Emmy nominees 2024: ‘Shogun’ and ‘The Bear’ dominate nominations in overwhelming run for FX

Nominations for "The Bear" second season include best comedy series and acting nods, boosting its Emmy chances.

The Bear has gone on a tear at the Emmy nominations with a comedy-series record 23, and Shogun led all nominees with 25 in a dominant year across categories for FX.

Nominations for The Bear, up for its second season in which its rag-tag band of sandwich makers tries to create an elite restaurant, included best comedy series and best actor in a comedy series for Jeremy Allen White – both awards it won at January’s strike-delayed ceremony — along with best actress for Ayo Edebiri, who won best supporting actress last time around. It was also boosted by a bounty of guest acting nominations, including Jamie Lee Curtis and Olivia Colman, two of many Oscar winners who landed nominations.

Shogun took full advantage of the absence of last year’s top three nominees – Succession, The White Lotus, and The Last of Us – to dominate in drama and give FX, with 93 overall nominations, the kind of strong year often reserved for HBO, which even in this “off” year received 91.

Its nominations included best drama series, best actress in a drama series for Anna Sawai, and best actor for Hiroyuki Sanada. The show shook up the drama race when its makers said in May that despite reaching the end of the story of James Clavell’s novel about political machinations in early 17th century Japan, they would explore making more than one season, shifting the critical darling from the limited series category to the more prestigious drama one.

The show, a semi-spinoff of the True Detective franchise, led all limited or anthology series nominees with 19, including a best actress nomination for Jodie Foster for playing a police chief investigating mysterious deaths in the darkness of a north Alaskan winter. Kali Reis, who plays Foster’s investigating partner and rival on the show and is nominated for best supporting actress in a limited series, joins Lily Gladstone, in the same category for Under the Bridge, as the first indigenous women to get Emmy acting nominations.

D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai of Reservation Dogs becomes the first indigenous actor to be recognized for lead with his best actor in a comedy nom. The only previous indigenous acting nominee, according to Variety, was August Schellenberg, who received an Emmy nomination in 2007 for his performance as Sitting Bull in the HBO TV movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

True Detective is expected to vie for the best limited series Emmy with Fargo, which had 15 nominations and gives FX a shot at a triple crown if its favorites win drama and comedy series. Netflix has its own pair of contenders in the category. Baby Reindeer became a minor cultural phenomenon and Emmy upstart in recent months. It got 11 nominations, including best actor for star and creator Richard Gadd.