On Heels of ‘Very Pleasing’ Emmy Nods, Tony Gilroy Calls for Transparency in Streaming Data

Star Wars has once again entered to the Emmys, thanks to Tony Gilroy’s exceptional “Andor,” a limited series about the rebel leader played by Diego Luna.

Andor” is the highest-rated live-action Star Wars property, and along with “Obi-Wan Kenobi” joins “The Mandalorian” among the rare genre series in the Emmys race.

The show garnered a total of eight nominations, including for writing, cinematography, and Outstanding Drama Series.As praise piled on for the political action series, Gilroy told IndieWire in November about the challenges of television versus film, especially for a property so beloved not only by its audience, but by those working tirelessly behind the scenes.“It’s really a business driven by obsession; all the people that are great department heads and all the people that are great writers, directors — they’re all obsessed,” he told IndieWire last fall.

“So when you put a team together of people that are super obsessed,…

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