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player ready...If being nominated for an Emmy Award weren’t good enough, Alexander Rubinow experienced the additional thrill of winning.
The Northbrook native and alumnus of Glenbrook North High School – Class of 1997 – got television’s equivalent of the Oscar on Sept. 12, when the technical awards were presented.
Rubinow said his memories of the event are part excitement and part nerves.
“And then your name gets called, and you’re floating. You’re on air,” Rubinow said. “You have to prepare yourself that it won’t happen – it’s like waiting at the doctor’s office for the needle to stick because you know it’s happening – but the needle didn’t stick.”
Mel Brooks served as emcee.
Rubinow said the moments after his win were a bit hazy.
“I remember getting up; I remember hugging … we celebrated a little bit in the aisle. I remember going up there, walking up the stairs and taking the speech out. I remember the crowd reacting a bit to what I said. But when I got off, I couldn’t remember if I’d thanked everybody enough,” he said.
Rubinow and colleagues Alex Durham and Josh Earl (as Original Productions, LLC, a FremantleMedia Company for the Discovery Channel) were nominated in the “Outstanding Picture Editing for Reality Programming” category for the season premiere episode of “Deadliest Catch: A Brotherhood Tested.”
They beat “The Amazing Race,” “Project Runway” and “Project Runway All Stars;” “Shark Tank” and “Survivor.”
While the thrill of winning an Emmy is slowly sinking in, Rubinow said he can’t allow the award to change his approach to working and his craft.
“I don’t think I can let it change the way I work. I just have to have the same hard work ethic I had before I won,” he said. “It’s right back to work.”
The Emmy Awards aired on Sept. 20.
Jon Davis is a freelance reporter for Pioneer Press.