LOS ANGELES, United States — Will “
Squid Game” make history? Or will HBO
powerhouse “Succession” swipe the best drama statuette again at television’s
equivalent of the Oscars?
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And will Hulu
breakthrough on a wider scale?
Here are five
things to know about the
74th Emmy Awards, which take place on Monday night in
Los Angeles.
Is Hollywood ready to crown K-drama?
K-pop sensation BTS are so beloved that news of the boy band taking a
break sparked a global meltdown on social media. “Parasite” broke all the rules
on its path to Oscars glory in 2020. Is Hollywood now ready to honor a
television series in Korean?
“Squid Game” — the
blockbuster
Netflix series about down-and-out people competing in children’s
games to the death for money — became a global phenomenon upon its launch just
about a year ago.
Now it could win
the Emmy for best drama, in what would be a first for a non-English-language
series. It is already a trailblazer just for earning a nomination in the
category, one of 14 overall.
The series has
already tasted Emmys victory, with Lee Yoo-mi taking the prize for best guest
actress in a drama at the Creative Emmys, the pre-gala event at which many
statuettes are awarded in minor categories.
Lee plays Ji-yeong,
one of the 456 desperate competitors hoping to win cash in the brutal contest.
Double nominations
A host of performers are up for multiple awards on Monday, many of them
in both acting and off-camera categories.
Julia Garner
(“Ozark” and “Inventing Anna”) and Sydney Sweeney (“Euphoria” and “The White
Lotus”) are among those nominated for multiple acting roles, with Garner tipped
to win the head-to-head battle for best supporting actress.
Best comedy actor
nominee Bill Hader (“Barry”) is also nominated for directing, writing, and
producing the show about a hitman who moves to Los Angeles and gets involved in
the acting scene.
Seth Rogen is
nominated for best supporting actor in a limited series and for producing “Pam
and Tommy”.
Bring on the gala
For the first time in the era of COVID-19, the
Television Academy is
staging a full-throttle show at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, after a
largely virtual event in 2020 and a scaled-back event at a partially outdoor
venue last year.
“Saturday Night Live”
veteran Kenan Thompson, himself a past Emmy winner, will make his debut as
host. The festivities begin at 5pm Monday (0000 GMT Tuesday).
The show is being
held on a Monday night this year because NBC, which has the rotating network
rights to air it, also airs Sunday Night Football, and the gridiron trumps
Tinseltown, with Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on the schedule.
Hulu has high hopes
HBO and Netflix tend to dominate the Emmys, but 2022 could be a banner
year for Hulu, which is majority-owned by Disney.
The US-only
streamer, specializing in more adult-oriented content than Disney+, creates
originals such as 2017 drama winner “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and has been ramping
up production.
This year, it has
a handful of top contenders in the limited series categories.
Michael Keaton is
the frontrunner for best actor in a limited series for playing a doctor
embroiled in the US opioid epidemic in “Dopesick,” which raked in 14
nominations.
Amanda Seyfried is
the frontrunner for best actress glory in the same section for her turn as
disgraced biotech star Elizabeth Holmes in “The Dropout.”
“Pam and Tommy”
has 10 nominations, and comedy “Only Murders in the Building” — starring Steve
Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez as an unlikely trio of true-crime
podcasters — is also in the mix.
Posthumous pre-gala Emmy for Boseman
“Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman died in August 2020 after battling
colon cancer — a diagnosis he never publicly discussed.
Last year, he
narrowly missed out to Anthony Hopkins on a posthumous Oscar, for best actor in
blues drama “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”.
But he earned some
final awards glory at the Creative Emmys, winning for voicing a version of his
“Black Panther” character in Marvel’s animated series “What If...?”
Other winners at the
pre-gala event were former US president
Barack Obama (now halfway to an EGOT
with his two Grammys), pop star Adele, rapper Eminem, and reality show host
RuPaul.
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