Despite falling into categories few of us have ever heard of, Amazon’s adaptation of Fallout has still picked up two Emmy awards from a potential 13 at this year’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards (courtesy of a story from PC Gamer).
Inspired by the post-apocalyptic video game series of the same name, Fallout was overshadowed during the ceremony by Shōgun, which picked up a record-breaking 14 awards in total, with The Bear and Saturday Night Live keeping pace for wins alongside the historical drama series.
Fallout took home the award for Outstanding Music Supervision for its pilot episode, The End, an appropriate title considering the subject matter of the series as a whole. The second award was for Outstanding Emerging Media Program, in recognition of their interactive website, Fallout: Vault 33.
For those unaware of the website and what it can do, it functions as an interactive media player for fans, both old and new, to learn more about the characters, the music, and the wider nuclear-bomb-ravaged world of Fallout.
Next on the calendar are the Primetime Emmys, with Fallout in contention to claim more awards following a nomination for Walton Goggins in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series category for his role portraying The Ghoul. In a synopsis from Amazon, Fallout “is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have.”
“Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.”
Fallout stars Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, Aaron Moten, Moisés Arias, Kyle MacLachlan, Sarita Choudhury, Michael Emerson, Leslie Uggams, Frances Turner, Dave Register, Zach Cherry, Johnny Pemberton, Rodrigo Luzzi, Annabel O’Hagan, and Xelia Mendes-Jones.
