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Spain wins best drama award for the first time
This morning we woke up to great news: the international Emmy nomination for Money theft became the best drama award; thus becoming the first Spanish series to win the award in this category in the most important awards offered by the International Television Academy.
The series about the best robbery in history produced by Atresmedia and Vancouver Media was broadcast for the first time on Antena 3 in May 2017 and later became a great success when it joined Netflix, where it soon gained a large number of followers and according to the newspaper . the famous platform, to become the most watched Spanish-language series. Of course, good work is well rewarded.
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The gala took place in New York where screenwriter Álex Pina and Sonia Martínez, director of fiction at Atresmedia, were in charge of attending the event and ultimately collecting the prize, although they didn't always think they would win «We didn't have them all with us, very important series are being made and we weren’t sure what was going to happen”, they said. “It’s been a wonderful moment, of joy and of reaping the fruits of a long time’s work.” And, in fact, because other series opted for the award: urban mythsFrom UK; One Against All, from Brazil; It is inner edge, from India. Of course, to win an Emmy you need an infallible plan, and there's no shortage of that The theft of money.
In turn, The Paper House was not the only Emmy nomination that night in our country, the end of comedy by Ignatius Ferry, was one of the candidates for best comedy with its second season, but the Israeli series Nevsu He got ahead. It's a shame, but getting a nomination for an award like this isn't achieved by everyone. It was in 1973, in the first edition of the international Emmys, that Spain won the award for best television fiction with The cabin by Antonio Mercer, and until 2015 in the international Emys Kids for best series with Red bracelets by Albert Espinosa.
Other protagonists of the night were, a necessary story, from Chile, which received the award for best short series; the Portuguese series green gold, which won in the best soap opera category; The British Goodbye Aleppo won the award for best documentary; a British production, Man in an orange shirt it was the best film made for television or miniseries; Etgar Keret: based on a true story stood out as the best artistic program, among other awards.
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This award adds to the list of good results achieved by the series about the biggest robbery in history at the hands of the Professor and eight robbers with city names, red jumpsuits and Dalí masks. Series have started to arrive in Spain that give us a lot to talk about, we hope to be able to give you more good news. And so far, without further ado:
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