{"id":377932,"date":"2026-09-15T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=377932"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:40:12","slug":"the-emmys-have-left-us-with-many-good-surprises-but-one-very-negative-one-only-white-people-have-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-emmys-have-left-us-with-many-good-surprises-but-one-very-negative-one-only-white-people-have-won\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emmys have left us with many good surprises, but one very negative one: only white people have won"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may be the drift of the times or mere coincidence, but years after the controversy over the Emmys having honored only white people, this year the Academy has pulled the same move again in what\u2019s being called Emmys So White 2. There were options to vote for performers of other races, but the 12 winners for best performance<\/a> are all white<\/strong>, something that fits with who\u2019s in power in the White House but should set alarm bells ringing all over Hollywood.<\/p>\n\n

So, so white<\/h2>\n\n

It\u2019s true, to be fair, that at yesterday\u2019s ceremony we did see something unprecedented: Hiro Murai won the award for best director for The Curse of Widow\u2019s Bay<\/strong>, the first Asian director to win in drama directing (and the third Asian director, overall, to win anything at the Emmys after Beef and Squid Game). But it\u2019s not enough.<\/p>\n\n

In 2021 there were 49 nominees of color, and in 2026 that number is down to 17. It\u2019s the political climate, it\u2019s the urge to stir things up, you never know. But it\u2019s pretty telling that, out of 60 nominees, 43 are of the same race. Mind you, they deserve it: no one is questioning that Gary Oldman, Harrison Ford or Noah Wyle deserve to be there, but it\u2019s telling that, for example, Ayo Edebiri went home empty-handed<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

It was a shame that Oscar Isaac couldn\u2019t take home his well-deserved award for Beef, even if that would have deprived us of the huge moment of Matthew Rhys going up twice to collect the trophy (for actor in a miniseries and in comedy), but the question isn\u2019t whether he deserved it more or less: the one we should be asking is whether this is normal, is going to be the new standard, and how long it\u2019s going to last before minorities can speak up again. Because the Emmys, like all awards, are a reflection of society (or of what the street is supposed to be). If that\u2019s the case, we\u2019ve taken a huge step backward. And it\u2019s not clear we\u2019ll be able to move forward again.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It may be the drift of the times or mere coincidence, but years after the controversy over the Emmys having honored only white people, this year the Academy has pulled the same move again in what\u2019s being called Emmys So White 2. There were options to vote for performers of other races, but the 12 … Continue reading “The Emmys have left us with many good surprises, but one very negative one: only white people have won”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9263,"featured_media":377931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-377932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377933,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377932\/revisions\/377933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377932"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=377932"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=377932"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=377932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}