Germany’s Babylon Berlin,

won Seoul International Drama Awards 2018 Grand Prize

 

-       Germany sweeped a total of three awards this year: Grand Prize for Babylon Berlin; TV Movie Golden Bird Prize and Best Director for 54 Hours

-       Korea’s tvN drama Mother’ won Golden Bird Prize for Mini-Series and Best Actress

-       Japanese actor Ryohei Otani and Indonesian actress Tatjana Saphira Hartmann both won Asian Star Prize

 

2018.09.03

 

3 September, 2018. Seoul, Korea. The Seoul International Drama Awards 2018 announced today the winner of this year’s SDA Grand Prize: Germany’s serial drama, Babylon Berlin.

 

Seoul Drama Awards Organizing Committee (Chairman Jeong Hoon Park) hosted this year’s award ceremony at the KBS Hall in Yeouido, Seoul. The announcement of the final nominees from both competition and non-competition categories began at 7 pm. The non-competition category includes the Asian Star Prize, Outstanding Korean Drama Prize Category, and many other awards. The nominees are known to have survived both the preliminary and final slections.

 

 

At this year's Seoul International Drama Awards, a total of 268 entries from 56 different countries entered the competition, and this is the highest number yet. This year's festival is the 13th one hosted by the SDA. Hyun-mu Jun and Soo-young Choi were co-hosts of the ceremony while celebrities like Bo-yeong Lee, Seo-joon Park, Ji-ho Oh, Soo-jin Kyung, Chan-sung Hwang, and Sam Hammington also attended. Also, Geun-hyung Park, a famous, long-time actor made an appearance at the ceremony. Meanwhile, singers like Eric Nam and Red Velvet (group) performed their best on stage to add to the celebration. The awards ceremony is recorded on September 3 (Monday) the day of the actual awards, and will broadcast at 5 pm on September 4 (Tuesday) through SBS.

 

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■ List of the nominees and the nominated shows of SDA 2018

□ Competition Category Nominees (4) and Nominated Shows (9)

Category			The nominees and the nominated shows	Country (or show title)
Program Category	Grand Prize		Babylon Berlin	Germany
	TV Movie	Golden Bird Prize	54 Hours	Germany
		Silver Bird Prize	Black Mirror S4 – Crocodile	England
	Mini-Series	Golden Bird Prize	Mother	South Korea (CJ E&M)
		Silver Bird Prize	Safe Harbour	Australia
	Serial Drama	Golden Bird Prize	Candice Renoir	France
		Silver Bird Prize	Filthy Rich	New Zealand
	Comedy	Golden Bird Prize	The New Black	Israel
	Jury's Special Prize		The Memoir of Majie	Malaysia
Individual Category	Best Director		Kilian Riedhof	54 Hours
	Best Screenwriter		Uli Brée/ Klaus Pieber	A Dance to Remembrance
	Best Actor		Joan Pera	The Power of Silence
	Best Actress		Bo-Yeong Lee	Mother

 

□ Non-Competition Category Nominees (4) and Nominated Shows (4)

Category			The nominees and the nominated shows	Country (or show title)
Outstanding Korean Drama Category	Program	Excellent Korean Drama	While You Were Sleeping	SBS
		Outstanding Korean Drama	Fight for My Way	KBS
			Something in the Rain	JTBC
	Individual	Actor	Seo-Joon Park	KBS (Fight for My Way)
		Actress	Ye-Jin Son	JTBC (Something in the Rain)
The Most Popular Foreign Drama of the Year			Solitary Gourmet	TV Tokyo (Japan)
Asian Star Prize			Ryohei Otani	Japan
			Tatjana Saphira Hartmann	Indonesia

 

■ The SDA Screening Committee: 7 (2 Korean and 5 international judges)

Judge types	Members
Korean Judges (2)	●Dong-Geun Yoo Chairman of KFBO (The Korea Federation                  of Broadcasting artists' Organization)/ Actor ●Bo-Seok Jung  Associate Professor of Acting & Media                  at Suwon Women's University/ Actor
International Judges (5)	● (Germany) Robert Franke VP at ZDF Enterprise ● (Japan) Takashi Isshiki Producer at NHK Drama ● (Indonesia) Titan Hermawan