Streaming giants are a force to be reckoned with in the race for the 52nd International Emmys, organized by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, as they approach the awards on Nov. 25 in New York.
Nominees for drama series include Season 2 of Prime Video’s Argentine thriller “Yosi, the Regretful Spy,” based on the real story of an Argentine police agent who infiltrates a Jewish community. Also nominated is Disney+ Hotstar’s Indian remake of BBC/AMC’s John le Carré adaptation “The Night Manager,” about a corrupt and dangerous arms dealer.
They compete alongside Apple TV+’s “Drops of God,” adapted from a manga series, about the estranged daughter of a French wine expert who must compete with her father’s Japanese protégé in a series of tests; and Season 2 of Prime Video’s “The Newsreader,” about the cut-throat world of Australian news media in the 1980s.
In the TV movie/miniseries category Netflix has German suspense drama “Dear Child,” based on Romy Hausmann’s novel about two children and their mother who escape from years of captivity; and Paramount+ has Brazil’s “Anderson Spider Silva,” about a real-life mixed martial arts fighter.
They go up against Japanese crime mystery “Deaf Voice: A Sign-Language Interpreter in Court,” in which a former police officer uses his sign language skills to work as a court interpreter, and inadvertently gets caught up in a murder investigation. The show aired on Japanese broadcaster NHK.
Also competing is British broadcaster BBC’s crime drama “The Sixth Commandment,” based on the real-life murders of a teacher and his neighbor in an English village. The show won BAFTAs for limited drama series and lead actor for Timothy Spall.
Spall competes in the same category for an International Emmy, vying with Laurent Lafitte in France’s “Class Act,” another Netflix show, about one of France’s most controversial public figures, Bernard Tapie. They are up against Julio Andrade for “Living on a Razor’s Edge,” from Brazil’s local streamer Globoplay, about anti-poverty activist and sociologist Herbert de Souza; and Haluk Bilginer in Season 2 of Turkey’s “Persona,” produced for Turkish VOD service Gain. Bilginer won the International Emmy in 2019 for the first season of “Persona,” about a man with Alzheimer’s who becomes a vigilante.
In the actress race, Adriana Barraza features for Netflix’s comedy drama “Where the Tracks End,” based on the novel by Ángeles Doñantes, about an inspirational teacher in rural Mexico. From Thailand, Aokbab-Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying competes for Netflix thriller “Hunger,” which won best feature film at the Asian Academy Creative Awards. It’s about a young street food chef in Bangkok who is recruited by an infamous luxury restaurant where danger lurks.
Sara Giraudeau is a contender with France’s “Everything Is Fine” for Disney+, in which an ordinary family faces a catastrophe: the serious illness of one of its children. Jessica Hynes competes with Season 2 of British comedy drama “There She Goes.” Hynes won a BAFTA for Season 1. The BBC show is based on the real-life experiences of writers Shaun Pye and Sarah Crawford, whose daughter was born with a rare chromosomal disorder.
In the documentary category are France’s “The Billionaire, the Butler and the Boyfriend” for Netflix, about a feud between the world’s richest woman and her daughter; the U.K.’s “Otto Baxter: Not a F**ing Horror Story” for Sky, about a 35-year-old man with Down Syndrome as he writes and directs a comedy-horror musical set in Victorian London; Singapore’s “The Exiles” for Mediacorp, about the deportations of Asian seamen from the U.K. and Australia following World War II; and Brazil’s “Transo” for Canal Futura, which explores the sex lives of people with disabilities.
In the comedy zone, South Korea’s “Daily Dose of Sunshine” vies with Argentina’s “División Palermo,” both streamed by Netflix, alongside Australian show “Deadloch,” a Prime Video series, and Season 3 of France’s “HPI,” ordered by local broadcaster TF1.
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