Netflix, Disney+ dominate miniseries category at Seoul International Drama Awards

Streaming platforms' original series are dominating the miniseries drama category at this year's Seoul International Drama Awards (SDA).

A still from Netflix's series ″Daily Dose of Sunshine″ [NETFLIX]

Streaming platforms' original series are dominating the miniseries drama category at this year's Seoul International Drama Awards (SDA).

The SDA 2024 announced Tuesday the nominees for its International Competition category. There are seven subcategories of the International Competition Category — TV Movie, Miniseries, Series, Best Director, Best Screenwriter, Best Actor and Best Actress.

The SDA, first launched in 2006, celebrates TV dramas and its creators from all around the world and is organized by the Korean Broadcasters Association. The event is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Seoul Metropolitan Government, KBS, MBC, SBS, EBS and CBS.

This year's 19th edition of the ceremony will be held on Sept. 25 at the Yeouido KBS Hall. It will air on SBS and livestream on YouTube.

Streaming platforms took six slots out of the 11 nominees for the miniseries category. Disney+ took up two slots with “Moving” (2023) and “The Worst of Evil” (2023), and Netflix had four nominees: “Daily Dose of Sunshine,” (2023) “3 Body Problem," “Boy Swallows Universe” and “Cigarette Girl” (2023).

Among the nominees for miniseries, three Korean dramas — "Moving," "The Worst of Evil" and "Daily Dose of Sunshine" — made the list.

A poster for the 19th Seoul International Drama Awards [SDA 2024]

Nine works were listed on the International Competition for TV Movies, including Italian TV movie “The Divine Madness of Alda Merini” (2023), British TV Movie “The Marlow Murder Club,” Korean TV movie “2:15 PM” (2023) and Japanese TV Movie “Samurai Detective Onihei: Lawless Love.”

KBS’s series “Korean-Khitan War” (2023-24) received a nomination for the Series category for International Competition, which is the first Korean series to be nominated in three years for the category since SBS’s series “The Penthouse: War in Life” (2020-21) in 2021. Other nominees include the Turkish series “Another Love” (2023-24), the Greek series “Soul Daughters” (2023) and the Chinese series “Blossoms Shanghai” (2023-24).

Actor Song Kang-ho was nominated for the Best Actor category for his recent Disney+ series “Uncle Samsik,” alongside Chinese actor Hu Ge, Australian actor Felix Cameron, Czech Republic actor Matej Hádek, Mexican actor Alexis Arroyo and French actor Tomer Sisley.

The 12-year-old actor Park Soi received a nomination for the Best Actress category. The other five nominees were Czech Republic actor Jiřina Bohdalová, New Zealand actor Robyn Malcolm, Indonesian actor Dian Sastrowardoyo, Chinese actor Yili Ma and Australian actor Phoebe Tonkin.

The award also announced its Best Director and Screenwriter nominees, including Director Jiří Strach and Screenwriter Marek Epstein for “The Saint,” Director Park In-je and Screenwriter Kang Full for “Moving," Director Han Dong-wook for “The Worst of Evil," Director Michail Charalampidis and Screenwriter Penny Fylaktaki for “Soul Daughters," Screenwriter David Benioff for “3 Body Problem" and Screenwriter Wen Qin for “Blossoms Shanghai."

The winners will be announced during the ceremony.

The SDA is also planning to hold various side events, such as a K-Drama costume experience booth and a meet and greet, on Sept. 26 and 27. The events will take place at Banpo Hangang Park in southern Seoul.

BY KIM JI-YE [kim.jiye@joongang.co.kr]