Netflix's LEAGUE OF LEGENDS Series ARCANE Wins Best Animated Program Emmy Award
One of the best shows to come out last year was Netflix and Riot Games’ League of Legends animated series Arcane. This series was incredible and one of my favorite projects to be released and I’m happy to learn that it won Best Animated Program at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards!
Arcane is now the first-ever streaming show to win this award, which is so cool! It definitely earned and deserves the award. It beat out Bob’s Burgers, The Simpsons, Rick and Morty, and Marvel Studios’ What If…? in the category. Those are all entertaining shows, but, of course, Arcane was going to win!
The series’ co-creator Christian Linke accepted the award and had this to say:
Thank you for this. It’s a big deal for us as we come from video games. It’s been amazing to see the world embrace our characters and our stories so thanks to Netflix who believed in us from the beginning, thanks to Riot Games, who worked on the whole IP… and to all the people that have been with our game and League of Legends for the last 12 years or so who helped make it as big as it is now.
I should also point out that Arcane picked up the award at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, a separate event that precedes the main 74th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony taking place on September 12 next week. Arcane also won three Emmys for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.
Arcane was also nominated for Best Sound Editing for a Comedy/Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation, but lost in the category to the HBO series Barry.
The series is set in the utopian region of Piltover and the oppressed underground of Zaun, and the story follows the “origins of two iconic League champions-and the power that will tear them apart.” Those two characters are Vi and Jinx, sisters who find themselves at odds after a series of tragic and unfortunate events.
If you haven’t watched Arcane yet, do yourself a favor and jump in! You’re gonna love it!
Hailee Steinfeld, who provides the voice of Vi in the series, voiced her support for Arcane’s big win on Twitter: