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Grandin Wins Big at TV Awards Show Photos: Corus Entertainment / HBO Canada Temple Grandin and Claire Danes on the set of the film. Claire Danes in a scene from Temple Grandin. HBO bio-film about meat industry legend Temple Grandin takes home top honours at Primetime Emmy Awards. By Alan MacKenzie A Alongside what can easily be described as more glamorous fare – including the acclaimed TV series Mad Men and Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks miniseries The Pacific – one of the big winners at this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards was the true story of one of the meat industry’s most fascinating innovators. The HBO film Temple Grandin tells the story of Dr. Temple Grandin, the well-respected autistic animal welfare activist who uses her unique view of the world to develop more humane treatment methods for livestock. The film took home honours for Outstanding Made for Television Movie and Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special, as well as acting awards for Julia Ormond, David Strathairn and Claire Danes, who played Grandin. The made-for-TV movie won a total of five awards at the Aug. 30 ceremony (and previously won two for its score and single-camera editing at the Creative Arts Primetime Emmy Awards, which were announced on Aug. 21, coincidentally Grandin’s 63rd birthday). Grandin herself attended the ceremony and was noted for her enthusiastic response to each win (at one point she rose from her chair and excitedly swung her hand “lasso-style”, the Los Angeles Times reported). She even received a standing ovation from the audience. In her acceptance speech, Danes called Grandin “the most brave woman I've known.” Born in 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts, Grandin was diagnosed with autism at the age of three, at a time when little was known about the condition. Through the support of family and teachers she pursued higher education and obtained a B.A. in psychology at Frankin Pierce College in 1970 and a Master of Science in Animal Science at Arizona State University in 1975. The curved livestock handling facilities that she designed to reduce animal stress are used not only in the United States and Canada, but throughout the world – including in Europe, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand. Almost half of all cattle in North America are handled in a centre track restrainer system that she designed. The film chronicles Grandin’s life from her adolescence through her university career to becoming an unexpected pioneer in the male-dominated meat industry and eventually a spokesperson for autism (she has written several books on the subject including the acclaimed Thinking in Pictures). 12 Canadian Meat Business September/October 2010 meatbusiness.ca
To show how Grandin views the world around her director Mick Jackson utilized several visual effects, such as onscreen diagrams, a technique that Grandin herself praised. “It did a very good job of accurately showing my visual thinking, sensory issues, anxiety issues. That was the work of Mick Jackson, the director – he just did a fabulous job on that,” Grandin recently told Canadian Meat Business. She also praised Danes’ performance, saying it was “like watching myself.” “The movie also did a great job of showing that I was in a man’s world back in the early ’70s with a bunch of male chauvinist pigs,” the Meat Industry Hall of Fame member added, noting that an emotional scene in which her car was vandalized by being covered in bull testicles at a slaughter facility was accurate. Grandin was originally approached about the film over 10 years ago by executive producer Emily Gerson Saines. Saines has an autistic child and after reading some of Grandin’s books wanted to bring her inspirational story to the screen. Grandin was involved in the project from the beginning and spent time working with Jackson, Danes and the film’s writers, Christopher Monger and Merritt Johnson. Claire Danes as Temple Grandin. “I had a lot of input into it on cattle accuracy,” she said. “I spent a half a day with Clare Danes and I gave her all of these ancient VHS tapes from the ’80s and early ’90s of interviews and lectures – they were the oldest tapes I had.” The film was considered an unexpected winner, beating out five other nominees including HBO’s You In her acceptance speech, Danes called Grandin “the most brave woman I've known.” Don’t Know Jack, which stars Al Pacino as Dr. Jack Kevorkian, and The Special Relationship, featuring Michael Sheen as Tony Blair and Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton. Danes won her trophy over such notable actresses as Dame Judy Dench, Maggie Smith and Hope Davis. It was released on DVD in August. This year Grandin was also named one of Time magazine’s Most Influential People and in July the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association gave her a lifetime achievement award. Watch for a full interview with Grandin about her extraordinary year in our next issue. meatbusiness.ca September/October 2010 Canadian Meat Business 13
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