Emmy 2023: Bronca (Beef) wins five Emmys including Best Limited Series
Emmy 2023: Bronca (Beef) wins five Emmys including Best Limited Series – Famous among critics and the public, the black comedy about violence and struggle in contemporary society continues to collect awards.
By Megan Sauer
Bronca ( Beef ), the miniseries inspired by a car confrontation between writer Lee Sung Jin and an unknown driver, won the award for Best Limited Series or Anthology at the 2023 Emmy Awards ceremony , held this Monday in Los Angeles, California, after four months of delay due to the already resolved strikes of Hollywood writers and actors.
The category included Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Daisy Jones & The Six, Fleishman Is in Trouble and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
In addition, he won the award for Best Actor in a Limited Series for Steven Yeun , Best Actress in a Limited Series for Ali Wong , Best Directing for a Limited Series for “Figures of Light” and finally Best Writing for a Limited Series for “The “Birds do not sing, but scream in pain” , chapters directed and written by Lee Sung Jin.
Bronca received thirteen nominations for the 2023 Emmy Awards in total, with nine in the main categories and four at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
Out of these, it won three awards for Outstanding Contemporary Costumes for a Limited Series (recognized for the episode titled ‘The Birds Don’t Sing, Instead they scream in pain’), Best Casting for a Limited Series (awarded for the casting by Charlene Lee and Claire Koonce), and Best Photography Editing for a Limited Series (acknowledged for the editing in the chapter titled ‘Figures of Light’).
The miniseries featuring the iconic Tamago Chair also won awards at Sunday’s Critic’s Choice Awards in the categories of Best Limited Series, Best Actor (Steven Yeun), Actress (Ali Wong) and Supporting Actress ( Maria Bello ) in a Limited Series or movie made for television .
And the award-winning success doesn’t end there because at the 81st Golden Globe Awards ceremony on January 7, Steven Yeun and Ali Wong won Best Actor and Best Actress in a Limited Series, becoming the second actor (the first was Darren Criss in 2019) and the first actress of Asian descent to win the award.
Similarly, Lee Sung Jin collected the award for Best Limited Series, thanking the host with whom he had an encounter and who inspired the scene that triggers the fight between Wong and Yeun’s characters.”
What is Bronca (Beef) about?
Failed contractor Danny Cho and disgruntled businesswoman Amy Lau, both living with depression, clash in a road rage incident that spirals out of control and brings out the worst in them.
Little by little the violence escalates and involves the people closest to them, preparing a scenario of trauma, pain, lies and crimes with a fateful outcome.
Reviews were extremely positive, calling it a sharp black comedy brought to life by the devilishly magnetic Yeun and Wong , who bring enough nuance to the protagonists to find the pain behind their anger.
According to Deadline, creator Lee Sung Jin proposed the miniseries as an anthology and it is up to Netflix if it happens.
Meanwhile, the Screen Actors Guild Awards have yet to be defined, which will be presented on February 24, for which Ali Wong , Steven Yeun and the cast made up of Joseph Lee Anderson, Young Mazino (recently signed as Jesse in the second season of The Last of Us ), Remy Holt, David Choe, Patti Yasutake, Ashley Park, Maria Bello and Justin H. Min.
