Matt Smith’s Daemon Targaryen earns a nomination at Critics Choice Super Awards for Best Villain

Game of Thrones fans have showered the prequel House of the Dragon with a lot of love and just like its predecessor, dishing out characters, storylines, and everything else that makes it so engaging. The civil war Dance of the Dragons has not officially begun yet, and fans have been taking sides from the beginning of the show. Even the show’s director Clare Kilner and writer Sara Hess know about this growing thirst for grey characters, especially for Daemon Targaryen, and they were quite astounded by it.

Though written off as a morally grey character, Matt Smith’s Daemon Targaryen has managed to earn a nomination at the Critics Choice Super Awards 2023.

All the nominations House of the Dragon has received at Critics Choice Super Awards

House of The Dragon has nabbed multiple nominations at the Critics Choice Super Awards, that includes Daemon as the Best Villain in a fantasy series, Matt Smith for the Best Actor in a fantasy series, and Milly Alcock (young Rhaenyra) as the Best Actress in a fantasy series. The show itself has been nominated as the Best Fantasy series.

Here are the rest of the nominations in the above mentioned categories:

BEST SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE

Andor

For All Mankind

House of the Dragon

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Stranger Things

BEST ACTOR IN A SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE

Chiwetel Ejiofor – The Man Who Fell to Earth

Samuel L. Jackson – The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

Diego Luna – Andor

Anson Mount – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Adam Scott – Severance

Matt Smith – House of the Dragon

BEST ACTRESS IN A SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE

Milly Alcock – House of the Dragon

Patricia Arquette – Severance

Morfydd Clark – The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Moses Ingram – Obi-Wan Kenobi

Fiona Shaw – Andor

Sissy Spacek – Night Sky

BEST VILLAIN IN A SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE

Ethan Hawke – Moon Knight

Brad Dourif – Chucky

Matt Smith – House of the Dragon

Hayden Christensen – Obi-Wan Kenobi

Antony Starr – The Boys

Michael Emerson – Evil

Jamie Campbell Bower – Stranger Things

Harriet Sansom Harris – Werewolf By Night

It is interesting that Daemon has been nominated as a villain at the Critics Choice Super Awards, when Martin has repeatedly made it clear that none of his characters are as simple as black or white. Do you think Daemon Targaryen is a villain in House of The Dragon? Tell us in the comments below!

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