Shōgun Wins Outstanding Drama Series at 2024 Emmy Awards, Making History with 18 Total Wins

The 2024 Emmy Awards and FX have spoken Shogun — which captivated audiences with its portrayal of 17th-century Japan, blending rich history and dramatic storytelling — was named Outstanding Drama Series on Sunday, Sept. 15, at the 76th Emmy Awards.

With a whopping 25 nominations this year, the new drama found its way into the Emmy history books with a record 14 Emmys at last weekend’s creative arts ceremonies and four more on Sunday, including one for lead actor Hiroyuki Sanada and one for lead actress Anna Sawai.

Shogun intertwines the stories of two men from different worlds — John Blackthorne aka Anjin-san (Cosmo Jarvis), an English sailor shipwrecked in Japan, and Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Sanada), a samurai warlord who leads complex power struggles.

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Yuki Kura as Yoshii Nagakado in ‘Shōgun’.

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“Thank you for this incredible honor. We are so grateful,” said co-creator Justin Marks while accepting before thanking FX’s John Landgraf, Gina Balin, Kate Lambert, Lindsay Donahue, Nick Grado. “You greenlit a very expensive, subtitled Japanese period piece whose central climax revolves around a poetry contest. I have no idea why you did it, but thank you for your faith in this incredible team.”

He then passed the microphone to Hiroyuki, who spoke in Japanese while Marks translated.

“We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all the crew, directors and masters who have inherited and supported our samurai dramas until now,” they said. “The passion and dreams we inherited from you crossed oceans and borders.”

This year’s nominees are included The Crown, Fallout, The Gilded Age, The Morning Show, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Shōgun, Slow Horses and 3 Body problem.

Netflix’s ‘The Crown’.

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Crown completed its sixth and final season in two parts. The first focused on the final days of Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) before her fatal car accident in August 1997, while the second part also chronicled the progress of the relationship between King Charles (Dominic West as then-Prince Charles) and Camilla (Olivia Williams). as a love story between Prince William (Ed McVey) and Kate Middleton (Meg Bellamy).

In addition to Outstanding Drama Series, Dominic West was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Imelda Staunton was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth.

Jonathan Pryce also received a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal of Prince Philip, and Debicki and Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret were nominated in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series category.

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Walter Goggins in ‘Fallout’.

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Based on the popular post-apocalyptic video game franchise of the same name, Fallout is set in 2296, 219 years after the fictional apocalypse occurred. This means that, chronologically, the show takes place after each one Fallout video game to date, allowing it to offer fresh stories and new characters.

The series follows Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), a young woman who has spent her life under the protection of an underground bunker after a nuclear war broke out between the US and China. But after her vault is raided by robbers and her father Hank (Kyle MacLachlan) is kidnapped by Lee Moldaver — also known as the Flame Mother — she’s forced to brave the surface for the first time to find him.

In addition to Outstanding Drama Series, Walter Goggins, who took on the role of Ghoul, was also nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series.

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Carrie Coon in ‘The Gilded Age’.

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The Gilded Age is set in New York in the late 18th century. Series — written and created Downton AbbyJulian Fellowes — focuses on the differences and dynamics between old and new money. Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon star as sisters in the established van Rhijn-Brook family who don’t want to associate with their new neighbors, the Russells.

Baranski and Carrie Coon are also nominated for best actress and supporting actress.

IN The Gilded AgeCoon fully embodies new money matriarch Bertha Russell. On screen, Bertha stops at nothing to raise her family – made fabulously wealthy by the success of her railroad tycoon husband George Russell (Morgan Spector) – and make her way into old New York society in the period drama set in the late 1800s. .

On the other hand, Baranski plays Agnes van Rhijn, a widow well-versed and immersed in a pile of old money in New York.

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Jennifer Aniston in the ‘Morning Show’.

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Starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, Morning show takes an inside look at the fictional UBA news network, including the lives of those who bring the world’s most important news to the screen and the internal politics at play.

Season 3 introduced Jon Hamm as billionaire Paul Marks, a corporate titan wooed by Cory Ellison to save UBA from financial trouble. As Marks and UBA host Alex Levy (Aniston) develop a romantic relationship over the course of the season that could threaten the deal, suspicions about Marks’ past and intentions begin to surface.

In addition to excellent drama series, Morning show received a total of 10 nominations. Witherspoon and Aniston were competing for Best Actress, while Hamm, Billy Crudup and Mark Duplass were in the running for Best Supporting Actor. Greta Lee, Holland Taylor, Nicole Beharie and Karen Pittman also won Best Supporting Actress.

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Donald Glover and Maya Erskine in the movie ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’.

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Mr. and Mrs. Smithled by Donald Glover and Maya Erskine, is a revamped Prime Video television series based on the 2005 Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie film.

According to the official synopsis, “Two strangers, John and Jane, who have given up their identities to be joined as partners – in espionage and in marriage. With the help of a mysterious agency, each episode follows them on a new mission and a new turning point in their relationship. When the cracks begin to show, they must fight to stay together. Because divorce is not an option in this marriage.”

Glover and Erskine are also nominated for Best Actor and Actress for Outstanding Drama Series.

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Gary Oldman in ‘Slow Horses’.

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Spy comedy thriller Apple TV+, Slow horsesrevolves around “a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents — and their loathsome boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) — as they navigate the smoke and mirrors of the espionage world to defend England from sinister forces.”

In addition to outstanding drama series, Oldman and Jack Lowden were also nominated for best actor and supporting actor, respectively.

In an interview with Deadline in April 2022, Oldman, 66, admitted that he would be more than happy to cap off his acting career with a hit series.

“I could see myself playing Jackson for the next few years,” he explained, before referring to the books the series is based on. “I mean, for those who love [Slough House] books and that was it Mick Herron devotees, as it were, he’s already an iconic figure.”

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(L-R) Liam Cunningham, Jess Hong and Sea Shimooka in ‘3 Body Problem’.

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Lightly inspired by Liu Cixin’s Hugo Award-winning novel, 3 Body problem begins in China in the 1960s with a key decision by a young astrophysicist (Zine Tseng), which affects the future. As the laws of nature begin to unravel, a team of scientists and a detective work together in the 21st century to prevent a threat that is destroying humanity.

The story jumps forward several decades, to when a team of scientists and detectives work together in the 21st century to prevent a time- and space-altering event from destroying humanity.

Netflix announced at the FYSEE panel on May 31 that the science fiction series based on the books will run for three seasons.

“We included a lot of what we loved [the novels] in Season 1, but the vast majority of the reason we wanted to do this series is in Season 2,” executive producer and Game of Thrones alum DB Weiss said at the time. “We’ve always wanted to get to the last page of the third book and it’s really, really exciting that we’re going to be able to do just that.”

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