'Shogun' Sets Emmy Awards Record
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It’s time for the Emmys, and because of the numerous categories that encompass the television awards, they are split between the major categories like Primetime and Creative Arts. The main event, Primetime, which is widely televised airs next Sunday, September 15.
This past Sunday, however, saw several awards given before the Primetime event, and it came with an unsurprising shocker of a record set, with more to go.
Shogun, the FX period drama about feudal Japan, came away from the awards on Sunday with 14 wins, setting a record for a single television show. What’s more, the show is still nominated for many of the big item awards that will be covered next Sunday, so it has the potential to set an even higher new record.
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Notable wins for the series include Outstanding Casting For A Drama Series, Outstanding Cinematography For A Series (One Hour) for the “Crimson Sky” episode, and Néstor Carbonell for Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series. It also won awards for makeup and costuming amongst its episodes.
Shogun is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by James Clavell. It was published in 1975 and is a historical fiction that dramatizes the creation of the Tokugawa Shogunate during the 16th century in Japan. It’s almost like an alternate history with different names. It follows the journey of an English navigator, John Blackthorne, who washes up on Japan's shores and comes into Lord Toranaga's service. Blackthorne becomes embroiled in the courtly machinations and clandestine politics of the Japanese nobility, with Toranaga’s secret designs to become Shogun. Toranaga is fashioned after Tokugawa Ieyasu, who historically maneuvered and battled his way to establishing the last Shogunate in Japan after the Battle of Sekigahara and unifying Japan.
Shogun was originally meant to run as a limited series, but after its glowing reception, it has been renewed for a second and third season at FX.
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Source(s): Hollywood Reporter
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