Highlights include lead acting nods for Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey; seven guest acting nods including deaf 10-year-old actor Kevionn Montreal Woodard; and another in outstanding drama series category.

Mazin is a proud member of the Writers Guild of America, on strike for 72 days against the studios, networks and streamers that make up the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

Very grateful. It’s a weird time — mixed emotions, given the way the world is working. But it was lovely to see how many people, not only our cast, but our crew were nominated. I’m very worried about our crew, so it’s just good to see them getting attention they deserve.

Show landing 24 Emmy nominations?

I’m happy to talk about all this stuff specifically because I want to support the working artists that made the show. It’s unfortunate that we’re celebrating what we’re doing while struggling with these companies that just don’t want to treat artists fairly. So like I said, mixed emotions. I look at this as an opportunity to remind everybody that our business runs on the work and talent of artists and employees — all of whom are in labor unions. And all of them deserve fair contracts and the ability to earn a living wage and do their jobs with dignity. That’s my term paper on that.

WGA’s proposals bout staffing minimums?

No one needs to be too upset on my behalf. Mike White [creator of “The White Lotus”] and I became the poster children for the lone wolf. My understanding — and it’s not just an understanding; I talked about this at length with Chris Keyser and with staff at the WGA — is that minimum staffing would not necessarily impact the way that I write. It’s about employment. It’s not necessarily about who sits in a room and does what.

Anna is in Australia, so I emailed her, but I’m not sure what time it is over there. But I talked to Nick and Murray and Melanie and Storm and Lamar. And then I spoke with Keivonn’s mom who had no idea what was going on today. She’s like, “What? What happened?” And she’s so excited, and can’t wait to talk Keivonn — who currently has no idea because he’s in basketball camp.

I of reached out to all of our crew. It was a busy morning of texting and emails. 24 nominations is incredible, especially for a first season show. We didn’t set the record apparently — “NYPD Blue” had 27 nominations in their first season, but that was 1993. So that’s the most in 30 years for a new show. It was really, really a wonderful thing to see support from our peers like that.

Emmys honoring nonbinary performers?

Reception to “The Last of Us”?

We can’t wait to get back to it. Once again, we’re all sitting here thrilled, but also just waiting for the companies to… Stop it! To just stop what they’re doing so that we can get back to work making the next season of “The Last of Us.” We are ready to go. The town needs to be able to get back to work.

Nomination you’re proudest of?

[Being nominated for outstanding drama series] is the biggest, because it covers everyone’s work, including people that may have not received a nomination, all the people that worked so hard on the show. So the show will always be the one that I’m most proud of.

But individually, the one that just made my heart pop open this morning was Keivonn. He’s so young. This is his first acting job. We kind of just found him, like through Twitter. And he was such a joy to work with. Such a beautiful kid, who did such a lovely job. I can’t imagine what it must be like to take a job when you’re eight years old that you’ve never done before, not be scared and just be great at it. So with that one, I was just so tickled. I just thought that was wonderful.

Below-the-line nominees?

That’s a tough one, because they’re all my family. It’s hard to to pick one that excites me the most. But there were some that stepped up that are interesting. For instance, Emily Mendez, stepping up from assistant editor to editor and getting an Emmy nomination is awesome. It’s always fun to watch people stepping into a job and just absolutely crushing it like that. I’m always just looking for opportunities to take people who are doing great work and elevate them. It’s selfish, really. I want the benefit of their work!