India Leads AAAs Awards Tally

India took home a total of seven wins at this year’s Asian Academy Creative Awards, while Korea’s five wins included Move to Heaven being named best drama.

The AAAs honored shows produced across 15 markets in AsiaPac in 38 categories over two virtual ceremonies this week. Singapore came in behind India with six wins, followed by Korea; Japan with four; Australia and China with three each; Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan with two each; and New Zealand and Thailand with one each.

Netflix’s Move to Heaven triumphed in the drama category, while best comedy went to iQIYI’s My Heroic Husband. In the lead performance categories, Lee Je-hoon from Move to Heaven was awarded best actor, and best actress went to Konkona Sen Sharma for Netflix’s Ajeeb Daastaans. Amazon Prime Video’s Mirzapur was named best original program by a streamer/OTT service.

In the non-scripted categories, Hunan TV’s The Tmall Double 11 Opening Ceremony was named best general entertainment, game or quiz program; CNN International’s Eco Solutions in Japan won best lifestyle program; best music or dance program went to Astro’s Gegar Vaganza 7 from Malaysia; and best non-scripted was awarded to The Apprentice: ONE Championship Edition from Singapore, which also was named best adaptation of an existing format. For current affairs, the winner was MBC Korea’s PD Note Our Twisted Heroes. Australia led the documentary categories, winning for the SBS special Birdsville or Bust and the series See What You Made Me Do. Best natural history or wildlife was won by NHK’s Wild Tokyo.

NHK and Studio Ghibli’s Earwig and the Witch scored best animated program. Best children’s went to Mystic from New Zealand, with Japan’s Shimajiro: A World of WOW! Our Oceans awarded best preschool program.