Emmy Nominations 2024: ‘Shogun’ Leads, ‘Bear’ Sets Record

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The bear” I started crying on Wednesday morning. Emmy Nominations With a record 23 comedy series nominees, “Shogun” leads all nominees with 25 in a dominant year across all categories for FX.

Nominations for “The Bear,” which is preparing for a second season of the show in which a team of sandwich makers try to create a restaurant for the elite, included best comedy series and best actor in a comedy series for Jeremy Allen White — both awards the show won in 2011. Strike ceremony postponed in January – Along with Best Actress Ayo Edebiriwho won Best Supporting Actress last time.

The film was also boosted by a slew of guest acting nominations, including Jamie Lee Curtis and Olivia Colman, two of the many Oscar winners to receive nominations.

“Shogun” took advantage of the absence of last year’s top three nominees — “Succession,” “The White Lotus” and “The Last of Us” — to dominate the drama and give FX, with a total of 93 nominations, the kind of strong year that’s often reserved for HBO, which even in this “unusual” year had 91 nominations.

that it Nominations Awards included Best Drama Series, Best Actress in a Drama Series for Anna Sawai, and Best Actor for Hiroyuki Sanada.

The series shook up the drama race when its creators said in May that despite reaching the end of James Clovel’s novel about political intrigue in early 17th-century Japan, they would explore making more than one season, shifting the critical favorite from limited series to the more popular drama category.

True Detective: Night Country This was a bright spot for HBO, which lost “Succession” to retirement and is now between seasons of “The White Lotus” and “The Last of Us.”

The series, a spinoff of the “True Detective” franchise, led the limited series or selected series nominations with 19, including best actress for Jodie Foster for her portrayal of a police chief investigating mysterious deaths in the dark of a northern Alaska winter.

Callie Rice, who plays Foster’s partner in the investigation and rival on the show, and who was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series, has joined the cast. Lily GladstoneIn the same category for his role in “Under the Bridge”, he became the first Indigenous woman to receive an Emmy nomination for acting. Dee Farah Won-a-Tai from “Reservation Dogs” became the first Indigenous actor to be honored with the award for Best Actor in a Comedy.

The only previous indigenous candidate for parliament, According to VarietyAugust Schellenberg was nominated for an Emmy in 2007 for his performance as Sitting Bull in HBO’s “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.”

“True Detective” is expected to compete for the Emmy for best limited series with “Fargo,” which has 15 nominations and gives FX a chance to win a hat trick if its favorites win the drama and comedy categories.

Netflix has a pair of contenders in this category. “Baby Reindeer” has become a small, emerging cultural phenomenon at the Emmys in recent months. It earned 11 nominations, including best actor for star and creator Richard Judd. “Ripley,” a black-and-white retelling of Patricia Highsmith’s novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” earned 13 nominations, including acting nods for Andrew Scott and Dakota Fanning. The shows, along with dozens of honors in the craft and comedy special categories, helped Netflix lead all outlets with 107 nominations.

Foster was one of only a handful of Oscar winners to receive Emmy nominations, along with fellow multiple Oscar winner Meryl Streep, nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in “Only Murders in the Building,” Best Supporting Actor winner Robert Downey Jr., nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his portrayal of multiple characters in “The Sympathizer,” and Gary Oldman, nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for his role in “Slow Horses.”

Hulu’s multiple Emmy-nominated series “Only Murders” outdid itself this year with 21 awards, trailing “Shogun” and “The Bear.” Stars Steve Martin and Martin Short were also nominated for best actor, and in her first Emmy nomination, Selena Gomez was nominated for best actress.

Other Emmy nominees also returned. Jon Hamm, who has only one Emmy nomination (out of 16 previous nominations, mostly for “Mad Men,” has two, one for best actor in a limited series or anthology for “Fargo” and one for best supporting actor in a drama series for “The Morning Show.” His “Morning Show” castmate Jennifer Aniston is the favorite to win the Emmy for best drama actress, in addition to her best comedy actress win for “Friends.”

Four-time Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub is up for a fifth for reprising his role as Adrian Monk in “The Last Case of Mr. Monk: A Monk Movie.”

Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph, stars of Saturday Night Live and Bridesmaids, took home best actress in a comedy series for their Apple TV+ shows about wealthy women: Wiig for Palm Royale and Rudolph for Loot. Both were also nominated for their return to hosting Saturday Night Live.

Returning to its traditional schedule, the show will take place on September 15 at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles and will air on ABC.

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