the top prize for best documentary<\/a> at the 2026 News & Documentary Emmy Awards. It also took the award for outstanding politics and government documentary. <\/p>\nIn an Instagram video, Gayford filmed himself opening the statuettes, saying they were “definitely the prettiest of all of the fancy statues that you can win”.<\/p>\n
“Winning 2 Emmy Awards for a film started by picking up a camera and filming my girlfriend’s work promotion is a wild plot line itself,” he wrote in the video’s description,” he said. <\/p>\n
“Standing on stage in New York with the amazing team behind it was something to remember forever.” <\/p>\n
He said that the Prime Minister had the distinction of being the first New Zealand production to win two Emmys. <\/p>\n
“I’m still getting crazy messages from every corner of the earth as people still discover this film, and it still continues on its journey around the world. <\/p>\n
“But man, what a remarkable full stop at the end of the sentence of this production to have these and now have them here in our house.” <\/p>\n
In a previous video, Gayford said the film captured some of the toughest moments in their lives. <\/p>\n
“It was awful in places,” he said. “For one reason or another, I decided to pick up a camera and film parts of it.”<\/p>\n
After seeing the film for the first time, Dame Jacinda said she “cried through most of it”. <\/p>\n
“I cried through most of it, and I’m not sure if that’s equivalent to laughing at your own jokes. I was very emotional watching it,” she said in an interview for the Sundance Film Festival. <\/p>\n
“I hoped that the film would humanise politicians, those who are public servants, and leadership, but I never thought it would humanise me.” <\/p>\n
Dame Jacinda and Gayford got married in January 2024, and are now based in Australia<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clarke Gayford has shared a video of himself unboxing the Emmy Awards won by the documentary about his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-860569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}