List of awards and nominations received by Squid Game

Lee Jung-jae (left) and HoYeon Jung (right) are the first actors of Asian as well as Korean descent to receive and win an individual SAG Award nomination

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 HoYeon Jung became the second actress of Asian as well as Korean descent to do the same.^[1] 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^[2] 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,^[3] and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.^[4] 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	Ref.
2021	Gotham Awards	Breakthrough Series – Long Form	Kim Ji-yeon and Hwang Dong-hyuk	Won	[5][6]
		Outstanding Performance in a New Series	Lee Jung-jae	Nominated
	Hollywood Music in Media Awards	Score - TV Show/Limited Series	Jung Jae-il	Won	[7]
	People's Choice Awards	Bingeworthy Show of the Year	Squid Game	Won	[8][9]
	Rose d'Or	Drama Program	Squid Game	Nominated	[10][11]
	Art Directors Guild Awards	Excellence in Production Design for a One-Hour Contemporary Single-Camera Series	Chae Kyoung-sun (for "Gganbu")	Won	[12][13]
	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Drama Series	Squid Game	Nominated	[14][15]
		Best Actor in a Drama Series	Lee Jung-jae	Won
		Best Foreign Language Series	Squid Game	Won
	AFI Awards	Special Award	Squid Game	Won	[16]
	Golden Globe Awards	Best Television Series – Drama	Squid Game	Nominated	[17][18]
		Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama	Lee Jung-jae	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor – Television	O Yeong-su	Won
	Producers Guild of America Awards	Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama	Squid Game	Nominated	[19]
	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	[20][21][22]
		Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series	Lee Jung-jae	Won
		Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series	Jung Ho-yeon	Won
		Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series	Squid Game	Won
	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	[23][24]
		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
		Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Series 1 Hour – Comedy or Drama – Music	Jae-il Jung (for "Red Light, Green Light")	Nominated
	Cinema Audio Society Awards	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television Series – One Hour	Park Hyeon-Soo, Serge Perron, Cameron Sloan (for "VIPS")	Nominated	[25]
	Costume Designers Guild Awards	Excellence in Contemporary Television	Cho Sang-kyung (for "VIPS")	Nominated	[26]
2022	Visual Effects Society Awards	Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode	Jaihoon Jung, Hyejin Kim, Hyungrok Kim, Sungman Jun (for "VIPS")	Nominated	[27][28]
	American Cinema Editors Awards	Best Edited Drama Series	Nam Na-young (for "Gganbu")	Nominated	[29][30]
	Independent Spirit Awards	Best Male Performance in a New Scripted Series	Lee Jung-jae	Won	[31]
	Critics' Choice Super Awards	Best Action Series	Squid Game	Won	[32]
		Best Actor in an Action Series	Lee Jung-jae	Won
		Best Actress in an Action Series	HoYeon Jung	Won
			Kim Joo-ryoung	Nominated
	British Academy Television Awards	Best International Programme	Squid Game	Nominated	[33]
		Virgin TV's Must-See Moment	"Red Light, Green Light"	Nominated
	Baeksang Arts Awards	Grand Prize – Television	Squid Game	Won	[34][35]
		Best Drama		Nominated
		Best Director	Hwang Dong-hyuk	Won
		Best Actor	Lee Jung-jae	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor	Heo Sung-tae	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actress	Kim Joo-ryoung	Nominated
		Best New Actress	Jung Ho-yeon	Nominated
		Best Screenplay	Hwang Dong-hyuk	Nominated
		Baeksang Arts Technical Award (Art direction)	Chae Kyung-sun	Nominated
		Baeksang Arts Technical Award (Music)	Jung Jae-il	Won
	MTV Movie & TV Awards	Best Show	Squid Game	Nominated	[36]
		Best Breakthrough Performance	Jung Ho-yeon	Nominated
	Television Critics Association Awards	Program of the Year	Squid Game	Nominated	[37][38]
		Outstanding Achievement in Drama		Nominated
		Individual Achievement in Drama	Lee Jung-jae	Nominated
	Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards	Best Streaming Series, Drama	Squid Game	Nominated	[39]
		Best International Series		Won
		Best Actor in a Streaming Series, Drama	Lee Jung-jae	Won
		Best Supporting Actor in a Streaming Series, Drama	Park Hae-soo	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actress in a Streaming Series, Drama	HoYeon Jung	Nominated
		Best Directing in a Streaming Series, Drama	Hwang Dong-hyuk (for "Red Light, Green Light")	Nominated
		Best Writing in a Streaming Series, Drama	Hwang Dong-hyuk (for "One Lucky Day")	Nominated
	Blue Dragon Series Awards	Best Drama	Squid Game	Nominated	[40]
		Best Actor	Lee Jung-jae	Won
		Best Supporting Actor	Park Hae-soo	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actress	Kim Joo-ryoung	Nominated
		Best New Actress	HoYeon Jung	Won
	26th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival	Series Film Award	Squid Game	Won	[41]
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Drama Series	Kim Ji-yeon and Hwang Dong-hyuk	Nominated	[42]
		Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series	Lee Jung-jae (for "Gganbu")	Won
		Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Park Hae-soo (for "One Lucky Day")	Nominated
			Oh Yeong-su (for "Gganbu")	Nominated
		Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series	Jung Ho-yeon (for "Gganbu")	Nominated
		Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series	Hwang Dong-hyuk (for "Red Light, Green Light")	Won
		Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series	Hwang Dong-hyuk (for "One Lucky Day")	Nominated
	Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards	Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series	Lee Yoo-mi (for "Gganbu")	Won	[43]
		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
		Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series (One Hour)	Lee Hyung-deok (for "Stick to the Team")	Nominated
		Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series	Nam Na-young (for "Gganbu")	Nominated
		Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music	Jung Jae-il	Nominated
		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
		Outstanding Stunt Performance	Lim Tae-hoon, Shim Sang-min, Kim Cha-i and Lee Tae-young (for "Stick to the Team")	Won
	Saturn Awards	Best Streaming Horror/Thriller Television Series	Squid Game	Nominated	[44][45]
	8th APAN Star Awards	Drama of the Year	Squid Game	Nominated	[46]
		Best Director	Hwang Dong-hyuk	Nominated
		Top Excellence Award, Actor in an OTT Drama	Lee Jung-jae	Nominated
		Excellence Award, Actor in an OTT Drama	Park Hae-soo	Nominated
		Excellence Award, Actor in an OTT Drama	O Yeong-su	Nominated
		Excellence Award, Actress in an OTT Drama	Lee Yoo-mi	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor	Heo Sung-tae	Won
		Best New Actress	Jung Ho-yeon	Nominated
		Popularity Star Award, Actress		Nominated	[47]
2025	Golden Globe Awards	Best Television Series – Drama	Squid Game	Nominated	[48]

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