[News] 110720 Nominees For The 2011 Seoul Drama Awards

The preliminaries for the 2011 Seoul Drama Awards (SDA)have been conducted and the results are out!

The organizing committee for the SDAs announced on July 20th at 11 AM, the results of the preliminaries through a press conference. Under the theme of “Drama Road”, this year’s SDA ceremony has been confirmed to cover 204 works from 37 different countries.

Non-Korean dramas up for awards include the US mini-series “The Walking Dead”, British mini-series “Luther”, Chinese full-length piece “Three Kingdoms”, and German short film “Shades of Happiness”.

From the domestic works side, there are the mini-series “Dream High” and “My Girlfriend Is A Gumiho” and the full length projects “Twinkle Twinkle Shining”.

In the Male Actors category, the nominees include Iris Elba from “Luther” and Chun Jenbin from “Three Kingdoms”. In the Female Actress category, Maria Furtwängler from “Shaes Of Happiness”, Laura Linney from “The Big C”, and Na Moon-hee from the one-act play “Grandma, it’s Me”.

In the Hallyu Drama section, there will be seven awards given out. Nominated projects must have been aired from April 1st of 2010 to April 30th of 2011, with exports of $3 million or more. The contenders are “Sungkyungwan Scandal”, “Baker King Kim Tak-gu”, “Mary Stayed Out All Night”, “Dream High”, “Dongyi”, “Queen of Reversals”, “My Princess”, “Kim Su-ro”, “Giant”, “Athena: Goddess of War”, “Secret Garden”, “My Girlfriend Is A Gumiho”, and “Bad Guy”.

Of course the category that always attracts special interest is the Grand Award for best actor and best actress.

The male nominees are Jang Geun-seok for “Mary Stayed Out All Night”, Park Yoo-chun for “Sungkyungwan Scandal”, Song Seung-heon for “My Princess”, Hyunbin for “Secret Garden”, and Kang Ji-hwan for “Coffee House”.

The female nominees are Park Min-young for “Sungkyungwan Scandal”, “Moon Geun-young for “Mary Stayed Out All Night”, Kim Tae-hee for “My Princess”, Lee Yo-won for “49 Days”, and Ha Ji-won for “Secret Garden”.

The soundtrack songs up for recognition are “Found It” by JYJ from “Sungkyungwan Scandal”, “Please My Bus” by Jang Geun-seok from “Mary Stayed Out All Night”, Jungyup’s “Nothing Happened” from “49 Days”, Baek Ji-young’s “That Woman” from “Secret Garden”, and “The One” by Lee Seung-cheol for “Baker King Kim Tak-goo”.

The final results will depend 70% on the votes of the 1 million international Hallyu fans signed up for en.korea.com and 30% on the international broadcasting contents buyers’ votes.

This is with the exception of the Hallyu Drama category’s Director Award and Writer Award, which will be determined by the votes of domestic reporters.

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