Overview
- The 65th Monte‑Carlo Television Festival concluded its awards on Tuesday, June 16, with officials presenting Golden Nymph prizes and Crystal Nymph lifetime honors to Kurt Russell and Kristin Scott Thomas.
- In fiction categories Denmark’s The Uniform won Best Series while Shady Srour’s Fadia took Best Film, the Jury Special Prize, and Best Actress for Yara Jarrar.
- Italy’s Gomorrah – The Origins won Best Creation and Johannes Hegemann won Best Actor for Olivia, reflecting strong European showings in the fiction slate.
- The festival’s factual and audience prizes included Ponies winning the Public Prize and the BBC’s Into the Void: Putin’s Foreign Fighters receiving a Jury Special Prize, and Mission Investigate and La Guerre also earned top feature‑report awards.
- For the first time a Digital Jury chaired by Susanne Daniels awarded Best Original Digital Creation to South Korea’s Next‑Door Families, a move that could boost commissioning and global sales for digital‑native projects and underline growing industry interest in nontraditional formats.