The Festival’s top prize for best series went to , a French-Hungarian drama about the historic match between chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue computer. The best
Actress prize went to for her role in , the first major TV role up from the five-time Oscar nominee. Kamel El Basha won best
Actor for the
Australian drama , in which he played the charismatic head cleric of a big city mosque. In the adaptation, based on the novel by author Liane Moriarty, Bening plays Joy Delaney, family matriarch and patient wife to the irascible former
Tennis pro, Stan (Sam Neill). When Joy disappears, the four adult Delaney children are forced to reassess everything they thought they knew about their parents and their family history. Bening was also a best actress Oscar contender this year but lost out to star Emma Stone. Thomas Wendrich won best screenwriter for his script for the German Cold War drama In Series Mania’s panorama section, Norwegian drama took best series; Kārlis Arnolds Avots won best actress for the Latvian dramedy , about a rock-and-roll fan who sets up an underground jeans factory; and Robyn Malcolm received the best actor prize for the dark
New Zealand drama . also took the audience award for the panorama section. Series Mania wrapped up March 22, with organizers recording nearly 100,000 attendees — a 15 percent jump on last year. See the full list of 2024 Series Mania winners below. Grand Prize for Best Series Producers Unite, Arte
France, Federation Studios, Proton Broadcaster Arte (France/Germany) International Sales Federation Studios Best Actress Annette Bening for Productions Heyday Films Broadcaster Peacock (US) International Sales NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution Best Actor Kamel El Basha for Production: Matchbox Pictures Broadcaster: ABC TV (Australia) International Sales: NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution Best Writing Thomas Wendrich for Commissioner/Broadcaster ARD (Germany) International Sales Fremantle Best Series Producers Maipo Film Broadcaster NRK (Norway) International Sales Dynamic Television Best Directing Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo for Production Movistar Plus+, Suma Content Broadcaster Movistar Plus+,
HBO Max Latam International Sales Movistar Plus+ Best Actress Robyn Malcolm in Production Lingo Pictures, Luminous Beast Broadcaster TVNZ, ABC (New Zealand, Australia) International Sales ITV Studios Best Actor Kārlis Arnolds Avots in Production Tasse Films Broadcaster GO3 (Latvia) International Sales Beta Film THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day More from The
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