International Emmy Awards: Timothy Spall Wins Best Actor, U.K. Leads Wins By Country

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Timothy Spall won Best Performance by an Actor on Monday to pace the field at the 52nd International Emmy Awards, which took place in New York City. The win for The Sixth Commandment follows his BAFTA TV Award for the performance earlier this year.

Meanwhile, Bad Genius star Aokbab, the Thai model-actress who received 2017’s Screen International Rising Star Asia Award from the New York Asian Film Festival, won Best Performance by an Actress for her role in Netflix‘s Hunger.

The U.K. led the wins by country, with four accolades across best actor, documentary, sports doc and kids animation. Spain followed with two wins: Short-Form Series and Telenovela. The annual ceremony organized by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences cerebrates the year’s best in TV programming outside the U.S. This year, nominees hailed from 21 countries.

Other notable wins included French Japanese American Les Gouttes de Dieu for Drama Series, as well as Argentina’s División Palermo for Comedy.

Tonight’s event, hosted by comedian Vir Das at the New York Hilton Midtown, also honored Emmy-winning writer-producer David E. Kelly with the 2024 International Emmy Founders Award and Gaumont CEO Sidonie Dumas with the 2024 International Emmy Directorate Award.

“In these turbulent times, television is definitely an art form that brings people from around the world together — no matter their culture or language,” International Academy President & CEO Bruce L. Paisner said. “The International Academy is proud to recognize these outstanding programs and performances.”

Here’s tonight’s winners list in all 14 categories:

Best Performance by an Actor

Timothy Spall in The Sixth Commandment — Wild Mercury Productions / True Vision

United Kingdom

Best Performance by an Actress

Aokbab-Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying in Hunger — Song Sound Production / Netflix

Thailand

Drama Series

Les Gouttes de Dieu (Drops of God) — Legendary Entertainment / Les Productions Dynamic / 22H22 / Adline Entertainment / France Télévisions / Hulu Japan

France

Comedy

División Palermo — K&S Films / Netflix

Argentina

Documentary

Otto Baxter: Not a F***ing Horror Story — Story Films / Archface Films / Sky Documentaries

United Kingdom

Arts Programming

Pianoforte — Telemark / HBO / The Fryderyk Chopin Institute / Ventana / ZDF/ Arte / Mazovia Warsaw Film Fund / MX35 / Polish Film Institute

Poland

Non-Scripted Entertainment

Restaurant Misverstand (The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes) — Roses Are Blue / CPL Productions / Motion Content Group / Seven.One Studios International

Belgium

Short-Form Series

Punt de no retorn (Point of no Return) — TV3 Catalonia

Spain

Sports Documentary

Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story — North One Television / Disney+

United Kingdom

Telenovela

La Promesa (The Vow) — Bambu Producciones, a STUDIOCANAL Company

Spain

TV Movie / Miniseries

Liebes Kind (Dear Child) — Constantin Film AG / Netflix

Germany

Kids: Animation

Tabby McTat — Magic Light Pictures

United Kingdom

Kids: Factual

La Vida Secreta de tu Mente (The secret life of your mind) — Warner Bros. Discovery / Pictoline / Mighty Animation

Mexico