Hollywood Critics Association Awards recognizes Apple TV+ as most nominated streaming service

By Amber Neely

Apple TV+

has received more than 50 nominations across a wide range of genres, including docuseries, comedy, drama, anthology series, and variety sketch series.

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On Thursday, the Hollywood Critics Association announced that Apple had received a record 53 nominations. "Severance," the popular psychological thriller, picked up 12 nominations, including Best Drama Streaming series.

For the second year in a row, "Ted Lasso" is the most-nominated comedy series, totaling 12 nominations. It's picked up nominations for Best Streaming Series, Best Actor for Jason Sudeikis, Best Supporting Actress for Hannah Waddingham and Juno Temple, Best Supporting Actor for Brett Goldstein, Nick Mohammed, and Toheeb Jimoh, plus four writing and directing nominations.

More broadly, Apple had three series nominated for Best Streaming Series, Drama, including "The Morning Show," "Pachinko," and "Severance."

It picked up four nominations for Best Streaming Series, Comedy, with "The Afterparty," "Dickinson," "Shmigadoon!" and "Ted Lasso."

"Acapulco" and "Pachinko" both received nominations for Best International Series, and "Prehistoric Planet" was nominated for Best Streaming Docuseries or Non-Fiction Series.

The list is rather long and can be viewed on Apple's Apple TV+ press site.

Apple also points out that Apple Original films, documentaries, and series have earned 246 wins and 1,062 award nominations and counting. In 2022, Apple TV+ snagged an Oscar for Best Picture with "CODA."

Founded in 2016, the Hollywood Critics Association was "created to acknowledge the importance of online critics and encourage, support, and promote underrepresented voices within the industry," according to the HCA website.

The Hollywood Critics Association Awards will be presented at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on August 14.