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

Mar. 15, 2025

Photo:Katie Yu /FX / Courtesy of FX via Everett Collection

Katie Yu /FX / Courtesy of FX via Everett Collection

The 2024 Emmy Awards have spoken, andFX’sShōgun— 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 annual Emmys.

Receiving a massive 25 nominations this year, the new drama found its way into the Emmy history-books with a record-breaking 14 Emmys at the Creative Arts ceremonies last weekend and another four on Sunday, including one for lead actorHiroyuki Sanadaand one for lead actress Anna Sawai.

Shōgunweaves the tales of two men from different worlds — John Blackthorne a.k.a. Anjin-san (Cosmo Jarvis), an English sailor who finds himself shipwrecked in Japan, and Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Sanada), a samurai warlord navigating complex power struggles.

Yuki Kura as Yoshii Nagakado in ‘Shōgun’.Katie Yu/FX

Katie Yu/FX

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

He then passed the mic to Hiroyuki, who spoke in Japanese as Marks translated.

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

This year’s nominees includedThe Crown, Fallout, The Gilded Age, The Morning Show,Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Shōgun, Slow Horsesand3 Body Problem.

Netflix’s ‘The Crown’.Keith Bernstein/Netflix

Keith Bernstein/Netflix

The Crownconcluded its sixth and final season in two parts.The first focused onPrincess Diana’s (Elizabeth Debicki) final days before herfatal car crashin August 1997 while the second part chronicledKing Charles(Dominic Westas the then-Prince Charles) andCamilla’s (Olivia Williams) progression in their relationship, as well as the love story betweenPrince William(Ed McVey) andKate 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 playingQueen Elizabeth.

Jonathan Pryce also received an outstanding supporting actor in a drama series nomination for his portrayal ofPrince Philip, and both Debicki and Lesley Manville asPrincess Margaretwere nominated in the outstanding supporting actress in a drama series category.

Walter Goggins in ‘Fallout’.Courtesy of Prime Video

Courtesy of Prime Video

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

In addition to outstanding drama series,Walter Goggins, who took on the role of Ghoul, was also nominated for outstanding actor in a drama series.

Carrie Coon in ‘The Gilded Age’.Barbara Nitke/HBO

Barbara Nitke/HBO

Baranski andCarrie Coonwere also nominated for a oustanding actress and supporting actress respectively.

InThe Gilded Age, Coon fully embodies the new-money matriarch Bertha Russell. On screen, Bertha stops at nothing to elevate her family — who became incredibly wealthy from the success of her railroad tycoon husband George Russell (Morgan Spector) — and break 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 imersed in the old money crowd in New York City.

Jennifer Aniston in ‘The Morning Show’.Courtesy of Apple+

Courtesy of Apple+

StarringReese WitherspoonandJennifer Aniston,The Morning Showtakes an inside look at the fictional news network UBA, including the lives of those who bring the world’s top stories to the screen and the internal politics at play.

In addition to outstanding drama series,The Morning Showreceived a total of 10 nominations. Witherspoon and Aniston competed for outstanding actress while Hamm Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, were in the running for best supporting actor. Greta Lee, Holland Taylor, Nicole Beharie and Karen Pittman also received nods for the best supporting actress award.

Donald Glover and Maya Erskine in ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’.David Lee/Prime Video

David Lee/Prime Video

Glover and Erskine were also nominated for best actor and actress in addition to the series' outstanding drama nod.

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

In an interview withDeadlinein April 2022, Oldman, 66, confessed he would be more than happy to round out his acting career with the hit series.

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

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

Ed Miller/Netflix

The story skips ahead several decades, to when a team of scientists and a detective are working together in the 21st century to stop a time and space-altering event from destroying humanity.

On May 31, Netflixannouncedat aFYSEE panelthat the science fiction series based on books would run for three seasons.

“We included a lot of what we loved from [the novels] in Season 1, but the vast majority of reasons we wanted to make this show are in Season 2,” executive producer andGame of Thronesalum D.B. Weiss said at the time. “We always wanted to get to the final page of the third book, and it’s really, really thrilling to us that we will get to do just that.”

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