The best in global television was honored in New York on Monday night at the 2024 International Emmy Awards, with winners picked across nominees from 21 countries.
The big winners on the night were Drops of God winning best drama series, Timothy Spall winning best actor, Aokbab-Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying winning best actress, División Palermo winning best comedy and Liebes Kind winning best miniseries.
In the best drama category, Apple TV+’s French-American-Japanese manga adaptation Drops of God won out against 1980s-set Australian series The Newsreader; the Amazon Prime Video Argentina espionage thriller Yosi, the Regretful Spy; and the Disney+/Hotstar series The Night Manager, an Indian adaptation of the 2016 BBC show of the same name.
British acting legend Timothy Spall went into the ceremony as favorite in the best actor category, nominated for his turn in the BBC true-crime tale The Sixth Commandment, and duly walked away with the award. He adds the International Emmy to the BAFTA TV award he won for playing Peter Farquhar in the series. Spall was up against Brazilian star Julio Andrade for Living on a Razor’s Edge, Laurent Lafitte for the French Netflix show Class Act and Haluk Bilginer for Turkish crime drama Sahsiyet.
Aokbab-Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying won best actress for her turn in the Thai drama Hunger, another Netflix original. Best actress contenders included Jessica Hynes for the BBC dramedy There She Goes, Sara Giraudeau for the French Disney+ series Tout va bien and Adriana Barraza for Netflix’s Mexican drama El Último Vagón.
In the comedy category, Argentina’s División Palermo took the prize. Distributed by Netflix, the comedy series focuses on a group of people from social minorities, who are hired to form a neighbourhood protection guard. División Palermo bested Australia’s Deadloch, South Korea’s Daily Dose of Sunshine and France’s HPI.
Indian stand-up comic and actor Vir Das, a 2023 International Emmy winner for his Netflix special Landing, hosted this year’s awards. The Bollywood star is currently on his international Mind Fool tour.
Lupin star Omar Sy, Picket Fences and Chicago Hope producer Michael Pressman and Jane Seymour were among the presenters at the ceremony. Sy presented the International Emmy Directorate Award to Sidonie Dumas, CEO of French TV giant Gaumont, while veteran Hollywood showrunner David E. Kelley received his International Emmy Founders Award from Pressman, a co-executive producer of Kelley’s shows.
Full list of 2024 International Emmy Winners
Drama Series
WINNER: Les Gouttes de Dieu [Drops of God] (France)
The Newsreader – Season 2 (Australia)
The Night Manager (India)
Iosi, El Espia Arrepentido – Season 2 [Yosi, the Regretful Spy] (Argentina)
Comedy
WINNER: División Palermo (Argentina)
Daily Dose of Sunshine (South Korea)
Deadloch (Australia)
HPI – Season 3 [HIP] (France)
TV Movie / Mini-Series
WINNER: Liebes Kind [Dear Child] (Germany)
Anderson Spider Silva (Brazil)
Deaf Voice: A Sign-Language Interpreter in Court (Japan)
The Sixth Commandment (United Kingdom)
Best Performance by an Actor
WINNER: Timothy Spall in The Sixth Commandment (United Kingdom)
Julio Andrade in Betinho: No Fio da Navalha [Living on a Razor’s Edge] (Brazil)
Haluk Bilginer in Sahsiyet – Season 2 (Türkiye)
Laurent Lafitte in Tapie (France)
Best Performance by an Actress
WINNER: Aokbab-Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying in Hunger (Thailand)
Adriana Barraza in El Último Vagón (Mexico)
Sara Giraudeau in Tout va bien [Everything is Fine] (France)
Jessica Hynes in There She Goes (United Kingdom)
Documentary
WINNER: Otto Baxter: Not a F**ing Horror Story (United Kingdom)
L’affaire Bettencourt : Scandale chez la femme la plus riche du monde [The Billionaire, the Butler and the Boyfriend] (France)
The Exiles (Singapore)
Transo (Brazil)
Sports Documentary
WINNER: Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story (United Kingdom)
Tan Cercas de la Nubes (Mexico)
Tour de France (France)
WHO I AM Paralympic (Japan)
Non-Scripted Entertainment
WINNER: Restaurant Misverstand [The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes] (Belgium)
The Summit (Australia)
Die Brug [The Bridge South Africa] (South Africa)
Me Caigo De Risa [Anything Goes] (Mexico)
Arts Programming
WINNER: Pianoforte (Poland)
Robbie Williams (United Kingdom)
Virgilio (Argentina)
Who I Am Life (Japan)
Short-Form Series
WINNER: Punt de no Retorn [Point of no Return] (Spain)
Kweens of the Queer Underground (Australia)
La Vida de Nosotras [Our Lives] (Chile)
Kenshiro ni Yoroshiku [Say Hello to Kenshiro] (Japan)
Telenovela
WINNER: La Promesa [The Vow] (Spain)
Rigo (Colombia)
Safir (Türkiye)
Salón de té La Moderna (Spain)
Kids: Animation
WINNER: Tabby McTat (United Kingdom)
Acorda, Carlo! [Wake up, Carlo!] (Brazil)
Mystery Lane (France)
Sharkdog – Season 3 (Singapore)
Kids: Factual
WINNER: La Vida Secreta de tu Mente [The secret life of your mind] (Mexico)
My Life: Eva’s Having a Ball (United Kingdom)
The Takalani Sesame Big Feelings Special (South Africa)
De Mensenbieb [Living Library] (Netherlands)
Kids: Live-Action
WINNER: En af Drengene [One of the Boys] (Denmark)
Escola De Quebrada [School of Funk] (Brazil)
Gong! My spectRacular Life (Germany)
Dodger (United Kingdom)