TVE wins the Television Academy Awards

The public channel wins Best News, News Presentation, Program Direction, Reporter, Fiction, Documentary and Current Affairs Program, Best Actress and Actor, Director, Photography and Lighting, Art Direction, Script, Music and Self-Promotion. The Academy awarded the Quality Award to Antena 3 and the award that recognizes a lifetime dedicated to television to José María Iñigo.

The Academy of Television Sciences and Arts presented its Annual Awards this Thursday in a ceremony held in an interesting setting, the National Music Auditorium in Madrid, hosted by Silvia Jato and Francine Gálvez.

More than 700 professionals from different television networks attended the ceremony broadcast by TVE's La2 with the direction of the member of the Board of Directors of the Television Academy Valentín Carrera.

TVE became, once again, the most awarded network with 15 statuettes, out of 18 categories for which it was competing in this edition of the Awards.

TVE's news programs have been recognized by the Academy on the big night of television. weekly report, the veteran reporting program directed by Alicia G. Montano, and presented by Ana Roldán with more than three decades on the air, has achieved three major awards. The award for Best Information Space, the award for Best Direction, and also for Best Production. Its director defended and advocated for the maintenance of TVE's current model of independence. For his part, the director of News, Fran Llorente, has assured that the network "is working to make quality, independent television, which we Spaniards deserve."

Ana Blanco, who has completed 20 years in the Newscast, has won the award for Best News Presentation in this edition. The journalist said that she was calm because “the award stayed at home”, as Pepa Bueno and Ana Pastor were also nominated. “I am grateful for these 20 years on television in which I have learned a lot and have been part of that great team that is television,” he stated.

Almudena Ariza, TVE's Asia-Pacific correspondent, has covered the earthquake and the nuclear crisis in Japan and today won the award for Best Reporter of the year. During the gala he connected live from Japan, highlighting that this award “is a compliment because it comes from television colleagues.” It is also an award for her – she has said – to be discovering that country and doing journalism on Spanish Television.

Tell me, again the most awarded series

Tell me how it happened, the series starring the Alcántara family, with the most nominations in this edition of the Academy Awards, has finally been the one that has won the most awards. The emblematic La 1 series wins the categories of Best Fiction Program, Best Actress for Ana Duato, and an award for the team of scriptwriters, the fifth in this category in the edition of this contest.

Imanol Arias, on behalf of the team, thanked the “millions of Spaniards who have watched the series all over the world in all these years.”

The Academy has valued the work of Red Eagle with two categories that reward the work behind the cameras: statuette for the Photography and Lighting team and for the Art Direction and Scenography team. Three seasons of audience success and it will return soon with more adventures.

Six seasons of after-dinner leader and a new recognition. 'Loving in Troubled Times', the La 1 series set in the 1950s, takes the statuette for Best Music for Television.

Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, protagonist of Great reserve, is the Best Actor. The La 1 series has just finished its second season with great success. Another protagonist of the series, Paula Echevarría, has collected the award on her behalf.

News and documentaries

Spaniards in the World, which recently completed 100 broadcasts on La 1, traveling to the most remote destinations, won the award for Best Current Affairs Program in this edition.

The documentary Buy, take, buy It reveals to us what planned obsolescence consists of, the driving force of the modern economy in which certain objects are manufactured not to last. Directed by Cosima Dannoritzer and co-produced by Televisión Española, it has won the award in its category.

The Academy has awarded the 2010 International Recognition to the social denunciation work on child exploitation in Africa by journalist Paul Kenyon for the report Chocolate: the bitter truth, broadcast on the BBC's Panorama program last year.

The reporter went undercover for this job as a cocoa merchant in West Africa and discovers children as young as seven working long hours on the cocoa farms used to make chocolate.

Paul Kenyon is a renowned journalist who has worked all over the world for BBC Panorama. In his two decades of extensive career he has been a correspondent for BBC news, a reporter for the politics section and has carried out his own investigative series on BBC1: Kenyon Confronts.

In 2010, Kenyon was named Specialist Reporter of the Year by the Royal Television Society for four documentaries filmed in sub-Saharan Africa with border police.

Other winners

In the category of best self-promotion and/or corporate image, the work Welcome to the new TVE without advertising obtained the recognition of the Academics.

Regarding the category that rewards entertainment presenters, José Miguel Wyoming, despite his curious “campaign”, could not unseat Andreu Buenafuente, who could not come to collect this award as he was in Barcelona for the broadcast of the last installment of the popular night-late that ends after several years on the air, first on Antena 3 and later on LaSexta.

In makeup, hairdressing and characterization, the Academy wanted to reward the masterful work of characterization that in poland (TV3) carried out by Helena Fenoy, Elisabeth Sánchez, Raquel Mendoza, Alice del Bello, Yolnda Serrabño and Claudia Abbad.

In production, Miguel Ángel Cobo, for his work in charge of the Formula 1 broadcasts on LaSexta, won the Best Producer award.

The president of the Academy, Manuel Campo Vidal, began his speech by being convinced of the high quality of television made in Spain, although he urged everyone to remain on guard and advocated for responsible, informative, civic and innovative television, in line with the Manifesto for Ethics and Professional Responsibility that the institution has just made public. Campo-Vidal urged the Government and the parliamentary forces to establish before the end of the legislature the State Council of Audiovisual Media as an authentic audiovisual authority.

Antena 3, Quality Award

For the first time, the Television Academy has established a Quality Award with which it aims to highlight “the Planeta network's commitment to offering a varied family entertainment programming and its commitment to Spanish fiction and innovation,” as announced by the Academy in a statement.
The general director of the Television Division of the Antena 3 group, Javier Bardají, was in charge of collecting the award.
The Academy also awarded six regional categories to the representatives of the programs and presenters recognized by the Television Academy Council at its last meeting. 75 Minutos (Canal Sur), La Riera (TV3), Small but not invisible (Aragón Television), TPA Noticias 1st Edition (Television of the Principality of Asturias), Goyo González and Ana Isabel Albares have been the winners on this occasion.

José María Íñigo, Whole Life Award 2010

The veteran journalist, actor, writer and presenter José María Íñigo received one of the longest applause of the night when collecting the 2010 Lifetime Award that the Academy Council decided to grant him in recognition of a professional career linked to the television medium.

Born in Bilbao, his first steps in the world of journalism were at the age of fifteen at Radio Bilbao (SER), later at Radio Popular (COPE) and the newspaper La Gaceta del Norte. At 18 he worked at the EFE Agency in the Special Reports Service section.

Later he traveled to London, collaborating from the BBC with Cadena SER on musical programs. In Madrid, on Cadena SER he presents, among other programs, El Musiquero, El Gran Musical and launches Los 40 principals. He actively collaborates in publications such as Actualidad Española, Mundo Joven and several Madrid newspapers.

His television career began on TVE in 1968 with the program Último Grito, an avant-garde musical directed by Pedro Olea and Iván Zulueta. With the latter as director, he stars in the film One, Two, Three to the English Hideout. Later, he worked on other films such as A45 revolutions per minute or Naked Therapy. Recently (1998) he has worked on Alex de la Iglesia's film Muertos de Risa with Santiago Segura and El Gran Wyoming.

On TVE, he has presented and directed, among others, the programs Ritmo 70, Hoy 14.15, Estudio Abierto, Directísimo, Fantásico, La gente Quiero Saber, Fiesta... and have won more than a hundred awards with them, among many others, the National Television Award and the Ondas Award.

For several years he presented the Estudio 2 program live on Telemundo-Canal 2, in Puerto Rico, traveling to the Caribbean island every week, going and returning to San Juan on the same day. On Euskal Telebista-ETB2 he presented the program Íñigo en Directo for four years.

On private television he has presented programs such as Telecinco's Mornings and ¿On what part are you? (Telecinco) or El kangaro and Qué memoria la mine on Antena 3 TV.

As a writer he has written and published more than forty books, among them Labomba Esther Vilar, Pop music, folk music, Encyclopedia of music 1900-1970, Estudio Abierto, Mundo Fantásico… In addition to numerous travel guides, in collaboration with Antonio Aranillas such as Guide to the Paradores de Turismo de España, Guide to Spas, Guide to the Ruta de la Plata, Guide to World Heritage cities or Dare to be happy. In February 2004 he published the solo book Ahora hablo yo (Edit.Belacqua) and in September, When we were young (Edit. La Esfera de los Libros). In June 2008 he brought to light Who Said Fear of Flying? (Editorial Esfera de los Libros) and already in 2010 100 Spaniards and the Prince (Ediciones B).

Since September 2000, he has collaborated on the program No es un día siempre by Pepa Fernández on Radio Nacional de España. From November 2002 to May 2003 on Spanish Television/TVE 1 he presented the “Directísimo” section of the program El Show de Flo by Florentino Fernández. On June 23, 2003, he presented with Jesús Vázquez on Telecinco, the program Vivo canto. From May 2004 until August of that same year, he presented the program Carta de Adjustment on TVE 1.

In 2006 he presented the program Supervivientes: Lost in the Caribbean from the Dominican Republic for Telecinco with extraordinary audience ratings.

Later he has worked for LaSexta in El Club de Flo as a stand-up comedian and presenting the program Planeta Finito: Stockholm. In 2009 he participated as a jury in the Generation of Stars program broadcast by FORTA stations throughout Spain, and later in A kiss and a flower on Castilla-La Mancha TV.

He has been in charge of broadcasting the last Eurovision Song Contest for La 1de TVE.

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RECALLS 13th ANNUAL TELEVISION ACADEMY AWARDS

• INFORMATION PROGRAM

Weekly Report (La 1 de TVE)

• CURRENT PROGRAM

Spaniards in the world (La 1 de TVE)

• ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM

Buenafuente (laSexta)

• FICTION PROGRAM

Tell me how it happened (La 1 de TVE)

• DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM

Buy, throw away, buy (TV3, La 2 de TVE and ARTE-France/Germany)

• PRESENTER INFORMATIONAL PROGRAMS

Ana Blanco (Telediario 1 – La 1 de TVE)

• ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM PRESENTER

Andreu Buenafuente (Buenafuente – laSexta)

• REPORTER

Almudena Ariza (News – La 1 de TVE)

• SERIES ACTOR

Emilio Gutiérrez Caba (Gran Reserva – La 1 de TVE)

• SERIES ACTRESS

Ana Duato (Tell me how it happened – La 1 de TVE)

• SCREENWRITER

Eduardo Ladrón de Guevara, Alberto Macías, Jacobo Delgado, Marisol Farré, Carlos Molinero, Curro Royo and Sonia Sánchez (Tell me how it happened – La 1 de TVE)

• DIRECTOR

Alicia G. Montano (Weekly Report – La 1 de TVE)

• DIRECTOR

Teresa Mora, Rosa Alcántara, Carlos Alonso Pacheco, Carlos López, Paola Guerra, Míkel Marín Iglesias, Cristina Moreno Chana, Teresa Pérez Casado and Mariano Rodrigo Calvo (Weekly Report – La 1 de TVE)

• PRODUCER

Miguel Ángel Cobos (Formula 1 – LaSexta)

• DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND ILLUMINATOR

David Arribas, Gonzalo Flórez, Adolfo Hernández and José Luis Carranco (Águila Roja – La 1 de TVE)

• ART AND SCENOGRAPHY DIRECTOR

Fernando González, Laura Herrera and Héctor G. Bertrand (Águila Roja – La 1 de TVE)

• MAKEUP, HAIRSTYLE AND CHARACTERIZATION

Helena Fenoy, Elisabeth Sánchez, Raquel Mendoza, Alice del Bello, Yolanda Serrablo and Claudia Abbad (Poland – TV3)

• MUSIC FOR TELEVISION

Noel Molina and Pedro Martínez (Love in troubled times – La 1 de TVE)

• SELF-PROMO AND/OR CORPORATE IMAGE

Welcome to the new TVE without advertising (La 1 and La 2 of TVE)