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The drama Squid Game was nominated for 14 categories including Best Picture at the Emmy Awards, which are called the Academy Awards of the American broadcasting industry.
In particular, the qualification to receive the Best Picture award was only given to dramas produced in English, but it became the first work to break the language barrier.
This is Washington correspondent Nam Seung-mo.
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[(Emmy) Introducing the Best Picture nominees in the Drama category.]
The American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which hosts the Emmy Awards, has announced the nominees for each category at the 74th Emmy Awards.
Squid Game was named as the nominee for Best Picture in the Drama category, with 7 works selected, along with Succession and Stranger Things.
[Squid Game.]
In the case of Best Picture, since only dramas produced in English have been awarded qualifications, the Squid Game became the first work to break the language barrier in this category.
Squid Game was also nominated for 14 categories, including Best Picture, and was recorded as the work with the most number of foreign language dramas ever.
The most nominees for the category went to Succession, a drama dealing with conflicts and conflicts within a media conglomerate family over inheritance.
In the Drama category, Lee Jung-jae was nominated for Best Actor along with Jason Bateman of Ozark and Brian Cox of Succession, and was nominated for
[(Emmy Award) Best Actor for Best Actor in a Drama.
Lee Jung-jae, 'Squid Game']
Park Hae-soo and Oh Young-soo were nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the same time and competed for the award.
In addition, Jeong Ho-yeon was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Hwang Dong-hyeok, who was in charge of directing and screenplay, was nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay, and Lee Yu-mi was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
The Emmy Awards ceremony to determine the winners will be held in September.