Hit HBO drama Succession has made Emmy Award history after receiving three lead actor nominations for its final season.
Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong and Kieran Culkin will go head-to-head at the 75th annual awards, after all receiving nods in the category.
It marks the first time ever that three actors from the same series have been nominated simultaneously for outstanding lead actor in a drama series.
Cox, Strong and Culkin all play members of the scheming Roy family in the drama, which wrapped up its fourth series earlier this year.
Sarah Snook, who plays Shiv Roy, was also nominated in the equivalent female category of outstanding lead actress in a drama series, and the series was also nominated for outstanding drama series.
Succession has already earned 13 Emmy awards, including two best drama series awards for seasons two and three.
Cox and Strong have already competed in the lead actor category twice, with Strong defeating the Scottish actor in 2020.
It is Culkin's first nomination in the outstanding lead actor category, though he has been nominated in the best supporting actor Emmy category twice.
Succession actors Alexander Skarsgard and Nicholas Braun also received Emmy nominations in the outstanding supporting actor category.
Other actors in the outstanding lead actor category include Bob Odenkirk, for Better Call Saul, and Pedro Pascal, for zombie-thriller The Last Of Us.
Pascal’s co-star in The Last Of Us, British teenager Bella Ramsey, also picked up a nomination for outstanding lead actress in a drama series - alongside Snook.
Elsewhere, Daniel Radcliffe was nominated for an Emmy award for his performance in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.
The Harry Potter star was nominated for outstanding lead actor in a limited or anthology series or a movie, alongside fellow British star Taron Egerton.
The annual ceremony recognises the best in television excellence and is hosted by the US Television Academy.
The 75th annual Emmy awards will take place on 18 September.
Will protests strike the Emmys?
In normal years, TV pundits argue over which shows will be nominated - not whether the Emmys will even take place.
But this year's ceremony is already jeopardised by a writers' strike, now in its 11th week.
Nominations are to be announced on the same day that Hollywood actors will decide whether to walk off the job too, over pay and other conditions.
A Screen Actors Guild (SAG) shutdown would mean a boycott by stars - and therefore, a likely delay - of the Emmys.
"If there is a strike, that's going to really affect the Emmys going forward," said Pete Hammond, awards columnist with the US entertainment trade website Deadline.
"Because the TV Academy is going to have to decide, 'How long is this going to go on?' and 'What's our drop-dead date to move the show?'"
Source: AFP
