Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg may have set the bar high by trying to line up starry cameos and writing about real-life Hollywood shenanigans in The Studio, but their efforts paid off.
The Apple comedy tied the record for the Emmy most nominations in a single year in the comedy category with 23 (set by The Bear in 2024). Severance led this year’s drama category with 27 nominations.
The Studio, which Rogen and Goldberg humbly describe as a workplace comedy about a newly-installed studio head named Matt Remick and his burning desire for approval and box office success, scored nominations for Outstanding Comedy, Outstanding Actor (Rogen) and Outstanding Supporting Actor (Ike Barinholtz).
It also dominated the guest actor category while receiving recognition for writing, casting, directing, picture editing, and music composition.
When setting out to create the comedy, Goldberg and Rogen told Deadline were looking to create a realistic version of Hollywood, one in which there are no more “scumbags and egomaniacs here than what you could find in finance, real estate dealings, the construction industry or manufacturing.”
“They’re just more seen,” Goldberg says of those, ahem, Tinseltown scumbags and egomaniacs. “They get this bad rap, but most of the people in Hollywood are beautiful, wonderful people who could have done anything else and chose to do this because they love it — from the props master to the PAs, to the craft service producers, to the actors. So, when we’re showing the dirtier, sh*ttier sides of the industry, it doesn’t feel like we’re taking cheap pot shots because the whole thing is a love letter. And one that we want to be, again, a realistic portrayal of Hollywood, not a shined-up one or a dirty one.”
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