Squid Game bags 14 award nomination at Emmy 2022 awards, becomes first non-English film to do so

Emmy 2022 nominations: The 2021 released K-drama Squid Game which ventured on netflix has bagged in total 14 Emmy nominations in 2022, making it the first non-english film to do so in the history. The Emmy Awards officially unveiled the nominees for this year Tuesday and although the fans were sure that the K-drama would definitely earn a place in the list they never expected on such a large scale.

Squid Game gets 14 Emmy Nominations

September of year 2021 saw the peak of Hallyu wave just when Netflix decided to bring a groundbreaking gaming series titled Squid game to its platform. Within it’s initial days the TV show became a tremendous hit and registered a never seen viewership from the audience making it the first K-drama ever to do so. Not only the series but also the cast including Oh Yeong Su, Lee Jung Jae, Park Hae Soon, Lee Yoo Mi and others became household names.


With this the squid game becomes first non english film to get nominated for Best drama series along with Better Call Saul”  , “Euphoria”, “Ozark”, “Severance”,“Squid Game”,“Stranger Things” ,“Succession”, “Yellowjackets. The additional five nominations come for the actors list from Squid game.

Squid game Emmy 2022 nominations list

Best drama series
Best lead actor in drama series - Lee Jung Jae
Best supporting actress in drama series- Jung Ho Yeon
Best supporting actors in drama series-  Park Hae Soo and Oh Young Soo
Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series- Lee Yoo Mi
 Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program 
Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series
Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music
Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode
 Outstanding Stunt Performance