08 Oct GMA Programs Win at the 2021 Asian Academy Creative Awards
GMA Network won six (6) National Winner awards at the Asian Academy Creative Awards 2021, including recognitions for its flagship news program, 24 Oras and fantasy romantic comedy, The Lost Recipe. As National Winners, five (5) GMA shows will represent the Philippines in the Grand Awards and Gala Final this December 2021. The prestigious Asian Academy Creative Awards recognizes programs and personalities that represent and promote Asian content and creativity.
Among the national winners from GMA are:
GMA’s hit fantasy romance series, The Lost Recipe took home two national awards, namely “Best Editing” and “Best Visual or Special FX in TV or Feature Films”. It tells the story of an unsuccessful chef who travels back in time and accidentally takes a famous recipe with him back to the present, consequently erasing the restaurant empire built upon it.
GMA’s flagship primetime news program, 24 Oras is the “Best News Programme” for its Special Coverage of Typhoon Ulysses (Vamco) in Luzon.
For the fourth time, Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (One at Heart with Jessica Soho) won the “Best Infotainment Programme”. This year’s winning piece was the segment on ‘Baby Switching’ which saw the ordeal of two babies switched at birth.
Multi-awarded investigative program Reporter’s Notebook is the “Best Current Affairs Programme or Series” for its ‘Lilibeth, Sonia, Frank and Fabel’ documentary. It tackles the cases of police violence in the Philippines.
GMA’s musical-comedy-variety program, All-Out Sundays was recognized as the “Best General Entertainment Game or Quiz Programme”.