Snowfall (series)

Snowfall is a crime drama series created by Dave Andron, Eric Amadio, and John Singleton for FX. Snowfall premiered on July 5, 2017 and ended on April 19, 2023.

The series is set in 1983 at the beginning of the rise of the crack epidemic and focuses on the 3 protagonists: Franklin Saint, a 21-year-old Compton grocery store clerk who rose up as a major crime boss in the drug business, Teddy McDonald, a CIA operative who was trafficking cocaine from south of the border to fund the fight in the war against communism in Nicaragua, and Gustavo "El Oso" Zapata, a broke Mexican luchador who was hired as an enforcer by the Villanueva Cartel.

Starring Cast

Current

Damson Idris as Franklin Saint

Sergio Peris-Mencheta as Gustavo Zapata

Michael Hyatt as Cissy Saint

Angela Lewis as Louie Saint

Isaiah John as Leon Simmons

Devyn A. Tyler as Veronique Turner

Gail Bean as Wanda Bell

Alejandro Edda as Rubén

Former

Carter Hudson as Teddy McDonald

Emily Rios as Lucia Villanueva

Amin Joseph as Jerome Saint

Juan Javier Cardenas as Alejandro Usteves

Filipe Valle Costa as Pedro Nava

Alon Aboutboul as Avi Drexler

Malcolm M. Mays as Kevin Hamilton

Marcus Henderson as Andre Wright

Kevin Carroll as Alton Williams

Suzy Nakamura as Irene Abe

Crew

Creators

Dave Andron Eric Amadio

John Singleton

Executive Producers

Thomas Schlamme Michael London Trevor Engelson

Julia DeJoie Leonard Chang Walter Mosley

Directors

Alonso Alvarez Adil El Arbi Daniel Attias Kevin Bray Deborah Chow Karena Evans Bilall Fallah Erin Feeley Zetna Fuentes Sunu Gonera Alex Graves Tanya Hamilton Ugla Hauksdóttir Clark Johnson

Amin Joseph Logan Kibens Katrelle Kindred Michael Lehmann Damian Marcano Meera Menon Hiro Murai Solvan Naim Carl Seaton Kevin Rodney Sullivan Lawrence Trilling Ben Younger Greg Yaitanes

Writers

Aziza Barnes Sal Calleros Davia Carter Jeanine Daniels Natasha Tash Grey Emmy Grinwis Natalia Guled Jerome Hairston Justin Hillian Margaret Rose Lester

Hiram Martinez Natalia Mejía Enzo Mileti Ihuoma Ofordire Gary Phillips Janine Salinas Schoenberg Aaron Slavick Tatiana Suarez-Pico Tyger Williams Scott Wilson

Composer

• Music by Jeff Russo

Seasons and Episodes

Seasons	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Season 1	Pilot	Make Them Birds Fly	Slow Hand	Trauma	Seven-Four	A Long Time Coming	Cracking	Baby Teeth	Story of a Scar	The Rubicon
Season 2	Sightlines	The Day	Prometheus Rising	Jingle Bell Rock	Serpiente	The Offer	The World is Yours	Surrender	Aftermath	Education
Season 3	Protect and Swerve	The More You Make	Cash and Carry	The Game That Moves as You Play	The Bottoms	Confessions	Pocket Full of Rocks	Hedgehogs	Blackout	Other Lives
Season 4	Re-Entry	Weight	All the Way Down	Expansion	The Get Back	Say a Little Prayer	Through a Glass, Darkly	Betrayal	Sleeping Dogs	Fight or Flight
Season 5	Comets	Commitment	Lions	Revolutions	The Iliad: Part 1	The Iliad: Part 2	Lying in a Hammock	Celebration	Departures	Fault Lines
Season 6	Fallout	The Sit Down	Door of No Return	Projects Boy	Ebony and Ivory	Concrete Jungle	Charnel House	Ballad of the Bear	Sacrifice	The Struggle

Awards

African-American Film Critics Association (2017)

Top Ten TV Shows (Tied with Guerrilla for 10th place)

Winner

Black Reel Awards for Television (2021)

Outstanding Drama Series Dave Andron (showrunner)	Nominated
Outstanding Actor, Drama Series Damson Idris	Nominated
Outstanding Supporting Actor, Drama Series Amin Joseph	Nominated
Outstanding Supporting Actress, Drama Series Michael Hyatt	Nominated
Outstanding Directing, Drama Series Carl Seaton (directed by)	Nominated
Outstanding Writing, Drama Series Justin Hillian (written by)	Nominated
Outstanding Guest Actress, Drama Series Gail Bean	Nominated

Black Reel Awards for Television (2019)

Outstanding Actor, Drama Series Damson Idris

Nominated

California on Location Awards (2017)

Location Team of the Year - One Hour Television Brian M. O'Neill (location manager)	Winner
Location Team of the Year - One Hour Television Tisha Jefferson (key assistant location manager) Alex R. Moreno (key assistant location manager) William O'Brien (key assistant location manager) Caitlin McCarty (key assistant location manager) Justin W. Hill (location manager)	Winner

Image Awards (NAACP) (2020)

Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series Carl Seaton

Nominated

Imagen Foundation Awards (2018)

Best Actor - Television Sergio Peris-Mencheta

Nominated

World Soundtrack Awards (2019)

Television Composer of the Year Jeff Russo (Composer)

Nominated