Emmy Awards: The lowdown on winners, including big night for 'Shogun' and 'Baby Reindeer'
Shogun had historic wins in an epic 18-Emmy first season, Hacks scored an upset for best comedy on what was still a four-trophy night for The Bear, and Baby Reindeer also took home four awards.
Shogun, the FX series about power struggles in feudal Japan, won best drama series, Hiroyuki Sanada won best actor in a drama, and Anna Sawai won best actress. Sanada was the first Japanese actor to win an Emmy; Sawai became the second just moments later.
“Shogun taught me when we work together, we can make miracles,” Sanada said in his acceptance speech from the stage of the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
Sanada is a 63-year-old longtime screen star whose name is little known outside Japan, even if his face is through Hollywood films like The Last Samurai and John Wick Chapter 4.
Sawai, 32, who was born in New Zealand and moved to Japan as a child, is significantly less known in the US.
Along with 14 Emmys it claimed at the precursor Creative Arts Emmys, it had an unmatched performance with 18 overall for one season. Indeed, Shogun shattered the record for Emmys for one season previously held by the limited series John Adams in 2008.
Hacks was the surprise winner of its first best comedy series award, topping The Bear, which most had expected to take it after big wins earlier in the evening.
Jean Smart won her third best actress in a comedy award for the third season of Hacks, in which her stand-up comic character Deborah Vance tries to make it in late-night TV. Smart has six Emmys overall.
Despite losing out on the night's biggest comedy prize after winning it for its first season at January's strike-delayed ceremony, FX's The Bear star Jeremy Allen White won best actor in a comedy for the second straight year, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach