GLOBO RECEIVES FOUR NOMINATIONS TO THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL EMMY AWARDS
Telenovela ‘A Mother’s Love’, Original Globoplay series ‘All the Women in the World’ and two other super productions of the company are competing for the award
24-09-2021
The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced today, September 23rd, those nominated to the 2021 International Emmy Awards. Globo is competing in four categories: “Best Telenovela” with ‘A Mother’s Love’; “Film / Miniseries for TV” with the Original Globoplay series ‘All the Women in the World’; “Short Form Series” with ‘Diário de um Confinado’ and “Documentary” with ‘Sieged’, Original Globoplay produced by Globo’s Journalism. The winners will be made known on November 22nd.
Globo telenovela ‘A Mother’s Love’ premiered in Brazil in November 2019, was interrupted in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and returned in March of this year in Brazilian territory, almost a year after its paralysis. The plot deals with love and about the choices made in borderline situations. With motherhood as its main theme, the work tells the story of Lurdes (Regina Casé), Thelma (Adriana Esteves) and Vitoria (Taís Araujo), women who lived the plenitude of motherhood and who, despite of the differences that separate them, have their lives intertwined by their children’s destinies. Created and written by Manuela Dias, ‘A Mother’s Love’ counts on the participation of Roberto Vitorino, Mariana Mesquita and Walter Daguerre, and the supervision of Ricardo Linhares. The artistic direction is under José Luiz Villamarim, with the direction of Walter Carvalho, Noa Bressane, Philippe Barcinski, Isabella Teixeira, Fellipe Barbosa and Kiko Marques. The telenovela, which competes with productions from China, Singapore and Portugal, in the “Best Telenovela” category, premiered recently in Uruguay, through Teledoce channel.
In the ‘Film / Miniseries for TV’ category, the Original Globoplay ‘All the Women in the World’ is competing, a romantic comedy that, on each episode, tells a story of love lived by Paulo (Emilio Dantas), a resident architect of Rio de Janeiro. The production, a tribute to the work of dramaturgist Domingos Oliveira, brings philosophical reflections on life, love and death with a smart and refined humor, remarkable features of Domingos’ universe. In addition to Emilio Dantas, Sophie Charlotte, Matheus Nachtergaele, Martha Nowill, Maria Ribeiro, Lilia Cabral, Fabio Assunção, among other names are in the cast. The series premiered in April 2020 in Globoplay and was launched in the same year in the international market. Starting from an original idea of Domingos Oliveira and Maria Ribeiro, ‘All the Women in the World’ was created and written by Jorge Furtado and Janaína Fisccher, with the artistic direction of Patricia Pedrosa and the direction of Ricardo Spenser and Renata Porto D’Ave. The work is competing with productions from Norway, United Kingdom and South Korea.
In the “Short-Form Series” category, “Diário de um Confinado” is competing with episodes from the first season, a multiplatform production created and produced during the pandemic by artistic director, Joana Jabace, and by actor, Bruno Mazzeo. The series has a humorous chronicle of Murilo’s (Bruno Mazzeo) daily life, a man locked in his apartment, during social isolation imposed by Covid-19. Produced entirely remotely by the staff of Globo Studios, it premiered in June 2020 in Globoplay in Brazil. In addition to Bruno, names like Arlete Salles, Debora Bloch, Fernanda Torres, Lázaro Ramos, Lúcio Mauro Filho and Renata Sorrah are in the cast. The first season was written by Bruno Mazzeo, with Rosana Ferrão, Leonardo Lanna and Veroniza Debom, and had the artistic direction of Joana Jabace. The series competes with works from Lebanon, Spain and New Zealand.
Original Globoplay, produced by Globo’s Journalism, “Sieged” shows the challenges of the press coverage during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil. They are records of overcrowded hospitals, cemeteries going on the verge of collapse, shift in the press department of the Palacio da Alvorada (Residence of the President of the Republic), in addition to agenda meetings of the country’s major communications media. The film describes in detail how the publications dealt with the exponential growth of cases, the dismissal of successive health ministers, the proliferation of fake news and the disrupted relation of the President with the press. Directed by Caio Cavechini, who authors the script with Eliane Scardovelly, the documentary was also chosen in April of this year for the Canadian festival, HotDocs, one of the world’s most relevant festivals in its category. ‘Sieged’ was launched in December 2020 and it is available in Globoplay in Brazil. The work is competing in the “Documentary” category with productions from Thailand, the Netherlands and Canada.
Regarded as the number 1 event in the television market, the International Emmy Awards recognizes the excellence of productions made exclusively for TV outside the United States, in addition to non-English language content produced for American TV. Globo has already received 18 Emmy awards. The first was that of “World Television Personality”, received by Roberto Marinho in 1976, an award that he would receive again in 1983. His son, Roberto Irineu Marinho received the statuette in 2014, in the same category. In 1981, Globo ran away with the musical ‘Noah’s Ark’ and in, 1982, with ‘Severine Life and Death’. Globo was awarded eight times for “Best Telenovela”, with ‘India: A Love Story’ (2009), ‘Blood Ties’, co-production with SIC, aired in Portugal (2011), 'The Illusionist ' (2012), 'Side by Side ' (2013), 'Precious Pearl' (2014), 'Empire' (2015), 'Hidden Truth' (2016) and 'Orphans of a Nation ' (2020). In 2011, ‘Jornal Nacional’ ran away with the Emmy for Journalism in the ‘News’ category, with the coverage of the resumption of the Alemão slum complex by the Rio de Janeiro security forces. ‘The Invisible Woman’ (2012) y ‘Sweet Mother’ (2015) won in the ‘Best Comedy’ category. Fernanda Montenegro received the award in 2013 as ‘Best Actress’ for her role in ‘Sweet Mother’. Globo also received the ‘Best Series’ award in the 2018 International Emmy Kids, with ‘Young Hearts - Embrace Diversity’.