Article content The Hulu and FX historical drama , which was in Ucluelet and Port Moody, has topped this year’s Emmy Awards nominations. The Television Academy announced nominations for the 76th Emmys Wednesday. The limited Hollywood North filmed series secured 25 nods, close behind was last year’s Emmy darling The Bear, which won 10 awards in 2023.
Those numbers helped the FX network end up second with 93 nominations behind the leader Netflix with 107. “This one really caught us by surprise and in the best possible way.,” said FX chief John Landgraf as reported by Variety.
“You just feel this overwhelming sense of pride for the artists for the nominees.” FX’s most watched series ever (based on global hours streamed), the hit Japanese period epic is just the second non-English-language series to be nominated in the best drama series category. Korea’s Squid Games was the first.
stars Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai earned best actor and actress nods, respectively. The nominations were the first for both actors. Also, in the best supporting dramatic actor competition, Shogun earned nominations for Tadanobu Asano and Takehiro Hira for his role as Ishido Kazunari.
Shogun also earned cleaned up in the technical categories, including for production design, original dramatic score, stunt performance, sound editing, casting, two in the cinematography category for Sam McCurdy and Christopher Ross, costume design, and a best series directing nomination for Frederick E.O..
