Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Emswiller
The headlines of the obits are playing up the Emmy, but I have to agree with the above comment. The Television academy gives out thousands of awards every year in multiple divisions. His was for a marquee show (on HBO) but was not among the marquee awards we normally confer for Wiki notability (unless one is a significant multiple winner across many years). His Emmy was of the technical variety, awarded at a separate “Creative Art’s” ceremony. He was one of 25 people to be awarded Sound Mixing Emmys at that year’s dinner, one of five on the team that won for HBO’s “Bessie” in the category of “Outstanding Sound Mixing in a Limited Series or Movie.” See: https://www.emmys.com/sites/default/files/Downloads/2015-creative-arts-winners-v1.pdf It’s a great professional accomplishment that I’m sure led to better assignments among Sound Mixing projects, but I don’t believe it’s the type that meets . Otherwise, all that’s left--as noted--is wide coverage of his on-set death, but . Seems like he was an accomplish professional with many credits, but without SIGCOV during his lifetime, it's as ordinary as any successful person, but not encyclopedic worthy
— User:ShelbyMarion, 21:42, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:ANYBIO||WP:NOTNEWS (Wikipedia:Notability)