Seoul International Drama Awards

Seoul International Drama Awards
Country	South Korea
First awarded	2006
Official website	Seouldrama.org

The Seoul International Drama Awards (Hangul: 서울 국제 드라마 어워즈), also known as SDA, is an annual award show for excellence in television drama production based in Seoul, South Korea.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Award winners

Grand Prize

Year	Grand Prize	Ref.
2008	Missing
2009	Memoirs in China	[9][10]
2010	Shoe-shine Boy	[11]
2011	Three Kingdoms	[12]
2012	Deep Rooted Tree	[13]
2013	Prisoners of War season 2	[14][15]
2014	Kaboul Kitchen season 2	[16][17][18]
2015	Naked Among Wolves	[19][20][21]

Program categories

Winners are given the "Golden Bird Prize," and runners-up the "Silver Bird Prize."

Year	Best TV Movie	Best Mini-series	Best Series Drama	Best Juvenile Series	Special Prize	Jury Special Prize	Ref.
2006	The Violin Runner-up: What Shall We Expect Tomorrow?	My Lovely Sam Soon Runner-up: Watch for the Happiness Runner-up: Crying out Love, in the Center of the World	Qiao's Grand Courtyard Runner-up: Emperor of the Sea	N/A	N/A	Holed Slipper for Hamdani Saya Saya White Walls
2007	A Dwarf Launches a Little Ball Runner-up: Prime Suspect: The Final Act	Nodame Cantabile Runner-up: The Tudors	The Great Revival Runner-up: Remember When	Mortified Runner-up: Jump 2	The Iron Handed Phantom - Mayavi Runner-up: KHALA Word of Honor Runner-up: Remembering - Jail Bars	Can
2008	Devastation Runner-up: Kobra's Decision	Ella Blue Runner-up: Skins	Hero Without a Name Runner-up: Golden Bride	Jungle Fish Runner-up: Ballet Shoes	The Tutor Runner-up: Secrets of This House	N/A
2009	The Englishman's Boy Runner-up: The Shopping Trip	Maria Runner-up: Beethoven Virus	The Slingshot Runner-up: The Cartel	N/A	Token Fighting Spiders Eva Fonda	Taipei 24H Live a Luxurious and Dissipated Life	[9][10]
2010	The Summit Runner-up: The Day of the Triffids	The Slave Hunters Runner-up: Jin	Queen Seondeok Runner-up: Murdoch Mysteries season 3	N/A	Ghost season 2 Pavitra Rishta Where is Elisa?	Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai	[11]
2011	Shades of Happiness Runner-up: When Harvey Met Bob	Luther Runner-up: The Pillars of the Earth	In the Name of Honour Runner-up: Passione	N/A	Eagle Four The Amazing Extraordinary Friends season 5 The Dandelion	N/A	[12]
2012	Homevideo Runner-up: Calm at Sea	Great Expectations Runner-up: Sherlock series 2	The Princess' Man Runner-up: The Firm	N/A	Remembering - Fist EZEL The Bomber	N/A	[13]
2013	The Jewish Cardinal Runner-up: Welcome and...Our Condolences	Generation War Runner-up: The Half Brother	Grand Hotel season 2 Runner-up: The Chaser	N/A	The Perfect Day Salam, New York!	Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai	[14][22]
2014	Barefoot on Red Soil Runner-up: The Fat & The Angry	Mammon Runner-up: Good Doctor	Empress Ki Runner-up: Medcezir	N/A	Baby Cans Galileo season 2	N/A	[17][18]
2015	The Good Sister	Misaeng	Open Your Eyes	N/A	N/A	Deng Xiaoping at History's Crossroads Home Away from Home The American Letters	[21]

Individual categories

Year	Best Actor	Best Actress	Best Director	Best Screenwriter	Best Cinematographer	Best Music Director	Best Art Director	Ref.
2006	Michael Therriault for Prairie Giant	Lu Yuan for Watch for the Happiness	Akihiko Ishimaru for Crying out Love, in the Center of the World	Patrick Bucley for Family Portrait	Kim Seung-hwan for Emperor of the Sea	Taro Iwashiro for The Violin	Min Eon-ok for Princess Hours
2007	Takuya Kimura for The Grand Family	Helen Mirren for Prime Suspect: The Final Act	Takeuchi Hideki for Nodame Cantabile	Frank Deasy for Prime Suspect: The Final Act	Shi Luan for The Great Revival	Takeuchi Hideki for Nodame Cantabile	Lee Cheol-ho for Hwang Jini
2008	Dvir Benedek for The Tutor	Pan Li-li for Artemisia	Carlos Sedes, Manuel Palacios for Missing	Gao Mantang, Sun Jianye for Chuang Guandong	Piotr Wojtowicz for Let's Go to the Movies Tomorrow	Braam Du Toit, Ronelle Loots for Ella Blue	Huo Wan for Hero Without a Name
2009	Akira Kume for The Shopping Trip	Charlotte Frogner for Maria	Duane Clark for XIII: The Conspiracy	Marc Didden for The Emperor of Taste	N/A	N/A	N/A	[9][10][23][24]
2010	Carl-Kristian Rundman for Easy Living	Margôt Ros, Maike Meijer for Tower C	Nick Copus for The Summit	Craig Warner for The Last Days of Lehman Brothers	N/A	N/A	N/A	[11]
2011	Chen Jianbin for Three Kingdoms	Na Moon-hee for It's Me, Grandma	Miguel Alexandre for Shades of Happiness	Albert Espinosa for The Red Band Society	N/A	N/A	N/A	[8][12]
2012	Jonas Nay for Homevideo	Christine Neubauer for Hanna's Decision	Brian Kirk for Great Expectations	Sarah Phelps for Great Expectations	N/A	N/A	N/A	[13]
2013	Lee Moon-sik for Sangkwon	Lucy Liu for Elementary	Philipp Kadelbach for Generation War	Lars Lundström for Real Humans	N/A	N/A	N/A	[14][22]
2014	Edgar Selge for A Blind Hero - The Love of Otto Weidt	Kim Hee-ae for Secret Love Affair	Cecilie Mosli for Mammon	María Jaén for Barefoot on Red Soil	N/A	N/A	N/A	[17][18]
2015	Engin Akyürek for Kara Para Aşk	Simona Stašová for The Self Lover	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	[21]

Outstanding Korean Drama Prize categories

Year	Grand Prize	Excellent Korean Drama	Outstanding Korean Drama	Outstanding Korean Actor	Outstanding Korean Actress	Outstanding Korean Director	Outstanding Korean Screenwriter	Outstanding Korean Drama OST	Ref.
2010	The Slave Hunters	N/A	N/A	Jang Hyuk for The Slave Hunters Lee Byung-hun for IRIS	Go Hyun-jung for Queen Seondeok Han Hyo-joo for Brilliant Legacy	Kwak Jung-hwan for The Slave Hunters	Kim Young-hyun, Park Sang-yeon for Queen Seondeok	N/A	[2][11][25]
2011	N/A	Mary Stayed Out All Night	Sungkyunkwan Scandal	Park Yoochun for Sungkyunkwan Scandal	Moon Geun-young for Mary Stayed Out All Night	Shin Woo-chul for Secret Garden	Kim Eun-sook for Secret Garden	Baek Ji-young for "That Woman" (Secret Garden)	[5][12]
2012	N/A	Rooftop Prince	The King 2 Hearts	Park Yoochun for Rooftop Prince	Han Ji-min for Rooftop Prince	N/A	N/A	Kim Tae-yeon for "Missing You Like Crazy" (The King 2 Hearts)	[13][26][27]
2013	N/A	Arang and the Magistrate	Queen of Ambition	Lee Joon-gi for Arang and the Magistrate	Bae Suzy for Gu Family Book	N/A	N/A	Kim Jaejoong for "Living Like a Dream" (Dr. Jin)	[15][22][28]
2014	N/A	My Love from the Star	The Heirs	Kim Soo-hyun for My Love from the Star	N/A	N/A	N/A	Lyn for "My Destiny" (My Love from the Star)	[17][18][29]
2015	N/A	Kill Me, Heal Me	Gunman in Joseon Pinocchio	Lee Joon-gi for Gunman in Joseon	Hwang Jung-eum for Kill Me, Heal Me	N/A	N/A	Taeyeon for "Love, That One Word" (You're All Surrounded)	[20][21]

People's Choice awards

Year	Most Popular Foreign Drama of the Year	Popular Drama	Popular Actor	Popular Actress	New Trend Award	Asia Star Grand Award	Asia Star Award	Mango TV Popularity Award	Ref.
2008	N/A	Time Between Dog and Wolf	Lee Joon-gi for Time Between Dog and Wolf	Nam Sang-mi for Time Between Dog and Wolf	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2009	CSI Doctor Who series 4	Boys Over Flowers	Kim Hyun-joong for Boys Over Flowers	Moon Geun-young for Painter of the Wind	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	[9][30][31][32]
2010	NCIS season 7	N/A	Lee Seung-gi for Brilliant Legacy	Ruby Lin for Beauty's Rival in Palace Charmaine Sheh for Beyond the Realm of Conscience	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	[8]
2011	The Walking Dead	N/A	Park Yoochun for Sungkyunkwan Scandal Ryunosuke Kamiki for Threads of Our Hearts Yu Xiaotong for The Dream of Red Mansions	Jian Man-shu for Where the Rain Never Stops Charmaine Sheh for Can't Buy Me Love	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	[12]
2012	Bu Bu Jing Xin	N/A	Park Yoochun for Rooftop Prince Nicky Wu for Bu Bu Jing Xin	Aoi Miyazaki for Lady Butterfly - Daughter of a Samurai Wang Ding-zhu for Days We Stared at the Sun	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	[13]
2013	Mistresses	N/A	Jung Yunho for Queen of Ambition Nicky Wu for Chinese Detective Renn Kiriyama for Switch Girl!! season 2	Ya-chi Hsu for Are You Christine?	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	[14][22]
2014	Sherlock series 3	N/A	Kim Soo-hyun for My Love from the Star Joe Cheng for Love Actually Hu Ge for Life Revelation	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	[33][34]
2015	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Marco Polo Chosen season 3	Joe Odagiri Wallace Chung Ariel Lin Chen Bolin	Hans Zhang Aaron Yan Ryunosuke Kamiki	Lee Min-ho Choo Ja-hyun The One	[21]

Special Awards

Year	Category	Recipient	Ref.
2008	Star Hall of Fame	Choi Bool-am	[1]
2009	Star Hall of Fame	Choi Ji-woo	[1][35]
2015	10th Anniversary Hallyu Achievement Award	Lee Young-ae Lee Byung-hoon Lee Min-ho	[21]
	Special Invitation	Shinya Shokudō season 3

See also

• Shanghai Television Festival
• International Drama Festival in Tokyo

References

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External links

• Official website