SACRED GAMES, RADHIKA APTE GET TOP EMMY NOMINATION
MUMBAI: Netflix’s India Original series Sacred Games, anthology film Lust Stories and Amazon Prime Video’s The Remix have been nominated for International Emmy Awards.
The second season of Sacred Games, starring Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, was nominated in the best drama category alongside Brazil’s Contra Todos - season three, Germany’s Bad Banks and UK’s McMafia, which also features Siddiqui in a key role.
Director Anurag Kashyap and Neeraj Ghaywan directed the second season of Sacred Games while Vikramaditya Motwane served as a showrunner. Kashyap, who shared the news on his Instagram page, was also one of the directors of Lust Stories with Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee and Karan Johar. What a day. 3 Emmy Nominations . 1 lust stories (best miniseries) 2.Sacred Games (best Drama) 3. Radhika Apte (best actressLust Stories),” he wrote tagging International Emmy, Netflix and other collaborators.
Apte, who features in the segment directed by Kashyap, is competing in the best performance by an actress category with Jenna Coleman for The Cry, Marjorie Estiano for Brazil’s Sob Pressao 2 and Marina Gera for Hungary’s Orok Tel.
The 47th International Emmy Awards, which honours television programmes initially produced and aired outside the US, will be held on November 25 in New York.
Nominees this year span 21 countries across 11 categories, with Brazil and the UK leading the list. Other countries with more than one nod include Germany, Australia, Belgium, Argentina, Hungary and India.
“The diversity, geographic spread and quality of this year’s nominees is a testament to the increasing wealth of outstanding television being created on a global scale,” Bruce L Paisner, president and CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, said on Thursday. “We congratulate the nominees for their outstanding achievements.”