Cannes: Bob Hoskins and Filipino actor Sid Lucero are among the nominees for the 38th International Emmy Awards, it was announced yesterday by The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, while Simon Cowell will receive a special honour.
The actors are among 39 nominees in 10 categories for the television awards. The winners will be announced at a black-tie ceremony hosted by actor Jason Priestley on November 22 in New York.
The nominations span 15 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The competition took place with three rounds of judging over six months, with participation from over 700 judges in 50 different countries, including the UAE.
Performance nominations include leading actors and actresses from Argentina (Leonardo Sbaraglia); Brazil (Lilia Cabral); Germany (Sebastien Koch and Iris Berben); The Philippines (Lucero); The United Kingdom (Hoskins and Helena Bonham Carter) and South Africa (Lerato Moloisane).
"Every year, the global television community competes for an Emmy nomination and we congratulate the 2010 nominees for their outstanding achievements as their programmes and performances enter into television history," Bruce L. Paisner, president and CEO of The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, said at the announcemnt at Mipcom, the TV trade fair and conference, in Cannes.
The Academy will also present two special awards. Lorne Michaels, who created Saturday Night Live and is said have reinvented comedy on television in the process and also launched a generation of top film and television stars, is set to receive the 2010 International Emmy Directorate Award.
American Idol judge and Got Talent executive producer Cowell – judged by some to be the worst thing to have ever happened to television and music – will receive the 2010 International Emmy Founders Award.
The 38th International Emmy Awards Nominees:
Arts programming
All My Life: Cazuza
TV Globo
Brazil
Imagine...David Hockney: A Bigger Picture
BBC / Coluga Pictures
United Kingdom
Personas Inside Out
TV Asahi
Japan
The World According to Ion B.
HBO Romania / Alexander Nanau Production
Romania
Best performance by an actor
Bob Hoskins
The Street
ITV Studios
United Kingdom
Sebastian Koch
Sea Wolf
Tele-München / Gate Film / Clasart / ZDF / ORF / RHI
Germany
Sid Lucero
Dahil May Isang Ikaw
ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation
The Philippines
Leonardo Sbaraglia
Epitafios
HBO Latin America Originals / Pol-Ka Productions
Argentina
Best performance by an actress
Iris Berben
The Krupps - A Family Between War and Peace
Moovie - the Art of Entertainment / ZDF
Germany
Helena Bonham Carter
Enid
Carnival Film & Television
United Kingdom
Lilia Cabral
Seize the Day
TV Globo
Brazil
Lerato Moloisane
Home Affairs
Penguin Films
South Africa
Children & Young People
13 at War
NPS Broadcasting Organisation
The Netherlands
Do-Re-Mi-Factory
TV Globo
Brazil
Happy Birthday
Fuji Television Network, Inc.
Japan
Shaun the Sheep
Aardman Animations / WDR & WDR mediagroup GmbH / BBC
United Kingdom
Comedy
Los Simuladores
Sony Pictures Television International
Mexico
Peep Show
Objective Productions for Channel 4
United Kingdom
Talok Hok Chak
Workpoint Entertainment Public Company Limited / Royal Thai Army Radio and Television / Channel 5
Thailand
Traffic Light
Kuperman Productions / Keshet Broadcasting
Israel
Documentary
9/11: Phone Calls from the Towers
Darlow Smithson Productions
United Kingdom
Kuarup: The Lost Soul Will Return
TV Globo
Brazil
Mom and the Red Bean Cake
Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation
South Korea
You die as you lived: Roterdam Hospice
KRO Broadcasting Organisation
The Netherlands
Drama Series
Clouds Over the Hill
NHK
Japan
Epitafios
HBO Latin America Originals / Pol-Ka Productions
Argentina
The Killing II
Danish Broadcasting Corporation in association with ZDF / NRK / SVT
Denmark
The Street
ITV Studios
United Kingdom
Non-scripted entertainment
CQC
Eyeworks Cuatro Cabezas SA
Argentina
Heston's Feasts
Optomen Television for Channel 4
United Kingdom
Remembering School
KRO / Screentime Entertainment.
The Netherlands
Run for Money
Fuji Television Network, Inc. / Fuji Creative Corporation
Japan
Telenovela
Ciega a Citas
Dori Media International / Dori Media Contenidos / Rosstoc
Argentina
Dahil May Isang Ikaw
ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation
The Philippines
My Love
Plural Entertainment
Portugal
TV Movie/Mini-series
Hopeville
Curious Pictures / Heartlines / SABC Education
South Africa
Marcel Reich-Ranicki: The Author of Himself
Trebitsch Entertainment / WDR / Arte
Germany
Small Island
Ruby Television in association with AL Films
United Kingdom
Sound & Fury
TV Globo / O2 Filmes
Brazil
