Innholdsfortegnelse for Awards Special 22A, August 5, 2024 i The Hollywood Reporter

Many awards prognosticators expected the drama categories at this year’s Emmys to feature an odd assortment of nominated titles. Consider it a perfect storm of sorts: With the ending of HBO’s Succession (which took the top prize for three of its four seasons) and AMC’s Better Call Saul (which garnered a staggering 53 nominations across its six seasons without a single win) — plus the fact that last year’s strikes forced shows like last year’s drama nominees The Last of Us, Stranger Things, The White Lotus and Yellowjackets to delay production — this year’s contenders for best drama series include only one previous nominee in The Crown, which won the prize in 2021. While the royal drama from Netflix might be the reigning champ, it’s FX’s Shogun that stands as…

Selena Gomez is, in her own words, having the best year of her life. Not only did she win the best actress award at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in Emilia Pérez, but she also scored her first Emmy acting nomination for her role in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building. “Acting has, and will always be, my heart,” she tells THR. “There’s so much that I want to do and that I haven’t even scratched the surface of, and it’s exciting to me.” In this interview, Gomez speaks candidly about her character Mabel’s evolution over the show’s three seasons, working with Meryl Streep, and what’s to come in season four. This is your first Emmy acting nomination, for a show in its third season. Congratulations! How…

Anna Sawai is still processing the degree to which her life has changed because of Shogun — the smash FX hit on which she plays Lady Mariko — and as a result of which she has become a first-time Emmy nominee (for best actress in a drama series) and is rapidly making her way toward Hollywood’s A-list. Since the actress guested on THR’s Awards Chatter podcast in April, she also won the Television Critics Association’s Award for outstanding individual achievement in drama. The actress recently opened up about how she came on board as Lady Mariko and some of the many challenges of the part. How did you first hear that they were going to try to do Shogun again [it previously was a limited series in 1980], and were…

Nearly five years after Andrew Scott was cast as Tom Ripley in Steven Zaillian’s limited series Ripley, based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel, the Irish actor has received an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of the infamous con man. In a conversation with THR, Scott, who also received a Gotham Award for his performance, reflects on his “arduous” preparation for the role, the incredible physical stamina he exerted during one particular scene in episode three and how he protected his mental health. How did you become attached to the project? Steven Zaillian had sent me an email, and we may have had a brief conversation. And then he sent me the entirety of the scripts, which was a highly unusual thing. It was great to be able to read those…

With 25 Emmy nominations — the most of any show this year — FX on Hulu’s Shogun more than doubled the number of noms received by the seminal 1980 miniseries of the same name, based on the novel by James Clavell about an English sailor’s adventures in 17th century Japan. Among the nominees is Hiroyuki Sanada, recognized for his lead performance as the cunning warlord Yoshii Toranaga. Sanada, who also served as a producer on the series, tells THR how he worked to balance Eastern and Western perspectives and ensure historical authenticity, and reveals when the next seasons are expected to start shooting. You’ve played in many historical epics, including Twilight Samurai and The Last Samurai, and you’ve helped numerous Western productions get the historical details right, even if you…

Beckham, the Fisher Stevens-directed docuseries now nominated for five Emmys, delves into the rise and fame of global soccer star David Beckham using never-before-seen footage and unprecedented access to Beckham and his wife, Victoria. Producer John Battsek talks to THR about the documentary’s viral moments and the couple’s thoughts of the final cut. Were there conversations about David and Victoria needing to be completely open with the filmmakers? Fisher and I were very clear with David that he needed to be completely open and that nothing was off the table, and that was a prerequisite for us to want to make the show. … There were places that Fisher took them that were really uncomfortable for them, but there was never a “We’re not talking about that.” We did so…

13 Emmy nominations for Hacks, Mare of Easttown, Fargo, Harry’s Law, Samantha Who?, 24, The District, Frasier 5 Emmy wins in 2022 and 2021 for Hacks, in 2008 for Samantha Who?, and in 2001 and 2000 for Frasier 2nd after Betty White to be nominated in all three comedy actress Emmy categories: lead, supporting and guest 1 Golden Globe win for Hacks in 2021 4 Critics Choice Award wins in 2023 and 2022 for Hacks, in 2020 for Watchmen, and in 2016 for Fargo 1 Independent Spirit Award nomination for Guinevere in 2000 2 SAG Award wins in 2023 and 2022 for Hacks 1 THR Trailblazer Award bestowed at the 2024 Seattle International Film Festival (in Smart’s hometown) “I do consider myself competitive, but not on her level. I don’t…

Six months after her media blitz for True Detective: Night Country, Jodie Foster is still singing her series’ praises. Now, thanks to 19 Emmy nominations (including an outstanding lead actress mention and, for her producer work, a best limited series nom), she says she’ll keep playing hype woman for Issa López’s spin on the HBO franchise until their September reunion. “I could talk about it for the rest of my life,” says Foster. “And I think there are maybe two occasions I’ve ever felt that about something. This one is special.” A lot has been said about your rough day shooting in a tank of dark water on True Detective. Has that emboldened you to do more stunt work or shy away from it? It’s whatever the job calls for.…

Truman Capote, in his lifelong quest for infamy, left a trail of TV appearances behind for Tom Hollander to draw from for his portrayal of the flamboyant American novelist in the FX’s Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. “If I’d known quite how much [he’s known], I would have been more nervous,” Hollander admits of not grasping the scope of Capote’s allure when he accepted the role. “I was happy in my ignorance about what a huge figure he is. It was amazing for me as a tourist, as a Brit, playing an icon of American culture in the 20th century in America. I was learning about America as much as I was learning about him.” Hollander’s portrayal garnered an Emmy nomination, his first, for best lead actor, adding to the…

FX’s mockumentary series What We Do in the Shadows, created by Jemaine Clement and based on the 2014 film directed by and starring Clement and Taika Waititi, earned its third nom for best comedy series in July, and it has gathered numerous writing and crafts honors throughout its run (which concludes with its sixth season, set to premiere in October). But the Television Academy has passed over its ensemble of comic performers for recognition — until now. For five seasons, Matt Berry has charmed audiences as the centuries-old vampire Laszlo Cravensworth, a pansexual English dandy who occupies his time in the most recent season investigating the bizarre turn of events following the resident human familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) secretly becoming a vampire. Here, the first-time Emmy nominee speaks with THR…

Slow Horses, the wry and flatulent anti-Bond espionage series streaming on Apple TV+, has been exactly the show its relatively cult following has come to love from the day the cast and crew began filming the first episode, says showrunner Will Smith. The British series, which debuted in 2022, follows Oscar winner Gary Oldman’s churlish and disheveled Jackson Lamb as the leader of a team of disgraced and disowned MI5 agents scrappily and shabbily getting the job done. In the season three finale, in what has become a bit of a recurring scene for the series, Oldman plays off the Oscar-nominated Kristin Scott Thomas’ character, MI5 deputy director general Diana Taverner. They dance around each other, revealing character motivations and insights as they revisit the actions that have put them…

The character of Elizabeth Zott has been with Brie Larson for longer than any other cast or crewmember of Lessons in Chemistry, the Emmy-nominated Apple TV+ adaptation of Bonnie Garmus’ 2022 novel of the same name. “Two years before the book was even scheduled to come out, it was sent to me by Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan’s production company, Aggregate, and it was an immediate knowing,” says Larson. “Elizabeth just jumped off the page to me, she was not hard for me to find, and that’s a testament to Bonnie’s book and how incredibly she’s able to write beautifully nuanced characters.” Zott begins the series as a technician in a chemistry lab after being expelled from her doctoral program for refusing to apologize to her mentor, whom she stabbed…

Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig have quite a few things in common beyond getting their start on Saturday Night Live. This year, they’re both Emmy nominated for outstanding actress in a comedy series: Rudolph for Loot and Wiig for Palm Royale, both on Apple TV+. But before their success with scripted series, the duo had audiences — and sometimes fellow castmembers — in stitches on NBC’s long-running sketch comedy show. When Rudolph returned to SNL (having left in 2007) to host the Feb. 18, 2012, episode, she and castmembers Wiig and Bill Hader struggled to keep straight faces during the Price Is Right parody “Super Showcase.” Rudolph and Wiig play incompetent spokesmodels Shonda and Vonda, respectively, who present prizes as the game show host (Hader) and a contestant (Vanessa Bayer)…