Osobnosť televíznej obrazovky (Television Screen Personality), more commonly abbreviated as OTO, was an annual Slovak television awards show which recognized public figures and works of popular culture in the country. Established by the Art Production Agency (APA) in 2000, the poll-based awards were voted on by the viewing audiences. The awards ceremonies were screened live by the national television network RTVS, usually in March for the previous calendar year.
The categories awarded regularly included Program, Actor, Actress, Male and Female Singer, as well two special awards; Hall of Fame and Absolute OTO.
In 2022, it was announced that the awards would be discontinued. This followed controversies in previous years, delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, declining popularity and high production costs.
OTO Awards Winners and nominees
Most wins Adela Vinczeová | 10x Marcel Merčiak | 9x Miroslav Žbirka | 7x Patrik Herman | 7x
Most nominations Miroslav Žbirka | 16x Lenka Čviriková | 15x Patrik Herman | 14x Marcel Merčiak | 14x
Special awards not included
Most wins
With 10 awards for TV Host and TV Host – Entertainment, Adela Vinczeová was the most successful participant in the awards' history. Including special achievements, she had 15 wins in total. Marcel Merčiak accumulated 9 awards as Sports Commentator, and 12 when including special achievements. He was also the only winner to win in two categories per year, both the special (2012) and regular (2015 – 2017). Miroslav Žbirka and Patrik Herman each scored seven wins, as Male Singer and TV Journalist respectively. Herman also holds the record for the highest number of consecutive wins per category. The participant with the third highest number of OTO awards overall (including special awards), is Actress Zdena Studenková with eight wins. Žbirka was the most nominated individual, with 16 nominations in a row since the awards' second season. Sportscaster Lenka Čviriková received 15 nominations, and Herman and Merčiak received 14. Other frequent winner-nominees include Jarmila Lajčáková and Petra Polnišová, who both scored in at least three individual categories. Lajčáková was recognised as Sports Host (2000), Sports Commentator (2001) and News Host (2008). Polnišová was a single winner as Humorist (2007) and a triple winner as Actress; mainly for Comedy.
Janko Kroner for a change, has been the only artist nominated overall in four categories through the years, once as Children's Program Host. Eventually winning twice for performing arts, eleven nominations in total make him the most nominated actor ever, being followed by fellow multiple winners or nominees such as Maroš Kramár, Emília Vášáryová and Polnišová; these with eight nominations each. Based solely on the most nominations with no competitive win, the most notable is Sports Commentator and eleven-time nominee Ján Plesník.
The youngest holder of the award is Marcel Chlpík that won now discontinued category New Actor as seven years old, the oldest actress Magda Paveleková which earned a trophy at the age of eighty-one; upon her induction into the Hall of Fame. In terms of other OTO honorees, Dušan Gabáni and Marika Gombitová are the only non-acting recipients of such award, with Gabáni becoming the first sports commentator ever or presenter as such, and Gombitová as the only music artist in general or else the youngest honoree at fifty-eight. Jozef Kroner, Július Satinský and Leona Kočkovičová have accomplished their awards in memoriam; first as a honoree, the others as regular nominees.
Winners per categories TV hosts and other presenters HOSTS AND PRESENTERS News Host Journalist Sports Host Commentator width=16% Announcer News and Journalism width=32% colspan=2 Host Children's Host 2000 Aneta Parišková Eva Černá Jarmila Lajčáková rowspan=3 (3×CW) Soňa Müllerová (3×CW) 2001 Daniel Krajcer (2×CW) Jozef Nodžák (2×CW) Jarmila Lajčáková 2002 Miroslav Michalech 2003 Jana Majeská rowspan=2 colspan=2 Jozef Nodžák (2×CW) 2004 Aneta Parišková (2×CW) Daniel Krajcer rowspan=2 colspan=2 2005 Zlatica Švajdová (5×CW) rowspan=6 2006 Martina Šimkovičová rowspan=4 colspan=2 Peter Marcin 2007 Rastislav Žitný Petra Polnišová 2008 Jarmila Lajčáková Humorist 2009 Lucia Barmošová (5×CW) 2010 Patrik Herman (7×CW) rowspan=2 colspan=2 2011 News Reporter 2012 Lenka Čviriková Marcel Merčiak (6×CW) rowspan=2 Jozef Kubáni (2×CW) 2013 Peter Varinský (2×CW) 2014 Ján Mečiar Adela Banášová (4×CW) Danica Kleinová 2015 Adriana Kmotríková (2×CW) Marcel Merčiak (3×CW) Jozef Kubáni 2016 Leona Kočkovičová 2017 Ľubomír Bajaník Kristína Kövešová Jozef Kubáni "CW" = continuously running wins per category
TV actors and other performers ACTORS MUSICIANS Actor New Actor Actress Male Singer Band Female Singer Drama Comedy Drama Comedy 2000 Michal Dočolomanský (2×CW) Zdena Studenková (6×CW) Jozef Ráž Jana Kirschner 2001 Miroslav Žbirka (5×CW) Marika Gombitová 2002 Július Satinský Misha (2×CW) 2003 Michal Dočolomanský 2004 Maroš Kramár (2×CW) Zuzana Smatanová (2×CW) 2005 2006 Janko Kroner Zuzana Fialová (2×CW) Mário Kollár (5×CW) Katarína Knechtová (2×CW) 2007 Tomáš Maštalír (2×CW) 2008 Diana Mórová Jana Kirschner (3×CW) 2009 Janko Kroner Petra Polnišová 2010 Ján Koleník (2×CW) Lukáš Latinák (2×CW) Emília Vášáryová Petra Polnišová (2×CW) 2011 Diana Mórová Marián Čekovský Nela Pocisková 2012 Ján Koleník Ján Jackuliak Monika Hilmerová Miroslav Žbirka Celeste Buckingham 2013 Lukáš Latinák Marcel Chlpík Helena Krajčiová (2×CW) Fragile (3×CW) (3×CW) 2014 Juraj Kemka Zuzana Šebová (2×CW) Adam Ďurica (3×CW) 2015 Daniel Heriban Kristína (2×CW) 2016 Michal Hudák (2×CW) Tatiana Pauhofová IMT Smile (2×CW) 2017 Lujza Garajová Schrameková Ondrej Kandráč Mária Čírová "CW" = continuously running wins per category
TV programming and special categories PROGRAMMING SPECIAL1 Program Show Series Overall winner Hall of Fame Drama Comedy2 EuroTelevízia Život 3 Plus 7 dní 2000 Dereš Jarmila Lajčáková (2×CW) Jozef Kroner 2001 Milionár Katarína Kolníková 2002Je to možné!? Soňa Müllerová Ladislav Chudík 2003 Uragán IQ Test národa Zdena Studenková (2×CW) Eva Krížiková 2004 SK hľadá SuperStar (2×CW) Dievča za milión Milan Lasica 2005 S.O.S. V politike Maroš Kramár Pavol Mikulík 2006 Susedia (2×CW) Susedia (2×CW) Naj. krimin. prípady Peter Marcin Mária Kráľovičová 2007 MafStory Petra Polnišová Karol Machata 2008 Slovensko má talent Modré z neba (2×CW) Ordinácia v ružovej Mesto tieňov Mário Kollár Emília Vášáryová 2009 ČS SuperStar záhrade (2×CW) Martin Mózer Adela Banášová Štefan Kvietik 2010 ČS má talent Partička (3×CW) Profesionáli Téma dňa (P. Bielik) Lukáš Latinák Stanislav Dančiak 2011 Srdce pre deti (3×CW) Panelák (2×CW) Jozef Kubáni Petra Polnišová Dušan Gabáni 2012 Marcel Merčiak Marcel Merčiak (2×CW) Magda Paveleková 2013 Milujem Slovensko(4×CW) Búrlivé víno (2×CW) Pavol Barabáš Juraj Kukura 2014 V siedmom nebi Pavel Dvořák Adela Banášová (4×CW) Marika Gombitová 2015 Chart Show Horná Dolná (2×CW) Michal Kubovčík Emil Horváth 2016 Tvoja tvár znie povedome Peter Núñez Božidara Turzonovová 2017 Extrémne premeny Zem spieva Naši Inkognito Milan Kňažko "CW" = continuously running wins per category Notes 1 The KRAS Award for TV Program Branding was given only for the year of 2008, and in favor of the Vilomeniny show. 2 Genre's awards within the Series category were held only at the 10th edition of the show with Profesionáli winning as the Comedy in 2009. 3 Alongside the 2007 Život Award-winner, Téma dňa was awarded for a special achievement within the annual category.
Superlatives Winners
10 awards Adela Vinczeová (née Banášová)Ю‡
9 awards Marcel MerčiakЮ‡Ž
7 awards Miroslav Žbirka Patrik Herman
6 awards Zdena StudenkováЮ Lenka Čviriková (née Hriadelová)‡
5 awards Zlatica Švajdová (née Puškárová) Mário KollárЮ Lucia Barmošová
4 awards Jozef Nodžák Jana Kirschner Petra PolnišováЮΨ Peter Varinský‡ Jozef KubániŽ
3 awards Soňa MüllerováЮ Jozef Pročko Michal Dočolomanský Daniel Krajcer‡ Aneta Parišková Martina Šimkovičová (née Bartošíková)‡ Jarmila Lajčáková (née Hargašová)ЮΨ Ján Koleník‡ Lukáš LatinákЮ‡ Celeste Buckingham Fragile Adam Ďurica Tomáš Maštalír
2 awards Misha Maroš KramárЮ Zuzana Smatanová Peter MarcinЮ‡ Zuzana Fialová Katarína Knechtová Janko Kroner Diana MórovᇠAndrej Bičan Zuzana Šebová Adriana Kmotríková Kristína Michal Hudák IMT Smile
1 award Eva Černá Jozef Ráž Marika Gombitová┼ Miroslav Michalech Július Satinský† Jana Majeská Viliam Rozboril Rastislav Žitný Emília Vášáryová┼ Martin Rausch Marián Čekovský Nela Pocisková Monika Hilmerová Ján Jackuliak Helena Krajčiová Marcel Chlpík Ján Mečiar Danica Kleinová Juraj Kemka Daniel Heriban Tatiana Pauhofová Leona Kočkovičová (née Fučíková)† Ľubomír Bajaník Kristína Kövešová Lujza Garajová Schrameková Ondrej Kandráč Mária Čírová
Notes┼ denotes an OTO honoree Ю denotes an overall winner of a ceremony ‡ denotes a winner in two main categories Ψ denotes a winner in three main categories Ž denotes also a winner of the Život Award † denotes an in memoriam-winner
Nominees
16 nominations Miroslav Žbirka
15 nominations Lenka ČvirikováЦ
14 nominations Patrik Herman Marcel MerčiakЩ
13 nominations Zlatica ŠvajdováЦ
12 nominations Viliam Rozboril
11 nominations Janko KronerЩΓ Ján PlesníkЦ Adela VinczeováЦ
10 nominations Zuzana Smatanová Peter VarinskýЦ
9 nominations Jana Kirschner
8 nominations Maroš Kramár Daniel KrajcerЦ Emília Vášáryová┼Ц Martin RauschЦ Petra PolnišováЩ
7 nominations Mário Kollár Andrej BičanЩ
6 nominations Zdena Studenková Michal Dočolomanský Jarmila LajčákováЩ Richard Müller Lucia Barmošová Ján MečiarЦ Jozef Kubáni
5 nominations Aneta PariškováЦ Jana MajeskáЦ Stanislav ŠčepánЦ Lukáš LatinákЦ Monika HilmerováЦ Ján KoleníkЦ Ľubomír Bajaník Zuzana ŠebováЦ Kristína
4 nominations Jozef Nodžák Peter MarcinЦ Katarína Knechtová Alena HeribanováЦ Peter Cmorik Ľuboš KostelnýЩ Diana MórováЦ Tomáš Maštalír Marika Gombitová┼ Marián Čekovský Pavol Fejér Danica Kleinová Celeste Buckingham Fragile Štefan Eisele Marcel Forgáč Adam Ďurica IMT Smile
3 nominations Soňa Müllerová Jozef Pročko Miroslav Michalech Katarína Hasprová Miloš Bubán Kamila Magálová Misha Pavol Habera Jozef Ráž Magda Paveleková┼Ц Martina ŠimkovičováЦ Zuzana Fialová Gabriela DzuríkováЩ Alexander BártaЦ Zuzana TlučkováЦ Miriam Šmahel (née Kalisová) Nela Pocisková Helena KrajčiováЦ Peter ČamborЦ Adriana Kmotríková Vladimír Voštinár Michal HudákЦ Mária Čírová Desmod
2 nominations Peter Kočiš Ivan Tásler Marianna Ďurianová Rastislav Žitný Viktória Ráková Elena VacvalováЦ Jaroslav Zápala Zdenka Predná Patrik Švajda Andrea Pálffy (née Belányiová) Ján JackuliakЦ Mária Chreneková (née Pietrová) Juraj Kemka Adam Zavřel Peter Bič Project Kveta Horváthová (née Kmotorková) Viktor Vincze Daniel Heriban Samuel Tomeček Veronika Ostrihoňová Cifrová Slávo Jurko Michal Kubovčík]]Ž Tatiana Pauhofová Emma Drobná
1 nomination Ľubomír Karásek Ladislav Chudík┼ Zuzana Kronerová Eva Černá Milan Markovič Miroslav Noga Anna Šišková Július Satinský Branislav Ondruš Zuzana Hajdu Dorota Nvotová Emil Horváth┼ Dara Rolins Martin Vanekф Igor Adamecф Petra Jurínová Milan Lasica┼ Andy Kraus Peter Batthyany Michaela Čobejová Roman Juraško Erika Barkolová Roman Luknár Martina Kmeťová (alias Tina) Zuzana Kanócz Gabriela Marcinková Miroslava Almásy Ego (alias Michal Straka) Marcel Chlpík Sabína Grláková Juraj Loj Milan Zimnýkoval Elán Leona Kočkovičová (née Fučíková)† Zuzana Mauréry Kristína Kövešová Boris Pršo Ján Tribula Lujza Garajová Schrameková Vladimír Kobielsky Ondrej Kandráč Lukáš Adamec Kandráčovci