1988

Gore Vidal's Lincoln
NBC miniseries
Lamont Johnson, director
Bruce Shurley, unit production manager
Jerry Grandey, first assistant director
Eric Wall, second assistant director

The personal intimacies behind presidential stories became another of director Johnson's specialties with the epic miniseries Gore Vidal's Lincoln (1988) starring Sam Waterston and Mary Tyler Moore as Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, and, later, The Kennedys of Massachusetts (1990). Lincoln covers events from the couple's first days in the White House until the President's assassination by John Wilkes Booth. Johnson also won the Emmy Award for best direction of a miniseries and the production received Emmy nominations for best miniseries, actress (Moore) and supporting actress (Ruby Dee).