'Shogun' is a big winner at the Golden Globes

Actor Cosmo Jarvis, far left, joins Shogun's Golden Glob winners, Anna Sawai,
Hiroyuki Sanad and Tadanobu Asono.

With the 2025 Golden Globes awards, Asian and Asian American actors and productions continue their unprecedented success in award shows during the last four years.

Shogun won all four categories it was nominated in at the Golden GLobes Awards held Sunday, including Best Drama Series for Television.

The series' three actors nominated also won the coveted trophy for a drama series in the best Male Actor ( Hiroyuki Sanad), Best Female Actor ( Anna Sawai) and Best Supporting Actor (Tadanobu Asono).

The period drama, based on the James Clavell novel, made history as the first non-English series to win the Golden Globe in te television drama category. The Shogun series, taking place in medieval Japan, was almost all in Japanese and used a mixed cast and crew from Japan and North America.

FYI: The full list of Golden Globe winners

The series was so successful, creatively and received so well by viewers that there are plans to extend the storyline beyond the original novel into a second and third season.

Jon M. Chu, director of the film production Wicked, widened the AAPI presence with his passionate comments when his musical moton picture won a Golden Globe for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.

“My parents came to this country and loved Wizard of Oz. They'd tell us about the yellow brick road and the place over the rainbow, where all dreams come true if you dare to dream it," said Chu.=, who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. "So I'm up here looking at you, living the dream and looking at this beautiful, beautiful cast. It's more beautiful than I ever thought it could be.”

 He continued: "So when we discover that maybe the world isn't exactly the way we thought it was, and maybe [we all have] a little bit of Elphaba inside of us ... that maybe we have that courage and that strength to not give up but to rise up. Take the road off the yellow brick road and maybe discover we can fly.”

Ali Wong, won the Golden Globe for the best stand-up comedy performance in "Ali Wong: A Single Lady" that can be sreamed on Netflix. Wong, a native San Francisco resident gave thanks to the Bay Area comedy clubs for giving her stage time to hone her craft. 

“I come from San Francisco and that’s where I started doing stand-up, and I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for all the stage time that I got there, and all the practice I got to become a stand-up comedian,” said Wong, a Golden Globe winner in 2024 for her performance in Beef.

Ater complaints about the lack of diversity arose, the Hollywood Foreign Press  Association, found to have an overwhelmingly white membership,  attempted to bring more diversity broadening their membership to include more jornalists of color.

Productions such as South Korea's Parasite and Squid Games, the American film Everything, Everywhere All At Once, Farewell and Minari and the TV dark comedy Beef, have brought more attention to Asian and Asian American talent and productions. 

The Golden Globes is owned by Dick Clark Productions who bought the rights from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 2023. Members of the HFPA still vote on the nominated films and television productions.

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CORRECTION: In earlier versions of this post, the Hollywood Foreighn Press Association was misidentified.