The nominations for the prestigious 2019 International Emmy Awards were declared in the month of September and it was indeed a celebratory moment for Bollywood as popular web series including Sacred Games, Lust Stories and The Remix made it to the list. After a long wait, on Monday night in New York that is Tuesday early morning in India, the awards function took place with Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane and Kubbra Sait in attendance.

Speaking of the nominations and awards, Netflix's anthology of four stories, Lust Stories and crime thriller, Sacred Games were nominated in the Best TV Movie/Mini-Series and Best Drama Series categories, respectively. However, none of them managed to take home the award and lost to Safe Harbour and McMafia. Although, Nawazuddin, who was at the awards function to cheer for Sacred Games, was left delighted as his show McMafia won the trophy for the Best Drama Series. Radhika lost out to Marina Gera for the Best Performance by an Actress. 

 

 

 

 

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It’s a pure delight to be receiving the beautiful winner trophy at the International Emmy Awards Gala in NewYork with one of my favourite Director James Watkins for our work #McMafia Congratulations @jginorton @DavidStraithirn @OshriCohen @MerabNindzi & the Team #McMafia @iemmys @bbc #bestdramaseries

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Drama Series – McMafia

TV Movie/Mini-Series – Safe Harbour

Best Performance by an Actress – Marina Gera In Örök Tél

Best Performance by an Actor – Haluk Bilginer In ahsiyet

Documentary – Bellingcat – Truth In A Post-Truth World

Comedy – Especial De Natal Porta Dos Fundos

Arts Programming – Dance Or Die

Non-English Language US Primetime Program – Falco

Non-Scripted Entertainment – The Real Full Monty: Ladies’ Night

Short-Form Series – Hack The City

Telenovela – La Reina Del Flow (The Queen Of Flow)

It’s a pure delight 2 b receiving d beautiful winner trophy at d #InternationalEmmyAwards2019 Gala in NewYork wid 1 of my fav Director #JamesWatkins for our work #McMafia
Congratulations @jginorton #DavidStrathairn @CubaPictures #HosseinAmini & Team @iemmys @BBC #BestDramaSeries pic.twitter.com/miwOoL8EFO

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui (@Nawazuddin_S) November 26, 2019

Inspired by author Vikram Chandra's best-selling novel, Sacred Games traced a trail of betrayal, crime, passion and a thrilling chase through Mumbai's underbelly featuring Saif Ali Khan as Sartaj Singh and Nawazuddin as Ganesh Gaitonde. Lust Stories is an anthology of four stories that shed light on modern relationships from the viewpoint of the Indian woman. The show starred Radhika, Vicky Kaushal, Kiara Advani, Bhumi Pednekar, Manisha Koirala, Neha Dhupia, Sanjay Kapoor, Akash Thosar and Neil Bhoopalam in the lead roles.

(Source: Indian Express/Instagram/Twitter)