Dune Sequel Wins Best FX Emmy

Children Of Dune Wins Emmy

The SCI FI Channel’s sequel miniseries Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune won an Emmy for visual effects during a Sept. 13 ceremony in Los Angeles. The miniseries took home the award for outstanding special visual effects for a miniseries, movie or special at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ 2002-’03 Creative Arts Prime Time Emmys, part of the 55th Annual Emmy Awards, at the Shrine Auditorium.

ABC’s Alias, meanwhile, won two awards: one for outstanding makeup for a series (non-prosthetic) for the episode “The Counteragent” and one for outstanding stunt coordination for the season finale “The Telling.”

Fox’s canceled SF western series Firefly won the Emmy for outstanding special visual effects for a series, for its pilot episode, “Serenity.”

The rest of the prime-time Emmy Awards will be presented in ceremonies to be broadcast on Fox on Sept. 21.