Shogun Star Hiroyuki Sanada has achieved great success at the 2024 Emmy Awards.

The 63-year-old star won Best Actor in a Drama Series for the FX show on Sunday, September 15.

Sanada said in his acceptance speech: “Thank you to FX, Disney and Hulu for believing in me. And thank you to my team for always supporting me. And thank you to the entire crew and cast of Shogun. I am so proud of you.”

“It was a dream project where East and West meet respectfully. And Shogun taught me that when people work together, we can do wonders. Together, we can create a better future. Thank you.”

Sanada’s co-star Anna Sawai also won an Emmy for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series during the ceremony, and the show won Outstanding Drama Series.

In Shogun Sanada plays Yoshii Toranaga, an embattled Japanese lord and accomplished military strategist who works to defeat his scheming enemies.

The FX adaptation is not a remake of the 1980 original starring Richard Chamberlain and Toshiro Mifune that introduced some Americans to Japanese culture. It is a bold reinterpretation of James Clavell’s novel about 17th-century feudal Japan.

In a conversation with PEOPLE, the actor spoke openly about why it was important to him to portray absolute authenticity and to put extra effort into even small details, such as the way a character bows or pours sake.

“(The original) was a big step for the Japanese people, but this is our own original way,” Sanada explained. “Such things are important to our culture. I checked every detail and then we discussed it. They respected the culture. It was a great collaboration.”

Also nominated in the Best Actor category were Dominic West in The crown, Donald Glover in Mr and Mrs Smith, Gary Oldman in Slow horses, Idris Elba in Kidnap and Walton Goggins in Stand out.

West, who has played King Charles since season 5 The Crownwas nominated for his portrayal of the famous British royal for The Crown‘s sixth and final season.

At the season 6 premiere in December, the 54-year-old actor told PEOPLE how his role in the Netflix series changed his perception of the royal family.

“I suppose the perception of a person is so determined by what you read in the media and what you see in their public persona that it’s difficult to figure out what’s going on privately, what’s going on in people’s heads and what’s going on in their private conversations,” West said of the task of acting.

“Peter (Morgan) imagines it so brilliantly and anchors it so firmly in the facts that we have that I think I definitely feel much more sympathy for Charles and have developed sympathy for him.”

Glover was nominated for his portrayal of John Smith in Prime Video’s Mr and Mrs Smith.

Alongside Glover, the series starred Maya Erskine in reinterpretations of the roles that made Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie famous. The duo played two strangers who were given mysterious jobs as spies and forced to live as a married couple named Mr. and Mrs. John and Jane Smith.

Speaking to PEOPLE at the show’s New York premiere in February, the 40-year-old actor revealed that he drew on his own experiences with intimacy in the spy comedy.

“I think there are a lot of little things that I took from my own life,” he explained. “I felt like intimacy made the show sexy, and that’s why I wanted to do that.”

“There are a lot of scenes that are kind of taken from my life – you know, my wife’s hair is not frizzy, it’s long and I was in the shower and I was like, ‘What the hell is that?'” he continued. “Because she likes to take it and hang it on the shower walls. I really didn’t know what was going on.”

Oldman was nominated for his role as Jackson Lamb in Apple TV+’s spy thriller. Slow horses. According to the show’s official logline, the series revolves around “a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents – and their loathsome boss, the infamous Jackson Lamb – who navigate the smoke and mirrors of the spy world to defend England from sinister forces.”

In an interview with Deadline in April 2022, the 66-year-old actor admitted that he would be more than happy to round off his acting career with the hit series.

“I could see myself playing Jackson for the next few years,” Oldman explained, before referring to the books on which the series is based. “I mean, for those who have read the (Slough House) books and were, so to speak, followers (of the author) Mick Herron, he is already a cult figure.”

Oldman added of his own career: “So if it ended with a bang, retirement would be imminent. Yes, I can imagine that.”

Elba was nominated for his role as Sam Nelson in Apple TV+’s Kidnap.

Kidnap tells the story of a seven-hour flight en route to London. The hijacking — including operations on the plane and support from the ground — is told in real time. Elba, who plays a corporate negotiator who takes on hijackers, previously spoke to PEOPLE about whether he’s ever been afraid of taking to the skies.

“I’ve never been afraid of flying,” he said in July 2023. “But I don’t really like long, long flights. And turbulence is scary.”

Goggins was nominated for his role as a noseless bounty hunter named Ghoul in Prime Video’s post-apocalyptic drama series Stand out.

Speaking to PEOPLE in April, he revealed that he spent two hours a day in the makeup chair to achieve the character’s “sexy ghoul look.”

“It was uncomfortable,” he said of the prosthetics. “It was so hot in New York where we were filming. Sweat was pouring out of my eyes!”

Goggins said that Stand outdirected by Jonathan Nolan, was unlike anything he had ever filmed. “It was exciting. It was exhausting. It was a monumental undertaking,” he said.

“Jonah (Nolan) captured this world visually in a way that feels extremely tangible. I mean, we definitely used green screens. We didn’t blow up Los Angeles, but not much. All the stuff where we run around the desert was shot in Namibia. And that’s why I think this has a very different feel than other shows. I knew it was going to be hard, but I also knew it was going to be a real journey and a real, big, big life experience. And that’s exactly what it turned out to be.”

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