Borgia wins the Special Jury Prize at the Audiovisual Club’s 2011 Lauriers awards ceremony

On Monday 20 February 2012, the internationally distributed television series Borgia won the Special Jury Prize at the 2011 Lauriers Radio and Television awards ceremony.

After drawing record audiences throughout Europe (including Italy, Germany, Spain and France) at the start of the 2011-12 viewing season, the series was successfully exported to over 40 countries, including the United States (via Netflix), Israel, Latin America, Japan, South Korea and Russia.

Atlantique Productions, the Lagardère Entertainment company that produced the series (which was first aired on Canal+), would like to thank the series’ creator Tom Fontana for his talent, his generosity and his goal of raising the series’ narrative to the highest level, as well as for his extraordinary control over the creative and production chain and for all the positive energy he instilled in everyone who collaborated on the project over a two-year period.

Borgia

• A series of 12 52-minute episodes, created by Tom Fontana.
• Direction: Oliver Hirschbiegel, Metin Hüseyin, Dearbhla Walsh and Christoph Schrewe.
• Produced by Klaus Zimmermann. 
• Production: Atlantique Productions/Lagardère Entertainment (Takis Candilis). 
• Co-produced by EOS Entertainment. 
• With the participation of Canal+. 
• Music: Cyril Morin, Editions Musicales François 1er. 
• Starring: John Doman (Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI), Mark Ryder (Cesare Borgia), Stanley Weber (Juan Borgia), Isolda Dychauk (Lucrezia Borgia), Assumpta Serna (Vannozza Cattanei), Diarmuid Noyes (Alessandro Farnese), Marta Gastini (Giulia Farnese) and Andrea Sawatzki (Adriana de Mila). 
• Synopsis: Borgia is a dramatic series that recounts the rise to power of the Catalan cardinal Rodrigo Borgia and his clan, and their drive to establish a dynasty that would dominate the world. Although he was a man of faith, Rodrigo was also a slave to carnal pleasures. He not only had to foil the plots and conspiracies of his fellow cardinals and representatives of the great powers, but also had to wage a struggle to contain the rivalries that threatened to tear his family apart. Borgia is an explosive mixture of intrigue, murder, lust, politics, religion, incest, betrayal and redemption – a story as captivating and edifying as the age depicted in the series.