Nominees Announced for 35th International Emmy Awards

CANNES, October 8: At a
press conference in Cannes today, the International Academy of Television Arts
& Sciences announced the 38 nominees across 9 categories for the 35th
International Emmy Awards, with a record 7 nods for Brazil, 4 for Japan and 3
for South Africa, and a first-time nomination for Colombia.

The winners will be
announced at the gala ceremony on November 19 at the Hilton New York Hotel.

The nominees come from 16
countries. At the press conference, Bruce Paisner, the president and CEO of the
International Academy of Arts & Sciences, noted: “The scope of television
and therefore of this organization has become broader and more international
than any of us have seen before.”

In Arts Programming, the
nominees are: Elis Regina Special: All My Life (TV Globo, Brazil); False Waltz (Orkater/AVRO Television, The Netherlands); Simon
Schama’s Power of Art: Bernini
(BBC, WNET, Thirteen, U.K.); and Smile (NHK, Japan).

In the Best Performance by
an Actor category, the nominees are Pierre Bokma for The Chosen One (VPRO Television/IdtV Film, The Netherlands); Jim
Broadbent for The Street
(Granada Television for BBC One, U.K.), Guo Jia Ming in My Own Private
Deutschland (China Movie Channel,
China); Lazaro Ramos in Snakes & Lizards (TV Globo, Brazil); and Bobby Au-Yeung Chun Wah in Dicey
Business (TVB, Hong Kong). For the
Best Performance by an Actress category, the contenders are Lilia Cabral in Pages
of Life (TV Globo, Brazil); Brenda
Ngxoli in Home Affairs (Penguin
Films, South Africa); Muriel Robin for Marie Besnard—The Poisoner (Ramona/RTBF/To Do Today Productions, France) and
Victoria Wood in Housewife 49 (ITV
Productions, U.K.).

For Children & Young
People, the nominees are The Arena (MediaCorp
TV, Singapore); The Magic Tree (TVP,
Poland); Mortified (Australian
Children’s Television Foundation/Enjoy Entertainment, Australia); and Nutty
Boy (TVE Brasil/Ministry of
Education/Petrobras/Ministry of Culture, Brazil).

In Comedy, Alle lieben
Jimmy (Bavaria Film/RTL
Television, Germany) is up against The Amateurs (TV Globo, Brazil), Little Britain Abroad (BBC Comedy/Little Britain Productions, U.K.), NEO—Office
Chuckles (NHK, Japan) and Sorted (TOM Pictures/SABC, South Africa).

For Documentary, the
International Emmy nominees are Dinosaurs vs. Mammals—Secrets of
Mammalian Survival (NHK/The
Science Channel/France Televisions Distribution/France5/Discovery Channel
Canada/National Film Board of Canada); In God’s Hands (RCN Televisión, Colombia); Smiling in a War
Zone (Denmark); and Stephen
Fry—The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive (IWC Media/BBC Scotland, U.K.).

In Drama Series, Home
Affairs (Penguin Films, South
Africa) is up against The Killing (DR TV-Drama, Danish Broadcasting Corp./NRK/SVT, Denmark),
Mothern (GNT Channel/Globosat
Programadora/RadarTV Mixer, Brazil) and The Street (Granada Television for BBC One, U.K.).

In the Non-Scripted
Entertainment category, returning nominee CQC—Argentina (Cuatro Cabezas, Argentina) is up against How Do
You Solve A Problem Like Maria?
(BBC Entertainment, U.K.), The Prison Choir (3KOMA for TVE, Spain) and Takeshi Kitano
presents Comaneci University Mathematics (Fuji Television Network/EAST Co./COMPASS, Japan).

And in
TV-Movie/Mini-Series, the contenders are Antonia—Based on the Movie (TV Globo/O2 Filmes, Brazil); Death of a
President (Borough Films for
MORE4, U.K.); Toy Train (China
Movie Channel, China); and The Wall/Die Mauer—Berlin '61 (WDR/TeamWorx/WDR
ARTE/RBB, Germany).

In addition to the
presentation of the International Emmys at the gala ceremony, the Academy will
present the Founders Award to Al Gore for his role
in launching Current TV and his ongoing efforts to
alert the world to the dangers of global warming. The Directorate Award
will be presented to Patrick Le Lay, the chairman of the TF1 Group, for guiding
the growth of the TF1 brand from a traditional commercial television
broadcaster to a multimedia organization.