# List of awards and nominations received by Squid Game

Squid Game is a South Korean streaming television series on Netflix created by Hwang Dong-hyuk. Its first season was released worldwide on September 17, 2021, followed by a second season on December 26, 2024 and a third season scheduled for release in 2025.
The series revolves around a secret contest where 456 players, all of whom are in deep financial hardship, risk their lives to play a series of deadly children's games for the chance to win a ₩45.6 billion prize (100 million per person killed). Due to the positive critical reception and general worldwide popularity of both seasons released thus far, the series has won and was nominated for numerous awards.
O Yeong-su's Golden Globe win made him the first Korean-born actor to win the award. The show's four SAG Award nominations also made history in it becoming the first non-English series and first Korean series to be nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. Individually, Lee Jung-jae became the first male actor from Asia and Korea to receive an individual SAG Award nomination and Jung Ho-yeon became the second actress of Asian as well as Korean descent to do the same. With both performers winning, the show made history in becoming the first non-English language television series to win at the SAG Awards.
Squid Game is also the first non-English television series to receive nominations and to win the Primetime Emmy Awards. It received 14 nominations, winning 6 of them, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. The winning of these awards respectively made actor Lee Jung-jae, director Hwang Dong-Hyuk, and actress Lee Yoo-mi to become the first Asians and Koreans to receive an Emmy.

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result |
| 2021 | Gotham Awards | Breakthrough Series – Long Form | Kim Ji-yeon and Hwang Dong-hyuk | Won |
| 2021 | Gotham Awards | Outstanding Performance in a New Series | Lee Jung-jae | Nominated |
| 2021 | Hollywood Music in Media Awards | Score - TV Show/Limited Series | Jung Jae-il | Won |
| 2021 | People's Choice Awards | Bingeworthy Show of the Year | Squid Game | Won |
| 2021 | Rose d'Or | Drama Program | Squid Game | Nominated |
| 2021 | Art Directors Guild Awards | Excellence in Production Design for a One-Hour Contemporary Single-Camera Series | Chae Kyoung-sun (for "Gganbu") | Won |
| 2021 | Critics' Choice Television Awards | Best Drama Series | Squid Game | Nominated |
| 2021 | Critics' Choice Television Awards | Best Actor in a Drama Series | Lee Jung-jae | Won |
| 2021 | Critics' Choice Television Awards | Best Foreign Language Series | Squid Game | Won |
| 2021 | AFI Awards | Special Award | Squid Game | Won |
| 2021 | Golden Globe Awards | Best Television Series – Drama | Squid Game | Nominated |
| 2021 | Golden Globe Awards | Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama | Lee Jung-jae | Nominated |
| 2021 | Golden Globe Awards | Best Supporting Actor – Television | O Yeong-su | Won |
| 2021 | Producers Guild of America Awards | Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama | Squid Game | Nominated |
| 2021 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, Wi Ha-joon, Hoyeon Jung, Anupam Tripathi, Heo Sung-tae, O Yeong-su, and Kim Joo-ryoung | Nominated |
| 2021 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series | Lee Jung-jae | Won |
| 2021 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series | Jung Ho-yeon | Won |
| 2021 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series | Squid Game | Won |
| 2021 | Golden Reel Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Series 1 Hour – Comedy or Drama – Dialogue and ADR | Hye-Young Kang, Tae-Young Choi, Byung-In Kim, Eun-Ji Ye (for "VIPS") | Nominated |
| 2021 | Golden Reel Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Series 1 Hour – Comedy or Drama – Sound Effects and Foley | Hye-Young Kang, Ye-Jin Jo, Hye-Jin Yang, Taek-Hyun Hong, Chung-Gyu Lee (for "VIPS") | Nominated |
| 2021 | Golden Reel Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Series 1 Hour – Comedy or Drama – Music | Jae-il Jung (for "Red Light, Green Light") | Nominated |
| 2021 | Cinema Audio Society Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television Series – One Hour | Park Hyeon-Soo, Serge Perron, Cameron Sloan (for "VIPS") | Nominated |
| 2021 | Costume Designers Guild Awards | Excellence in Contemporary Television | Cho Sang-kyung (for "VIPS") | Nominated |
| 2021 | Asia Artist Awards | Actor of the Year | Lee Jung-jae | Won |
| 2021 | Asia Artist Awards | Hot Trend Award | Lee Jung-jae | Won |
| 2021 | Asia Artist Awards | Fabulous Award | Lee Jung-jae | Won |
| 2021 | Asia Artist Awards | Best Actor Award | Heo Sung-tae | Won |
| 2021 | Asia Artist Awards | Best Actor Award | Kim Joo-ryoung | Won |
| 2022 | Visual Effects Society Awards | Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode | Jaihoon Jung, Hyejin Kim, Hyungrok Kim, Sungman Jun (for "VIPS") | Nominated |
| 2022 | American Cinema Editors Awards | Best Edited Drama Series | Nam Na-young (for "Gganbu") | Nominated |
| 2022 | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Male Performance in a New Scripted Series | Lee Jung-jae | Won |
| 2022 | Critics' Choice Super Awards | Best Action Series | Squid Game | Won |
| 2022 | Critics' Choice Super Awards | Best Actor in an Action Series | Lee Jung-jae | Won |
| 2022 | Critics' Choice Super Awards | Best Actress in an Action Series | HoYeon Jung | Won |
| 2022 | Critics' Choice Super Awards | Best Actress in an Action Series | Kim Joo-ryoung | Nominated |
| 2022 | British Academy Television Awards | Best International Programme | Squid Game | Nominated |
| 2022 | British Academy Television Awards | Virgin TV's Must-See Moment | "Red Light, Green Light" | Nominated |
| 2022 | Baeksang Arts Awards | Grand Prize – Television | Squid Game | Won |
| 2022 | Baeksang Arts Awards | Best Drama | Squid Game | Nominated |
| 2022 | Baeksang Arts Awards | Best Director | Hwang Dong-hyuk | Won |
| 2022 | Baeksang Arts Awards | Best Actor | Lee Jung-jae | Nominated |
| 2022 | Baeksang Arts Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Heo Sung-tae | Nominated |
| 2022 | Baeksang Arts Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Kim Joo-ryoung | Nominated |
| 2022 | Baeksang Arts Awards | Best New Actress | Jung Ho-yeon | Nominated |
| 2022 | Baeksang Arts Awards | Best Screenplay | Hwang Dong-hyuk | Nominated |
| 2022 | Baeksang Arts Awards | Baeksang Arts Technical Award (Art direction) | Chae Kyung-sun | Nominated |
| 2022 | Baeksang Arts Awards | Baeksang Arts Technical Award (Music) | Jung Jae-il | Won |
| 2022 | MTV Movie & TV Awards | Best Show | Squid Game | Nominated |
| 2022 | MTV Movie & TV Awards | Best Breakthrough Performance | Jung Ho-yeon | Nominated |
| 2022 | Television Critics Association Awards | Program of the Year | Squid Game | Nominated |
| 2022 | Television Critics Association Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Drama | Squid Game | Nominated |
| 2022 | Television Critics Association Awards | Individual Achievement in Drama | Lee Jung-jae | Nominated |
| 2022 | Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards | Best Streaming Series, Drama | Squid Game | Nominated |
| 2022 | Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards | Best International Series | Squid Game | Won |
| 2022 | Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards | Best Actor in a Streaming Series, Drama | Lee Jung-jae | Won |
| 2022 | Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards | Best Supporting Actor in a Streaming Series, Drama | Park Hae-soo | Nominated |
| 2022 | Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards | Best Supporting Actress in a Streaming Series, Drama | HoYeon Jung | Nominated |
| 2022 | Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards | Best Directing in a Streaming Series, Drama | Hwang Dong-hyuk (for "Red Light, Green Light") | Nominated |
| 2022 | Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards | Best Writing in a Streaming Series, Drama | Hwang Dong-hyuk (for "One Lucky Day") | Nominated |
| 2022 | Blue Dragon Series Awards | Best Drama | Squid Game | Nominated |
| 2022 | Blue Dragon Series Awards | Best Actor | Lee Jung-jae | Won |
| 2022 | Blue Dragon Series Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Park Hae-soo | Nominated |
| 2022 | Blue Dragon Series Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Kim Joo-ryoung | Nominated |
| 2022 | Blue Dragon Series Awards | Best New Actress | HoYeon Jung | Won |
| 2022 | 26th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival | Series Film Award | Squid Game | Won |
| 2022 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Drama Series | Kim Ji-yeon and Hwang Dong-hyuk | Nominated |
| 2022 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | Lee Jung-jae (for "Gganbu") | Won |
| 2022 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series | Park Hae-soo (for "One Lucky Day") | Nominated |
| 2022 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series | Oh Yeong-su (for "Gganbu") | Nominated |
| 2022 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Jung Ho-yeon (for "Gganbu") | Nominated |
| 2022 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series | Hwang Dong-hyuk (for "Red Light, Green Light") | Won |
| 2022 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series | Hwang Dong-hyuk (for "One Lucky Day") | Nominated |
| 2022 | Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series | Lee Yoo-mi (for "Gganbu") | Won |
| 2022 | Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More) | Chae Kyoung-sun, Gim En-jee and Kim Jeong-gun (for "Gganbu") | Won |
| 2022 | Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series (One Hour) | Lee Hyung-deok (for "Stick to the Team") | Nominated |
| 2022 | Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series | Nam Na-young (for "Gganbu") | Nominated |
| 2022 | Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music | Jung Jae-il | Nominated |
| 2022 | Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode | Cheong Jai-hoon, Kang Moon-jung, Kim Hye-jin, Jo Hyun-jin, Kim Seong-chul, Lee Jae-bum, Shin Min-soo, Seok Jong-yeon and Jun Sung-man (for "VIPS") | Won |
| 2022 | Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Outstanding Stunt Performance | Lim Tae-hoon, Shim Sang-min, Kim Cha-i and Lee Tae-young (for "Stick to the Team") | Won |
| 2022 | Saturn Awards | Best Streaming Horror/Thriller Television Series | Squid Game | Nominated |
| 2022 | 8th APAN Star Awards | Drama of the Year | Squid Game | Nominated |
| 2022 | 8th APAN Star Awards | Best Director | Hwang Dong-hyuk | Nominated |
| 2022 | 8th APAN Star Awards | Top Excellence Award, Actor in an OTT Drama | Lee Jung-jae | Nominated |
| 2022 | 8th APAN Star Awards | Excellence Award, Actor in an OTT Drama | Park Hae-soo | Nominated |
| 2022 | 8th APAN Star Awards | Excellence Award, Actor in an OTT Drama | O Yeong-su | Nominated |
| 2022 | 8th APAN Star Awards | Excellence Award, Actress in an OTT Drama | Lee Yoo-mi | Nominated |
| 2022 | 8th APAN Star Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Heo Sung-tae | Won |
| 2022 | 8th APAN Star Awards | Best New Actress | Jung Ho-yeon | Nominated |
| 2022 | 8th APAN Star Awards | Popularity Star Award, Actress | Jung Ho-yeon | Nominated |
| 2025 | Golden Globe Awards | Best Television Series – Drama | Squid Game | Nominated |
| 2025 | Art Directors Guild Awards | Excellence in Production Design for a One-Hour Contemporary Single-Camera Series | Chae Kyoung-sun (for "Six Legs" and "O X") | Won |
| 2025 | Satellite Awards | Best Drama Series | Squid Game | Nominated |
| 2025 | Critics' Choice Awards | Best Foreign Language Series | Squid Game | Won |