Timothy Spall won Best Performance by an Actor on Monday to lead the competition at the 52nd International Emmy Awards, held in New York City. win for The sixth commandment It follows a BAFTA TV Award for the performance he received earlier this year.
Meanwhile, Bad genius Ukpap, the Thai model and actress who received the 2017 Screen International Rising Star Asia Award from the New York Asian Film Festival, won Best Performance by an Actress for her role in the Netflix film. Hunger.
The United Kingdom topped the list of wins by country, taking home four awards: Best Actor, Documentary, Sports Documentary, and Children's Animated Film. Spain followed with two wins: a short-form series and a telenovela. The annual gala, organized by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, celebrates the year's best television shows outside the United States. This year the candidates came from 21 countries.
Other notable victories included the French and Japanese Americans Les Jutes de Dieu For drama series as well as Argentina Palermo Department For comedy.
Tonight's event, hosted by comedian Vir Das at the Hilton Midtown New York, also honored Emmy Award-winning writer and producer David E. Kelley with the 2024 International Emmy Founders Award, and Gaumont CEO Sidonie Dumas with the 2024 International Emmy Management Award.
Bruce L. said: “In these turbulent times, television is certainly an art form that brings people from all over the world together – regardless of their culture or language,” said Pesner, president and CEO of the International Academy. “The International Academy is proud to recognize these outstanding programs and offerings.”
Here is the list of tonight's winners in all 14 categories:
Best performance by an actor
Timothy Spall The sixth commandment – Wild mercury productions / real vision
UK
Best Performance by an Actress
Ukbab-shotimun chuengcharoenskeng Hunger -Song audio production/Netflix
Thailand
Drama series
Les Jutes de Dieu (Drops of God) – Legendary Entertainment / Les Productions Dynamic / 22H22 / Adline Entertainment / France Télévisions / Hulu Japan
France
comedy
Palermo Department – K&S Movies/Netflix
Argentina
documentary
Otto Baxter: Not a horror story – Story films/Archive films/Sky documentaries
UK
Arts programming
Pianoforte — Telemark / HBO / Frederic Chopin Institute / Ventana / ZDF/ Arte / Mazovia Warsaw Film Fund / MX35 / Polish Film Institute
Poland
Unscripted entertainment
Restaurant misunderstanding (The restaurant makes mistakes) – Roses are Blue / CPL Productions / Motion Content Group / Seven.One Studios International
Belgium
Short chain shape
Pont de la return (Point of no return) – TV3 Catalonia
Spain
Sports documentary
Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story — North One Television/Disney+
UK
telenovela
No Promesa (The vow) — BAMBOO PRODUCTIONS, STUDIOCANAL COMPANY
Spain
TV movie/miniseries
Libis type (Dear child) — Constantine Film AG/Netflix
Germany
Kids: cartoon
Tabi maktat – Magic light pictures
UK
Children: realistic
La vida secreta de tu mente (The secret life of your mind) – Warner Bros. Discovery/Pictoline/Mighty Animation
Mexico
Children: direct action
On af Dringen (One of the boys) – Apple Tree Productions / Viaplay
Denmark
