Arcane, a Netflix original, won the Emmy for Outstanding Animation, making it the first streaming show to do so. This is the first time a Netflix series has ever won the prize; previous nominees Big Mouth and BoJack Horseman did not win. Shows including Bob’s Burgers, Rick and Morty, The Simpsons, and What If…? also competed for this year’s Outstanding Animation Emmy. Rick and Morty (2020, 2018) and The Simpsons (2019) and Bob’s Burgers (2017, 2018) are three recent winners and category regulars.
Arcane co-creator Christian Linke was there to accept the honour. Linke gave a speech in which he honoured the people who had served as inspiration for his performance. “I appreciate this. Due to our background in video games, this is really significant to us. Thanks to Netflix, who believed in us from the start, thanks to Riot Games, who worked on the complete IP… it’s been incredible to watch the world love our characters and tales. and to everyone who’s stuck with our game and League of Legends for the past dozen years and made it what it is today.”
Hailee Steinfeld, who provides the voice of Vi, was among the first members of the group to celebrate the victory, saying, “This is wonderful. To my extended Arcane clan, best wishes! Steinfeld exclaimed that she felt “very blessed to be a part of this programme.”
League of Legends is a video game franchise that inspired this series, which premiered in November 2021. Ever since then, it has been one of Netflix’s biggest successes and has a perfect score on RottenTomatoes.
The series tells the backstory of Jinx and Vi, two sisters who fight on opposing sides of a conflict between a technological paradise and a dystopia in the cities of Piltover and Zaun. Steinfeld, Ella Purnell, Katie Leung, Kevin Alejandro, Shohreh Aghdashloo, and others appear in the series, which was created in collaboration with Riot Games. The victory follows Netflix’s announcement that production on Season 2 has begun and that the new season would debut in 2023.
A documentary series, titled Arcane: Bridging the Rift, detailing the production of the programme was also released recently by Riot Games. The documentary series provides an inside look into the making of Arcane and explains the show’s meteoric rise to fame as one of the most talked-about programmes of 2021.