Shōgun wins record 18 Emmys, including Best Drama Series
FX's Japanese-language samurai drama Shōgun took 18 Emmy Awards in 2024, the most ever for a single season, including Best Drama Series.
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Shōgun, an FX adaptation of James Clavell's 1975 novel, set a record at the 2024 Emmy Awards by winning 18 trophies for its first season. No other show had won as many for a single season. Fourteen came at the Creative Arts Emmys, the technical and craft ceremony held a week earlier, and four more followed at the main Primetime Emmys in Los Angeles on 15 September 2024.
The series, set in feudal Japan around the year 1600, is largely in Japanese with English subtitles. It won Outstanding Drama Series, making it the first non-English-language show to take the top drama prize. Hiroyuki Sanada won Best Lead Actor and Anna Sawai Best Lead Actress, both the first Japanese performers to win those categories. Frederick E.O. Toye won for directing.
The sweep mattered because Shōgun was a relatively modest production by prestige-drama standards, yet it prevailed over better-known and more expensive series. It also strengthened the case for a second season, which FX and Hulu had already ordered, and signalled wider acceptance of subtitled drama among American audiences.
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