The Television Academy announces the professionals and programs finalists for the 2017 Iris Awards

Academics will be able to vote for the winners until September 22 and their decision will be announced during the awards ceremony at the end of October.

The Awards Commission of the Academy of Television Sciences and Arts has today announced the finalist professionals and programs for the 2017 Iris Awards that will be voted on, secretly and before a notary, in the coming days among academics.

Academics will be able to vote for the winners until next September 22 and their decision will be announced during the awards ceremony, expectedly at the end of October.

A year ago, the Board of Directors of the Academy fulfilled its electoral commitment to reform the regulations of the Iris Awards, after almost two decades of its birth, to adapt them to the reality of television in Spain.

In addition to the free submission of candidatures that already came into effect in the last edition, the Academy increased the plurality of the awards. Along with the categories that the Academics vote before a notary, the reform established that a jury of recognized professionals and Talent Awards will be in charge of choosing the Iris Jury Awards among the different professions and professional areas of television. This year, a committee of television critics and commentators will also award the most valued professionals and programs of the season with the Iris Critics' Award.

The Academy Council, made up of representatives of the Board of Directors, television networks and rights management entities, will be in charge of choosing the Iris Autonomous Awards in the coming weeks. It will also be the Council of the Institution that grants, as every year, the 2017 Lifetime Award, in recognition of a professional career linked to the television medium.

Iris Awards 2017 Finalists

BEST ACTOR
Francesc Garrido by I know who you are (Telecinco)
Hugo Silva for The Ministry of Time (TVE 1)
Josep María Pou for It's him (TV3)
Nancho Novo for Loving is Forever (Antena 3 TV)
Pedro Casablanc by plastic sea (Antena 3 TV)

BEST ACTRESS
Blanca Portillo by I know who you are (Telecinco)
Blanca Suárez by What their eyes were hiding (Telecinco)
Cayetana Guillén Cuervo by The Ministry of Time (TVE 1)
Leonor Watling can Pulsations (Antena 3 TV)
Maria Leon for Down There (Antena 3 TV)
Marta Etura por The sonata of silence (TVE 1)

BEST ADDRESS
by David Beriain Clandestine: the Sinaloa cartel (DMax)
Team for Survivors (Telecinco)
Juan Serrano by In the spotlight (Four)
Laura Caballero, Alberto Caballero and Miguel Albaladejo for The one that is coming (Telecinco)
Pablo Motos and Jorge Salvador for The Anthill 3.0 (Antena 3 TV)
Rodrigo Blázquez by The Sixth Column (LaSexta)

BEST FICTION
down there (Antena 3 TV)
The Ministry of Time (TVE 1)
Cain's father (Telecinco)
It's him (TV3)
I know who you are (Telecinco)
Velvet (Antena 3 TV)

BEST SCRIPT
Alberto Caballero, Daniel Deorador, Araceli Álvarez de Sotomayor and Laura Caballero for The one that is coming (Telecinco)
Álex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato, David Barrocal, Pablo Roa, Esther Morales, Fernando Sancristóbal and Javier Gómez Santander for The Money Heist (Antena 3 TV)
script team CrazyWorld (#0)
Lluís Arcarazo, Jordi Galcerán, Oriol Paulo and Jordi Vallejo for It's him (TV3)
by Marta Saìnchez and Olatz Arroyo Down There (Antena 3 TV)

BEST INFORMATIVE
Antena 3 Weekend News (Antena 3 TV)
The Sixth Column (LaSexta)
TD1 (TVE 1)

BEST NEWS PRESENTER
Antonio García Ferreras for Red hot (LaSexta)
by Helena Resano LaSexta News 1 (LaSexta)
Matías Prats by Weekend News (Antena 3 TV)
Mónica López for El Tiempo (TVE's La 1)
Pilar García Muñiz on TD1 (TVE's La 1)

BEST PROGRAM PRESENTER
Christian Galvez by Pasapalabra (Telecinco)
Cristina Pardo by Bad Companies (laSexta)
Elena S. Sánchez by History of our cinema (TVE's 2)
Jacob Peter por Here the land (TVE 1)
Jesus Calleja by Planet Calleja (Four)
Lara Alvarez by Survivors (Telecinco)
Manel Fuentes by Your face sounds familiar to me (Antena 3 TV)

BEST PRODUCTION
Encarna Pardo and Ana Muntaner for Top Chef (Antena 3 TV)
Team Divided Spain: the Civil War in color (DMax)
Team Operation: And the Andarán (TVE 1)
Team Survivors (Telecinco)
Jesuìs Calleja by Planet Calleja (Four)

BEST PROGRAM
First Dates (Four)
MasterChef Celebrity (TVE 1)
OT: The reunion (TVE 1)
Survivors (Telecinco)
Your face sounds familiar to me (Antena 3 TV)

BEST PROGRAM PRODUCED IN SPAIN FOR A THEMATIC CHANNEL
Divided Spain: The Civil War in color (DMax)
Fit Life (FOX Life)
Homozapping (NEOX)
Death in León (Movistar Premieres, Movistar Xtra and Movistar series Xtra)
Valdano Universe (beIN SPORTS)

BEST PERFORMANCE
David Flecha and David Pinillos for Velvet: the finale live (Antena 3 TV)
Team Survivors (Telecinco)
Javier Ruiz for The Bridge (#0)
Juan Carlos Carrasco by MasterChef (TVE 1)
María Zarazúa by zapping (LaSexta)