‘Arcane’ Continues Its Awards Streak With Double Emmy Wins

Riot Games and Fortiche Productions’ Arcane won the Outstanding Animated Program award at the 77th Creative Arts Emmy Awards this weekend in Los Angeles.

The unstoppable League of Legends-inspired series earned the award for its season two episode “The Dirt Under Your Nails,” securing a second victory in the category after making history in 2022 as the first streaming show to claim the honor.

Arcane also picked up the Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing for an Animated Program on Saturday evening, with recognition going to Brad Beaumont, Eliot Connors, Stephen P. Robinson, Janet Pascual, Dan O’Connell, and John T. Cucci. This was also a repeat performance for the show, which won the sound editing honor in 2022 for the episode “When These Walls Come Tumbling Down.” This year’s win underscores, once again, that there is far more to the hit series than its distinctive visual aesthetic and engaging narrative, including top-tier technical execution by teams all throughout its pipeline.

These latest honors cap off a strong awards year for Arcane. Earlier this summer, the series was honored at the juried Emmys with two Individual Achievement in Animation awards. Bruno Couchinho was recognized for background design in “The Dirt Under Your Nails,” while Faustine Dumontier was recognized for color in the episode “The Message Hidden Within the Pattern.”

“The Dirt Under Your Nails” reflects the work of an accomplished creative team spanning Riot Games and Fortiche Productions. Christian Linke and Alex Yee served as executive producers and writers. Pascal Charrue and Arnaud Delord held dual roles as executive producers and supervising directors, with Delord also credited as director alongside Bart Maunoury. Other executive producers included Marc Merrill, Brandon Beck, Shauna Spenley, Brian Wright, Melinda Wunsch Dilger, Hervé Dupont, Ken Basin, and Jérôme Combe. Christine Ponzevera and Amanda Overton contributed as co-executive producers, while Amanda Wyatt served as voice director.

Together, the juried and competitive wins highlight the breadth of creative excellence across the show’s second season.

This year’s honor reinforces Netflix’s dominance in prestige TV animation over the past several years. Since becoming the first streamer to win an Outstanding Animated Program award, Netflix shows have won the honor three out of four years. Last year, Blue Eye Samurai’s “The Tale of the Ronin and the Bride” won the award.

The other shows nominated for this year’s animated program Emmy were: Bob’s Burgers, “They Slug Horses, Don’t They?”; Common Side Effects, “Cliff’s Edge,”; Love, Death + Robots, “Spider Rose,”; and The Simpsons, “Bart’s Birthday.”