Emmy Awards 2024: “Shōgun” and “The Bear” lead nominations, “True Detective” in history

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The 2024 Emmy Awards nominations are out, and Shogun FX’s leads with the most nominations – 25 in total.

Next The Bear with 23 nominations (a record for a comedy series), Only Murders In The Building (21), True Detective: Night Country (19) and The Crown (18).

Shogun took full advantage of the absence of last year’s three main candidates – Succession, The White Lotus And The Last of Us – to dominate the drama series field and give FX, with 93 total nominations, the kind of boom year often reserved for HBO, which, even in this “off” year, received 91.

Its nominations include Best Drama Series, Best Actress in a Drama Series for Anna Sawai and Best Actor for Hiroyuki Sanada.

Shōgun shook up the drama race when its makers said in May that, although the story of James Clavell’s novel about political machinations in early 17th-century Japan had come to a close, they would consider making more than one season, effectively moving the series from the limited series category to the more prestigious drama series category.

Nominations for The Bear included Best Comedy Series and Best Actor in a Comedy Series for Jeremy Allen White – both awards won at the ceremony delayed by strike in January – as well as best actress for Ayo Edebiri, who won best supporting actress at the last edition.

The 2023 Emmys saw The Bear and Succession walk away as the biggest winners, with the latter taking home seven trophies and the former a total of six awards.

Elsewhere, True Detective: Night Country was a bright spot for HBO, which lost Succession and is sandwiched between the aforementioned seasons of The White Lotus and The Last of Us.

The series, a semi-spinoff of the True Detective franchise, led all limited or anthology series with 19 nominations.

Showrunner, writer and director Issa López is attached to a fifth season of the HBO anthology series, which she described as a “funny, dark, and deranged story.” It is currently in the writing phase.

“I’m really excited about this new season,” she said (via Variety), adding that the Emmy nominations have reinvigorated her and the HBO team to make the next season “even better.”

True Detective: Night Country represent major milestones for its stars. Jodie Foster earned her first Emmy nomination as an actress, and Kali Reis became the first Indigenous woman to be nominated for Supporting Actress in a Limited Series, alongside Lily Gladstone, who was also nominated for Hulu’s Under the Bridge.

Reservation Dogs’ D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai becomes the first Indigenous actor to be recognized for his leading role with his nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. According to Variety, the only Indigenous actor previously nominated was August Schellenberg, who received an Emmy nomination in 2007 for his portrayal of Sitting Bull in the HBO TV movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

Netflix has its own pair of candidates, with Baby Reindeer which garnered 11 nominations, including Best Actor for star and creator Richard Gadd, and Ripleythe black-and-white retelling of Patricia Highsmith’s novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” which garnered 13 nominations, including for Andrew Scott and Dakota Fanning for their performances.

Netflix leads with 107 nominations.

The 76th Emmy Awards will be held on September 15 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.