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The Spanish Netflix phenomenon 'La casa de papel' has emerged as a great winner of the XXI Iris Television Awards by winning in the five main categories in which it was nominated: best fiction, actor, actress, direction and production .

The most viewed non-English speaking fiction on Netflix was already starting as a favorite by leading the nominations of the XXI Iris Awards of the Academy of Television and Audiovisual Sciences and Arts that have been held at the Teatro Nuevo Alcalá in Madrid on Monday , in a gala presented by Inés Ballester and Jota Abril and dedicated to the evolution of television media.

The series on the biggest robbery in the world has been imposed on 'Arde Madrid' (Movistar +), 'Hierro' (Movistar +), 'La hunting Monteperdido' (La 1), 'Matadero' (Antena 3) and 'Alleged guilty' ( Antena 3) in the category of best fiction and has also received the award for best production on behalf of Cristina López Ferrar .

Álvaro Morte and his robbery partner, Alba Flores , have won the awards for best actor and actress, respectively, for their roles as Professor and Nairobi in 'La casa de papel', although Morte could not pick up the prize and in his place was made by the director of the series, Jesús Colmenar.

Colmenar himself and his teammates, Álex Rodrigo, Koldo Serra and Javier Quintas , have won in the category of best direction thanks to the series about the band of thieves most loved by the public.

'The paper house' won last year with the best screenplay award, but in this edition it was not among the nominees and has gone to 'Hierro', the Movistar + series in which Candela Peña plays a judge relentless and Darío Grandinetti to a businessman with much to hide.

David Broncano has been chosen as the best presenter for 'La Resistencia' , the television phenomenon of the moment with the most irreverent interviews and just as entertaining has received the award the presenter, "with rancor" to Roberto Leal , who snatched it last year .

Carlos Franganillo , who recently picked up the Ondas Award, has now won the best news presenter with the Iris for the TVE TV news.

The RTVE corporation has also triumphed in the category of best program thanks to 'Cachitos de Hierro y Chrome' , the program that travels to the bowels of the RTVE archive in La 2, and in the best children's program with the special program Lunnis, 'Lunnis of Legend, Prado Museum' .

For the second consecutive year there has been a tie to votes in the category of best news, this time between 'Al Rojo Vivo' (The Sixth), which also repeats last year, and 'The 2 news' .

As the best program produced in Spain for a thematic channel, 'Spain after the war' (Dmax), the post-war documentary series with colored images, has won, while veteran José María Sánchez Chiquito has won the prize for realization for the coverage of the San Fermín 2019.

Two long-lived Spanish television formats, 'Sálvame' (Telecinco) and 'Cuéntame' (La 1), have been awarded ex aequo with the 2019 Critics Award and Belén Esteban has been in charge of collecting the prize for their program: "'Save me' is always demanded more and that has made it better and stronger. It has taken eleven years for the Television Academy to recognize some merit."

The Iris Jury Awards , which were known before the gala, have gone to Toñi Moreno "for his professionalism and closeness in his work in front of the camera" and in the La Sexta chain "for being an informative reference channel thanks to his commitment to the present and the direct ".

The TVE program, 'Prodigios' , the CMMedia program, 'The investigators' , have also received the Jury prizes, while the series 'Victim No. 8' (Telemadrid and ETB) has won the Best Award Fiction Direction Antonio Mercero.

In this same gala Matías Prats has received the Jesús Hermida Award for the trajectory of the hand of his son, Matías Prats Chacón , the ninth Iris that the presenter accumulates and that he has dedicated to the “illustrious companions” that have allowed him to share microphone and cameras, such as Rosa María Mateo, Ana Blanco or Mónica Carrillo .

In the regional categories, María Rey of '120 minutes' (Telemadrid) as the best presenter and 'The trip' (Aragon TV) as the best program have triumphed.

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