Boardwalk Empire is an American period crime drama television series created by Terence Winter and broadcast on the premium cable channel HBO.
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Boardwalk Empire received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for its visual style and basis on historical figures, as well as for Buscemi's lead performance.
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Boardwalk Empire is a period drama focusing on Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, a political figure who rises to prominence and controls Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Boardwalk Empire began filming on location at Historic Richmond Town on Staten Island in March 2012.
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Unlike Nucky, though, Boardwalk Empire isn't campaigning for anything except the gratitude of a pay-cable audience eager to take refuge in its sordid charms.
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On July 14,2011, for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, Boardwalk Empire was nominated for 18 Primetime Emmy Awards for the first season that included Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, with Martin Scorsese winning Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, along with seven other wins at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
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Boardwalk Empire won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Series and was nominated for Best Dramatic Series.
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Boardwalk Empire was listed in the American Film Institute's Top Ten List for Television in 2010 and 2011 for the first and second season.
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Boardwalk Empire won two awards at the 9th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards.
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Second season, Boardwalk Empire won for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for Tim Van Patten for the season finale "To the Lost", along with three other wins at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
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