Chadwick Boseman has been nominated for his first posthumous Primetime Emmy for his role in the Disney+ animated series What If...?
The actor who passed on in August 2020 after battling colon cancer, was nominated for voicing his fan-favourite MCU superhero Black Panther on the series' What If… T’Challa Became a Star-Lord? episode.
On Tuesday, July 12, the Chadwick Boseman nomination was announced among other notable personalities in television. The actor's official social media tweeted an appreciative post in response to the unprecedented nomination.
"What an incredible honor! Thank you to the @televisionacad for Chad’s posthumous #Emmys nomination for Outstanding Character Voice-Over for his roll in as T’Challa in the animated series #Whatif…? from @disneyplus and @marvelstudios," the post read.
While this is Chadwick's first Emmy, he was previously nominated for a posthumous Oscar for his work in George C. Wolfe's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. The award was later given to Anthony Hopkins for his performance in The Father.
Norm Macdonald and Jessica Walter Score were both honored posthumously in this year's nominations. Meanwhile, HBO's smash series Succession received the most nominations of the year, with 25 total, including Outstanding Drama Series and Lead Actor. Previously, the show had won nine Emmys.
Other double-digit nominated titles include HBO's The White Lotus, which received 20 nominations, Apple's Ted Lasso, which received 20, Euphoria, which received 16, and Netflix's Stranger Things and Squid Game, which received 13 and 14, respectively.
