“Shōgun” proves triumphant, capping off an awards season run that features wins for Excellent Drama Collection on the 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards, Program of the 12 months from the Tv Critics Affiliation, and now the Golden Globe for Greatest Tv Collection — Drama.
The FX/Hulu historic collection primarily based on the novel by James Clavell seized the highest award on Sunday, beating out Netflix’s “The Diplomat” and “Squid Recreation,” in addition to Amazon’s “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” Peacock’s “The Day of the Jackal,” and Apple TV+’s “Gradual Horses.”
“Shōgun” wins for its first season, with Seasons 2 and three now in early improvement. It was initially conceived as a miniseries, simply because the 1980 adaptation that includes Richard Chamberlain and Toshiro Mifune had been, however because of the present’s sturdy vital reception and viewership across the globe, FX/Hulu determined to broaden the narrative into at the least two extra seasons.
Along with Greatest Drama Collection, in 2025, “Shōgun” additionally gained for Greatest Actor (Hiroyuki Sanada) Greatest Actress (Anna Sawai), and Greatest Supporting Actor (Tadanobu Asano).
Although a historic fiction, the present is predicated on the true story of English navigator William Adams (depicted by Cosmo Jarvis as John Blackthorne within the collection) and his relationship to feudal lord Tokugawa Ieyasu (Sanada’s Lord Yoshii Toranaga), who would go on to change into the navy ruler of Japan and founding father of the Tokugawa Shogunate. This authorities dominated for over 200 years through the Edo interval in Japan and gave rise to the service provider class.
IndieWire beforehand named “Shōgun” among the many greatest exhibits and performances of the yr, with IndieWire critic Ben Travers writing, “So far as sweeping historic epics go, maybe the best praise they’ll hope to obtain is one thing alongside the strains of, ‘Scorching rattling, that was enjoyable!’ OK, OK — ‘enjoyable’ might not be the proper phrase to explain a wartime saga with so many betrayals and so many severed heads it’s persistently in comparison with ‘Recreation of Thrones,’ however ‘Shōgun’ remains to be far more entertaining than any subtitled seventeenth century drama has any proper to be.”
Earlier than it was introduced that “Shōgun” would proceed as a multi-season collection, the present’s co-creators, Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo mentioned on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast the issue of getting such a quick period of time to discover this world and historical past they put such effort into bringing again to life.
“I want we may reside in a world the place we don’t must construct a manufacturing facility simply to pump out 10 vehicles after which shut it up, you understand?” Marks mentioned. “I feel proper round Episode 5 is the place there was this transient glimmer of like, ‘Gosh, we may simply hold doing this.’”
Fortunately that glimmer of hope was rewarded, each by FX/Hulu once they determined to broaden on the primary season and now by the Golden Globes.
The 82nd Golden Globe Awards had been held Sunday, January 5 on the Beverly Hilton Lodge in Los Angeles, CA and hosted by Nikki Glaser.
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