David Letterman's show featuring Zelensky nominated for 2023 Emmy Awards
Photo: Facebook/ Volodymyr Zelensky
The episode of the talk show "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman," which starred the Ukraine leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, was nominated for the 2023 Emmy Awards.
The list of nominees for the 75th Emmy Awards evidences this.
The show's episode with Zelensky was nominated for "Best Documentary Series or Special Issue."
The talk show team came from the USA to Ukraine for this interview. Filming took place at the Kyiv metro station "Maidan Nezalezhnosti."
The following were also nominated for the Emmy Award in this category:
- Interview"The Light We Carry: Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey";
- TV series "Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi";
- TV show "Stanley Tucci: In Search of Italy";
- TV series "United Shades of America."
About Letterman's show
Letterman is a famous American TV presenter, comedian, writer, and producer. In the 1980s, he launched the late-night talk show Late Night with David Letterman. Famous actors, musicians, politicians, and other celebrities were invited to the studio. So, Letterman's guests were prominent politicians like Bill Clinton, John McCain, George Bush, and Barack Obama at different times.
In 2018, Letterman began hosting a monthly series of one-hour programs on Netflix, consisting of extensive interviews and field recordings. Before that, the program "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction…" was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award four times.
For reference:
The Emmy Awards ceremony has been held since 1949. The first statuette was presented at the Hollywood Sports Club on January 25, 1949. The name "Emmy" comes from the word "Emmy" – the name of the cathode tube in the first television cameras. The atom held by the woman symbolizes television as science, and the wings behind her represent television as art.
Three organizations present the award:
- The American Television Academy (English Academy of Television Arts & Sciences) honors evening programs, excluding sports;
- The American National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences) awards daytime, sports, television news, and documentary programs;
- The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awards television programs produced and broadcast outside the United States.
It should be noted that the Ukrainian people became laureates of the annual German Lev Kopelev Prize "For Peace and Human Rights." The award will be presented to the mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klychko, and his brother Volodymyr Klychko, paramedic Yulia "Taira" Paevska, and the Kharkiv human rights group.
And for the Day of Statehood of Lithuania, the country awarded Ukrainian officials, including Shmyhal, Zaluzhny, and Reznikov.
