A prize list that vibrates in the colors of the rainbow

A prize list full of pride! The 60th edition of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival ended on Tuesday. The fiction jury, chaired by Swedish writer, director and producer Måns Mårlind (The Bridge, Midnight Sun, Shadowplay) and composed of the French actor Arnaud Ducret (Parents Instructions for Use, Lies), by German producer Moritz Polter (Das Boot, Freud), French actor and rapper Joey Starr (Replacing), British writer and director Kay Mellor (The Syndicate, Band of Gold) and Norwegian producer Anders Tangen (Lilyhammer, Home for Christmas) delivered his verdict and presented his Golden Nymphs during the closing ceremony at the Grimaldi forum on Tuesday evening.

A film about homophobia

Already awarded at the Deauville festival, the film My uncle Frank, produced by Miramax and Amazon Studios and available on Amazon Prime Video, won no less than three awards. Sacred best film and best creation, this feature film from the creator ofAmerican Beauty, Six Feet Under and True Blood Alan Ball follows the touching tale of the coming out of a university professor Frank Bledsoe (Paul Bettany, the synthezoid Vision of WandaVision, crowned best actor) in the America of the Seventies.

The Finnish series Piece of My Heart received the special jury prize. In this drama, Rita (Lotta Lehtikari), a child protection officer, returns to work after being suspended following the disappearance of a child for whom she is held responsible.

A series on the AIDS years

As for the series, It’s A Sin, arguably the most personal miniseries of award-winning writer and producer Russell T Davies, to whom we owe Queer As Folk, A Very English Scandal, Years And Years and the renewal of Doctor who, won two awards.

This miniseries, produced by RED Production Company for Channel 4 and HBO Max in association with All3media International Great Britain and available in France on MyCanal, chronicles the joys and sorrows of a group of gay men in homophobic London of the 1980s. , shaken by the arrival of AIDS. “Before I started writing, I didn’t realize how much the series reflected my own life: I was 18 in 1981,” writes Rusell T Davies in the press kit.

Lydia West, who plays Jill Baxter, a character inspired by one of the creator’s friends, Jill Nalder, was named best actress. “She was more invested than me, she has much more merit in the sense that she spent more time on the AIDS front than me, she held the hands of more dying people than I did” , tells the showrunner about Jill Nalder, who plays the mother of her fictional double in the series, still in the press kit. A 60th edition where inclusion rhymes with television.