Sweden’s Vanguard named best series, Robin Wright honoured at Golden Nymphs

Golden Nymph-winning biopic Vanguard

MCTV: Swedish drama Vanguard has been named best series at the Golden Nymph Awards, bringing to a close the 64th Monte-Carlo TV Festival in a ceremony that also saw House of Cards star Robin Wright collect the honorary Crystal Nymph prize.

The star of Vanguard, Jakob Oftebro, was named best actor for his performance as Jan Stenbeck in this biopic about the meteoric rise of a media mogul. The show comes from FLX, SVT, Film I Väst and Viaplay Content Distribution.

German TV movie One Day in September also took home two prizes, for best film and best actress for Hélène Alexandridis. The political period drama comes from Network Movie Film und Fernsehproduktion and Made in Munich Content & Films for ZDF and Arte.

South African film Don’t Give Up, the story of a homeless single mother from Videovision Entertainment and Distant Horizon, was named best creation, while the jury special prize recognised the cast performance of Good Cop/Bad Cop, the Future Shack Entertainment and Jungle Entertainment dramedy about an odd couple brother-sister detective team made for The CW, Stan and Roku and shopped by ITV Studios.

The public prize went to BBC and Netflix drama The Bombing of Pan Am 103, also distributed by ITV Studios, which charts the investigation behind the 1988 Lockerbie tragedy, from World Productions, MGM Television and Night Train Media.

In the news and documentary categories, Al Jazeera’s Witness – Please Enjoy Our Tragedies won best news programme and Capa Presse production Soumission chimique, pour que la honte change de camp was named best doc.

In the same category, the jury special prize went to Children in the Fire, a Ukraine-US coproduction from Unbroken Generation Production, Karandash Animation Studio and PFX. It also received the AMADE Prize for promoting elements of the charity’s mission to protect the most vulnerable children from violence, exploitation and abuse and increase access to education and healthcare.

Other prize winners at last night’s ceremony included Rewilding Sharks (CNA, Kraken Films), which received the Prince Rainier III Special Prize, and L’ange de Boutcha (Hikari Films), which was presented with the Monaco Red Cross Prize in recognition for demonstrating the principles of the Red Cross: humanity, impartiality, independence, neutrality, charity, unity and universality.

A special honorary digital award was also presented to content creator Squeezie.