Star Wars series 'Andor' among the year's most Emmy-nominated shows
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Andor's second and final season earned 14 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series. Nominations span writing, directing, cinematography, production design, costume design and visual effects. Forest Whitaker received a guest actor nomination for Saw Gerrera and Alan Tudyk received a voice-over nomination for K-2SO. Industrial Light & Magic earned a visual effects nomination. Tony Gilroy emphasized addressing themes of rebellion, revolution, oppression, fascism, authoritarianism and colonialism as a creative responsibility. Other Lucasfilm projects also received nods: The Acolyte for sound editing and Music By John Williams for sound editing and mixing. All three projects stream on Disney+.
Andor racked up an impressive 14 nominations, including a shot at one of the night's biggest prizes, Outstanding Drama Series, a category it was also nominated for in its acclaimed first season. The show's craftsmanship shines through nominations for writing, directing and cinematography, to name a few. Forest Whitaker is nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama for his performance as Saw Gerrera. Alan Tudyk is nominated for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for bringing Cassian Andor's robot sidekick, K-2SO to life.
To do a show on that scale about rebellion, revolution, oppression, fascism, authoritarianism, colonialism, I mean all these things that I've been reading about and really interested in my whole life, it almost felt a little bit like a responsibility to really, if you're going to do it you should really go for it, you should talk about all of it,
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