Streaming giants are a force to be reckoned with in the race for the 52nd International Emmys, hosted by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, as they approach the awards on November 25 in New York.
Nominated for drama series include season 2 of Prime Video’s Argentine thriller ‘Yosi, the Regretful Spy’, based on the true story of an Argentine police officer 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,” an adaptation of a manga series about the estranged daughter of a French wine expert who must compete in a series of tests against her father’s Japanese protégé; and season 2 of Prime Video’s ‘The Newsreader’, about the cutthroat world of Australian news media in the 1980s.
In the TV movies/miniseries category, Netflix has the 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 take on the 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 accidentally becomes entangled in a murder investigation. The show aired on Japanese broadcaster NHK.
Also participating is the British broadcaster BBC’s crime drama ‘The Sixth Commandment’, based on the true 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 is competing in the same category for an International Emmy, competing with Laurent Lafitte in France’s “Class Act,” another Netflix show about one of France’s most controversial public figures, Bernard Tapie. They’re up against Julio Andrade for “Living on a Razor’s Edge,” from Brazilian local streamer Globoplay, about anti-poverty activist and sociologist Herbert de Souza; and Haluk Bilginer in season 2 of the Turkish ‘Persona’, produced for the Turkish VOD service Gain. Bilginer won the International Emmy in 2019 for the first season of “Persona,” about a man with Alzheimer’s disease who becomes a vigilante.
In the actress race, Adriana Barraza stars in Netflix’s comedy-drama “Where the Tracks End,” based on the novel by Ángeles Doñantes, about an inspiring teacher in rural Mexico. From Thailand, Aokbab-Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying is competing for the 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 a notorious luxury restaurant where danger lurks.
Sara Giraudeau is a contender for the French ‘All is well’ for Disney+, in which an ordinary family faces a catastrophe: the serious illness of one of its children. Jessica Hynes competes on season 2 of the 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 the French ‘The Billionaire, the Butler and the Boyfriend’ for Netflix, about a feud between the world’s richest woman and her daughter; the British “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 sailors from Britain and Australia after 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’ rivals Argentina’s ‘División Palermo’, both streaming on Netflix, alongside Australian show ‘Deadloch’, a Prime Video series, and season 3 of France’s ‘HPI’, ordered by local broadcaster TF1.