‘Squid Game’ grabs early Emmy awards, setting up drama battle

The Netflix sequence “Squid Recreation” is performed on a cell phone on this image illustration taken September 30, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/Illustration

LOS ANGELES, Sept 4 (Reuters) – South Korean drama “Squid Recreation” landed its first Emmy awards on Sunday, taking house an performing honor and three different trophies within the run-up to subsequent week’s battle for tv’s greatest drama.

Lee You-mi gained the accolade for visitor drama actress on the Inventive Arts Emmys for taking part in Ji Younger, a younger girl pressured to compete in a dangerous quest for riches after she is free of jail within the dystopian Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) sequence.

The actress accepted the accolade on stage at a theater in downtown Los Angeles, talking a number of sentences in Korean earlier than yelling in English: “I am so very pleased!”

The Inventive Arts Emmys honored behind-the-scenes artists resembling sound engineers, hair stylists and cinematographers in addition to visitor actors.

Lead actor and different awards can be handed out at a televised red-carpet occasion on Sept. 12. “Squid Recreation” will compete for the highest drama honor, the primary non-English language sequence to be nominated for that prize.

Rivals for the award embody Netflix’s “Stranger Issues,” which earned 5 Inventive Arts awards, together with music supervision, for a season that featured Kate Bush’s 1985 music “Operating Up That Hill.” Inclusion within the sequence despatched the music to the highest of music charts.

HBO’s media dynasty drama “Succession,” additionally within the hunt for greatest drama, secured one award on Sunday, for casting.

Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Enhancing by Bradley Perrett

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