The Television Academy has awarded the Iris Awards in the XXIII edition of a gala that has brought together hundreds of professionals in the Kinépolis cinemas of the City of Image. In the television series section, fictions such as ‘La Unidad’ or ‘Intimacy’ have prevailed. The first has won the Best Fiction awards, ahead of ‘El Cid’, ‘Hit’, ‘Rapa’, ‘Intimacy’ or ‘Drought’ and also the Best Director for Dani de la Torre. The series about an anti-terrorist unit of the General Information Commissariat of the national police has been running for two seasons and is already shooting its third installment, which takes the action to Kabul.
On the other hand, Laura Sarmiento and Verónica Fernández have collected the award for Best Screenplay for ‘Privacy’the Netflix series starring Itziar Ituño and that deals with the violation of the privacy of two women after the dissemination of two separate sex videos. Sorority, sexist violence exercised through social networks and new technologies or revenge porn are some of the big issues What is fiction about? Fernández has been proud to receive the award, although she assures that the greatest reward has been that the series has “created a topic to talk about.” She has also given the directors of ‘Intimacy’ Jorge Torregrossa, Ben Gutterdge, Koldo Almandoz and Marta Font the special award for Best Fiction Direction Antonio Mercero “for his directing work in the construction of the story”.
The awards for best actor and actress have gone to Javier Chamberfor his portrayal of a frustrated high school teacher with a vocation for research in the Movistar Plus+ thriller ‘rapa‘. Blanca Portillo She has also won an Iris Award for her role as a psychologist in Prime Video’s ‘Better Days’. A Elena Rivera, her role as a police inspector in ‘Drought’ (TVE) has also earned her a statuette. Finally, and despite the fact that it ended in 2021, ‘The Money Heist’ continues to reap success. Netflix’s fiction has been recognized as Best Production and, precisely, the team has highlighted that so much time later the series continues to give “so much joy”.
We cannot end without talking about the great and unfair forgotten nights that were ‘Vida Perfecta’ (Movistar Plus+) and ‘Maricón Perdido’ (TNT). For the first, Leticia Dolera was up for a prize in the categories of Best Actress and also for Best Screenplay with Manuel Burque. While the series, inspired by Bob Pop’s biography, had two of its nominated actresses: Candela Peña and Alba Flores.
