USS Callister

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Episode of the Black Mirror series
title USS Callister
Original title USS Callister
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Production
company		 House of Tomorrow
length 76 minutes
classification Season 4, episode 1
14th episode in total ( list )
Initial release December 29, 2017 on Netflix

First publication in German		 December 29, 2017 on Netflix
Rod
Director Toby Haynes
script William Bridges ,
Charlie Brooker
production Louise Sutton
music Daniel Pemberton
camera Stephan Pehrsson
cut Selina Macarthur
occupation
synchronization

USS Callister is the first episode of the fourth season and thus the 14th episode of the British science fiction television series Black Mirror . The episode is about Robert Daly, a programmer who helped develop an extremely successful virtual reality - massively multiplayer online role-playing game , but who, despite his talent, is shunned and not very respected by his colleagues. For this reason, he creates digital clones of the other employees and inserts them into a game mod that resembles his ( Star Trek parodying) favorite series. There he tortures his crew as a captain. While the others are already numb and bear his whims with complete indifference, the clone of Nanette Cole, a new colleague, is determined to escape from Daly's simulation.

Due to its atypical humor for the series, allusions to Star Trek , performances of the actors and its film-like atmosphere, the episode was widely praised by critics, although some elements of the plot were recorded rather mixed. In addition, certain traits of the protagonist were interpreted as a response to people whose behavior was often discussed in the media at the time of broadcast, including Internet trolls and Harvey Weinstein .

USS Callister received four Emmy Awards in 2018, out of a total of seven nominations.

action

Captain Robert Daly and his crew are on board their spaceship, the USS Callister , when they are attacked by their archenemy Valdack. They manage to destroy Valdack's ship, but Daly lets him flee in order to continue hunting him. The crew celebrates their success, with Daly being kissed by all female team members.

It turns out this isn't anything like real, just a scene from a video game. Robert Daly is actually Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of game developer Callister Inc . James Walton, another co-founder, is the company's CEO . The company's most successful product is Infinity , an MMORPG in VR format in which players can control a spaceship. Logging in is done using a small device that is attached to the temple . Many of Daly's colleagues ignore him, and his achievements are hardly appreciated. It is noticeable that the employees concerned look very similar to the crew members from the opening sequence and also have the same names. When Nanette Cole, a new developer, wants to praise Daly for his programming skills, she is interrupted by Walton, who, unlike Daly, appears very determined and offers her a tour of the company without further ado.

Daly goes home after work and opens once a Infinity - Mod , in this the game environment of his favorite television series is SpaceFleet modeled. Daly, who represents the captain in this modified version, constantly insults the crew for trivialities and regularly strangles Walton, who is very submissive in reality, in complete contrast to his doppelganger.

Shania Lowry, another employee, advises Cole to watch out for Daly the following day. He overhears her conversation by chance and secretly takes a coffee mug she threw away in Cole's office in order to get to her DNA . Some time later, Cole comes aboard the USS Callister, visibly confused and worried. Lowry explains that all of those present are digital clones of Callister Inc.'s staff . At first Cole tries in vain to escape from the ship. She then refuses to follow Daly's orders. He then removes her mouth and nose, which prevents her from breathing and finally forces her to act. She learns from Walton that the clones have neither genitals nor ani and therefore cannot have sexual intercourse . They are also not able to sleep, they die occasionally, but are usually immediately "reanimated" afterwards by Daly and his DNA samples, which is why they are stuck in the simulation for all eternity.

On their next mission, the crew succeeds in taking Valdack prisoner. Captain Daly injures him with a shot, but leaves him alive to make him suffer. When Daly leaves the game for a moment, Cole emails a message to her real counterpart. The real Cole doesn't understand this and asks Daly for advice, who claims that it is just a spam email . He logs back into Infinity and, as Captain Daly, subjects all team members to an interrogation. Cole finally admits her offense; before Captain Daly punishes her, Lowry defends her. The captain spares Cole and turns Lowry into an Arachnajax , a spider-like tentacle monster, and has her locked up. He logs out a little later, which Cole uses to explore their surroundings. She finds out that a rogue wormhole actually an uplink for Infinity - Update is. She concludes that while the crew could escape through this hole, they would most likely be intercepted and destroyed by a firewall . However, almost all of the clones agree that it would still be better than enduring Captain Daly's tyranny. Cole notices that Walton hardly contributes to solving the problem and that it is pointless to escape. When she asks him about it, he confesses that in reality, Daly stole DNA from his son Tommy and built a clone of him into the game. Daly threw this clone out of the ship and killed it by decompression in order to punish Walton for his disobedience. Cole promises Walton that in reality he will destroy the lollipop on which Tommy's DNA is located, which is why Walton agrees to support the other crew members.

Daly re-enters the game, whereupon Cole persuades him to fly to the planet Skillane IV together. There she undresses down to her underwear and steps into a lake. Captain Daly follows her after a moment's hesitation. While he is distracted, the rest of the team that remained on the Callister teleport Captain Daly's Omnicorder , with which he controls everything, to their ship. With the help of the device, they use PhotoCloud , a photo sharing service. There you discover revealing pictures of the real Cole. They use these to blackmail her and force her to order a pizza , have it delivered to Daly's apartment and hide nearby. When the pizza delivery boy rings the doorbell, Daly leaves his office, whereupon Cole is instructed by the clones to break into his house and steal his DNA samples, which she succeeds in doing. After that Coles clone is back on the game Callister beamed , the team is preparing for the flight.

After Daly got rid of the pizza delivery guy very roughly and went back to his computer, he noticed the disappearance of his DNA samples and witnessed the escape, which he now wants to prevent at all costs. He pursues his crew with the second ship through an asteroid belt , which severely damages the Callister's recoil drive . Walton volunteers and repairs the drive, leading to a confrontation with Captain Daly. Walton initially seems to apologize for his disrespectful behavior towards Daly in reality, but then insults him for killing his son's clone. Walton is burned by the functioning drive, the crew manages to escape through the wormhole, Captain Daly remains behind.

The crew, who were briefly unconscious, are pleased to see that they survived the jump through the hole and are now in the unmodified Infinity , with them are Lowry and Valdack, who are looking normal again. The firewall has registered Daly's mod and is slowly deleting it, the real Daly cannot log out of his version and falls into a state similar to brain death . Meanwhile , after an encounter with the annoyed user Gamer691 , the crew travels through the game world under the guidance of Cole.

production

Emergence

Charlie Brooker , the series inventor, wrote the script of the episode together with William Bridges , the two had already written the third episode of the third season Shut Up and Dance (German title Mach, what we say ) together. According to Brooker came to him during the filming of Play Test (German title hunger for experience ), the second episode of the third season, the idea of a Black Mirror to create version of a space epic ( "a black mirror version of a space epic"), as up to At that time, no episode of the series had dealt with space.

Originally, Daly was supposed to be portrayed as unsympathetic in reality too, but this has been changed to increase the surprise effect in the scene in which the virtual Robert Daly chokes the clone of James Walton. According to Brooker, the real Daly is likely to starve to death as all employees are on Christmas vacation and he has a “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door of his study so no one will be looking for him. The episode director Toby Haynes initially wanted to use the shot of the completely incapacitated Robert Daly as the closing sequence and was skeptical when Charlie Brooker suggested he end the episode with the scene in which the crew is out and about in the unmodified Infinity game. However, he was finally able to change Haynes's mind and told him that not all episodes of Black Mirror had to have an unfortunate ending.

In an interview, Charlie Brooker compared USS Callister to San Junipero , the fourth episode of season three. Both episodes are intended to turn the audience's understanding of Black Mirror "upside down" and to expand the range of topics of the series. That's why USS Callister gets humorous moments that you might not expect from the series.

In August 2018, Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones , an executive producer on the series, announced that any sequel to an episode would likely be based on USS Callister . The episode is ideal in this regard, as the characters are "in a universe full of possibilities" and there were also "some unanswered questions at the end".

Inspirations

Brooker used elements of several science fiction works to write the script, including The Twilight Zone and Galaxy Quest .

Brooker said he was initially inspired by It's a Good Life when writing the episode , which he described as "extremely scary". It's a Good Life is the eighth episode of the third season of the US television series Twilight Zone , which is about a six-year-old boy named Anthony. He has extraordinary mental abilities, for example he is able to read minds and influence the environment at will. He mainly uses these skills to get the other townspeople to do what he wants. Another source of inspiration for Brookers was Playtime Fontayne , a character from the British comic series Viz , which is aimed at adults. Playtime Fontayne is a medieval man who regularly coerces other adults into playing childish games. In addition, Brooker said in an interview in October 2016 that while playing No Man's Sky he got the idea to write an episode in which a “world is created by procedural synthesis ”. According to Brooker, the main character Robert Daly is based on both Kim Jong-un , as "everyone smiles and applauds whenever they make a joke because everyone is afraid of him," and people who are dissatisfied and therefore go on the Internet to react there ("someone going online and venting").

Brooker said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that the shooting was influenced by Donald Trump's inauguration , which took place at the same time. That is why those involved had Donald Trump in their heads, which is why the subject of harassment at work was also included in the plot.

occupation

According to Toby Haynes, Jesse Plemons was the first and only choice for the role of Robert Daly, so the other roles were cast with actors who the producers thought would be a good fit for Plemons. Cristin Milioti , who plays Nanette Cole, agreed to participate in the episode even though she had only read a few pages of the script. She liked to Nanette they ankämpfe against Daly, who is a petty, misogynistic bully is ( "a small-minded, misogynist bully"). Jimmi Simpson , who portrays Walton, suffered from a severe flu during the main part of the filming and lost weight due to illness, but according to Simpson this was even an advantage, because of his battered appearance in the Infinity world, the strong contrast between the real and virtual Walton was highlighted. Plemons' fiancée Kirsten Dunst can be seen briefly in the background at the beginning, and at the end of the episode , Aaron Paul has a cameo as an irritated player. For the pure speaking role he used the voice of his character Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad at Brooker's suggestion .

Filming

Filming started in January 2017 and lasted a total of 20 days. In order to allow the audience to better understand which sequences take place virtually and which take place in reality, Haynes had the game scenes shot with a fixed camera, and the ones in reality with a wobbly camera . Most of the scenes were filmed in Great Britain , the location of the interplanetary sequences were the Canary Islands .

Originally, the planets on which the crew travels were to be modeled on a jungle and a cave, similar to the Indiana Jones films. However, according to Stephan Pehrsson , the cameraman of the episode, the budget was not sufficient for this; instead, the scriptwriters had rewritten the location of the relevant places in a volcano- like area. Both scenes were filmed in Lanzarote , the first in a crater- like setting sprinkled with red sand from a nearby quarry. The second was filmed at a lake with black sand on the shore, which, according to Pehrsson, looked "original and strange". The special effects for the episode were created by Framestore .

music

Daniel Pemberton , the composer of the episode, was inspired during his work by compositions by Jerry Goldsmith and compared the soundtrack of the episode with "film music from two productions that slowly clash". According to Pemberton, the music of the episode is reminiscent of Star Trek and contains "other modern and synthetic" aspects. It was recorded by a 70-piece orchestra from Prague .

Allusions

The episode contains numerous allusions to well-known science fiction series and films. The allusions to Star Trek are particularly numerous, as Charlie Brooker, William Bridges and Toby Haynes are big fans of the series, which is why they made sure to incorporate several concepts known from Starship Enterprise into the plot. Therefore, the visual design of the set was based on science fiction series such as Star Trek or Battle Star Galactica . In order to reflect the temporal development of the Star Trek television series and films, the opening scenes in the spaceship were first filmed in a rather simple set design and 4: 3 format like the old productions . Then one were widescreen format and a more modern set design used, the latter is similar to that in the film from JJ Abrams was used. In addition, a Dutch Angle was used in the corresponding scenes , which was used in series of the 1960s and thus also Spaceship Enterprise . When writing, Brooker and Bridges also used some elements of the Star Trek parody Galaxy Quest - A Planless Through Space , which is about ordinary citizens who suddenly become part of a science fiction environment from which they cannot escape for the time being.

For the sequences in the spaceship, a voice trainer was hired to teach Jesse Plemons to imitate William Shatner's idiolect as closely as possible. Plemons particularly focused on Shatner's frequent speaking pauses in the middle of a sentence. The reference to the production Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Land is particularly worth mentioning, as Daly gives the order to fire at the beginning of the episode and puts a fist under his chin, which Captain Kirk does at the beginning of the film. In addition, Daly has thinning hair in reality, but a full head of hair in the game, which is an allusion to the toupee that Shatner wore in Starship Enterprise . Daly also wears a gray shirt under his red jacket, the same combination as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the later seasons of the Star Trek series Starship Enterprise - The Next Century . Daly also kisses Shania Lowry and Elena Tulaska in the game. Lowry, whose appearance (long, false eyebrows, miniskirt uniform and beehive hairstyle ) is based on Nichelle Nichols ' character Uhura from the Enterprise series, is dark-skinned, which is why her kiss with Daly on the famous kiss between Captain Kirk and Uhura in the Enterprise episode alludes to Plato's Stepchildren (German title Platons Stiefkinder ). In addition, Lowry also wearing a red uniform, as she dies first, suggesting the so-called red shirts alludes. Tulaska has a blue-skinned, alien appearance in Infinity . This is a reference to another Enterprise episode in which Captain Kirk kisses a green-skinned alien named Marta ( Whom Gods Destroy , German title Wen die Götter destroy ). Another nod to characters in the Star Trek franchise is the behavior of James Walton. Although he is extremely obedient to Captain Daly, he occasionally expresses his doubts quite ironically and openly, qualities that he shares with the characters Leonard McCoy and Montgomery Scott . Helmsman Kabir Dudani wears several devices on his head that amplify his perception, which can be understood as an allusion to Geordi La Forges VISOR .

In USS Callister , reference is also made to the technology known from the Star Trek franchise. The Daly Omnicorder , with which he can control almost everything on the ship, is very similar to the Tricorder analysis and measuring device ; the Callister crew gets to foreign planets by beaming, uses a kind of warp drive and fires torpedoes that target the so-called Photon torpedoes are ajar.

Also, references can be on Star Wars , see the episode, it turns example, Captain Daly's invitation Take that thing to the bridge a direct quote from Star Wars . In the scene where Cole comes to, the space for a species is and enlightened, as seen in the trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story . Finally, a tube into which Walton climbs in a sequence resembles the tube system through which Luke Skywalker in The Empire Strikes Back flees from Darth Vader.

USS Callister includes two Easter Eggs on previous Black Mirror episodes: The device used to log in to Infinity is labeled TCKR . This is a technology company in the series universe that also appeared in San Junipero . In addition, the two planets Skillane IV and Rannoch, to which the crew travels, are named after the criminal couple Victoria Skillane and Iain Rannoch, characters from the second episode of the second season White Bear (German title Böse Neue Welt ). On USS Callister itself is in Black Museum alluded, the sixth episode of the fourth season. In said museum you can see Daly's DNA scanner, with which he creates the clones for his game, as well as the lollipop that Walton's son Tommy sucks in one scene.

reception

Criticism

positive

On Rotten Tomatoes , the episode scored 94 percent based on 35 critical reviews, of which 33 were positive and two were negative. The average points awarded is 9.28 out of ten points (as of April 2, 2019).

Plemons has received multiple praise for portraying the main character Robert Daly.

The majority of USS Callister received positive feedback, including a four out of five star rating from Tristram Fane Saunders, an editor of the Telegraph . Saunders claimed the follow-up issue of male abuse of power was "premonitory and timely." However, he expressed himself negatively about the large number of allusions that would literally "kill" the audience. Saunders was also of the opinion that while the closing sequence was "uncharacteristic of Black Mirror ", the plot was "the kind of story that should be told more often". Saunders praised Jesse Plemons as the "perfect cast" for Robert Daly, highlighting his playing of Daly's two personalities (Reality and Infinity ).

Alec Bojalad of Den of Geek took a similar opinion, writing that the timing of the episode was "just right," rating the episode five stars out of five. He praised Jimmi Simpson as James Walton, but for him Cristin Milioti as Nanette Cole is the "true revelation" of the episode. In addition, Bojalad commented positively on the look of the episode, especially the pastel coloring was "light and beautiful".

According to Jacob Stolworthy, an editor for The Independent , the action in the spaceship is "good fun" to watch. He was positive about the performance of the actors, especially Jimmi Simpson and Michaela Coel , the latter “particularly stands out”. He ruled that the length of the episode was justified by the extensive science fiction environment and described USS Callister as the "most cinematic" episode of Black Mirror to date .

Milioti and her character Nanette Cole were also largely rated positively by critics.

Darren Franich, an editor at Entertainment Weekly , described the episode as an "understanding parody" and "loving exaggeration" of Star Trek . Jesse Plemons' portrayal of Robert Daly was also well received by Franich, and he also wrote that the camera work captured the same effect as that of Starship Enterprise . The only point of criticism for Franich was the scene in which the Callister crew is preparing their escape: The “fast pace” of the sequence in question makes blackmailing the real Nanette Cole seem “pointless” and is therefore “too simple a gag”.

In the German edition of Rolling Stone, Sassan Niasseri praised Jesse Plemons' portrayal of Robert Daly, whom he described as a "sleazy captain" and a " Zapp-Brannigan cut". According to him, USS Callister was “a spectacular season opener” and “perhaps the funniest” Black Mirror episode, not least because of the humor and allusions . Due to the tension of the climax, isolated logic holes, including the unspecified clone technology, were of little consequence.

Axel Schmitt, an editor of the website Serienjunkies.de , rated USS Callister with four out of five stars. According to him, the episode is only a "loving homage to spaceship Enterprise " in places and for the most part a "tough psychological thriller". The escape of the crew is cleverly written and excitingly staged, the end of the series surprisingly cheerful. He also liked Plemons in the lead role, with whom Charlie Brooker found the "poster boy of the sadistic nerd". Brooker was therefore able to carry out an experiment that was unusual for the series and, for a change, to implement a rather looser material.

Mixed

By Zack Handlen of The AV Club received USS Callister an A- . Although he praised the performance of the actors, the appearance of the episode and the theme of the plot, he is of the opinion that the end seems "sudden and hasty", and the episode loses tension because it is a little too important to please the audience ("a little too eager to please"), furthermore he described the clone technology presented in the following as magic that one either accepts or rejects ("magic that you either go with or you don't") ).

Jacob Oller of the Paste website claimed that the “mixed up metaphors” “drowned out” positive aspects of the plot. In addition, the allusions were "clumsy" and therefore "overshadowed" the message of the episode. Furthermore, Oller criticized what he believed to be "logic holes" as well as excessive science fiction rules and other nonsense ("sprawling sci-fi rules and nonsense"), including cloning using DNA samples. For this he praised the funny moments, which are "much better than the actual plot".

Emily Todd VanDerWerff from the Vox website criticized the fact that the episode did not explain exactly how cloning worked. She also claimed that the scene in which Walton's son appears just "elongated" the episode. For this, VanDerWerff praised the crew's escape plan, which they compared to a "prison break like out of a movie", and also wrote that Plemons was a great parody of William Shatner with a slowly burgeoning feeling of hatred ("He blends a surprisingly great William Shatner riff with a slow-building sense of odiousness "). However, VanDerWerff complained that many of the secondary characters were only presented as “sketchy”.

Adam Starkey of the British tabloid Metro claimed that the wide-ranging episode universe is evidence that Black Mirror can still evolve. He disliked the jumps in the plot at the beginning of the episode, which were "a bit awkward", and the episode "occasionally dragged on". However, he was positive about Jimmi Simpson's portrayal of James Walton, whom he described as the "emotional focus" of the episode, and about the ending, which he described as "wonderfully bleak".

Interpretations

Literary inspiration

Ryan Britt, an editor at Inverse , sees in USS Calllister elements of what he describes as "snappy and astute" science fiction literature of the 1960s. He especially draws parallels to the 1967 short story I must scream and have no mouth (original title I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream ) by the American writer Harlan Ellison . USS Callister is a pastiche to the Ellison story, since in both works people are tortured in a virtual environment and are unable to flee or die. In addition, the antagonist of the short story, a kind of "supercomputer", resembles Daly, since his methods become more and more brutal in the course of the plot, for example at the end of the story a character is turned into a gelatinous mass. In addition, Daly occasionally removes the mouths of the crew members who do not follow his orders, which is also an indication of the similarity to I must scream and have no mouth . However, according to Britt, this does not mean that USS Callister is a direct copy of the short story. On the other hand, there are central narrative differences in the plot and the fact that Daly is not a computer, but a person. Instead, the episode would cleverly update the concept of the story with allusions to contemporary science fiction storytelling techniques. In addition, the swipes on Star Trek also represented a connection with Ellison, as he wrote several (now quite well-known) episodes for Starship Enterprise , but complained very openly in later years about how much these were rewritten by Gene Roddenberry .

Subversive storytelling and metaphors for trolling

According to Dana Schwartz, an editor of Entertainment Weekly , the episode bypasses a common trope in (US) works of pop culture: Actually, Daly is a typical underdog character , a character who does not appear like a typical heroic protagonist , but an outsider is. The story should therefore traditionally be about how Daly earns the respect of his colleagues and leaps out of Walton's shadow. He also meets the more attractive and younger Cole, who, in contrast to all other characters, appreciates his intelligence, which often occurs in Hollywood films, as Saunders describes. Therefore, the viewer is initially on Daly's side. However, contrary to the supposed expectations, Daly and Cole do not become a couple. Rather, Daly clones his colleagues including Cole. In his game mod, he commands his crew around imperiously, imposes draconian penalties and does not care about the feelings of the members, which is why he is the antagonist . That is why Ryan Lambie of the website Den of Geek sees in the figure Robert Daly parallels to Internet trolls , who enjoy their actions and who also don't care what consequences their behavior could have. According to Charles Bramesco from New York , Daly is like nerds who have been bullied and who become bullies themselves (“assume the role of the bully after being bullied”).

Metaphors for sexism

Britt believes USS Callister criticizes sexism in Starship Enterprise itself as well as in fan circles of the series. He describes that Daly's behavior is a metaphor for how escapism among members of very large fandoms can lead to fantasies that are pathological and psychotic (“the script also skewers how escapism in extremely popular fandoms actually has a dark side: fantasies can create pathological and psychotic behavior "). The episode is therefore a strict warning to older fans not to exaggerate with their enthusiasm for the series ("It's more like a stern warning for the show's older fans to not take their enthusiasm too far"). Jared Whitley writes on the Star Trek fan site Trek Movie that the episode is a cruel parody and a misandristic attack on male science fiction fans ("a cruel parody and even a misandrous attack on male science fiction fans") .

Schwartz claims that certain Daly behaviors correspond to the so-called toxic masculinity , which is often observed among gamers and the alt-right movement. Many geeks , like Daly, see themselves as victims of so-called jocks , attractive, sporty and popular men. This topic was often dealt with in films from the 1980s and 1990s, for example Revenge of the Eggheads . However, geeks are no longer outsiders these days. Rather, like in Silicon Valley , they would build multibillion-dollar companies that were "toxic for female employees". Like Daly, they grew up with the idea of ​​being victims, which is why they did not notice the extent of their own harassment, mostly directed against women (“they are a generation of boys who grew up thinking they're the victims, never grasping the extent to which they've become the bullies ").

Bramesco describes that Daly does not rape his female crew members , but shows behavior that is not uncommon in the rape culture : a claim mentality, a "distorted" idea of ​​power and displeasure about any disobedience, all characteristics of Daly the “psychological foundation” of this culture. Saunders describes the episode as a sharp attack on a male-dominated genre ("a sharp attack on an entire genre of male-driven narrative") and draws parallels between the sexist Captain Daly, who kisses the women on the ship without their consent, and Harvey Weinstein . Sara Moniuszko, a USA Today editor , comes to a similar conclusion that, like Weinstein, Daly would threaten his mostly female underdogs if they did not obey him.

Role of Walton

Jess Joho writes in the Mashable that Walton is probably the "real hero" of the episode as he volunteers and repairs the Callister's damaged drive so the crew can continue their escape, presumably losing his life due to his severe burns , since he is not among the rest of the crew in the unmodified game. Jimmi Simpson, who represents the character, contradicts this view, since Walton's egoism and ruthlessness towards Daly would have made him take revenge on Walton and his colleagues. According to Simpson, Walton is not repairing the drive out of selflessness, but rather to “look good” before the others. In addition, Simpson is of the opinion that Walton's injuries were not fatal and, in contrast to the rest of the mod, he will not be deleted and therefore suffer from great pain forever and be trapped in a kind of "great nothing".

Awards and nominations

Tabular list of nominations and awards
year Award category Nominees & Award Winners Result Ref.
2018 Emmy Award Outstanding Television Movie Annabel Jones, Charlie Brooker, Louise Sutton Won
Outstanding Sound Editing For A Limited Series Kenny Clark, Michael Maroussas, Matthew Skelding, Dillon Bennett, Dario Swade, Ricky Butt, Oliver Ferris Won
Outstanding Writing For A Limited Series William Bridges, Charlie Brooker Won
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Series Or Movie Jesse Plemons Nominated
Outstanding Cinematography For A Limited Series Stephan Pehrsson Nominated
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Limited Series Selina MacArthur Won
Outstanding Music Composition For A Limited Series, Movie Or Special (Original Dramatic Score) Daniel Pemberton Nominated
Golden Reel Awards Episodic Longform - Dialogue / ADR Kenny Clark, Michael Maroussas Won
Episodic Longform - Effects / Foley Kenny Clark Nominated
Saturn Award Best Guest Starring Performance on Television Jesse Plemons Nominated
BAFTA Supporting actor Jimmi Simpson Nominated
MTV Movie Awards Most frightened performance Cristin Milioti Nominated
Hugo Award Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form Follow USS Callister Nominated

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Black Mirror Episodes


season 3

San Junipero  (2016)

Season 4

USS Callister  (2017)

Interactive film

Bandersnatch (2018)