrones were published as a DVD and Blu-ray box set on March 6, 2012. The set includes extra background and behind-the-scenes material, but no deleted scenes, because almost all footage shot for the first season was used in the show. The box set sold 350,000 units in the first seven days of its release, the largest first-week DVD sales ever for an HBO series. The series also set an HBO series record for digital download sales. A "collector's edition" of the box set combining the DVD and Blu-ray versions, a dragon's egg paperweight and the first episode of season two was released in November 2012.

DVD/Blu-ray box sets and digital downloads of the second season were made available on February 19, 2013. First-day sales again broke HBO records, with 241,000 box sets sold and 355,000 episodes downloaded.

Piracy

At the time new seasons are broadcast, they are available only through HBO or its affiliates, not through third-party video on demand services, and in many countries not at all. This delay in availability has contributed to the series being widely pirated. The file-sharing news website TorrentFreak estimated it to be the most-pirated TV series of 2012. One episode was illegally downloaded about 4,280,000 times through public BitTorrent trackers in 2012, about equal to the number of broadcast viewers.

In 2013, series director David Petrarca remarked that illegal downloads didn't hurt the series's prospects, as it benefited from the resulting "buzz" and social commentary. He later clarified that he was against illegally downloading copyrighted works. To counteract piracy, HBO announced in 2013 that it intends to make its content more widely available worldwide within the week of the U.S. premiere, including through its digital service HBO Go.

Other media and products

Soundtrack

See Music of Game of Thrones for more information The music for the series is composed by Ramin Djawadi. The first season's soundtrack, written in about ten weeks before the show's premiere, was published by Varèse Sarabande in June 2011. The second season's soundtrack album was published in June 2012.

Accompanying material

Thronecast: The Official Guide to Game of Thrones, a series of podcasts presented by Geoff Lloyd and produced by Koink, was available on the Sky Atlantic website and the UK iTunes store. It featured episode analysis and cast interviews.

A companion book, Inside HBO's Game of Thrones by series writer Bryan Cogman (ISBN 978-1452110103), was published on September 27, 2012. On 192 pages, illustrated with concept art and behind-the-scenes photographs, the book covers the creation of the series's first two seasons, as well as its principal characters and families.

Merchandise and exhibition

HBO has licensed several companies to produce merchandise based on Game of Thrones. Dark Horse Deluxe sells a range of Game of Thrones-themed goods, such as statues and action figures. Valyrian Steel produces replicas of the weapons and armor used in the series. Funko sells Game of Thrones bobblehead dolls. In March 2013, Brewery Ommegang is to start selling the first of a line of beers based on the series.

In 2013, a traveling exhibition of costumes, props, armor and weapons from the series is to visit Toronto (March 9"16), New York City (March 28 " April 3), Sao Paulo (April 25"30), Amsterdam (May 19"27) and Belfast (June 8"17).

Other works based on the series

The series has also inspired other works. For instance, three video games that are based on the TV series and the novels have been published or are in development. In 2013, a web series, School of Thrones, parodized Game of Thrones by setting it in a high school whose students vie for the title of prom king and queen.

The fall 2012 ready-to-wear collection by the fashion brand Helmut Lang was inspired by Game of Thrones. In March 2012, Wiley-Blackwell published Game of Thrones and Philosophy: Logic Cuts Deeper than the Sword (ISBN 978-1118161999). This entry in Blackwell's Pop Culture and Philosophy series, edited by Henry Jacoby and William Irwin, aims to highlight and discuss philosophical issues raised by the show and its source material.

Reception

Game of Thrones was highly anticipated by fans before its premiere. It has since become a critical and commercial success.

Cultural influence

Game of Thrones has been credited with an increased popularity of fantasy themes and mainstream acceptance of the fantasy fandom. "After this weekend", CNN.com wrote on the eve of the second season's premiere, "you may be hard pressed to find someone who isn't a fan of some form of epic fantasy". According to Ian Bogost, Game of Thrones continues a trend of successful screen adaptations, beginning with Peter Jackson's 2001 The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and continuing with the Harry Potter films, that have established fantasy as a lucrative mass market genre and serve as "gateway drugs to fantasy fan culture".

The series' popularity greatly boosted sales of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, soon republished as tie-in editions, which remained at the top of bestseller lists for months on end. The Daily Beast wrote that Game of Thrones was a particular favorite of many sitcom writers, and consequently the series has been referenced in many other TV series. Together with other fantasy series such as The Twilight Saga, Game of Thrones has been deemed responsible for a substantial increase in purchases (and abandonments) of huskies and other wolf-like dogs.

Game of Thrones has also been the basis of additions to the popular vocabulary. The first season's frequent scenes in which characters explain their motives or background while having sex with prostitutes gave rise to the term "sexposition" to describe the practice of providing exposition against a backdrop of sex and nudity. "Dothraki", the name of the nomadic horsemen appearing in the series, was listed fourth in a list of words from television most used on the Internet, compiled in September 2012 by Global Language Monitor. After the second season, the media began using "Game of Thrones" as a figure of speech or as a comparison for situations of intense conflict and deceit, e.g., the court battles about U.S. healthcare legislation, the Syrian civil war or power struggles in the Chinese government.

Critical response

The critical response to the two aired seasons of Game of Thrones has been very positive. Both seasons were listed on several yearly "best of" lists published by U.S. media, such as the Washington Post (2011), TIME (2011 and 2012) and The Hollywood Reporter (2012).

Reviewing the first season, critics noted the high production values, the well-realized world, compelling characters, and particularly the performance of the child actors. The first season of Game of Thrones scored a Metacritic average of 79 out of 100 based on 28 critic reviews, categorized as "generally favorable". Variety wrote that "there may be no show more profitable to its network than 'Game of Thrones' is to HBO. Fully produced by the pay cabler and already a global phenomenon after only one season, the fantasy skein was a gamble that has paid off handsomely."

The second season was also very well received by critics. It obtained an average Metacritic score of 88 out of 100, which the website considers "universal acclaim". Entertainment Weekly praised the "vivid, vital, and just plain fun" storytelling, and The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the show made a "strong case for being one of TV's best series", its gravitas making it the only genre show dramatically comparable to shows such as Mad Men or Breaking Bad. The New York Times published the only mixed review, disapproving of the characters' lack of complexity and their confusing multitude, as well as the meandering plot.

The amount of sex and nudity shown on Game of Thrones, especially in scenes that are incidental to the plot, has been the focus of much of the criticism aimed at the series. Charlie Anders wrote in io9 that while the first season was replete with light-hearted "sexposition", the second season appeared to focus on distasteful, exploitative and dehumanizing sex with little informational content. According to the Washington Post's Anna Holmes, the nude scenes appeared to be aimed mainly at titillating heterosexual men, right down to the Brazilian waxes sported by the women in the series's faux-medieval setting, which made these scenes alienating to other viewers. And in the Huffington Post, Maureen Ryan likewise noted that Game of Thrones mostly presented women naked, rather than men, and added that the excess of "random boobage" undercut any aspirations the series might have to address the oppression of women in a feudal society. Saturday Night Live parodied this aspect of the adaptation in a sketch that portrayed the series as having a horny thirteen-year-old boy as a consultant whose main concern was showing as many breasts per scene as possible.

Fandom

See A Song of Ice and Fire fandom for more information The novel series A Song of Ice and Fire and its TV adaptation Game of Thrones have a broad and active international fan base. In 2012, Vulture ranked the series's fandom as the most devoted in popular culture, ahead of that of Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Harry Potter or Star Wars. The publication attributed this to "the sheer surging might and immediacy of its readers (and viewers') obsessiveness over a story that is still in the midst of unfolding". According to the marketing director of SBS, Game of Thrones has the highest fan engagement rate of any TV series known to her: 5.5% of the series's 2.9 million Facebook fans were talking online about the series in 2012, compared to 1.8% of the more than ten million fans of HBO's other fantasy series True Blood.

Among the many fan sites dedicated to the TV and novel series, Vulture noted in particular Westeros.org and WinterIsComing.net, which provide news reports and discussion forums, ToweroftheHand.com, which organizes communal readings of the novels, and Podcastoficeandfire.com, which produces a fan podcast.

Viewer numbers

By the end of May 2012, after the penultimate episode of the second season, Game of Thrones had accumulated an average of 10.3 million viewers per episode, including all repeats and on-demand viewings. This made it the third most-watched series in the history of HBO.

The following graphic shows viewer numbers for the first airings:

Awards

See List of awards and nominations received by Game of Thrones for more information The first season of Game of Thrones was nominated for thirteen of the 2011 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series. It won two, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Main Title Design. Peter Dinklage, who plays Tyrion Lannister, was named best supporting actor by the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the Scream Awards and the Satellite Awards. In 2012, the second season won six of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Ref.
2011	Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Peter Dinklage (as Tyrion Lannister) for the episode "Baelor"
		Outstanding Main Title Design	Angus Wall, Hameed Shaukat, Kirk Shintani and Robert Feng
	Scream Awards	Best TV Show	Game of Thrones
		Best Supporting Actor	Peter Dinklage
		Breakout Performance " Female	Emilia Clarke
	Television Critics Association Awards	Outstanding New Program	Game of Thrones
	Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actor " Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Peter Dinklage
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series	Game of Thrones
	Golden Globe Awards	Best Supporting Actor " Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Peter Dinklage
	George Foster Peabody Award		Game of Thrones
2012	Television Critics Association Awards	Program of the Year	Game of Thrones
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series	Game of Thrones
	Creative Arts Emmy Awards	Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour)	Matthew Waters, Onnalee Blank, Ronan Hill and Mervyn Moore for the episode "Blackwater"
		Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series	Peter Brown, Kira Roessler, Tim Hands, Paul Aulicino, Stephen P. Robinson, Vanessa Lapato, Brett Voss, James Moriana, Jeffrey Wilhoit and David Klotz for the episode "Blackwater"
		Outstanding Special Visual Effects	Rainer Gombos, Juri Stanossek, Sven Martin, Steve Kullback, Jan Fiedler, Chris Stenner, Tobias Mannewitz, Thilo Ewers and Adam Chazen for the episode "Valar Morghulis"
		Outstanding Costumes For A Series	Michele Clapton, Alexander Fordham and Chloe Aubry for the episode "The Prince of Winterfell"
		Outstanding Makeup For A Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic)	Paul Engele and Melissa Lackersteen for the episode "The Old Gods and the New"
		Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series	Gemma Jackson, Frank Walsh and Tina Jones for the episodes "Garden of Bones", "The Ghost of Harrenhal" and "A Man Without Honor" (tied with Boardwalk Empire)