On the evening of September 12, local time, the winners of the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards were released, and South Korean actor Lee Jeong-jae defeated Bob Odenkirk ("The Wind Lawyer"), Brian Cox ("The Battle of Succession"), Gilemy Strong ("Battle of Succession") and Adam Scott ("Life Cutting") with "The Squid Game" to win the Best Actor award in the drama category. He became the first Asian in Emmy history to win the award, and the first actor to be named emmy for his non-English line role.
However, this result has brought controversy to the impartiality of the Emmy Awards, and fans of "The Dirty Lawyer" have brushed up on the Emmy Awards twitter with comments on "Bob Odenkirk ROBBED" (Bob Odenkirk's prize was "robbed") and slammed the organizers for "manipulating" the award. Michael McKeen, who played the male protagonist's brother "Chuck" in "The Wind Lawyer", also tweeted his dissatisfaction immediately after Lee Jung-jae won the award: "Don't be particularly noisy (applause and scream). ”
Lee Jeong-jae and Bob Odenkirk
Founded in 1949, the Emmy Awards, sponsored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, are the highest awards in the American television industry, and together with the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, and Tony Awards, they are known as the "Four Awards of American Performing Arts".
On September 12, 2022, local time, the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony was held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, staging a "streaming war".
HBO emerged as the biggest winner, with the platform series winning 38 Emmy Awards. Among them, "White Lotus Resort" led the way with 10 awards; The second season of "Excitement" won 6 trophies, and the lead actor of the series, Zandaya, won the Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series for the second time.
Netflix ranked second with 26 Emmy Awards, and among the episodes produced by the platform, last year's popular Korean drama "Squid Games" was "14 to 6"; Stranger Things followed suit, winning 5 awards.
The word-of-mouth work "Better Call Saul" produced by AMC Television in the United States once again regretted it, and the sixth season, as the final season, failed to change the dismal awards of the show, ending with 0 awards after a total of 46 Emmys in six seasons. That night, "Wind Lawyer" "accompanying the run" attracted attention, and the drama appeared on Twitter's hot search in the United States.
The "Rotten Tomatoes" professional film critic scored a 98 (out of 100) series, since the first season of 2015, has been steadily improving since the first season of 2015, and the global media rating average of Metacritic has reached an average of 86 points, which is much higher than the 69 points obtained by "Squid Games". As the lead actor and co-producer of The Wind lawyer, Bob Audenkirk made a significant contribution to the show's success.
The most "sadistic" fan of the show is that Bob Audenkirk was nominated for the Best Actor in the Drama Category five times with "The Wind Lawyer", and the sixth season still rubbed shoulders with the "Emperor of Vision", and it was Lee Jeong-jae, the male protagonist of "Squid Game", who defeated him.
Lee Jeong-jae thus became the first Asian actor in Emmy History to win the Best Actor in a Drama Series, the fourth Asian actor ever to win an Emmy Award for Acting, and the first actor to be named emmy for his non-English line role. When the award was announced, there was warm applause and cheers from the audience.
After taking the stage, Lee Jeong-jae delivered an acceptance speech in English and Korean, thanking the Emmy organizers, Netflix, the director and the main creative team, as well as the Korean audience. Lee Jeong-jae has a fairly high reputation in South Korea, and has starred in movies such as "Assassination" and "Guan Xiang".
At the same time, huang Dong hyuk, the director of "Squid Game", won the best director award in the drama category.
Lee Jeong-jae and Hwang Dong-hyuk
After the award was awarded, many US media reported the news of Lee Jung-jae's "making history" award, but the British Metropolis Newspaper (Metro) website found that the "Wind Lawyer" drama on Twitter was fanatical and was "unfair" for Bob Odencork.
Under the Emmy Awards official Tweet announcing Lee Jung-jae's award, many foreign netizens brushed up "Bob Odenkirk ROBBED", saying that Odenkirk's award was "robbed".
Some netizens broke out and scolded, accusing the organizers of "manipulating" the awards, and even questioned the organizers for being "bribed". These netizens believe that although "Squid Game" is good, Bob Oldenkirk deserves the award.
Michael McKean, who played the male protagonist's brother "Chuck" in "The Wind Lawyer", tweeted immediately after Lee Jung-jae won the award: "Okay, don't be particularly noisy (applause and scream). ”
Bob Odenkirk himself looked down on it, tweeting, "Over the past eight years, I've had the privilege of working with the best people on and offstage far more than I deserve."
However, the fans in the comment area still can't put it down, and they are still "robbed" of the awards.
It is worth mentioning that "The Dirty Lawyer" was not the only episode that returned empty-handed from the primetime Emmy Awards that night, "Life Cutting" was "6 to 0", "Barry" to "5 to 0", "Murder in the Apartment Building", "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel", and "Pam and Tommy" were all "4 to 0".
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