Emmy nominations 2022: ‘Squid Game’ makes history, and so does Zendaya

The Television Academy announced this year’s Primetime Emmys nominees on Tuesday, with HBO and Netflix in a neck-to-neck battle for supremacy. Like previous years, HBO topped Netflix with a total of 108 nominations to Netflix’s 105. Unlike previous years, the Television Academy did not tally the nominations by network or platform, reports Variety, indicating that shows are what really matter at the end of the day.

To that end, Succession won bragging rights as the most-nominated show this year. The HBO family drama earned 25 nods in this year’s Emmy nominations. This was followed by Ted Lasso with 20 nominations and The White Lotus, again with 20 nominations for this year’s Emmy Awards.

Netflix’s Squid Game, the platform’s most-watched show ever, made history as the first non-English-language drama series shortlisted for glory for television's equivalent of the Oscars, reports AFP.
The violent South Korean satire in which society's marginalized compete for cash in fatal versions of children's games won 14 nominations in total. It will go up against Succession for best drama. Squid Game also picked up multiple acting nominations, including best lead actor for Lee Jung-jae

Meanwhile, others in the running for the best drama Emmy include Euphoria, Ozark, Better Call Saul and Stranger Things.

Euphoria star and past winner Zendaya, 25, became the youngest acting nominee to be shortlisted twice, for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series -- a category in which The Morning Show actress Jennifer Aniston missed out to co-star Reese Witherspoon.