Henriksen portrayed Frank Black, an offender profiler who worked for the Millennium Group, a private investigative organisation. Black retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to move his wife (Gallagher) and daughter (Tiplady) to Seattle, where he began to consult on criminal cases for the Group. After his wife's death, he returned to the FBI to work with new partner Emma Hollis (Scott) to discredit the Group.
Since its 1996 debut, Millennium has received several awards, including four American Society of Cinematographers Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, one People's Choice Award, and five Young Artist Awards. In its three-year tenure, the series earned a total of twenty-one award nominations. Cinematographer Robert McLachlan and actress Brittany Tiplady providing the series' only individual wins, while the first season episode "Broken World" earned its only episodic win. A 1997 People's Choice Award for Favourite New TV Dramatic Series was the only award won by the series as a whole.
American Society of Cinematographers
Millennium was nominated for four American Society of Cinematographers awards, without winning any of them. Robert McLachlan earned three of these nominations, with Peter Wunstorf providing the fourth. Wunstorf lost the 1997 award to William Wages for the television film Buffalo Soldiers, while two of McLachlan's three nominations were lost to Bill Roe—for The X-Files' "Drive" in 1999, and "Agua Mala" in 2000—while his 1998 nomination was lost to Marc Reshovsky for the 3rd Rock from the Sun episode "Nightmare on Dick Street".[2]
Year
Category
Nominee
Episode
Result
Reference
1997
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in a Movie of the Week or Pilot
Mark R. Crookston, Maciek Malish, Gabrielle Gilbert Reeves, Ken Gladden, Debby Ruby-Winsberg, Donna Beltz, Michael Kimball, Susan Welsh, Jarmil Maupin, Jeff Charbonneau, Michael Salvetta, Gary Marullo
Millennium was nominated for a Golden Reel Award by the Motion Picture Sound Editors society at their 46th annual ceremony, in 1999.[12] The nomination ultimately lost out to hospital drama E.R. at the event.[13]
Year
Category
Nominee
Result
Reference
1999
Best sound editing in episodic television, effects and foley
Millennium was nominated for several awards by the Online Film and Television Association during the course of their first three ceremonies. At the inaugural ceremony in 1997, for work produced in 1996, the series vied for seven awards—including "Best New Drama Series", which it lost to EZ Streets; "Best Music in a Series", which it lost to The X-Files; "Best Visual Effects in a Series", which was won by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; "Best New Title Sequence in a Series", being beaten by Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and "Best Episode of a Drama Series", in which "Pilot" was beaten by the E.R. episode "One More for the Road". However, series composer Mark Snow came away with a win in the category "Best New Theme Song in a Series".[14]
The following year, the series earned another nomination, this time for "Best Sound in a Series", again losing the eventual award to The X-Files.[15] In 1999, honoring work throughout 1998, Millennium received a nomination for "Best Lighting in a Series", which it lost to The X-Files, and another for "Best Production Design in a Series", which it lost to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.[16]