The Venice TV Award is a television prize bestowed each year in September.
Description Two weeks after the Venice International Film Festival, a team of jurors from around the world meet in Venice to select the winners of 19 categories for the Venice TV Award. The main prerequisite for a nomination is that the production was first broadcast on a television station, apart from the New Talent category. This award brings national and international recognition for quality content.Venice TV Award Jury 2020 Members Revealed 2020. LBB.
Award categories +CategoryBest Of Technical High QualityBest TV SeriesBest TV FilmDocumentaryLight EntertainmentNewsProgram PromotionBranded EntertainmentSportChildren / YouthComedyPerforming ArtsReality-TVTelenovelaCross Platform ProgrammingNew Talent (Directors)AnimationCinematographyDirection Overview of wins At the 2026 Venice TV Awards, Gold Trophies were awarded in 19 categories. Productions broadcast by the BBC won in four categories: Comedy for Dinosaur (season 2), Children/Youth for The Scarecrows' Wedding, Technology and Innovation for Parenthood, and Direction for Waiting for the Out. The Series award was presented to the Brazilian HBO Max production Oxygen Masks Will Not Drop Down Automatically. Other Gold winners included France Télévisions' Paris Attacks: Our Lives Shattered in the Documentary category, NHK's The Man Who Carried the Voices of August in the Television Film category, CBS Evening News in News Coverage, and ORF III's Opportunity Makes a Thief in Performing Arts. In Animation, Australia's ABC won the Gold Trophy for Tales From Outer Suburbia. The New Talent Award was presented to Cloud 99, a production of the National Film and Television School in the United Kingdom. Gold-winning productions represented eleven countries, while, according to the organisers, productions from 25 countries were honoured across the awards.
At the 2025 Venice TV Awards, BBC productions won three Gold Medals, with victories in Documentary for The Man Who Definitely Didn't Steal Hollywood, in Children/Youth for Crongton, in Comedy for Ludwig, and a Special Jury Prize for Atomic People. NHK secured three Golds, winning in Animation for Luka and the Flower of the Sun, in Best TV-Film for Driving into the Storm, and in Cinematography for Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth. South Korea celebrated its first ever Gold at the Venice TV Awards when Mnet’s Couple Palace won in Light Entertainment. Other international winners included broadcasters from Canada, France, the United States, Finland, Brazil, Portugal, the Netherlands and Germany.Winners announced for Venice TV Award 2025. LBB.Couple Palace Makes History as CJ ENM Scores First Korean Gold Win at Venice TV Awards. Variety.
At the 2024 Venice TV Awards, the BBC won three Gold Medals, securing victories in Light Entertainment for The Eurovision Song Contest 2023, in Animation for A Bear Named Wojtek, and in Cinematography for Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods. The UK, with a total of seven wins, was the most successful country. Sky UK, ITV, Apple TV+ and Channel 4 also received awards. Other international winners included broadcasters from France, Germany, Brazil, the United States, Spain, and Portugal. A total of 44 countries participated in the awards.Winners announced for the 2024 Venice TV Award. LBB Online.
2023 was the work of the BBC that most regularly captured the attention of the judges, securing a total of three Gold Medals. Apple TV+ and Disney+ triumphed with two Gold Medals. NHK, Japan earned two Gold Medals as well. Elsewhere, one Gold Medal went to each of the following broadcasters: CBS, HBO, TV Globo Brazil, Mediacorp, Singapore, Telewizja Polska, Viacom18, India, Televisão Independente, Portugal, and YLE, Finland and in Talent to Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti. Winners announced at The Venice TV Award 2023.. Shots.
In 2022 Sky Atlantic’s Landscapers (TV series), a four-part starring Olivia Colman and David Thewlis, was handed the award for Best TV Series. Life & Rhymes won in Light Entertainment, "Romeo & Juliet", from the Royal National Theatre in the Performing Art category and in the Children/Youth "COP26: In Your Hands", a documentary giving a voice to a diverse group of young people, allowing them to air their concerns over climate change. Other UK winners on the night included Channel 4, which was rewarded in Best TV Film for Help (2021 television film) and ITV News in the News category for its coverage of the storming of the US Capitol building. In the Comedy category was Minx (TV series), HBO Max the winner. Winners announced at The Venice TV Award 2022.. Shots. Landscapers migliori serie dell'anno per il Venice TV Awards.. Touchpoint.
In 2021, works from the United Kingdom were the most successful, winning five Golden Trophies. It's a Sin (TV series) (Channel 4), Creator: Russell T Davies was successful in TV Series. Channel 4 was also successful in Documentary with "The School That Tried To End Racism". BBC Production "Anthony" won in Best TV Film while Sky took two wins, one in Comedy Two Weeks to Live (TV series) and a second in Light Entertainment with "Rob & Romesh Vs.". Globo Brazil won three Gold Trophies (Telenovela, Cross Platform, Branded Entertainment). Productions from United States won two Gold Trophies, Australia, Portugal, and Austria, one each. Nominees and winners were rewarded from 29 countries: United Kingdom, Germany, USA, Brazil, India, France, Japan, Sweden, Italy, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Spain, Austria, Australia, Belgium, The Netherlands, South Africa, Turkey, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Israel and Singapore.Winners announced at The Venice TV Award 2022.. Shots.
2020 "The New Pope" (Sky Italy) with Jude Law and John Malkovich was successful in TV series. United Kingdom were most successful, collecting 4 Gold Trophies: Sky "Breeders" in Comedy Category, ITV "Digital Gulag" in Documentary category, BBC in Children/Youth with "The Snail and the Whale" and Endemol struck gold in the Light Entertainment Section with "Master Chef Australia". Productions from United States and Brazil won two Gold Trophies each. Nominees and Winner were rewarded from United Kingdom, France, United States, Brazil, Germany, Italy, India, Singapore, Sweden, Czech Republic, Australia, Spain, Israel, Hong Kong, Qatar, Belgium, Finland, Russia, Austria, Canada, Chile, Hungary, Japan, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Turkey.The New Pope wins Best TV Series at the Venice TV Award 2020.. Shots.
2019 Nominees from the United Kingdom were most successful, collecting 4 Gold Trophies: Sky won with "Chernobyl" (co-produced by HBO) and with "Art of Drumming" in the Performing Arts category. BBC took the Comedy award with "Don’t Forget the Driver" and also struck gold in the Youth section with "My Life I Will Survive". Rewards went as well to France, Brazil, Germany, India, USA, Singapore, Sweden, Italy, Ireland, Czech Republic, Australia, Spain, Israel, Hong Kong, Qatar, Malaysia, Lithuania, New Zealand, Croatia, Taiwan, Norway, Belgium, Finland, The Netherlands and Russia.
2018 the leading countries were United Kingdom and Germany, each with 2 Gold Trophies. United Kingdom won in Documentary with Mosul (Channel4/Mongoose Production) and Light Entertainment - Cruising with Jane McDonald (Channel 5). German Winners were 4Blocks in TV Series (TNT Series) and Generation 44 in Best TV Movie Generation 44 (ARD) produced by Zieglerfilm.Employable Me wins TV award in Venice TV Tonight."4 Blocks" und "Freibadclique" in Venedig ausgezeichnet. DWDL.TV Masterpieces Awarded at the VENICE TV AWARD 2018. LBB.
Supporting associations ACT (Association of Commercial Television in Europe) – The Association of Commercial Television in Europe represents the interests of leading commercial broadcasters in 37 European countries. ACT member companies finance, produce, promote and distribute content and services across different platforms.
egta (European Group of Television Advertising) – egta is the international trade body of multiplatform TV and audio businesses. It represents more than 180 members in over 40 markets. Based in Brussels, egta represents the interests of its members at European institutions and provides services including lobbying and European affairs, knowledge exchange and benchmarking, events and networking.
IMZ (International Music + Media Centre) – The IMZ International Music + Media Centre is a Vienna-based nonprofit organisation founded under the aegis of UNESCO in 1961 to preserve the performing arts as a cultural asset. Its mission is to promote the performing arts in and through audiovisual media. The IMZ also acts as an Ambassador for the Creative Europe programme and promotes European and transnational cultural exchange.
Gold Winners 2026 Venice TV Award +CategoryTitleBroadcasterProductionCountrySeriesOxygen Masks Will Not Drop Down AutomaticallyHBO MaxWarner Bros. Discovery and Morena FilmesBrazilDocumentaryParis Attacks: Our Lives ShatteredFrance TélévisionsINAFranceTelevision FilmThe Man Who Carried the Voices of AugustNHKNHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), WOWOWJapanNews CoverageCBS Evening News: February 14, 2025CBSCBS NEWSUnited StatesPerforming ArtsOpportunity makes a ThiefORF IIIORFAustriaComedyDinosaur Season 2BBC Scotland / BBC Three / HuluTwo Brothers PicturesUnited KingdomChildren / YouthThe Scarecrows' WeddingBBCMagic Light PicturesUnited KingdomLight EntertainmentZero StarsTLC / HBO MaxCPL ProductionsUnited KingdomReality TVLove Is Blind: UKNetflixCPL ProductionsUnited KingdomSoap/TelenovelaVitóriaSIC / OPTO / Disney+SP TelevisionPortugalSportKing Of Lies: Football’s Trillion Dollar ConSky UKDash Pictures / SKY / Matthew Lorenzo Productions / Intermission FilmUnited KingdomTitles, Branding & PromotionRohit Sharma sets the mission: Repeat History. Defeat HistoryStar Sports & Jio HotstarFirst December FilmsIndiaTechnology and InnovationParenthoodBBC OneSilverback FilmsUnited KingdomBranded EntertainmentSynergyTech & Day OnePrime Video / 3CatZebra ProductionsSpainCross PlatformTake Off The Science Challenge ShowRTLFreeLens Télévision / André Losch Fondation / Fonds National de la RechercheLuxembourgAnimationTales From Outer SuburbiaABCHighly Spirited, Flying Bark ProductionsAustraliaDirectionWaiting for the OutBBC One and BBC iPlayerSister PicturesUnited KingdomCinematographyOcean with David AttenboroughNational GeographicSilverback Films & Open Planet Studios ProductionUnited KingdomNew TalentCloud 99–National Film and Television SchoolUnited Kingdom
Gold Winners 2025 Venice TV Award