FILE PHOTO: Hiroyuki Sanada, center, and the team from “Shogun” accept the award for outstanding drama series at the 76th Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (Photo by Phil McCarten/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Content Services) Did the Emmys blur the line for the good last weekend? Nielson said 6.
7 million people in the US watched the show and if you did, were you wondering if “ Shogun ” was American or Japanese? The Oscars do have a “foreign” or “international film” category. But in 2019, “Parasite,” a South Korean movie, was the first to win for both best foreign and best film. Subscribe to our daily newsletter By providing an email address.
I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy . And perhaps that’s the way it should be. Good is just good? Until politics gets in the way.
Or maybe it’s money? When it debuted in 2024 the show got 9 million views in its first six days of release. If we’ve broken out of the foreign/mainstream thinking, does that mean we’ll just award the best for being the best? If so, does that mean maybe next year we’ll see “ 1521 ,” Producer Francis B. Lara-Ho’s project about Lapu-Lapu’s killing of Magellan and now streaming on Apple TV, honored by someone? The “Shogun” example, however, brings up another blurry issue.
Are we Asian or Asians in America? When it comes to media – from movies and TV to serious news – awards shows are always about representation.