Squid Game grabs early Emmy awards, establishing drama battle

South Korean drama Squid Game landed its first Emmy awards on Sunday, taking residence an appearing honor and three different trophies within the run-up to subsequent week’s battle for tv’s finest drama.

Lee You-mi gained the accolade for visitor drama actress on the Creative Arts Emmys for enjoying Ji Young, a younger lady pressured to compete in a dangerous quest for riches after she is free of jail within the dystopian Netflix 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’m so very happy!”

.@SquidGame (@Netflix) actress Lee You-mi solutions questions on the Creative Arts #Emmys following her win for Guest Actress in a Drama Series! #Emmys2022 🌟😍🫶 pic.twitter.com/kCi06Hb729

— Television Academy (@TelevisionAcad) September 5, 2022

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

Lead actor and different awards will probably be handed out at a televised red-carpet occasion on September 12. Squid Game 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 Things, which earned 5 Creative Arts awards, together with music supervision, for a season that featured Kate Bush’s 1985 track “Running Up That Hill”. Inclusion within the sequence despatched the track to the highest of music charts.

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