The Television Academy delivers widely distributed Iris Awards

In widely distributed awards, the Atresmedia TV group has been the most awarded, collecting a total of six awards.

Last night, the Kinépolis cinemas in La Ciudad de la Imagen in Madrid hosted the nineteenth edition of the Iris Awards, awarded annually by the Academy of Television Sciences and Arts. Throughout a surreal ceremony from both a technical and script point of view, the institution presented these awards that in most categories are voted on by academics but that also include in others the verdict of a jury formed on this occasion by Montse Abbad, Carmen Domínguez, Blanca Vives, Beatriz Maesso, Valentín Carrera, Rafael Galán and Helena Resano.

It should be noted that, curiously, the television awards have not been broadcast for the first time in their history by any network but by the Academy's Twitter account.

In widely distributed awards, the Atresmedia TV group has been the most awarded, collecting a total of six awards. The series The Money Heist (script) and the live ending of Velvet (realization) have been recognized by academics. The Anthill (production) has taken the award for best direction and Your face sounds familiar to me the one with the best program. Matías Prats has received the award for best news presenter. The jury also awarded an Iris to the documentary broadcast by LaSexta, Astral directed by Jordi Évole.

Blanca Portillo has received the best actress award for her role in the Telecinco series I know who you are while Hugo Silva has been recognized for his performance in the Ministry of Time, from TVE. The popular Onza series has also won the award for best fiction.

Among the prizes awarded by the jury of experts, highlighting the award from Javier Salmones for his brilliant photography work in the series Queens (TVE).

Xardá, Lifetime Award

The 2017 Iris Todo una Vida Award, the Institution's highest award, wanted to recognize this year the career of the journalist and communicator Xavier Sardá.

Graduated in Information Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​Sardá began his journalistic career as a music chronicler in newspapers such as Catalunya Express, Avui, El Noticiero Universal or Mundo Diario. In his beginnings at RNE he created his popular character of Mr. Casamajor.

On television he has presented programs such as child's play (TVE, 1990), Hey your videos 2 (FORTA, 1992-1993), Betes in films (TV3), All for the audience (TV3), We are all human (Antenna 3, 1996), Moors and Christians (Telecinco, 1997), Martian Chronicles (Telecinco, 1997-2005) or Dutifrí (Telecinco, 2007). Currently, he collaborates as a member of various debate spaces.

Winners of the 19th Iris Awards

BEST PROGRAM

• ‘First Dates’ (Cuatro)
• 'MasterChef Celebrity' (TVE's La 1)
• ‘OT. The reunion' (La 1 de TVE)
• 'Survivors' (Telecinco)
• ‘Your face sounds familiar to me’ (Antena 3 TV) (WINNER)

BEST PROGRAM PRODUCED IN SPAIN FOR A THEMATIC CHANNEL

• ‘Spain divided: The Civil War in color’ (DMax) (WINNER)
• ‘FIT Life’ (FOX Life)
• 'Homo Zapping' (NEOX)
• ‘Death in León’ (Movistar Premieres, Movistar Xtra and Movistar series Xtra)
• ‘Universo Valdano’ (beIN SPORTS)

BEST PERFORMANCE

• David Flecha and David Pinillos for ‘Velvet: the final live’ (Antena 3 TV) (WINNER)
• 'Survivors' Team (Telecinco)
• Javier Ruiz for 'The Bridge' (#0)
• Juan Carlos Carrasco for 'MasterChef' (TVE's La 1)
• María Zarazúa for ‘Zapeando’ (laSexta)

BEST ADDRESS

• David Beriain for 'Clandestino: the Sinaloa Cartel' (DMax)
• Team for 'Survivors' (Telecinco)
• Juan Serrano for ‘In the crosshairs’ (Four)
• Laura Caballero, Alberto Caballero and Miguel Albaladejo for 'The one that is coming' (Telecinco)
• Pablo Motos and Jorge Salvador for 'El Hormiguero 3.0' (Antena 3 TV) (WINNER)
• Rodrigo Blázquez for 'laSexta Column' (laSexta)

BEST FICTION

• 'Down there' (Antena 3 TV)
• ‘The Ministry of Time’ (La 1 de TVE) (WINNER)
• 'The Father of Cain' (Telecinco)
• ‘Nit i dia’ (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)
• Alex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato, David Barrocal, Pablo Roa, Esther Morales, Fernando Sancristóbal and Javier Gómez Santander for 'La Casa de Papel' (Antena 3 TV) (WINNER)
• ‘LocoMundo’ script team (#0)
• Lluís Arcarazo, Jordi Galcerán, Oriol Paulo and Jordi Vallejo for 'Nit i dia' (TV3)
• Marta Sánchez and Olatz Arroyo for ‘Allí Abajo’ (Antena 3 TV)

BEST INFORMATIVE

• ‘Antena 3 weekend news’ (Antena 3 TV)
• 'laSexta Column' (laSexta)
• 'TD1' (TVE's La 1) (WINNER)

BEST NEWS PRESENTER

• Antonio García Ferreras for ‘Al Rojo Vivo’ (laSexta)
• Helena Resano for 'laSexta news 14h' (laSexta)
• Matías Prats for ‘Noticias Fin de Semana’ (Antena 3 TV) (WINNER)
• Mónica López for 'El Tiempo' (TVE's La 1)
• Pilar García Muñiz for 'TD1' (TVE's La 1)

BEST PROGRAM PRESENTER

• Christian Gálvez for ‘Pasapalabra’ (Telecinco) (WINNER)
• Cristina Pardo for ‘Bad companies’ (laSexta)
• Elena Sánchez for 'History of our cinema' (TVE's La 2)
• Jacob Petrus for 'Here the Earth' (TVE's La 1)
• Jesús Calleja for ‘Planeta Calleja’ (Four)
• Lara Álvarez for ‘Survivors’ (Telecinco)
• Manel Fuentes for ‘Your face sounds familiar to me’ (Antena 3 TV)

BEST PRODUCTION

• Encarna Pardo and Ana Muntaner for 'Top Chef' (Antena 3 TV)
• ‘Spain divided: the Civil War in color’ team (DMax)
• ‘Operation: And the Andarán’ team (La 1 de TVE)
• 'Survivors' Team (Telecinco)
• Jesús Calleja for ‘Planeta Calleja’ (Four) (WINNER)

BEST ACTOR

• Francesc Garrido for ‘I know who you are’ (Telecinco)
• Hugo Silva for 'The Ministry of Time' (La 1 de TVE) (WINNER)
• Josep Maria Pou for 'Night and Day' (TV3)
• Nancho Novo for 'Amar es para siempre' (Antena 3 TV)
• Pedro Casablanc for ‘Sea of ​​plastic’ (Antena 3 TV)

BEST ACTRESS

• Blanca Portillo for ‘I know who you are’ (Telecinco) (WINNER)
• Blanca Suárez for 'What their eyes were hiding' (Telecinco)
• Cayetana Guillén Cuervo for 'The Ministry of Time' (TVE's La 1)
• Leonor Watling for ‘Pulsaciones’ (Antena 3 TV)
• María León for ‘There below’ (Antena 3 TV)
• Marta Etura for 'The Sonata of Silence' (TVE's La 1)

IRIS JURY AWARDS

• Best regional presenter
  Ramón García, for In company (CMM)
• Best regional program
  Land Rober Tunai Show (Tv Galicia)
• Born in Syria by Hernán Zin (Movistar +, Canal Sur)
• Spain in a day (La 2 de TVE)
• Coverage of World Pride Madrid (Telemadrid)
• Javier Salmones, Astral (laSexta)
• Masterchef Celebrity (La 1 de TVE)ç

IRIS CRITICS AWARD

• Bamboo Productions