The 2024 Emmy Awards have spoken, and FX’s Shōgun — which captivated audiences with its portrayal of Seventeenth-century Japan, mixing wealthy historical past and dramatic storytelling — was named excellent drama sequence on Sunday, Sept. 15, on the 76th annual Emmys.
Receiving an enormous 25 nominations this yr, the brand new drama discovered its means into the Emmy history-books with a record-breaking 14 Emmys on the Inventive Arts ceremonies final weekend and one other 4 on Sunday, together with one for lead actor Hiroyuki Sanada and one for lead actress Anna Sawai.
Shōgun weaves the tales of two males from completely different worlds — John Blackthorne a.okay.a. Anjin-san (Cosmo Jarvis), an English sailor who finds himself shipwrecked in Japan, and Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Sanada), a samurai warlord navigating complicated energy struggles.
“Thanks for this unimaginable honor. We’re so grateful,” co-creator Justin Marks mentioned whereas accepting earlier than thanking FX’s John Landgraf, Gina Balin, Kate Lambert, Lindsay Donahue, Nick Grad. “You guys greenlit a really costly, subtitled, Japanese interval piece whose central climax revolves round a poetry competitors. I do not know why you probably did that, however thanks to your religion on this unimaginable group.”
He then handed the mic to Hiroyuki, who spoke in Japanese as Marks translated.
“We wish to specific our deepest gratitude to all of the crew and administrators and masters who’ve inherited and supported our samurai interval dramas up till now,” they mentioned. “The eagerness and goals that we now have inherited from you’ve got crossed oceans and borders.”
This yr’s nominees included The Crown, Fallout, The Gilded Age, The Morning Present, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Shōgun, Gradual Horses and 3 Physique Drawback.
The Crown concluded its sixth and remaining season in two components. The primary targeted on Princess Diana’s (Elizabeth Debicki) remaining days earlier than her fatal car crash in August 1997 whereas the second half chronicled King Charles (Dominic West because the then-Prince Charles) and Camilla‘s (Olivia Williams) development of their relationship, in addition to the love story between Prince William (Ed McVey) and Kate Middleton (Meg Bellamy).
Along with excellent drama sequence, Dominic West was nominated for excellent lead actor in a drama sequence and Imelda Staunton was nominated for excellent lead actress in a drama sequence for taking part in Queen Elizabeth.
Jonathan Pryce additionally obtained an impressive supporting actor in a drama sequence nomination for his portrayal of Prince Philip, and each Debicki and Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret have been nominated within the excellent supporting actress in a drama sequence class.
Based mostly on the favored post-apocalyptic online game franchise of the identical title, Fallout is ready in 2296, 219 years after the fictional apocalypse occurred. Which means that, chronologically, the present takes place after each Fallout online game up to now, permitting it to supply contemporary storylines and new characters.
The sequence follows Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), a younger lady who’s spent her life residing within the safety of an underground bunker after a nuclear warfare broke out between the U.S. and China. However after her vault is invaded by raiders and her father Hank (Kyle MacLachlan) is kidnapped by Lee Moldaver — often known as the Flame Mom — she’s pressured to courageous the floor for the primary time to seek out him.
Along with excellent drama sequence, Walter Goggins, who took on the position of Ghoul, was additionally nominated for excellent actor in a drama sequence.
The Gilded Age is ready in late 18th-century New York Metropolis. The sequence — written and created by Downton Abby‘s Julian Fellowes — focuses on the variations and dynamics between previous and new cash. Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon are among the many predominant forged as sisters within the established van Rhijn-Brook household who don’t need to affiliate with their new neighbors, the Russell household.
Baranski and Carrie Coon have been additionally nominated for a oustanding actress and supporting actress respectively.
In The Gilded Age, Coon absolutely embodies the new-money matriarch Bertha Russell. On display screen, Bertha stops at nothing to raise her household — who grew to become extremely rich from the success of her railroad tycoon husband George Russell (Morgan Spector) — and break into previous New York society within the interval drama set within the late 1800s.
Alternatively, Baranski performs Agnes van Rhijn, a widow effectively versed and imersed within the previous cash crowd in New York Metropolis.
Starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, The Morning Present takes an inside have a look at the fictional information community UBA, together with the lives of those that convey the world’s high tales to the display screen and the inner politics at play.
Season 3 launched Jon Hamm as billionaire Paul Marks, a company titan who’s being courted by Cory Ellison to rescue UBA from its monetary woes. Whereas Marks and UBA anchor Alex Levy (Aniston) develop a romantic relationship in the course of the season that would jeopardize the deal, suspicions about Marks’ previous and intentions begin surfacing.
Along with excellent drama sequence, The Morning Present obtained a complete of 10 nominations. Witherspoon and Aniston competed for excellent actress whereas Hamm Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, have been within the operating for greatest supporting actor. Greta Lee, Holland Taylor, Nicole Beharie and Karen Pittman additionally obtained nods for the most effective supporting actress award.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith, led by Donald Glover and Maya Erskine, is Prime Video’s reimagined tv sequence primarily based on Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s 2005 movie.
In response to the official synposis, “Two strangers, John and Jane, who’ve given up their identities to be thrown collectively as companions—in espionage and in marriage. Matched by a mysterious company, every episode follows them on a brand new mission and new milestone of their relationship. When the cracks start to point out by means of, they need to battle to remain collectively. As a result of on this marriage, divorce isn’t an possibility.”
Glover and Erskine have been additionally nominated for greatest actor and actress along with the sequence’ excellent drama nod.
Apple TV+’s spy comedy thriller, Gradual Horses, facilities round “a dysfunctional group of MI5 brokers — and their obnoxious boss, the infamous Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman)— as they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.”
Along with excellent drama sequence, Oldman and Jack Lowden have been additionally nominated for greatest actor and supporting actor respectively.
In an interview with Deadline in April 2022, Oldman, 66, confessed he could be very happy to spherical out his performing profession with the hit sequence.
“I might see myself enjoying Jackson for the subsequent what number of years,” he defined, earlier than referring to the books the sequence relies on. “I imply, for people who love the [Slough House] books and that have been Esther Kang Mick Herron devotees, because it have been, he’s already an iconic character.”
Loosely impressed by Liu Cixin’s Hugo Award-winning novel, 3 Physique Drawback kicks off in Sixties China with a pivotal choice by a younger astrophysicist (Zine Tseng), impacting the long run. As pure legal guidelines start to interrupt down, a group of scientists and a detective work collectively within the twenty first century to stop a humanity-destroying menace.
The story skips forward a number of a long time, to when a group of scientists and a detective are working collectively within the twenty first century to cease a time and space-altering occasion from destroying humanity.
On Might 31, Netflix announced at a FYSEE panel that the science fiction sequence primarily based on books would run for 3 seasons.
“We included plenty of what we beloved from [the novels] in Season 1, however the overwhelming majority of causes we wished to make this present are in Season 2,” govt producer and Recreation of Thrones alum D.B. Weiss mentioned on the time. “We all the time wished to get to the ultimate web page of the third e-book, and it’s actually, actually thrilling to us that we are going to get to do exactly that.”
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