The TV nominations for the thirtieth annual Critics Alternative Awards delivered a pair of uncommon double nominations: two posthumous nods in the identical class for Deal with Williams and Ron Cephas Jones and a performer, Anna Sawai, with two appearing nominations for non-English-speaking roles in Shōgun and Pachinko.
Ron Cephas Jones in “MLK/X” and Deal with Williams in “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans”
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The Supporting Actor In a Restricted Sequence or Film Made for Tv area options Williams and Cephas Jones who died inside two months of one another this previous summer time. Williams is nominated for his function as William Paley in FX’s Feud: Capote vs. The Swans whereas Cephas Jones was acknowledged for taking part in Elijah Muhammad in Nat Geo’s Genius: MLK/X. The remainder of the nominees within the class embody Robert Downey Jr. (The Sympathizer), Hugh Grant (The Regime), Logan Lerman (We Had been the Fortunate Ones) and Liev Schreiber (The Excellent Couple).
Williams additionally obtained a posthumous Emmy nomination for Feud whereas Cephas Jones, a two-time Emmy winner for This Is Us, was additionally nominated for a Black Reel Award for Genius.
In the meantime, Emmy-winning Shōgun star Sawai landed an anticipated nomination within the Actress In a Drama Sequence CCA class for her function because the tragic Girl Mariko in FX/Hulu’s interval drama set in feudal Japan, together with a shock nomination within the Supporting Actress In a Drama Sequence area for one more interval drama set primarily in Japan, Apple TV+’s Pachinko.
Japanese actress Sawai is a part of the Nineteen Eighties timeline of Pachinko whose story spans nations and a long time. Whereas her character, Naomi, speaks each Japanese and English, in Season 2, which the nomination is for, she speaks principally Japanese, making this probably the primary occasion an actor has obtained two main American awards nominations for 2 roles not within the English language.
Pachinko can be nominated within the Overseas Language Sequence class, which it received in 2023; Shōgun leads the CCA area with six nominations, together with Drama Sequence.
