“Vincenzo” won the Excellent Korean Drama award while Song Joong-ki and Suzy bagged acting prizes at the 2021 Seoul International Drama Awards (SDA) held on Oct. 21.
ASTRO’s Cha Eun-woo and Park Eun-bin acted as the emcees of the awards ceremony held at the MBC Open Hall in Seoul.
“Vincenzo” won in the Hallyu Drama category while “Start-Up,” “Kairos” and “Taxi Driver” bagged the Outstanding Korean Drama awards.
Song Joong-ki emerged as the winner of the Outstanding Korean Actor for “Vincenzo” while Suzy won Outstanding Korean Actress for “Start-Up.” Both were unable to attend the ceremony.
JTBC’s drama “Missing Child” won the “Daesang” or Grand Prize at the 2021 SDA, the first time in nine years for a Korean drama to win the award since SBS’ “Deep Rooted Tree” in 2012.
SBS’ “The Penthouse” took home the Best Drama Series Golden Bird Prize while China’s “Go Ahead” won the Silver Bird Prize.
Denmark’s “The Investigation” bagged the Best Mini-Series Golden Bird Prize while China’s “The Bad Kids” won the Silver Bird Prize.
Spain’s “Federica Montseny, The Woman Who Speaks” grabbed the Best TV Movie Golden Bird Prize and Germany’s “This House is Mine” took home the Silver Bird Prize.
Here are the winners at the 2021 Seoul International Drama Awards:
Grand Prize (Daesang) -“Missing Child” (South Korea)
Best Series Drama Golden Bird Prize -“The Penthouse” (South Korea)
Best Series Drama Silver Bird Prize - “Go Ahead” (China)
Best Mini-Series Golden Bird Prize - “The Investigation” (Denmark)
Best Mini-Series Silver Bird Prize - “The Bad Kids” (China)
Best TV Movie Golden Bird Prize - “Federica Montseny, The Woman Who Speaks” (Spain)
Best TV Movie Silver Bird Prize - “This House is Mine” (Germany)
Best Actor - Park Hyuk Kwon, “Missing Child”
Best Actress - Elle Fanning, “The Great”
Best Director - Cho Yong-won, “Missing Child”
Best Screenwriter - Russell T Davies, “It’s a Sin”
Jury Special Prize - “Bonus Vacation” (Malaysia), “Atlantic Crossing” (Norway), “The Pit S4” (Turkey)
Most Popular Foreign Drama of the Year -“I Told Sunset About You” (Thailand), “Signal” (Japan)
Asian Star Prize - Krit Amnuaydechkorn (Thailand), Amanda Manopo (Indonesia), Marcus Chang (Taiwan), Sakaguchi Kentaro (Japan)
Hallyu Drama
Excellent Korean Drama - “Vincenzo”
Outstanding Korean Drama: “Start-Up,” “Kairos,” “Taxi Driver”
Outstanding Korean Actor: Song Joong-ki, “Vincenzo”
Outstanding Korean Actress: Suzy, “Start-Up”
Best OST - “Okay” by Young Tak, “Revolutionary Sisters”
Special Awards
Short-Form Drama Golden Bird Prize - “Passengers” (Russia)
Short-Form Drama Silver Bird Prize - “Delete Me” (Norway)