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‘Shogun’ breaks record with Creative Arts Emmys run

“Shogun” set a record for Emmy Awards with its 14 wins at the Creative Arts Emmys. It could win even more.

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From left, Brian J. Armstrong, Benjamin Cook, James Gallivan, John Creed, Mark Hailstone, Ken Cain, Melissa Muik, Matt Salib and Sanaa Kelley pose with a sound editing award for “Shogun” at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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“Shogun” conquered the Creative Arts Emmy Awards this weekend, earning more than a dozen Emmys and breaking a long-held record for most wins by a single season of television even before the regular Emmys ceremony airs.

The show, an FX political thriller that takes place in feudal Japan, won 14 awards at the Creative Arts Emmys, a two-night event that features several accolades that don’t make it onto the Primetime Emmys show. This year’s event took place at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles.

The successful night broke the record of 13 Emmy wins for a single season of a television series, an honor previously held by the 2008 limited series “John Adams.”

“Shogun” earned awards for costumes, makeup, editing, cinematography and more. Nestor Carbonell won the best guest actor award for his role as the Portuguese merchant Rodrigues in the show’s first episode, “Anjin.”

“Shogun” was expected to earn several awards given its high number of nominations (25), and could snag more trophies at the main Emmy Awards show on Sunday, Sept. 15.

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“The Bear,” a series about the chaotic and sometimes depressing life of Chicago chefs and their upstart restaurant (and their cousins), cooked its way to seven awards at the Creative Arts Emmys, including best guest actress in a comedy series won by Jamie Lee Curtis. She received the award for her performance in the Christmas-themed episode “Fishes” (which also featured Jon Bernthal, who won the award for best guest actor for his work in that episode).

Curtis, who plays the eccentric and alcoholic mother Donna Berzatto in “The Bear,” is now halfway to achieving EGOT status after she won an Oscar for best supporting actress in 2023 for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

Speaking of EGOT, songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul became the 20th and 21st members of the club by winning the award for a song they wrote for “Only Murders in the Building.” They previously won an Oscar for their work on “La La Land,” as well as Grammy and Tony awards for “Dear Evan Hansen.”

Other notable winners from the Creative Arts Emmys include Maya Rudolph, who won her sixth career Emmy for her voice-over work in the Netflix animated series “Big Mouth.” Angela Bassett won her first Emmy for her narration work in the National Geographic show “Queens.”

More Emmy Award winners will be announced next Sunday at the Primetime Emmys ceremonies, hosted by Eugene Levy and Dan Levy.