"Squid Game" broke all kinds of barriers at the 2022 Emmy Awards with its six victories. The Netflix juggernaut earned creator Hwang an Emmy for outstanding directing for a drama series, making him the first Asian and first native Korean to snag the award. The show also won outstanding special visual effects in a single episode, outstanding stunt performance, and outstanding production design for a narrative contemporary program (one hour or more). "Squid Game" capped its first Emmys ceremony as the first foreign-language drama to take home some of the top awards of the night.