Night of joy, although with a bittersweet touch, for Spain at the International Emmy Awards. The International Television Academy Awards, held this Monday, November 24 in New York, have resulted in a handful of winners. The actor Oriol Pla, for his role in I, addict (Disney+) and the documentary #It’sOver, which portrays the experiences of the players of the women’s soccer team after winning the 2023 World Cup and before the scene of Luis Rubiales’ unwanted kiss to the captain, Jenni Hermoso, they have received two awards. However, finally wild valley and Return to Las Sabinaswhich competed in the same category, best soap opera, have lost against the Turkish Deha. None of the nominees from Mexico (which started with four nominations), Argentina (with two), Colombia or Chile (with one each) have won an award.
Of the 16 categories, Spain was present in three, with four awards. The fifth of the night in which it could win a prize was best sports documentary for #SeAcabó: Diary of the championsfrom the production company You First Originals and broadcast by Netflix, which tells the story of the Spanish women’s soccer team after winning the World Cup and the scenario that the champions faced before the infamous non-consensual kiss of Luis Rubiales to his captain, Jenni Hermoso. #It’sOver competed against Argentina ’78from Disney+; Chasing the Sun 2South African from T+W; and SvenBritish, from Prime Video, and won the award.
As its producers, Javier Martínez and Luis Miguel Calvo, told this newspaper, about 4,000 sports documentaries are released every year, a saturated audiovisual panorama, so they wanted to contribute something more and quickly saw that there was a story to tell. They had to fight against twenty production companies to obtain the rights of the soccer players, who were highly persecuted a couple of years ago. “We received pressure to limit our creative freedom, censorship in the context of interviews, calls to reconsider the project…”, they reported in EL PAÍS a year ago. “But our purpose has been firm from the beginning: to give voice to the players’ story, creating a quality audiovisual work that can be distributed globally and thus compensate for incomplete and disjointed communication by the champions about the events of last year.” This international award certifies that this has been the case. Martínez and the director and also executive producer of the documentary, Joanna Pardos, collected the award, surprised and excited, in a hotel in New York.
In male acting, the actor and playwright Oriol Pla was competing for his role in I, addictfrom Disney+, the autobiographical series created by writer Javi Giner, whom he plays. In his category he competed against Diljit Dosanjh for his role in the biopic Indian Amar Singh Chamkilafrom Netflix; against David Mitchell for the British Ludwig; and against Diego Vasquez for the adaptation of One hundred years of lonelinessfrom Netflix. Finally, the Catalan won. Upon meeting him, he began to jump and hug Giner, sitting next to him at the table.
I, addictbegan filming in 2023 and tells the recurring journey of entry and exit of the addictions of Giner, a boy from Barakaldo who little by little made his dream of entering the world of cinema come true until he became an actor’s agent, and finally fell into the world of nightlife and drugs. In 2021 he decided to turn his story into a book, also titled, Yo, Addict, which has had a dozen editions. When his arrival on the screen began to be prepared, he himself asked to be both the scriptwriter and the director. “Because I’ve always wanted to be one, but also, damn, I didn’t dare leave my life in the hands of another person,” he said in The Weekly Country in autumn 2024.
In that same interview, Giner acknowledged that when he saw Pla’s performance and his ability to get into his own skin, he couldn’t help but start crying. “I remember sitting on the bed, as is the character too. Oriol and the first director came in. ‘Oriol, I’m having a regression. I’m perfectly seeing the moment in which all this happened’. Oriol, sitting on the floor, grabbed me by the hand and said: ‘Javi, I’m here. We’re going to do it between the two of us’. And that’s how it was. I directed the last sequence of the first episode crying. I directed Oriol by the hand, crying. That night, at When I got home from filming, I felt like there was something, a knot inside me, that came loose,” he recalled. Since then, Pla’s performance has received applause and awards in Spain, such as the Union of Actors or the Feroz. Now, recognition also comes outside his country.
The penultimate category of the night was one of the most anticipated, soap opera, where two Spanish women monopolized 50% of it. Return to Las Sabinasfrom Diagonal TV and Disney+, faced Wild Valleyfrom Studio Canal and broadcast on Spanish Television, and also on the Brazilian one Voce Mania (Crazy about you) and the turkish Deha (The Good & The Bad). This, finally, won the award, to the disappointment of the Spanish delegation, which had been winning until then.
Mexico was left without the award for best actress, which could have gone to Carolina Miranda for the second season of Killer womenfrom ViX; However, it went to Anna Maxwell Martin for the British Until I Kill You. Against another British, Ludwiglost the best comedy, where it competed for And They Came at Night. It also failed in the unscripted entertainment program category for the sixth season of Who is the Mask?because it went to stop Shaolin Heroesfrom Denmark.
For its part, Argentina did not achieve it with its short format series for the fourth season of Everything is transformedin the short series category, because the Canadian won it The médiatrice (The Mediator), nor for his sports documentary about the celebration of the World Cup during the dictatorship. Chile also lost the miniseries or television movie award for its Win or Diefrom Amazon MGM, compared to the British Lost Boys & Fairies. And, when Pla won it, the Colombian actor Diego Vasquez did not take it for One hundred years of loneliness,
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