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[2011] 1st Press Re..
Press Release<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> Seoul Drama Awards Organizing Committee/ <o:p></o:p> Korean Broadcasters Association<o:p></o:p> 15th FL. Korean Broadcasters Center Bldg., Mok-dong, Yangcheon-gu, Seoul 158-715 <o:p></o:p> Tel. +82-2-3219-5579, Fax. +82-2-3219-5570<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> “ Drama Road” Seoul Drama Awards 2011 ? The road where international dramas and culture meet & the festival where citizens and stars interact with each other<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> ● The most quality productions submitted (204 entries) <o:p></o:p> ● Competitive nominees chosen from popular dramas of many countries<o:p></o:p> ● Experienced and qualified actors and actress nominated <o:p></o:p> ● Well-made Representative Korean dramas and their actors and actresses nominated<o:p></o:p> ● Enjoyable awards ceremony where international drama fans get together (i.e. Korean Connection)<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> The Seoul Drama Awards 2011 holds its 6th international drama festival on August 31. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> With a catch phrase “Drama Road,” Seoul Drama Awards 2011 hosts an intense competition with 204 entry submissions. Seoul Drama Awards is organized by Seoul Drama Awards Organizing Committee and Korean Broadcasters Association. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> The Most Entries Submitted ? 204 Quality Dramas Entered into the Competition<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> The list of ‘SDA 2011’ entries shows that the number of entries has doubled (204 from 37 countries) since the first awards held in 2006 (105 entries). <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> To break down the entries by continent, 11 countries in Asia have submitted 79 entries, 15 European countries have submitted 68 entries, and five countries in the Americas have submitted 29 including a few popular American series such as The Walking Dead, Camelot, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena. In addition to the newly added 13 American entries, Mongolia and Romania have submitted their entries for the first time. Three countries in the Middle East have submitted seven, two countries in Oceania have submitted 10, and one African country (South Africa) has submitted two entries. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> In the TV movie category, 75 entries have been submitted from 21 countries: France, Israel and Iran each submitted 7, and Spain submitted 6. A variety of topics have been covered in the submitted TV movies, and especially, there were a number of dramas based on a real story.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> In the category of miniseries, 77 entries have been submitted from 22 countries. Although the majority of the entries were criminal investigation dramas, some historical adaptations, traditional family dramas and romantic dramas were still predominant. Considering the nature of miniseries, some of the entries have been greatly successful after TV broadcast in many different countries, but it was impressive that they attempted to remain authentic and unique. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> In the series drama category, the 50 entries were submitted from various countries and cultures so that they talked about ordinary daily lives, dreams and social issues. Especially, most of the entries showed the improvement of female roles and characters and left some critical lessons. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Additionally, to exchange critical information and carry out promotional activities, Seoul Drama Awards Organizing Committee has just recently joined a partnership with Monte-Carlo TV Festival of Monaco along with the solid relationships with WorldFest-Houston International Film & Video Festival, Banff World Media Festival, Shanghai TV Festival, International Drama Festival in Tokyo and Montreux Comedy Festival. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> USA <The Walking Dead>, UK <Luther>, China <Three Kingdoms>, Korea <Dream High>, <My Girlfriend is Gumiho>, <Twinkle Twinkle> in Competition<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> In the list of finalists for SDA 2011, well-made high-quality dramas have been added and competing with each other intensely. The finalists include The Walking Dead (miniseries, USA) that has drawn a high viewer’s rating in the U.S. and Luther (miniseries, UK), a.k.a a British version of NCIS that has attracted 7 million viewers with its fascinating psychological criminal investigation drama. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> China’s big-scale drama that has been adapted for the 21st century story, Three Kingdoms, marked the highest viewer’s rating last year in China and stars popular stars such as Jianbin Chen and Chen Hao.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Besides, a few more great nominees include: Germany's Shades of Happiness (TV movie) that portrays a tragic love story in the post-war era, Irland’s When Harvey Met Bob (TV movie) based on a rock concert ‘Live Aid’ back in the 1980s, Germany’s The Pillars of the Earth (miniseries) that looks into the human nature through a story of a family struck by a religious and political conflict, and Brazil’s Passione (series drama) that tells of a family struggle around a child’s birth secret and inheritance. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Korean nominees competing with global dramas include Dream High (miniseries) starring a group of Korean idol stars, My Girlfriend is Gumiho (miniseries) starring Lee Seungki and Shin Minah, and Twinkle Twinkle (series drama) that’s recently had a grand finale on MBC. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> (Reference) SDA data book p.4: Nominees for the Program Categories<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Nominee for Best Actor: Idris Elba (Luther) and Jianbin Chen (Three Kingdoms)<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Seoul Drama Awards 2011 is in the center of attention due to its qualified and experience actors as nominees for Best Actor and Best Actress.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> A British-born actor Idris Elba played the main character, Luther, in a British TV series, Luther. Elba, as one of the representative African-American actors in the U.K., is also known as “Denzel Washington of the U.K.” and recently played a role of a reliable guardian, Heimdall, in an American drama Thor. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Elba played Luther whose fervent convictions and violent passions attracted lots of viewers and led him to win the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Outstanding Actor award. He was also nominated for a Golden Globe and a Golden Satellite for his portrayal of DCI Luther. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> A Chinese actor, Jianbin Chen, is a representative Chinese actor who has wide popularity and outstanding presence in film, TV dramas and theater. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> (Reference) SDA data book p.5: Nominees for Individual Prizes<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Maria Furtwangler, Laura Linney and Moon-Hee Na Are in Competition for Best Actress<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> The nominees for Best Actress stand in the “center” of the individual prizes. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Maria Furtwangler from a German TV movie has been highly complimented and valued for her expressing various emotions from her younger times through the later part of her life. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> The Hollywood actress, Laura Linney, has been nominated for Best Actress with the Showtime’s half-hour series about cancer, The Big C. Linney won a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance By An Actress In A Television Series in January 2011. She also received an Academy Award nomination in 2008 in the lead actress category for her role in the box office hit, The Savages. She’s widely known as Sarah from the popular movie Love Actually to the Korean audience. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Moon-Hee Na has also been nominated for Best Actress with her role of an older woman battling with a terminal cancer in a TV movie, It’s Me, Grandma, that was aired in the first show of MBC ‘Sunday Drama Theater’ last year. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> (Reference) SDA data book p.5: Nominees for Individual Prizes<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> The Outstanding Korean Drama ? Who will be honored to be awarded the Best Actor and Best Actress Prizes?<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Seoul Drama Awards started last year to award a select few Korean dramas and actors that have contributed to the wide popularity of Korean dramas and the increase of exports and income. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Unlike the last year’s ceremony, the categories and prizes have been expanded. There will be seven different categories for Outstanding Korean Drama prizes with an addition of ‘Drama OST prize.’<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> The nominees are the following: KBS? <Sungkyunkwan Scandal>, <Bread, Love and Dreams>, <Marry Me, Mary>, <Dream High>, MBC?s <Queen of Reversal>, <My Princess>, <Dong Yi>, <Kim Soo Ro>, SBS? <Giant>, <Athena: Goddess of War>, <Secret Garden>, <My Girlfriend is Gumiho>, <Bad Guy>.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Along with the prizes for programs, much attention goes to the Korean star nominees for Best Actor and Best Actress. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> For Best Actor, Keun-Seok Jang , Yoo-Chun Park , Seung-Hun Song , Hyun Bin and Ji-Hwan Kang have been nominated, and for Best Actress, Min-Young Park < Sungkyunkwan Scandal>, Geun-Young Moon , Tae-Hee Kim , Yo-Won Lee <49 Days> and Ji-Won Ha have been nominated for competition. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> For the Korean Drama OST prize, “Found You” By JYJ , “Take Care, My Bus!” by Keun-Seok Jang , “Nothing Happened” by Jung Yup <49 Days>, “That Woman” by Ji-Young Baek and “That Person” by Seung-Chul Lee have been nominated for competition. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> For the category of Outstanding Korean Dramas, nominees have been selected among Korean dramas ? aired on TV between April 1, 2010 and April 30, 2011 ? that have sold to over 10 countries or have brought in over $ 3 million in exports. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> The final nominees will be posted on Korea.com (http://en.korea.com) that constantly draws a million Korean pop culture fans from outside Korea, and the online voting results (70%) and the poll results from foreign content buyers (30%) will be combined to come up with the winners in each category. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> On the other hand, however, the winners for the Best Director and Best Screenwriter will be decided upon the voting of Korean and foreign journalists and correspondents who currently reside in Korea. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> (Reference) SDA data book p. 7: Representative Korean Nominees<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> The World Fans of K-Pop (Korean Connection and other groups) Convene at the SDA 2011 Awards Ceremony<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Seoul Drama Awards 2011 ceremony is much more meaningful than the other previous ceremonies. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> To present the big wave of Korean pop culture all around the world, “Korean Connection” from France and several other fan groups from Peru, Mexico, Romania, Japan and China will visit Korea and attend the SDA ceremony. During their stay, the fans of Korean culture and media from outside Korea and living in Korea will meet and make the ceremony shine. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> SDA 2011 that will be held at KBS Hall from 5:20 to 7:20 pm on August 31 will have some of the production teams, international actors, winners and nominees and global drama fans altogether to celebrate a drama festival. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> The ceremony will be telecast live on SBS TV and re-run on a Japanese satellite channel in the future. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> (Reference) SDA data book p.8: Details on Programs <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Who are the best actors and actress in Asia? Netizens participating in the SDA 2011 Yahoo! Korea online voting will decide People’s Choice winners.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Seoul Drama Awards 2011 conducts its online voting for popular Asian actors and actresses on Yahoo! Korea until August 16.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> The Yahoo! Korea online voting has lead actors and actresses lined up from the SDA entries submitted from five Asian countries including Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The voting is carried out for the fourth time this year after a launch in 2008. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Anyone who enjoys Asian dramas can participate in the online voting at the Yahoo! website (kr.yahoo.com) that provides content in Korean, English and Japanese: each participant votes for an actor and actress respectively from each of the five countries. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> The nominees for the Yahoo! online voting: <o:p></o:p> Hyun Bin , Seung-Gi Lee , Keun-Seok Jang , Yoo-Chun Park , Taec-Yeon Ok , Seoung-Won Cha , Hyung-Jung Ko , Min-A Shin , Soo-Ji Bae , Ji-Won Ha , Su Ae from Korea, Kamiki Ryunosuke , Tamaki Hiroshi , Ohno Satoshi , Ashida Mana , Matsuyuki Yasuko from Japan, Zhang Fengyi , Chen Jianbin , Yang Lixiao , Wang-Luo-Dan from China, Wang Chuan-Yi , Chen Wen-Pin , Fung Petrina , Jian Man-Shu from Taiwan, and four nominees such as the last year’s winner Charmaine Sheh . Altogether, 115 nominees from five countries have been listed on the Yahoo website. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> The actors and actresses who get the most votes will be awarded ‘Yahoo People’s Choice’ prizes at the awards ceremony on August 31. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> According to the online voting for SDA 2011 ‘Best OST’s from Popular Korean Dramas’ conducted on Cyworld from June 29 to July 20, “Found You” by JYJ has ranked first. “That man” by Hyun Bin and “Cherish That Person” by Yo-Seob Yang have each won the second and third places.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> (Reference) SDA data book p.11: Event Promotion<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p>
[2010] 1st Press Re..
Seoul International Drama Awards 2010, l Compete for the Best! l New Awards Category for Korean Wave in 2010 People’s Choice: Best Actor/Actress & Drama O.S.T. Popularity Vote on YAHOO! Korea and Cyworld <!--StartFragment--> ‘Seoul International Drama Awards 2010’, a world-wide drama festival, opens its glamorous awards ceremony on 10 September. Seoul International Drama Awards 2010 [SDA 2010], organized by Seoul Drama Awards Organizing Committee and Korean Broadcasters Association (Chairman: KIM, In-Kyu) closed entry register successfully with 172 dramas from 43 countries. Even keener competition is expected among dramas and actors/actresses than ever, attracting much more attention. Compete for the Best! Not only great-hit Korean dramas but American and British dramas, which led huge fans with the highest view rate record were submitted to the SDA 2010: “NCIS season 7” which is one of the top TV series in US and acquired favor of international fans, “CSI season 10”, the trendsetter of criminal investigation dramas, “Numbers season 6” that has enjoyed continuous popularity, “Doctor Who series 5” which is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running science fiction television show in the world, and “My House is Full of Mirrors” that depicts the life of Sofia Loren, a doyenne of Hollywood will compete for ‘Best Drama’ of SDA 2010. The SDA 2010 also has other notable entries. Chile participated in the SDA 2010 for the first time with “Where is Elisa?” which recorded top in domestic market with 57 ratings points. In addition South Africa, the host of 2010 FIFA World Cup submitted “League of Glory” which is a story about three boys forging a friendship through soccer. Best drama and other honorable prizes will be announced at the awards ceremony aired live on MBC-TV, 10th September. New Awards Category for Korean Wave in 2010 Seoul International Drama Awards 2010 creates a new awards category to praise dramas and persons contributing to spreading Korean Wave(韓流) through dramas. Among the entries in 60 Korean dramas aired from 1 April, 2009 to 30 April 2010, domestic and foreign journalists and foreign buyers vote for each 1 Best Drama, Best Actor & Actress, Best Director and Best Writer. This will be a great opportunity to pick out real contributors for the Korean Wave spread, selected by people who know well about viewers’ responses and who actually work in the field of purchasing dramas. People’s Choice: Best Actor/Actress & Drama O.S.T. - Popularity Vote on YAHOO! Korea and Cyworld . Seoul Drama Awards Organizing Committee (Chairman: KIM, In-Kyu) carries out the popularity vote to choose the best Asian actors/actresses from 27 July to 26 August with YAHOO! Korea. In this year, 5 of the most popular actors/actresses in 32 dramas from Korea, China, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan are chosen. The vote is conducted for following candidates: Korean performers such as Byung-Hun LEE, Hyuk CHANG, Seung-Gi LEE, Hyun-Jung KOH, and Tae-Hee KIM, Miho KANNO from Japan, Vic CHOU who is well-known for the Taiwanese version of “Boys over Flowers”, BingBing FAN who is selected as the Best Dresser at Cannes Film Festival 2010, and other 55 actors and 51 actresses. The voting page is operated in Korean, English and Japanese for netizens from all over the world, and other events such as leaving messages for drama stars through Yahoo! Social Pulse. Besides, Seoul Drama Awards Organizing Committee conducts another popularity votes on Cyworld for the Best Drama O.S.T. among 40 songs, aired for the past year until 26 August. Attachment 1. List of Entries for SDA 2010 by Continents 2. List of Candidates in Yahoo! On-line Popularity Vote for SDA 2010 3. Logotype of SDA 2010 Contact: Seoul International Drama Awards 2010 PR manager Tae-Ju LEE, Jung-Mi LEE Tel: 82-2-830-7181, Fax: 82-2-860-5610 C.P: 82-10-6349-1927, 82-10-3794-3642 E-mail: killy2000@paran.com Homepage: www.seouldrama.org
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