Bucky Gunts, a renowned sports television director who had won multiple Emmy awards and recently directed the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, won another pride just last night as Bucky Gunts received the ‘Outstanding Directing’ Emmy award on Sunday 29th August, 2010.
Bucky Gunts, who is currently offering his services as the Head of Production for NBC, walked up the stage and graced the overwhelming event held at the grand Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles with his thanks giving speech.
According to various reports, the Vancouver Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, the two-and-a-half hour program that turned Vancouver’s first Olympic Games into a memorable one for a live audience of 50,000 and an estimated 2.5 million television viewers worldwide, featured assorted features of Canadian culture including First Nations peoples, totem poles, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Canadian singers Bryan Adams, Nelly Furtado along with the much famed Canadian jazz singer, Nikki Yanofsky.
Bucky Gunts, best known for NBC’s Olympic coverage, earned the honor after reportedly defeating some ‘forecasted to win the Emmy’ nominees like Louis Horvitz, Glenn Weiss, Joel Gallen and Ron de Moraes.
The eve of 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards was hosted by Jimmy Fallon, who kept standing on his feet, while watching the night turning out to be a memorable one for some lucky stars and the unlucky ones as well.
According to NBC’s official website, the three hour long show, from 5:00 to 8:00 PDT that aired exclusively on NBC, was broadcast live for the first time in over 30 years.
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