The Television Academy have honoured the late Chadwick Boseman with an Emmy nomination for the voiceover for his famous role of T’Challa in Marvel’s animated superhero series What If…?
The celebrated and much-loved actor died aged 43 in August 2020 following a private four-year battle with colon cancer. Most were unaware that Boseman was ill until the tragic news broke.
Boseman was best known for playing the lead role in Marvel’s ground-breaking superhero blockbuster Black Panther.
As well as voicing T’Challa, following his death, he earned acclaim for his final role in the Netflix drama Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, for which he was posthumously nominated for an Oscar.
Boseman’s What If…? character left fans overcome with emotion as they remember the late actor as Black Panther.
In episode 6 of the Disney Plus show, released more than a year after Boseman’s death, he returns once more, going up against his cousin as Killmonger strives to assert his control over Wakanda.
Killmonger is reintroduced into the MCU as the saviour of Tony Stark (Mick Wingert), preventing the billionaire businessman from being injured and kidnapped, as depicted in the first Iron Man film.
While Black Panther tries to stop Killmonger, his efforts are left futile, as the episode ends with his funeral, with the former Black Panther’s coffin flanked by Wakanda’s Dora Milaje.
T’Challa appears again later in the episode on the ancestral plane, where he speaks with Killmonger after he becomes the new Black Panther.
Marvel fans were devastated to witness T’Challa’s funeral in the series as they paid tribute to Boseman, with one writing: ‘Seeing T’Challa in that episode hits different, we miss you legend thank you for everything.’
At the very end of the episode, The Watcher, voiced by Jeffrey Wright, makes a poignant statement about superheroes and the legacy they leave behind.
‘Heroes are never really gone. They live forever. As do the ones they inspire to carry on the fight,’ he says.
Other Emmy nominations included the likes of Squid Game, Yellowjackets and Ted Lasso, and Succession, which scored a whopping 25 in total.
Other contenders also include the Selena Gomez Disney Plus series Only Murders in the Building, as well as Netflix’s hit sci-fi epic Stranger Things and acclaimed drama Severance.
Emmy Awards 2022 nominations
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
- Rachel Brosnahan – The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
- Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary
- Kaley Cuoco – The Flight Attendant
- Elle Fanning – The Great
- Issa Rae – Insecure
- Jean Smart – Hacks
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
- Donald Glover – Atlanta
- Bill Hader – Barry
- Nicholas Hoult – The Great
- Steve Martin – Only Murders in the Building
- Martin Short – Only Murders in the Building
- Jason Sudeikis – Ted Lasso
Outstanding Comedy Series
- Abbott Elementary
- Barry
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Hacks
- The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
- Only Murders in the Building
- Ted Lasso
- What We Do In The Shadows
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
- Colin Firth – The Staircase
- Andrew Garfield – Under the Banner of Heaven
- Oscar Isaac – Scenes from a Marriage
- Michael Keaton – Dopesick
- Himesh Patel – Station Eleven
- Sebastian Stan – Pam & Tommy
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
- Toni Collette – The Staircase
- Julia Garner – Inventing Anna
- Lily James – Pam & Tommy
- Sarah Paulson – Impeachment: American Crime Story
- Margaret Qualley – Maid
- Amanda Seyfried – The Dropout
Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series
- Dopesick
- The Dropout
- Inventing Anna
- Pam & Tommy
- The White Lotus
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
- Jodie Comer – Killing Eve
- Laura Linney – Ozark
- Melanie Lynskey – Yellowjackets
- Sandra Oh – Killing Eve
- Reese Witherspoon – The Morning Show
- Zendaya – Euphoria
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
- Jason Bateman – Ozark
- Brian Cox – Succession
- Lee Jung-jae – Squid Game
- Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul
- Adam Scott – Severance
- Jeremy Strong – Succession
Outstanding Drama Series
- Better Call Saul
- Euphoria
- Ozark
- Severance
- Squid Game
- Stranger Things
- Succession
- Yellowjackets
Outstanding Animated Programme
- Arcane
- Bob’s Burgers
- Rick and Morty
- The Simpsons
- What If…?
Outstanding Short Form Animated Programme
- The Boys Presents: Diabolical
- Love, Death + Robots
- Robot Chicken
- Star Wars: Visions
- When Billie Met Lisa
Supporting Actress in a Drama Series:
- Patricia Arquette – Severance
- Julia Garner – Ozark
- Jung Ho-yeon – Squid Game
- Christina Ricci – Yellowjackets
- Rhea Seehorn – Better Call Saul
- J Smith-Cameron – Succession
- Sarah Snook – Succession
- Sydney Sweeney – Euphoria
Supporting Actor in a Drama Series:
- Nicholas Braun – Succession
- Billy Crudup – The Morning Show
- Kieran Culkin – Succession
- Park Hae-soo – Squid Game
- Matthew Macfadyen – Succession
- John Turturro – Severance
- Christopher Walken – Severance
Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series:
- Alex Borstein – The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
- Hannah Einbinder – Hacks
- Janelle James – Abbott Elementary
- Kate McKinnon – Saturday Night Live
- Sarah Niles – Ted Lasso
- Sheryl Lee Ralph – Abbott Elementary
- Juno Temple – Ted Lasso
- Hannah Waddingham –Ted Lasso
Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series:
- Anthony Carrigan – Barry
- Brett Goldstein – Ted Lasso
- Toheeb Jimoh – Ted Lasso
- Nick Mohammed– Ted Lasso
- Tony Shalhoub – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Tyler James Williams – Abbott Elementary
- Henry Winkler – Barry
- Bowen Yang –Saturday Night Live
Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie:
- Connie Britton – The White Lotus
- Jennifer Coolidge – The White Lotus
- Alexandra Daddario – The White Lotus
- Kaitlyn Dever– Dopesick
- Natasha Rothwell –The White Lotus
- Sydney Sweeney – The White Lotus
- Mare Winningham – Dopesick
Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie:
- Murray Bartlett – The White Lotus
- Jake Lacy – The White Lotus
- Will Poulter – Dopesick
- Seth Rogen – Pam & Tommy
- Peter Sarsgaard – Dopesick
- Michael Stuhlbarg – Dopesick
Guest Actress in a Drama Series:
- Hope Davis – Succession
- Marcia Gay Harden –The Morning Show
- Martha Kelly – Euphoria
- Sanaa Lathan – Succession
- Harriet Walter– Succession
- Lee You-mi – Squid Game
Guest Actor in a Drama Series:
- Adrien Brody – Succession
- James Cromwell – Succession
- Colman Domingo – Euphoria
- Arian Moayed– Succession
- Tom Pelphrey – Ozark
- Alexander SkarsgårdSuccession
Guest Actress in a Comedy Series:
- Jane Adams – Hacks
- Harriet Sansom Harris – Hacks
- Jane Lynch – Only Murders in the Building
- Laurie Metcalf – Hacks
- Kaitlin Olson – Hacks
- Harriet Walter –Ted Lasso
Guest Actor in a Comedy Series:
- Jerrod Carmichael – Saturday Night Live
- Bill Hader– Curb Your Enthusiasm
- James Lance – Ted Lasso
- Nathan Lane – Only Murders in the Building
- Christopher McDonald – Hacks
- Sam Richardson – Ted Lasso
Outstanding Variety Talk Series
- The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- Late Night with Seth Meyers
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Outstanding Competition Programme
- The Amazing Race
- Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls
- Nailed It!
- RuPaul’s Drag Race
- Top Chef
- The Voice
What If…? is available to watch on Disney Plus. The Emmy Awards take place on Monday, September 12 this year, and will be available to watch in the UK on Sky.
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