Amazon’s Fallout show has received 16 Emmy nominations

Amazon’s Fallout show has received 16 nominations for the 76th Emmy Awards.

They include a nomination for Outstanding Drama Series, which pits the show against the likes of 3 Body Problem, Shogun, The Crown, Slow Horses and Mr & Mrs Smith.

Walton Goggins is also nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series for his portrayal of The Ghoul.

Fallout is nominated for writing, visual effects and production design prizes too, among other awards.

Co-showrunner Graham Wagner told Deadline: “Fallout originated from a really wild and creative period of video game making, and television is seems to be just catching up to that moment now, similar to movies catching up to the somewhat psychedelic Marvel Comics of the 60s and 70s. So I feel like we’re in that pattern.”

“The crazy thing about making Season 1 is that you have eight hours to adapt a franchise, in which there’s thousands of hours of gameplay to draw from, and it just means that you have to leave so many of your favourite pieces of the mythology behind,” said fellow showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet. “So we’re honestly just excited to get to be able to dive deeper into it and show audiences more of this incredible world.”

Wagner added: “We barely scratched the surface of the world of Fallout in Season 1, and it feels like in Season 2 we’re getting another scratch in, but there’s more to be done.”

It’s the second year in a row that a video game adaptation has received a large number of Emmy nominations. HBO’s The Last of Us, which was up for 24 awards at last year’s Emmys, took home eight prizes.