Josh Safdie series consists of 10 categories

HBO Max is going big with its Emmy campaign for “Neighbors,” the Josh Safdie-produced docuseries that turned America’s pettiest property feuds into one of the most talked-about unscripted experiments of the season.

After being greenlit for a second season, the network is submitting the series to this year’s Emmy Awards in 10 categories, including a bid in the Outstanding Unstructured Reality Programs category, Variety exclusively revealed. The six-episode A24 production, created and directed by Harrison Fishman and Dylan Redford, spent more than two years with feuding neighbors across the US, framing their disputes over fences, surveillance cameras, backyard menageries and a now-infamous swimsuit as a veritable window into a polarized nation.

The series marks a notable pivot for Josh Safdie, who produces “Neighbors” alongside frequent collaborators Bronstein and Bush following brother Benny Safdie’s well-documented professional divorce. It also continues HBO Max’s string of Safdie-centric nonfiction swings, including “Telemarketers” and “Ren Faire,” trading those projects’ deep dives into one subject for an anthology rhythm that piles multiple combustible stories into each half-hour.

Safdie is coming off his four Oscar nominations for best picture, director, original screenplay and editing for the Timothée Chalamet table tennis drama “Marty Supreme.” In addition to the multihyphenate in the top submission race, the program kicks off with a production roster that includes Ronald Bronstein (who also scored double Oscar nominations for “Marty”), Eli Bush, John Paul Lopez-Ali, Jonathan Hausfater, Chris Bowyer, Harrison Fishman, Dylan Redford, Samuel Fishman and Brendan McHugh as executive producers, along with Andy Ruse and Max Allman as co-executive producers, Natalie Teter as producer and Rachel Walden with a produced by credit. The campaign coalesces around the breathtaking finale “Yellow Thong Bikini” (episode 106), which appears in almost every craft race.

There’s an interesting Hollywood bloodline embedded in the producer credits. Dylan Redford, who serves as co-creator, director, editor, cinematographer, production sound mixer, lead title editor and motion design director of the series, is the grandson of the late Robert Redford, the Oscar-winning actor and founder of the Sundance Film Festival who died last year at the age of 89.

A potential Emmy nod would also break a long dry spell for the network in the genre. HBO has rarely been a factor in the reality races, and “Neighbors” comes as a populist play that centers on a relatable subject: the feud next door. An unstructured reality bid would be HBO’s first reality series nomination in six years, since “We’re Here” in 2020, and would make “Neighbors” just the fourth reality series the network has ever launched, following “Project Greenlight” (2016, 2004 and 2002) and “Taxicab Confessions” (2002 and 2001).

Voting for the Emmy nomination round runs from June 11 to 22, with the official 78th Primetime Emmy Awards nominations announced on July 8.

Below is the full list of Emmy submissions.

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