Nick Offerman’s Bill headlines 8 Creative Arts Emmy wins for The Last of Us

HBO’s The Last of Us TV series has won 8 Creative Arts Emmys.

The show bagged top several awards including the award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a drama series, which Nick Offerman won for his portrayal of Bill.

Storm Reid, who played Riley Abel in the show’s episode “Left Behind” won the award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a drama series.

Other awards won by the show, which led the night in total wins ahead of The Bear and Netflix‘s Wednesday, include:

• Outstanding prosthetic makeup
• Outstanding special visual effects in a season or a movie
• Oustanding main title design
• Outstanding sound editing for a comedy or drama series
• Outstanding sound mixing for a comedy or drama series
• Outstanding picture editing for a drama series

HBO announced that The Last of Us had been renewed for a second season just two and a half weeks into the first season’s run, which concluded in March 2023.

Showrunner Craig Mazin said last year that the show’s second season won’t cover the entirety of The Last of Us Part 2 video game, and that the series could run for three to five seasons, “but four seems like a good number.”

The Last of Us Part 2 was released for PS4 in 2020, and a PS5 remaster is scheduled for release on January 19, 2024.

Headline features of the PS5 title are a new single-player roguelike survival mode called No Return, and a trio of ‘Lost Levels’ featuring playable sequences previously cut from the game.

Naughty Dog president Neil Druckmann, who co-created the Last of Us games and the TV series, recently told Entertainment Weekly that “there is at least one element from a cut level that is planned [for] the show”.

Druckmann has previously appeared to hint at plans for a third Last of Us game, although it’s unclear if one is currently in development.