Josh Safdie Series Enters 10-Categories

HBO Max is launching an extensive Emmy campaign for “Neighbors,” a docuseries produced by Josh Safdie. The series, which explores America’s most trivial property disputes, has become one of the season’s most discussed unscripted shows.

Following its renewal for a second season, the network is entering the series in ten categories for this year’s Emmy Awards, including a nomination for outstanding unstructured reality program, as exclusively reported by Variety. Created and directed by Harrison Fishman and Dylan Redford, the six-part A24 production spent over two years documenting feuding neighbors across the U.S., offering a verité perspective on a divided nation through conflicts over fences, surveillance, and other issues, including a notorious swimsuit.

“Neighbors” represents a significant shift for Josh Safdie, who produces alongside regular collaborators Bronstein and Bush, following his professional separation from brother Benny Safdie. The series continues HBO Max’s trend of nonfiction projects linked to Safdie, such as “Telemarketers” and “Ren Faire,” moving from single-topic deep dives to an anthology format that packs multiple explosive stories into each episode.

Safdie recently earned four Oscar nominations for best picture, director, original screenplay, and editing for the Timothée Chalamet-led dramedy “Marty Supreme.” Joining him in the submission are producers Ronald Bronstein, Eli Bush, John Paul Lopez-Ali, Jonathan Hausfater, Chris Bowyer, Harrison Fishman, Dylan Redford, Samuel Fishman, and Brendan McHugh as executive producers, with Andy Ruse and Max Allman as co-executive producers, Natalie Teter as producer, and Rachel Walden credited as produced by. The campaign centers around the striking finale “Yellow Thong Bikini” (Episode 106), which is highlighted in nearly every craft category.

An intriguing fact in the producer credits is Dylan Redford’s lineage. As a co-creator, director, editor, cinematographer, production sound mixer, main title editor, and motion design director, he is the grandson of the late Robert Redford, the Oscar-winning actor and Sundance Film Festival founder who passed away at 89.

A potential Emmy nomination would mark a significant moment for the network, which has seldom been recognized in the reality category. “Neighbors” serves as a populist narrative focused on the relatable theme of neighborhood conflicts. An unstructured reality nomination would be HBO’s first in this category in six years, since “We’re Here” in 2020, and only the fourth in its history, following “Project Greenlight” and “Taxicab Confessions.”

Emmy nomination voting takes place from June 11-22, with the official 78th Primetime Emmy Awards nominations set to be announced on July 8.

The full list of Emmy submissions is provided below.

The first season of “Neighbors” is available for streaming on HBO Max.