The Comey Rule
Jeff Daniels and Brendan Gleeson star as former FBI Director James Comey and President Donald J. Trump in this two-part event series that tells the story of two powerful men, whose strikingly different ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course.
For Your Consideration
Outstanding Limited Series
Executive Producers: Shane Salerno, Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin, Billy Ray
Co-Executive Producers: Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Aaron Baiers
Produced by: Terry Gould
Producer: Cari-Esta Albert
Co-Producer: Geoggrey Hemwall
Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series
Billy Ray, Director
Outstanding Casting for a Limited Series
Sharon Bialy, CSA, Casting Director
Gohar Gazazyan, CSA, Casting Director
Sherry Thomas, CSA, Casting Director
Outstanding Cinematography
Elliot Davis, Director of Photography
Outstanding Contemporary Costumes
Anne Dixon, Costume Designer
Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling
Michelle Cote, Hair Department Head
Outstanding Contemporary Makeup
Craig Ryan French, Makeup Department Head
Outstanding Production Design
Christopher Brown, Production Designer
Mun Ying Kwun, Art Director
Rudy Braun, Art Director
Patricia Cuccia, Set Decorator
Outstanding Editing
Jeffrey Ford, ACE, Editor
Outstanding Sound Editing
Outstanding Sound Mixing
Outstanding Writing
Based on the book “A Higher Loyalty” by James Comey
Written by Billy Ray
Accolades
“…the most important drama in a year that clearly has had no shortage of drama.”
– Deadline
“one of the 21 most important political tv series of all time”
– The Wrap
“The most anticipated limited series of the fall”
– Decider
“Definitely entertaining”
– Rolling Stone
Cast
Jeff Daniels
as James Comey
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series
…a perfectly cast Jeff Daniels…
– Indiewire
Daniels is inspired casting… he captures his character’s starched righteousness wholly.
– New York Times
Brendan Gleeson
as Donald J. Trump
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series
Played with a growly, lion-like intensity by the great Brendan Gleeson, Trump is a man that undoes Comey’s belief in codes and norms, makes him squirm.
– Rolling Stone
Gleeson, wearing tangerine-tinted makeup and a perpetual scowl, channels the president’s body language and the cadence of his voice, right down to his frequent loud inhalations and sniffles. He becomes the man without ever slipping into caricature.
– Vulture
Holly Hunter
as Sally Yates
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series
Jennifer Ehle
as Patrice Comey
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series
Episodes
Episode 1 | “Night One”
James Comey interviews with President Obama and gets the job of a lifetime, Director of the FBI. But the Bureau is plunged into two hugely controversial cases that will alter both his place in history and history itself. Series Premiere.
Episode 1 | “Night Two”
James Comey awakens on 11/9/2016 as “the man who got Donald Trump elected.” It becomes clear that Trump wants to use Comey, the Bureau, and the Department of Justice for his own political aims – forcing these two men on a collision course. Series Finale.
