‘Young Pope’, ‘Billions’ among nominees for Monte Carlo awards

THE 57TH Monte Carlo TV Festival will run from June 16 to 20. The just-unveiled list of official nominees includes “The Young Pope”, “Billions”, “Midnight Sun” and “11.22.63”.

Twelve countries are represented among the nominees. The potential US winners include the mini- series “11.22.63”, based on a Stephen King novel and starring James Franco, and the Showtime drama series “Billions”.

More surprisingly, the festival has nominated the comedies “No Tomorrow”, a new CW series which is about to be cancelled, and “Superstore”, a sitcom which has not been hugely successful in the US.

The UK is also in the running for an award with the mini-series “National Treasure”, the BBC comedy “Fleabag”, which is also available on Amazon, and the period drama series “Victoria”.

France is represented by France 2 TV fi lm “Don’t Leave Me”, about the radicalisation of young French people who go to Syria, and “Lebowitz Vs Lebowitz”, a legal series starring Clémentine Célarié.

Other nominees include “Midnight Sun”, a FrenchSwedish series, and “The Young Pope”, a series created and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, starring Jude Law, which is an international co-production between France, Italy, Spain, the UK and the US.

A total of nine Golden Nymph Awards will be handed out in the drama category at the ceremony on June 20. For the moment, only one jury member has been announced — the American actress Christina Ricci (“Z: The Beginning of Everything”, “The Good Wife”).

The nominees for the 57th Monte Carlo Television Festival Long Fiction Programme: 11.22.63 ( US) Xirgu (Spain) NSU Germany History (Germany) National Treasure ( UK) Don’t Leave Me (France) One Against All ( Brazil) Comedy Series: Fleabag ( UK) Here Come the Habibs (Australia) Lebowitz Vs Lebowitz (France) No Tomorrow ( US) Superstore ( US) Toon ( Netherlands) Drama Series: Billions ( US) La Trêve ( Belgium) Midnight Sun (Sweden and France) Nobel (Norway) The Young Pope ( Italy, France, Spain and the US) Victoria ( UK) — Relaxnews

(From left) Lior Ashkenazi, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Richard Gere, Hank Azaria and Steve Buscemi attend a screening of Sony Pictures Classics’ ‘Norman’ hosted by The Cinema Society at the Whitby Hotel on Wednesday in New York City. — AFP photo

‘The Young Pope’, starring Jude Law (pictured), an international co-production between Italy, Spain, the UK, France and the US, has been nominated for a prize at the 57th Monte Carlo TV Festival. — Photo courtesy of HBO