The International Emmy Awards
Subcategory of Awards International Awards
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Notes

  • The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences was founded in 1969 to promote excellence in international television programming and is the organization that presents the International Emmy Award to the best television programs produced, and initially aired, outside the U.S.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2023

winner (Kids: Live Action) form y separately published work icon Heartbreak High Hannah Carroll Chapman , Matthew Whittet , Marieke Hardy , Meyne Wyatt , Thomas Wilson-White , Natesha Somasundaram , ( dir. Gracie Otto et. al. )agent Australia : FremantleMedia Australia NewBe Netflix , 2022 23518505 2022 series - publisher film/TV

'A discovery makes AMERIE an instant pariah at Hartley High, and causes a mysterious and very public rift with her ride-or-die HARPER. With her new friends - outsiders QUINNI and DARREN - AMERIE must repair her reputation, while navigating love, sex, and heartbreak.'

Source: Netflix.

Year: 2019

winner (Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Writing) y separately published work icon Nanette Hannah Gadsby , ( dir. Jon Olb et. al. )agent 2017 Australia : Guesswork Television , 2018 14175539 2017 single work drama

'Nanette, Hannah’s masterpiece, saw the adored comedian take home Australia’s most prestigious comedy award ‘The Barry’ for Best Show at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival. 

'The world claims to celebrate individuality but Hannah Gadsby knows from experience that this is folly. All the cool kids are normal. Hannah has always dreamt of being a cool kid but she has had to accept that, just like her childhood dream of being a dog, normal is just not possible for her. Over the past year, Hannah decided to embrace solitude, determined to see what harvest may come from nurturing her left field life. And what a strange little harvest, as her new show Nanette will attest.

'This is a show about learning how you can thrive as a “not normal” because Hannah’s year of gentle exile did not just see her harvest silly projects like making homemade jam and adopting a “blue clothes only” policy. It also gave her a strength she badly needed, when she observed with increasing horror the same sex marriage debates begin to hit all the same sickening notes she’d heard as a teenager in the 1990s when Tasmania resisted the decriminalisation of homosexuality.  

'At the beginning of 2017 Hannah announced that she would be retiring from the comedy world. As one of Australia’s most applauded and beloved comedians, don’t miss your chance to be spellbound by the inner workings of Hannah’s unique mind while you can.'  (Publication summary)

Year: 2015

winner (Kids : Series) form y separately published work icon Nowhere Boys The Lost Boys Craig Irvin , Rhys Graham , Elise McCredie , Roger Monk , Polly Staniford , Shanti Gudgeon , Giula Sandler , David Hannam , Pete McTighe , John Ridley , Blake Ayshford , ( dir. Peter Carstairs et. al. )agent Australia : Matchbox Productions Pty Ltd Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2013-2019 Z1917831 2013 series - publisher film/TV children's fantasy 'Four boys get lost in the forest, and discover, when they return home, that they have returned to an alternate world identical to theirs except for one startling difference - they were never born.' (Source: Screen Australia)

Year: 1988

winner (Children and Young People) form y separately published work icon Captain Johnno Rob George , ( dir. Mario Andreacchio ) 1988 Z991747 1988 single work film/TV children's Johnno, a young deaf boy who is having problems at home and school, leaves his coastal town and rows out to a deserted island in his dinghy. The town organises a search party to find him.

Works About this Award

Emmys Preview : Will it Be Breaking Bad of House of Cards? Michael Idato , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 September 2013; The Age , 20 September 2013;
Jessica Mauboy to Perform at Emmys' Ball Jessica Mauboy to Perform at Emmys' Governor's Ball; Mauboy to Perform at Emmys Ball; Mauboy to Perform at Emmys After-Party Michael Idato , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20 september 2013; (p. 19) The Canberra Times , 19 September 2013; The Age , 19 September 2013;
Emmy Nod a Slap on Back for Drama Michael Idato , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10 October 2012; (p. 8) The Canberra Times , 10 October 2012; (p. 3)
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