Emmy nomination highlights: ‘Succession’ gets most nods, helping HBO overtake Netflix

Succession, an HBO drama about a feuding media dynasty, received 25 Emmy nominations for this year on Tuesday, the most of any show.

The HBO series earned a nomination for Best Drama, the award it won in 2020, as well as multiple nominations in acting categories, including Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook J. Smith-Cameron, Nicholas Braun, Kieran Culkin, and Matthew Macfadyen.

HBO’s The White Lotus, a limited series chronicling wealthy vacationers at a Hawaiian resort, has received 20 nominations, and the Apple TV + comedy “Ted Lasso” earned 20 nominations last year. For best comedy, this year you’ll face a new entrant, “Only Murders in the Building,” the Hulu series starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez. “Only Murders in the Building” has 17 nominations, which is an impressive number for a novice show.

Netflix has three nominations for Best Drama, including the “Successful” nominations.Weird things“Season 1 of the South Korean thriller”squid gameAnd the final season of the crime thriller “Ozark.” “The Squid Game.” It received 14 nominations, the most ever for a foreign language show.

Emmy love is some welcome news for Netflix CEOs next A few months ugly This brought the streaming giant down: its stock price has fallen, hundreds of employees have been laid off, and we still have a week to announce the possibility of another subscriber losing.

But Netflix’s top Emmy rival, HBO, and its accompanying streaming service, HBO Max, had a big year, and came armed with a fleet of shows that garnered a slew of nominations, including “Succession,” “The White Lotus,” “Ecstasy” and “Hacks” and “Barry”.

It finished HBO and HBO Max with 140 nominations, the most for any network or television studio. Netflix is ​​ranked second with a score of 105. This is the second year in a row that HBO with the streaming service has overtaken Netflix.

The Emmys’ bragging rights were crucial to Netflix, and that was before you needed a shot in the arm.

Last year, when Netflix set a 47-year-old CBS record for the most Emmy wins in a single year, its executives took a triumphant lap, holding a media conference where they bragged about “Historic night. And when visitors walk into the lobby of Netflix’s Hollywood headquarters, they are greeted by the sight of dozens of Emmy statues plastered on the wall, surrounded by hundreds of flowers.

Nominations for the Emmys were announced on Tuesday. The ceremony will take place on September 12, broadcast on NBC and broadcast live on Peacock.