India Comes Home Empty at the 2019 International Emmys. Here Are All the Winners

All four Indian nominees - Sacred Games, Radhika Apte, Lust Stories, and Remix - failed to win in their categories at the 2019 International Emmy Awards, losing to the likes of McMafia (Best Drama), Marina Gera (Best Actress), Safe Harbor (Best TV Film / Miniseries), and The Real Full Monty: Ladies Night (Best Reality TV), respectively. The fifth India-set and Indian-directed nominee, India's Forbidden Love, Al Jazeera's look at Honor Killing in the country, lost to Bellingcat - Truth in a Post-Truth World (Best Documentary). This means that India came home empty at the 2019 International Emmys.

The 2019 International Emmy Awards were presented in a total of 11 categories on Monday night at the Hilton Midtown Manhattan Hotel in New York. The International Emmys is a completely different phenomenon from the main Emmys, which are US show award shows, long-established, and much more extensive. (The 2019 Emmys were given in September.) Also unlike the Emmys, the International Emmys Awards show in the calendar year. For the 2019 edition, it was TV programming released last year: 1 January - 31 December 2018.

Therefore, the Sacred Games nomination at the 2019 International Emmys was courtesy of its first season. Theoretically, it can still be nominated next year. Nevertheless, one of its actors got to celebrate - Nawazuddin Siddiqui - even though India had failed to do anything. That's because Siddiqui also starred in the British crime drama McMafia, which defeated Sacred Games for the top prize. And although unsuccessful with Netflix, it won two wins for Best Comedy and Best Telenovela elsewhere. Meanwhile, in terms of countries, Brazil, the Netherlands, and the UK were tied for the two winning ones.

Here is the complete list of winners from 2019 International Emmiers:


2019 International Emmy for Best Drama Series
McMafia (United Kingdom) - Winner
Bad Bank (Germany)
Holy game (India)
Um Contra Todos [all against one] (Brazil)

2019 International Emmy for Best Comedy Series
Distinguished de Natal Porta dos Fundos [The Last Hangover] (Brazil) - Winner
family! (Singapore)
Kupa Rashit [Checkout!] (Israel)
Workin Moms (Canada)

2019 International Emmy for Best Performance by an Actress
Marina Gera, krök Tél [Eternal Winter] (Hungary) - winner
Radhika Apte, Stories of Lust (India)
Jenna Coleman, The Cry (United Kingdom)
Marjorie Estiano, Sob Presso [under pressure] (Brazil)

2019 International Emmy for Best Performance by an Actor
Haluk Bilginar is Sahasset [Personality] (Turkey) - Winner
Christopher Eccleston, Come Home (United Kingdom)
Rafael Logam, Empros [Effect] (Brazil)
Janis Neoehner, Beit (Germany)

2019 International Emmy for Best TV Movie / Mini-Series
Safe Harbor (Australia) - Winner
Stories of lust (India)
Sei Fetcher Osh Olhos Agora [If I Close My Eyes] (Brazil)
Trezor (Hungary)

2019 International Emmy for Best Art Programming
Dance or Die (Netherlands) - Winner
John & Yoko: Above As Us Sky (United Kingdom)
Michel Legrand, Sans Demi-Mesur [Michel Legrand, Give Music Play] (France)
Ópera Alberta - Os Pescadores de Pérolas (Brazil)

2019 International Emmy for Best Documentary
Bellingcat - Truth in a Post-Truth World (Netherlands) - Winner
A primer Pedra [first stone - a rise of lynching in Brazil] (Brazil)
The changed states of Louis Theroux (United Kingdom)
Witness: India's forbidden love (Qatar)

2019 International Emmy for Best Non-English Language US Primetime Program
Falco - Winner
El otro lado del muro
El riclu
Magnifica 70

2019 International Emmy for Best Telenovela
La Reina del Flo [The Queen of Flow] (Colombia) - Winner
100 Days Fall in Love (Argentina)
The River (South Africa)
Vidus Opostas [Tangled Life] (Portugal)

2019 International Emmy for Best Short-Form Series
Hack the city (Brazil) - winner
Dinks (South Korea)
Luotomies [wingman] (Finland)
Wrong kind of black (Australia)

2019 International Emmy for Best Non-Scripted Entertainment
Real Full Monty: Women's Night (United Kingdom) - Winner
The Voice Argentina (Argentina)
Tabo [tabu] (Belgium)
Remix (India)