By Lisa Richwine, Reuters
Jeremy Allen White in The Bear season 3. Photo: FX
Historical drama Shogun, the sweeping story of a struggle for power in feudal Japan, racked up 25 nominations on Wednesday to lead this year's contenders for television's Emmy Awards.
The first season of the FX network series will compete for best drama, the top Emmy trophy, with the final installment of Netflix's British royal saga The Crown, The Morning Show from Apple TV+, among others.
Another FX show, nail-biting restaurant tale The Bear, earned 23 nominations, a record for a comedy. Its second season will compete again for best comedy, a category it won at the last Emmys.
Other comedy nominees included ABC's Abbott Elementary, set in an underfunded Philadelphia school, and HBO's Hacks about a septuagenarian comedienne and a millennial writer.
Baby Reindeer, the Netflix series about a bartender stalked by a customer, was nominated for best limited series, one of its 11 nods. Creator and star Richard Gadd has said the tale reflects a true story, though a defamation lawsuit argues its portrayal of the stalker is exaggerated.
Martha and Donny Dunn in Baby Reindeer. Photo: Netflix, Supplied
Competitors for limited series include FX's Fargo and HBO's True Detective: Night Country.
Netflix topped all networks with 107 nominations, including 18 for The Crown. FX followed with 93 nods, just ahead of the 91 for Warner Bros Discovery's HBO and streaming service Max.
Winners of the Emmys, the highest honours in television, will be announced at a red-carpet ceremony broadcast live on Walt Disney's ABC on 15 September. The honourees will be chosen by the nearly 22,000 performers, directors, producers and other members of the Television Academy.
The last Emmys were held just six months ago, in January, when strikes by Hollywood writers and actors prompted a delay in last year's ceremony.
For the upcoming awards, 36 nominated performers are first-time nominees.
They include five Shogun actors, including Japanese stars Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai in the lead drama actor and actress categories. The series, a remake of a 1980 miniseries, is set in the year 1600 with dialogue in English and Japanese.
Oscar winner Jodie Foster scored her first Emmy nomination as an actor for True Detective, a series set in Alaska and filmed in Iceland. Foster thanked the team that brought the series to the screen.
"We couldn't love and trust one another more, after holding on for dear life through the snow, finding our way in the dark," she said in a statement.
Other acting nominees include The Bear stars Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, two previous winners, who will compete for best comedy actor and actress.
Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David, who plays a curmudgeon unafraid to deliver blunt critiques of bothersome behavior, was nominated for lead comedy actor and the series for best comedy.
"It warms my heart to see that misanthropy is finally being recognized as an art form," David said in a statement.
Key Emmy nominees:
Outstanding drama series
- The Crown
- Fallout
- The Gilded Age
- The Morning Show
- Mr & Mrs Smith
- Shogun
- Slow Horses
- 3 Body Problem
Outstanding comedy series
- Abbott Elementary
- The Bear
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Hacks
- Only Murders in the Building
- Palm Royale
- Reservation Dogs
- What We Do in the Shadows
Outstanding limited or anthology series
- Baby Reindeer
- Fargo
- Lessons in Chemistry
- Ripley
- True Detective: Night Country
Outstanding lead actor in a drama series
- Idris Elba - Hijack
- Donald Glover - Mr & Mrs Smith
- Walton Goggins - Fallout
- Gary Oldman - Slow Horses
- Hiroyuki Sanada - Shogun
- Dominic West - The Crown
Outstanding lead actress in a drama series
- Jennifer Aniston - The Morning Show
- Carrie Coon - The Gilded Age
- Maya Erskine - Mr & Mrs Smith
- Anna Sawai - Shogun
- Imelda Staunton - The Crown
- Reese Witherspoon - The Morning Show
Outstanding lead actor in a comedy series
- Matt Berry - What We Do in the Shadows
- Larry David - Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Steve Martin - Only Murders in the Building
- Martin Short - Only Murders in the Building
- Jeremy Allen White - The Bear
- D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai - Reservation Dogs
Outstanding lead actress in a comedy series
- Quinta Brunson - Abbott Elementary
- Ayo Edebiri - The Bear
- Selena Gomez - Only Murders in the Building
- Maya Rudolph - Loot
- Jean Smart - Hacks
- Kristen Wiig - Palm Royale
Outstanding lead actor in a limited or anthology series or movie
- Matt Bomer - Fellow Travelers
- Richard Gadd - Baby Reindeer
- Jon Hamm - Fargo
- Tom Hollander - Feud: Capote vs The Swans
- Andrew Scott - Ripley
Outstanding lead actress in a limited or anthology series or movie
- Jodie Foster - True Detective: Night Country
- Brie Larson - Lessons in Chemistry
- Juno Temple - Fargo
- Sofía Vergara - Griselda
- Naomi Watts - Feud: Capote vs The Swans
- Reuters with BBC