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Shogun star Hiroyuki Sanada has grabbed a good deal of attention with his groundbreaking performance, and last night, he received a Screen Actors Guild Award for his efforts.

As big business bros run streaming services into the ground or sell off treasured IPs for quick cash, FX actually cares about storytelling. Actually cares about television.

It is no surprise that Shogun, a spectacular historical drama set near the end of Japan’s Sengoku jidai, became one of 2024’s most critically acclaimed productions.

Actor Hiroyuki Sanada portrays daimyo Yoshii Toranaga on the hit series. But fans are also curious about his personal life.

Hiroyuki Sanada attends the red carpet event for FX’s “Shogun” at the Academy theater in Los Angeles, February 13, 2024. (Photo Credit: Michael Tran/Afp via Getty Images) Who is Hiroyuki Sanada?

Hiroyuki Sanada is an actor and a martial artist.

He boasts a lengthy film...

The writers behind the feature film Conclave and TV series Say Nothing took home top honors at the USC Scripter Awards, which were handed out Saturday night.

The Scripter Awards honor the best adapted projects of the year. Both the original authors and the screenwriters share the award.

Conclave was adapted by Peter Straughan from the novel by Robert Harris.

Say Nothing was honored for the episode “The People in the Dirt,” written by Joshua Zetumer. The show is based on the nonfiction book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe.

The finalists and winners were determined by a jury chaired by USC professor and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences vp Howard Rodman. The awards were presented at the 37th annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards ceremony, a black-tie affair held at the Town & Gown ballroom on the campus of USC.

Grab that tux from the cleaners and call your stylist, because it’s Oscar week. There’s champagne toastings, myriad pre-award shows galore and as always, Vanity Fair.

Scroll down for Deadline’s list of events around town leading up to and after the Oscars on March 2.

Note: All times Pt. This list is being continually updated. Email anthony@deadline.com for additions or changes.

Saturday, February 22

11a.m./2 p.m., 40th Film Independent Spirit Awards

Santa Monica Beach near the Pier

SNL alum Aidy Bryant return as host, Molly Shannon is honorary chair. What used to be an Oscar bellwether for Best Picture could be again with Neon’s Anora and Mubi’s The Substance also nominated here for Best Feature. Bulleit whiskey poured and hummus served.

Spirit Awards host Aidy Bryant last year

11 a.m. – The Academy Museum presents Oscar Nominee Spotlights: Animation

David Geffen Theater, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures,...

As we gear up for the big afternoon on the beach this Saturday, now’s a great time to get to know your nominees. Hopefully you’ve seen their films, and if you’re a Film Independent member, watched your screeners and voted too. But there’s nothing quite like hearing about the process from the creative minds themselves.

That’s exactly what we did with this year’s Directors Close-Up, where we brought together the nominees from some of the top filmmaking categories, to talk shop. Over two weeks this February, we held Zoom sessions for our members, where these creators tell how exactly they got their projects off the ground, the creative choices they made, and what inspires them.

If you missed them live, we’ve got you covered. Let’s take a look at all the action from this year’s Directors Close-Up:

Spirit Of...

The stars were out on both coasts for the 2025 Writers Guild Awards on Saturday (February 15).

The annual awards show honors outstanding writing in film, television, streaming, news, radio, and promotional categories.

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story star Nicholas Alexander Chavez was in attendance at the New York ceremony, held at Edison Ballroom, where he took the stage to present.

Joining him in NYC included Ilana Glazer, Bowen Yang, J Smith Cameron, Roy Wood Jr, Busy Philipps, Jelani Alladin, Julio Torres, Celine Song, Sandra Oh, Jesse Eisenberg and Michael Cyril Creighton.

On the West Coast, stars like Kiernan Shipka and Erin Foster were among those attending the LA ceremony at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills.

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Also at the LA event included Megan Park, Justine Lupe, Ernie Hudson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lisa Ann Walter, Adele Lim, Joel Kim Booster, Utkarsh Ambudkar and his wife Naomi,...

Aside from the peculiar appearance of a certain flightless waterfowl, Saturday night’s WGA Awards were a familiar affair.

“Hacks” won its second trophy in four years for Best Comedy Series, as well as its second trophy in the same span for Best Episodic Comedy, continuing a victory parade that began at the 2024 Emmys when it upset “The Bear” for the top prize. That hot streak has continued into 2025 with wins at the Casting Society of America, Costume Designers Guild Awards, Directors Guild Awards, Producers Guild Awards, and AFI Awards, among others. With Season 4 having wrapped production in January, creators Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky’s Max original should enter the 2025 Emmy season as the presumptive favorite.

The season’s dominant drama, “Shōgun,” won’t be back in time to compete in 2025 — the writers’ room is still plugging away at Season 2 — but its Season 1 winning streak also...

The 77th annual Writers Guild Awards were handed out on Saturday in concurrent ceremonies at the Edison Ballroom in New York and Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

Shōgun took home the prize for Best New Series, beating out fellow first-time nominees such as English Teacher, Nobody Wants This, Fallout and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The Hulu series also won for Best Drama and Episodic Drama, while Max’s Hacks took home the trophy for Best Comedy, and HBO’s The Penguin won for Limited Series.

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Anora kept up its impressive run to the Oscars on Saturday, adding the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay to its considerable haul. The win for the the Sean Baker film came a week after Anora swept the Directors Guild of America and Producers Guild of America top prizes, cementing itself as the frontrunner heading into the Academy Awards on March 2.

RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes‘ script forNickel Boys, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, scored for Best Adapted Screenplay at the WGA Awards, which honor the best writing in movies, television, news, and radio.

The key WGA categories of Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay are seen as a bellwether for the impending Academy Awards, though the nominees rarely match up. Scripts produced outside the guild’s collective bargaining agreement or written by a non-union member are deemed ineligible. This year, six...

Sean Baker’s Anora, written by Baker, and Nickel Boys, written by RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, took the top film prizes at the 77th annual Writers Guild Awards tonight, for Original Screenplay and Adapted Screenplay, respectively. The awards were handed out in concurrent ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. See the full winners list below.

On the TV side, it was a big night for HBO/Max, which won the Comedy Series award (Hacks), Limited Series (The Penguin), Comedy/Variety Series and Specials and TV & Streaming Movie categories, as well as for Disney/FX’s Shōgun, which topped the Drama & New Series fields.

Anora is coming off a string of wins, including top honors from Directors Guild and Producers Guild, putting it in frontrunner status for the Academy Awards. It’s nominated for six Oscars including Best Picture as well as Directing and Original Screenplay for Baker.

Ross...

With last year’s ceremony taking place in the shadow of the 2023 strikes and this year’s function in the aftermath of the Southern California wildfires, the 2025 WGA Awards have a lot of work to do when it comes to lifting the spirits of the entertainment industry. Thankfully, good writing always has.

As is tradition, events for the east and west coast branches of the Writer’s Guild are held concurrently today at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles and the Edison Ballroom in New York City. LA’s affair is hosted by actor/comedian Joel Kim Booster and kicks off at 4:30pm Pt. For those who want to tune in at home, you can watch the west coast soiree via livestream at that time.

While under normal circumstances, tonight’s results wouldn’t necessarily carry much water when it comes to the Oscars, this year’s awards race...

Everyone was surprised when FX said it was ordering not one but two more seasons of Shōgun, its award-winning samurai drama from last year. Sure, the show was a big success, but the first season adapted the whole of James Clavell's novel, Shōgun. That meant that showrunners Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks were going to have to go off-book and come up with a whole new idea for what comes next.

At one point, it sounded like they were having trouble, but they must have broken through, because Marks sounded optimistic when talking to Deadline at the Critics Choice Awards. “We’re coming out of the writers room now. We’re also done with the 10 episodes and we have our finale now," he said. "That’s allowing us to start figuring out how we’re going to shoot this. But we’re very excited about the plan.

I think the thing to take away,...

When news came that FX's historical drama series Shōgun had been renewed not only for a second season, but a third, I think us fans had mixed reactions. And if I'm being honest, I still feel that way. Especially since the first season has already fully adapted James Clavell's book, which the show is based on.

However, the writers and creators of the television series have proven that they were able to bring a wonderful story to life in a captivating way. So perhaps we don't need to be worried about Shōgun season 2. Whether you're excited about the story continuing or not, we now have an update about the next chapter!

In speaking with Deadline, co-creator Justin Marks shared that all the scripts have now been written for Shōgun season 2, including the finale of the upcoming 10-episode season. The writers room is basically wrapped, which means the team...

Shōgun, FX's historical fiction drama set in 17th century Japan, was the best TV show of 2024. Naturally, FX ordered a second season, which is tricky because the first season adapted the whole of James Clavell's novel Shōgun. The writers have run out of book. What are they to do?

They've been trying to figure that out. Last month, showrunners Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo said work was ongoing, but it didn't sound like they were certain a second season would truly happen. “We’re still trying. We haven’t given up. And I’m not sure what we can say," Kondo said. “We’re about six weeks from the end of the writers room,” added Marks.

They may have had a breakthrough since then, as star Hiroyuki Sanada told Variety that producers are aiming to start filming on season 2 in "the fall of this year":

[T]he writers...

Creators Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks have given an exciting update on Shōgun season 2, with the series set to go into production this autumn.

Shōgun was undoubtedly one of the best TV shows of 2024, and despite the series adapting all of its source material, James Clavell’s novel of the same name, two more seasons went into early development almost immediately. No wonder: the series has swept the table at almost every awards show on the planet.

Chatting to Deadline at the Critics’ Choice Awards over the weekend, creators Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks revealed that the scripts for Shōgun season 2 are complete.

“We’re coming out of the writers room now,” Marks said. “We’re also done with the 10 episodes and we have our finale now. That’s allowing us to start figuring out how we’re going to shoot this. But we’re very excited about the plan.

“Shogun” star Hiroyuki Sanada said Season 2 of the Emmy-winning FX series could begin shooting as early as this fall.

“We are aiming for the fall of this year, and the writers’ room is working so hard now,” Sanada told Variety Saturday at AARP’s Movies for Grownups Awards in Los Angeles. “We’re going to have half [of the Season 1] cast remaining, and then half new cast coming. We are finding the best crew for next season now, so I’m excited.”

“Shogun” Season 2 has yet to receive the official greenlight from FX, but talent both behind and in front of the camera has teased what’s to come from the 17th-century drama. In January, creator and executive producer Rachel Kondo said development for the new season is “ongoing,” but was hesitant to disclose further details.

“We’re still trying. We haven’t given up. And I’m not sure what we can say,...

As Shōgun became the winningest TV show at the 2025 Critics Choice Awards, creators Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks offered an update on the FX historical drama series’ second season. “We’re coming out of the writers room now,” Marks told Deadline at the awards show on Friday, February 7. “We’re also done with the 10 episodes, and we have our finale now. That’s allowing us to start figuring out how we’re going to shoot this. But we’re very excited about the plan.” Marks went on: “I think the thing to take away, more than anything, is how, I hope, people are going to be surprised with some of the big ideas as soon as the first episode of Part 2. So, we’ll start there and see where it takes us for future stories. But we’re really excited about it, especially for [Hiroyuki Sanada].” Sanada, who won the...

Though Toranaga does not control the wind, Hiroyuki Sanada, the actor that plays him in Shōgun, holds the forecast for the series’ Season 2 in the palm of his hand.

Speaking with Deadline along with series creators Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks backstage Friday at the Critics Choice Awards, where the historical drama series sliced its way to a leading four wins, Sanada, who won tonight for Best Actor in a Drama Series, teased his desires for Season 2.

“In Season 1, [Toranaga] didn’t become a Shōgun yet. So, I’d like to see him become the leader of Japan. That is my hope.”

The show, based on James Clavell’s 1975 novel of the same name and set in 1600s feudal Japan, follows Lord Yoshii Toranaga’s fight against his enemies on the Council of Regents. His plans for unyielding power is complicated by the arrival of John Blackthrone (Cosmo Jarvis), a shipwrecked...

The screenplays of A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing and The Wild Robot, as well as the source material from which they were drawn, are nominated for the USC Scripter Award for best film adaptation, and the teleplays for episodes of Baby Reindeer, Ripley, Say Nothing, Shōgun and Slow Horses, as well as the source material from which they were drawn, are nominated for the USC Scripter Award for best TV adaptation, the USC Libraries revealed on Wednesday.

The winners — which will be determined by a jury chaired by USC professor and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences vice president Howard Rodman, as were the nominations — will be announced at the 37th annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards ceremony, a black-tie affair in the Town & Gown ballroom on the campus of USC, on Saturday, Feb. 22.

Here is a full list of the film adaptation finalists:

James Mangold and...

The screenplays for “A Complete Unknown,” “Conclave,” “Nickel Boys,” “Sing Sing” and “The Wild Robot,” and the original works on which they were based, have been chosen as finalists for the USC Libraries Scripter Awards, the USC Libraries announced on Wednesday.

The Scripters have been given out since 1988 and are awarded to the writers of adapted screenplays and the authors of the works that were adapted. The unusual decision to reward original authors means that “A Complete Unknown” writers James Mangold and Jay Cocks share their nomination with Elijah Wald, who wrote the book “Dylan Goes Electric!”; “Conclave” screenwriter Peter Straughan is joined as a nominee by novelist Robert Harris; “Nickel Boys” writers RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes are nominated alongside author Colson Whitehead; “Sing Sing” writers Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin and John “Divine G” Whitfield are nominated with Esquire magazine journalist John H. Richardson; and “The Wild Robot...

The 2025 finalists for the USC Libraries Scripter Awards have been announced by the USC Libraries. The annual event is held in honor of the writers of the year’s most accomplished film and episodic series adaptations, as well as the authors of the works on which they are based.

For example, on the film side, recent Golden Globes Best Screenplay winner Peter Straughan is nominated alongside Robert Harris, the author of “Conclave.” The finalist can also be the same person on both ends, with “Baby Reindeer” creator/star Richard Gadd being nominated for adapting his play of the same name into the Emmy-winning hit Netflix series.

The award has become a trusty predictor for what film will win the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, with “American Fiction” filmmaker Cord Jefferson being the most recent example. Other past winners include “Women Talking,” “Call Me by Your Name,” “Moonlight,” “The Big Short,” and “The Imitation Game,...

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Severance is a sci-fi psychological mystery thriller drama series created by Dan Erickson. The Apple TV+ series is set in a world where people can undergo a medical procedure to separate their work memories from their other memories. The procedure is called “severance” and can only be done by a biotechnology corporation, Lumon Industries, where most of the story takes place. We follow Mark S. and his team of severed workers as they do mysterious work for Lumon Industries, but strange occurrences force them to question the reality of their existence and jobs. Severance stars Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock, Dichen Lachman, Michael Chernus, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, Patricia Arquette, and Sarah Bock. So, if you loved the mind-bending concept, thrilling mysteries, and compelling characters in Severance, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

The Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America East have chimed in with their selection of the best writing among television and film offerings of 2024. The 2025 WGA Awards nomination announcement was delayed a week due to the devastating fires that hit Los Angeles and scorched more than 40,000 acres. The guild currently plans to stick with its Saturday, February 15th date for the awards ceremony.

Ceremonies will take place in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton and in New York City as the Edison Ballroom.

WGA Awards 2025 Nominees

Original Screenplay

A Real Pain, Written by Jesse Eisenberg; Searchlight Pictures

Anora, Written by Sean Baker; Neon

Challengers, Written by Justin Kuritzkes; Amazon MGM Studios

Civil War, Written by Alex Garland; A24

My Old Ass, Written by Megan Park; Amazon MGM Studios

Adapted Screenplay

A Complete Unknown, Screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks, Based on the Book Dylan Goes Electric!

TV’s best scribes are getting their moment in the spotlight: The Writers Guild of America West (Wgaw) and Writers Guild of America East (Wgae) have announced nominations for the 2025 Writers Guild Awards ceremony, which is to be held Saturday, Feb. 15.

The TV nominees include a number of first-timers, including the final season of Paramount+’s supernatural drama Evil, HBO’s Batman spinoff The Penguin and freshman series like Prime Video’s Fallout and FX’s Shōgun. Of course, usual suspects like Hacks, The Bear and Abbott Elementary are all present and accounted for as well.

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While Hollywood continues to reel from the devastating L.A. wildfires, the WGA is honoring some of the film industry’s best and brightest by announcing the 77th annual Writers Guild Awards nominees. The yearly celebration of excellence in film, TV, new media, news, radio, and promotional writing is always a highlight of the year, as the event brings attention to many hard-working individuals across a broad spectrum of entertainment.

Anora, A Real Pain, Challengers, Civil War, and My Old Ass are among the films nominated for the Original Screenplay category, while shows like The Boys, The Diplomat, Fallout, Mr. & Mr.s Smith, and Shōgun compete for Drama Series excellence.

The WGA plans to announce the winners on February 15 in New York at the Edison Ballroom and in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton.

Here are the nominees for the 77th annual Writers Guild Awards:

Screenplay

Original Screenplay

A Real Pain,...

Hit Man and My Old Ass join awards heavyweights Anora, A Real Pain and Dune: Part Two in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) nominations announced on Wednesday after being delayed due to the ongoing LA wildfires.

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Challengers and Civil War are included in the original screenplay category, while Wicked, Nickel Boys and A Complete Unknown are in contention for adapted screenplay.

Vying for documentary honours are Jim Henson: Idea Man, Kiss The Future, Martha, and War Game.

Eligibility rules excluded The Brutalist, Conclave,Emilia Perez,All We Imagine As Light,Hard Truths, andThe Outrun.

The...

Anora, A Complete Unknown, Challengers, Hit Man, and Wicked are among the 2025 Writers Guild of America Awards nominees.

In Best Original Screenplay, Anora and Challengers are up against A Real Pain, Civil War, and My Old Ass. The Best Adapted Screenplay lineup features A Complete Unknown, Dune: Part Two, Hit Man, Nickel Boys, and Wicked.

The nominations were announced Wednesday, a week after the guild postponed its scheduled Jan. 9 announcement due to the Los Angeles wildfires.

As previously reported, dozens of scripts — including several top Oscar hopefuls — were ineligible for consideration this year. A screenplay is ineligible if it’s produced outside of the WGA’s collective bargaining agreement or written by a non-union member.

The ineligible adapted scripts were Golden Globe champ Conclave (by Peter Straughan), Emilia Pérez (by Jacques Audiard), I’m Still Here (by Walter Salles), Inside Out 2 (by Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein with a...

Despite having to postpone its announcement due to the turmoil currently being faced in Los Angeles as a result of the Southern California wildfires, the Writers Guild of America has now released its nominations for the 2025 WGA Awards.

The Writers Guild of America West (Wgaw) and Writers Guild of America East (Wgae) have revealed nominations for outstanding achievement in screenwriting, television, new media, news, radio/audio, and promotional writing for work released in 2024.

Screenplays for “A Real Pain,” “Anora,” “Challengers,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Wicked,” and “Nickel Boys” were all featured among the nominees. Surprise nods include Glen Powell and Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man,” Alex Garland’s “Civil War,” and Megan Park’s “My Old Ass,” boosting their chances as Oscar voting wraps up.

For those confused as to why some films aren’t represented amongst the nominations, “All We Imagine As Light,” “The Brutalist,” “A Different Man,” “Dídi,” “Hard Truths,...

Anora, Challengers, A Complete Unknown, Nickel Boys and Wicked are among the feature film screenplay nominees for the 77th annual Writers Guild Awards, which revealed its nominees Wednesday to honor the year’s best in film, TV, new media, news, radio and promotional writing.

Winners will be announced February 15 during concurrent ceremonies in New York at the Edison Ballroom and Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton.

Today’s nomination comes after the WGA delayed its announcements from last week due to the impact of the devastating wildfires across Los Angeles last week. Several groups delayed their noms announcements in order to extend voting deadlines including the Oscars.

Last year’s WGA Awards saw The Holdovers and American Fiction win the top film awards at the strike-delayed ceremony, which came after the Oscars were handed out and Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction won the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay.

Here’s...

The 2025 Writers Guild Awards nominations have finally been revealed.

The original screenplay nominees are A Real Pain, Anora, Challengers, Civil War and My Old Ass. The adapted screenplay nominees are A Complete Unknown, Dune: Part Two, Hit Man, Nickel Boys and Wicked.

Top awards contenders The Brutalist, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, Sing Sing and The Substance were not eligible for the WGA Awards’ adapted or original screenplay nominations.

On the TV side, Fallout, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Shogun and The Simpsons all lead with three nominations each, followed by two nominations apiece for The Bear, Bob’s Burgers, English Teacher and Hacks.

The guild was originally set to announce this year’s nominees on Thursday, Jan. 9, but the announcement was delayed twice amid the wildfires that have burned large areas of Los Angeles. The WGA originally set Monday as its new announcement date before again delaying the news “until further notice.” The...

A lot of great movies, actors, and screenplays fall through the cracks during awards season as the Oscars race typically narrows to a handful of expected nominees. That's why it's fun to see what earns attention with some of the other more niche awards bodies. The Writers Guild of America...

Even if the quality of the series from the US seems to deteriorate with time and the plethora of offerings, Asia, on the other hand, seems to retain and even increase the level of standards regarding drama, with the transition from towards “TV” of Korean talent, and the ever present ‘workaholism’ of the actors in J-dramas leading the way. Add to that the fact that the production values, with the streamers investing more and more, continues to get higher, the opening to Indonesia, which seems the next big market, and the heavy investment by Taiwan, and you have the backbone of what is happening in the drama world at the moment. In that setting, the awards “Shogun” got in this year’s Golden Globes seems like the cherry on top.

Without further ado, here is the list with the best Asian Dramas of 2024, in random order, since we thought that the difference in genres,...

About sixteen years have gone by since we first heard that Sony was developing a film adaptation of the video game Shadow of the Colossus, a project that passed through the hands of Chronicle director Josh Trank and Shōgun writer Justin Marks before Andy Muschietti, who has gone on to direct the It films and The Flash, came on board in September of 2014. When you haven’t heard anything about a project in ten and a half years, you can usually safely assume that it has been scrapped – but during an interview with Radio Tu, he said that Shadow of the Colossus is not an abandoned project. He still hopes to make the movie… he’s just having trouble getting studio support for it.

Originally released in 2005, the video game Shadow of the Colossus focuses on a young man, known only to the audience as Wander (or “the Wanderer”), who...

As Shogun asserted its dominance at the Golden Globes, the series received an exciting Season 2 update from creators Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks. 

After recounting the events of James Clavell's beloved book of the same name, it was revealed shortly following the release of the first season that the FX historical drama would receive a second and third season, this time following an original story set in Shogun-era Japan. 

This came despite reports the series' creatives had only ever envisioned Shogun as a single-season mini-series, with Marks telling fans in the lead-up to the Season 1 finale, "We took the story to the end of the book and put a period at the end of that sentence."

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The Golden Globe awards took place this last weekend, and to the surprise of no one, FX's feudal Japan drama Shōgun took home several awards. The show won Best Drama Series, Hiroyuki Sanada (Yoshii Toranaga) won Best Drama TV Actor, Tadanobu Asano (Kashigi Yabushige) won Best TV Supporting Actor, and Anna Sawai (Toda Mariko) beat out House of the Dragon's Emma D'Arcy to take home the win for Best Drama TV Actress. Regardless of the competition, Shōgun was such a pitch perfect show that you'd have been crazy to bet against it.

Part of the reason Shōgun was so effective was that it told a complete, extremely powerful story; the show was designed as a limited series and covered the entirety of the classic 1975 novel by James Clavell. That's a huge advantage over a show like, say, Squid Game, which ended its second season on a massive cliffhanger...

"Severance" Season 2 can't come soon enough. Fans of Dan Erickson's visually and psychologically arresting science fiction drama have had to wait nearly four years to learn the fates of Lumen Industries employees Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Lower), Dylan (Zack Cherry), and Irving (John Turturro), all of whom had their lives and livelihoods put in jeopardy as a consequence of Season 1's cliffhanger finale.

For the uninitiated, the Apple TV+ series explores a not-too-distant future in which a corporation can sever or bifurcate a person's mind so that they essentially have two sets of separate memories -- one as the person they are in their personal life, and another as the person they are when they come to work. This essentially creates two separate people who share one body, one of whom spends the entirety of their life working a mind-numbing office job.

But if you're reading this, it's...

Right now, FX on Hulu's Shōgun is the show of the moment. Not only did the series earn overwhelmingly positive reception from critics and pick up millions upon millions of streams, but Shōgun won 18 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series. To add to its good fortune, the series just swept the Golden Globes, too, taking home all four awards it was up for.

Even though Shōgun was originally intended to exist as a limited series, its pop cultural explosion naturally led to FX and Hulu rethinking the strategy. Now, a second and third season are in active development, and following the show's domination at the 2025 Golden Globes, fans received a major update on the status of the highly anticipated season 2.

But it's not all good news. Depending on how you view the update — glass half full vs. glass half empty — you might be excited or you might be disappointed.

Audiences are going to have quite a bit of waiting to do before Season 2 of Shōgun, as the upcoming installment is still being written.

Co-creator, showrunner, and executive producer Justin Marks told reporters backstage at the Golden Globes on Sunday night that he and the writers are “about six weeks from the end of the writers’ room” on Season 2.

Marks and the rest of the cast and crew remained quiet on any details regarding the new season, or when production will begin. Deadline reported in May that the writers room was assembled last year and began over the summer.

Shōgun concluded its awards season run with a big night at the Golden Globes, securing wins including Best TV Drama Series and acting trophies for defending Emmy champs Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai and also Tadanobu Asano, who lost the Emmy to The Morning Show‘s Billy Crudup. See a full...

Shōgun season 2's writing gets a positive update from creators Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks after its Golden Globe wins. While the end of Shōgun season 1 finished adapting James Clavell's 1975 novel, its massive success on Hulu and FX prompted the development of season 2, continuing the story from where the season 1 finale left off. Its success continued at the Golden Globes, winning four awards for Best Television Series, Best Actor (Hiroyuki Sanada), and Best Actress (Anna Sawai) in the Drama category, alongside Best Supporting Actor (Tadanobu Asano) in Series, Miniseries or Television Film.

While speaking during a Golden Globes press conference, where ScreenRant was in attendance, Kondo and Marks offered a positive update on Shōgun season 2's writing. The creators confirmed the writing team is hard at work crafting the follow-up to the series, with just six weeks left before the scripts are complete. They affirm how much they want to deliver a worthwhile sequel,...

The 82nd edition of the Golden Globes had it all. There were amazing winners, stunning fashion, an open bar that never ran dry, and fantastic acceptance speeches. Some were funny, others were profound, and one served as a testament to one actor’s perseverance in this industry when she was truly considering giving it all up. Below we’ve listed the eight best speeches of the night. Is your favorite on the list? If not, which ones are we missing? Let us know in the comments section and by voting in our poll below.

SEEGolden Globes 2025 scorecards: Wins by movie, TV show, distributor, and network/streamer Best Film Comedy/Musical Actress: Demi Moore, The Substance

What was arguably the most shocking acting win of the night produced what was possibly the best speech of the night. After remarking that this was the first time in her 45-year career that she had won something,...

“Shogun” is moving closer to a new season. Hot off its awards dominance at the 2025 Golden Globes — winning the drama series prize, as well as three acting wins — the writers behind “Shogun” are busy at work on where the series goes next.

“Well, it’s ongoing,” said executive producer/creator Rachel Kondo. “We’re still trying. We haven’t given up. And I’m not sure what we can say.” Added Kondo’s husband and fellow exec producer/creator Justin Marks: “We’re about six weeks from the end of the writers room.”

Marks recently sealed a new TV overall deal with FX Productions, in which he is slated to develop new projects for FX, including those potential new seasons of “Shogun” with Kondo. The potential new seasons of the series are being developed in partnership with Clavell’s estate.

On Sunday, “Shpgun” swept ithe drama categories; besides best drama series,...

FX’s Shōgun continued its awards sweep from the Emmys at the Golden Globes, winning the Best Television Series – Drama category in addition to Lead Actor in a Television Series – Drama for Hiroyuki Sanada, Lead Actress for Anna Sawai and Supporting Actor for Tadanobu Asano.

Unlike the Emmys, where FX’s adaptation of James Clavell’s novel competed as a drama and the 1980 NBC take as a miniseries, at the Globes both incarnations were classified as drama series, so Season 1 of the FX saga took the same Drama Series category its predecessor did 44 years ago.

Just as he did at the Emmys, Justin Marks, Shōgun co-creator, executive producer and showrunner alongside his wife, Rachel Kondo, accepted the top drama award. He framed his speech with an amusing domesticity anecdote.

“Yesterday, Rachel and I were scouring the ferns of our house looking for a 50-pound tortoise that we adopted for some reason that keeps escaping.

Shogun took home the Golden Globe trophy for best TV drama series Sunday.

Justin Marks, creator of the historical FX samurai series, when accepting the award following an earlier triumph at the Emmys recalled the absurdity of a day earlier looking with wife and series co-creator Rachel Kondo in their garden at home for a lost 50-pound tortoise.

“Nothing about this show has ever been expected. Truly, it was made on the backs of thousands of yesses that we received over the years from our East-meets-West cast and crew, an extraordinary cast standing right here. To our writer and our directors and our partners at Disney Television, FX and Hulu, all of you guys said yes so many times over the years to a show that on paper you should, quite frankly, have never said yes to. It’s a miracle that everyone still have their jobs,” Marks said from the Golden Globes stage.

Shōgun took home the Best Television Series Drama award at the Golden Globes on Sunday, sweeping all four categories for which the historic epic was nominated. The FX series, a fan favorite among television critics, was up against other hit dramas: The Diplomat, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Slow Horses, Squid Game, and The Day of the Jackal.

As showrunner Justin Marks accepted the award, he delved into the duality of searching for his newly adopted 50-pound tortoise around his home the day before and standing on stage in front of Harrison Ford’s Han Solo.

“Shōgun” proves triumphant, capping off an awards season run that includes wins for Outstanding Drama Series at the 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards, Program of the Year from the Television Critics Association, and now the Golden Globe for Best Television Series — Drama.

The FX/Hulu historical series based on the novel by James Clavell seized the top award on Sunday, beating out Netflix’s “The Diplomat” and “Squid Game,” as well as Amazon’s “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” Peacock’s “The Day of the Jackal,” and Apple TV+’s “Slow Horses.”

“Shōgun” wins for its first season, with Seasons 2 and 3 now in early development. It was initially conceived as a miniseries, just as the 1980 adaptation featuring Richard Chamberlain and Toshiro Mifune had been, but as a result of the show’s strong critical reception and viewership around the globe, FX/Hulu decided to expand the narrative into at least two more seasons.

Hiroyuki Sanada won best lead actor in a drama series at the 2025 Golden Globes for his role in Shogun as the Japanese actor followed his historic win in the same category at the 2024 Emmys.

“Thank you Golden Globes for recognizing me. I’m so happy to be here with these great nominees. Thank you FX, Disney+ and all the cast members and crew of Shogun for sharing this amazing journey. I’d love to say thank you for everyone who has been in my life. All of you have brought me here. And I’d like to say to the young actors and creators in the world: Please be yourself. Believe in yourself and never give up. Good luck,” Sanada said when accepting the award on stage Sunday.

He won the Golden Globe trophy for his role as Yoshii Toranaga in Shogun, the FX series that picked up 18 Emmys in...

Shōgun showrunners Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo break down how season 2 will move beyond the source material. Shōgun season 1 adapts James Clavell's 1975 novel of the same name and covers the source material in its entirety. However, critical acclaim and the series becoming a record-breaking streaming hit led to Shōgun season 2 and 3 being greenlit. While this expansion is promising, it poses new challenges without having a story to directly adapt.

While speaking with Empire Magazine, Marks and Kondo explain how they are approaching season 2 without having source material to rely on. They discuss how season 2 is already more challenging because of this, but how it is feasible because of the opportunity to explore more characters and ideas from Clavell's original novel and from season 1. They also tease that they are on the precipice of figuring out the endgame for the new season. Check out their comments below:

Justin Marks: It's so much harder.

It was a great year for FX shows! Over the years, FX has routinely cranked out some of the best shows on TV. That did not change this year.

Although we’re not seeing as many FX shows in the past, the quality has not dipped in the slightest. Honestly, it might have even improved. To make sure you didn’t miss any of the great shows on FX, we shared our list of the five best FX shows of 2024.

You can watch each series on Hulu and Disney+ right now.

Let’s get the list of the best FX shows of the year started with the best show on TV all year long, and that’s Shogun!

Shogun

I don’t know how many people agree that this was the best show of the year, but it was! Shogun just won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series at the 76th Annual Primetime Emmys,...

Created by Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo, FX's Shōgun first debuted on February 27, 2024. The series takes place in the year 1600 when Japan is on the cusp of a century-defining civil war. Hiroyuki Sanada stars as Lord Yoshii Toranaga, who finds himself in danger from the Council of Regents. The rest of the main cast includes Cosmo Jarvis, Anna Sawai, Tadanobu Asano, Hiroto Kanai, Takehiro Hira, and Moeka Hoshi.

While a premiere date is yet to be announced, FX renewed the show for seasons 2 and 3 in May. Assistant Stunt Coordinator Sharlene Royer expresses her excitement to return to Shōgun, with the stunt team currently on standby. Royer became the first Black female stunt coordinator to win a Leo Award after her work on CBS' Tracker. She has also been involved with projects such as X-Men: Days of Future Past, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Child's Play, and Star Trek Beyond.

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Shōgun assistant stunt coordinator Sharlene Royer breaks down how the show pulled off Anna Sawai's spear fight. Based on the 1975 novel by James Clavell, the hit FX historical drama premiered earlier this year, chronicling Lord Toranaga's (Hiroyuki Sanada) quest for power in Feudal Japan. Sawai's Lady Mariko is a crucial figure in Shōgun's cast of characters, and she gets one major fight sequence in episode 9 as she attempts to leave Osaka. A real-life martial arts expert subsequently awarded Mariko's fight scene an eight out of 10 in terms of accuracy in a video for Insider.

During a recent interview with Screen Rant, Royer reveals that Sawai was actually sent to train with martial artists in Japan for Mariko's Shōgun episode 9 fight. The stunt coordinator explains that Sawai herself was a "good student" when it came to learning the techniques, and that a major focus was put on making sure the...

Six days before the debut of “Shōgun” last February, John Landgraf was worried about the “Endless Scroll.”

Sitting with his feet propped up on a low table in his office on the Fox lot in Los Angeles, the longtime head of FX explained what he meant with his signature soft-spoken, brainy intensity. The “endless scroll” is not a talisman from “Shōgun” or an artifact of the Middle Ages but rather a symptom of our times. It refers to the never-ending stream of content that so many of us now have at our fingertips.

When asked if he was worried viewers wouldn’t turn out for the most expensive production in the 30-year history of FX, Landgraf paused to think. Any butterflies he had about the show’s launch, he said finally, were wrapped up in his larger concern about the “endless scroll” effect that may be training us to have shorter and shorter attention spans.