Lee Jung-jae (left) and HoYeon Jung (right) are the first actors of Asian as well as Korean descent to receive and win an individual SAG Award nomination
Squid Game is a South Korean streaming television series released worldwide on Netflix on September 17, 2021. Due to its positive critical reception and general worldwide popularity, the series has won and was nominated for numerous awards.
O Yeong-su's Golden Globe win made him the first Korean-born actor to win the award. The show's four SAG Award nominations also made history in it becoming the first non-English series and first Korean series to be nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. Individually, Lee Jung-jae became the first male actor from Asia and Korea to receive an individual SAG Award nomination and HoYeon Jung became the second actress of Asian as well as Korean descent to do the same. With both performers winning, the show made history in becoming the first non-English language television series to win at the SAG Awards.
Squid Game is also the first non-English television series to receive nominations and to win the Primetime Emmy Awards. It received 14 nominations, winning 6 of them, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. The winning of these awards respectively made actor Lee Jung-jae, director Hwang Dong-Hyuk, and actress Lee Yoo-mi to become the first Asians and Koreans to receive an Emmy.
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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2021 | Gotham Awards | Breakthrough Series – Long Form | Kim Ji-yeon and Hwang Dong-hyuk | Won | |
Outstanding Performance in a New Series | Lee Jung-jae | Nominated | |||
Hollywood Music in Media Awards | Score - TV Show/Limited Series | Jung Jae-il | Won | ||
People's Choice Awards | Bingeworthy Show of the Year | Squid Game | Won | ||
Rose d'Or | Drama Program | Squid Game | Nominated | ||
Art Directors Guild Awards | Excellence in Production Design for a One-Hour Contemporary Single-Camera Series | Chae Kyoung-sun (for "Gganbu") | Won | ||
Critics' Choice Television Awards | Best Drama Series | Squid Game | Nominated | ||
Best Actor in a Drama Series | Lee Jung-jae | Won | |||
Best Foreign Language Series | Squid Game | Won | |||
AFI Awards | Special Award | Squid Game | Won | ||
Golden Globe Awards | Best Television Series – Drama | Squid Game | Nominated | ||
Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama | Lee Jung-jae | Nominated | |||
Best Supporting Actor – Television | O Yeong-su | Won | |||
Producers Guild of America Awards | Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama | Squid Game | Nominated | ||
Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, Wi Ha-joon, Hoyeon Jung, Anupam Tripathi, Heo Sung-tae, O Yeong-su, and Kim Joo-ryoung | Nominated | ||
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series | Lee Jung-jae | Won | |||
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series | Jung Ho-yeon | Won | |||
Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series | Squid Game | Won | |||
Golden Reel Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Series 1 Hour – Comedy or Drama – Dialogue and ADR | Hye-Young Kang, Tae-Young Choi, Byung-In Kim, Eun-Ji Ye (for "VIPS") | Nominated | ||
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Series 1 Hour – Comedy or Drama – Sound Effects and Foley | Hye-Young Kang, Ye-Jin Jo, Hye-Jin Yang, Taek-Hyun Hong, Chung-Gyu Lee (for "VIPS") | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Series 1 Hour – Comedy or Drama – Music | Jae-il Jung (for "Red Light, Green Light") | Nominated | |||
Cinema Audio Society Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television Series – One Hour | Park Hyeon-Soo, Serge Perron, Cameron Sloan (for "VIPS") | Nominated | ||
Costume Designers Guild Awards | Excellence in Contemporary Television | Cho Sang-kyung (for "VIPS") | Nominated | ||
2022 | Visual Effects Society Awards | Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode | Jaihoon Jung, Hyejin Kim, Hyungrok Kim, Sungman Jun (for "VIPS") | Nominated | |
American Cinema Editors Awards | Best Edited Drama Series | Nam Na-young (for "Gganbu") | Nominated | ||
Independent Spirit Awards | Best Male Performance in a New Scripted Series | Lee Jung-jae | Won | ||
Critics' Choice Super Awards | Best Action Series | Squid Game | Won | ||
Best Actor in an Action Series | Lee Jung-jae | Won | |||
Best Actress in an Action Series | HoYeon Jung | Won | |||
Kim Joo-ryoung | Nominated | ||||
British Academy Television Awards | Best International Programme | Squid Game | Nominated | ||
Virgin TV's Must-See Moment | "Red Light, Green Light" | Nominated | |||
Baeksang Arts Awards | Grand Prize – Television | Squid Game | Won | ||
Best Drama | Nominated | ||||
Best Director | Hwang Dong-hyuk | Won | |||
Best Actor | Lee Jung-jae | Nominated | |||
Best Supporting Actor | Heo Sung-tae | Nominated | |||
Best Supporting Actress | Kim Joo-ryoung | Nominated | |||
Best New Actress | Jung Ho-yeon | Nominated | |||
Best Screenplay | Hwang Dong-hyuk | Nominated | |||
Baeksang Arts Technical Award (Art direction) | Chae Kyung-sun | Nominated | |||
Baeksang Arts Technical Award (Music) | Jung Jae-il | Won | |||
MTV Movie & TV Awards | Best Show | Squid Game | Nominated | ||
Best Breakthrough Performance | Jung Ho-yeon | Nominated | |||
Television Critics Association Awards | Program of the Year | Squid Game | Nominated | ||
Outstanding Achievement in Drama | Nominated | ||||
Individual Achievement in Drama | Lee Jung-jae | Nominated | |||
Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards | Best Streaming Series, Drama | Squid Game | Nominated | ||
Best International Series | Won | ||||
Best Actor in a Streaming Series, Drama | Lee Jung-jae | Won | |||
Best Supporting Actor in a Streaming Series, Drama | Park Hae-soo | Nominated | |||
Best Supporting Actress in a Streaming Series, Drama | HoYeon Jung | Nominated | |||
Best Directing in a Streaming Series, Drama | Hwang Dong-hyuk (for "Red Light, Green Light") | Nominated | |||
Best Writing in a Streaming Series, Drama | Hwang Dong-hyuk (for "One Lucky Day") | Nominated | |||
Blue Dragon Series Awards | Best Drama | Squid Game | Nominated | ||
Best Actor | Lee Jung-jae | Won | |||
Best Supporting Actor | Park Hae-soo | Nominated | |||
Best Supporting Actress | Kim Joo-ryoung | Nominated | |||
Best New Actress | HoYeon Jung | Won | |||
26th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival | Series Film Award | Squid Game | Won | ||
Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Drama Series | Kim Ji-yeon and Hwang Dong-hyuk | Nominated | ||
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | Lee Jung-jae (for "Gganbu") | Won | |||
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series | Park Hae-soo (for "One Lucky Day") | Nominated | |||
Oh Yeong-su (for "Gganbu") | Nominated | ||||
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Jung Ho-yeon (for "Gganbu") | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series | Hwang Dong-hyuk (for "Red Light, Green Light") | Won | |||
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series | Hwang Dong-hyuk (for "One Lucky Day") | Nominated | |||
Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series | Lee Yoo-mi (for "Gganbu") | Won | ||
Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More) | Chae Kyoung-sun, Gim En-jee and Kim Jeong-gun (for "Gganbu") | Won | |||
Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series (One Hour) | Lee Hyung-deok (for "Stick to the Team") | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series | Nam Na-young (for "Gganbu") | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music | Jung Jae-il | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode | Cheong Jai-hoon, Kang Moon-jung, Kim Hye-jin, Jo Hyun-jin, Kim Seong-chul, Lee Jae-bum, Shin Min-soo, Seok Jong-yeon and Jun Sung-man (for "VIPS") | Won | |||
Outstanding Stunt Performance | Lim Tae-hoon, Shim Sang-min, Kim Cha-i and Lee Tae-young (for "Stick to the Team") | Won | |||
Saturn Awards | Best Streaming Horror/Thriller Television Series | Squid Game | Nominated | ||
8th APAN Star Awards | Drama of the Year | Squid Game | Nominated | ||
Best Director | Hwang Dong-hyuk | Nominated | |||
Top Excellence Award, Actor in an OTT Drama | Lee Jung-jae | Nominated | |||
Excellence Award, Actor in an OTT Drama | Park Hae-soo | Nominated | |||
Excellence Award, Actor in an OTT Drama | O Yeong-su | Nominated | |||
Excellence Award, Actress in an OTT Drama | Lee Yoo-mi | Nominated | |||
Best Supporting Actor | Heo Sung-tae | Won | |||
Best New Actress | Jung Ho-yeon | Nominated | |||
Popularity Star Award, Actress | Nominated | ||||
2025 | Golden Globe Awards | Best Television Series – Drama | Squid Game | Pending |
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