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How ‘Winning Time’ Director Salli Richardson-Whitfield’s Historic Emmy Nod Caps a Bittersweet Final Season
‘Winning Time’ director Salli Richardson-Whitfield makes Emmy history as the first Black woman nominated for drama directing.
When the Emmy nominations were announced, “ Winning Time ” helmer and executive producer Salli Richardson-Whitfield made history as the first Black woman to be recognized in the drama directing category. The series’ fact-based, metatextual dramatization of the rise of the Los Angeles Lakers not only leveraged almost all aspects of that ever-expanding skill set, but also established her as that most valuable collaborator on whatever project in which she works: in the parlance of “Winning Time,” a utility player. That impulse built to the most mesmerizing sequence in the series — a seamless montage that literally follows passes of the basketball between Lakers and Boston Celtics players (in separate games, no less) as both teams advance to their historic showdown in the 1984 NBA Finals.
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