National “Tumar” TV Awards Winners Chosen

On March 16, 2018, National “Tumar” TV Award ceremony was held. This year, the ceremony commemorated the 60^th Anniversary of Kazakhstani TV. Together with journalists, TV staffs, public figures and pop stars, Kazakhstani TV retirees had also been invited to the ceremony and Dauren Abayev, Minister of Information and Communications, awarded them a jubilee “60^th Anniversary of Kazakhstani TV” medal.

In his welcome speech, Minister of Information and Communications extended his gratitude for their contribution to the field development.

“The Head of State always underlines the mass media special role in the country establishing and pays close attention to mass media development. This is certified by state-of-the-art infrastructure and colossal subsidies allocated for the field development”, Dauren Abayev told. 

Together with nominees, Kazakhstani TV retirees had also attended the ceremony and this year, the award hosts established a specialized award “60^th Anniversary of Kazakhstani TV: For contribution to TV development”. Sovet Makssutov got the award.

The acceptance of applications for participation lasted from January 15 to March 1 for 14 nominations. Among those nominations there was one commemorating 20^th jubilee of the capital city. And also, there were individual nominations: “Best operator’s work”, “Best TV presenter”, “Best TV reporter” and “Best director’s work”.

With a peakdown by regions, TV channels from Aktobe, Almaty, Karaganda, West Kazakhstan and East Kazakhstan regions dominated.

The largest number of applications was submitted for the following nominations: “Best documentary”, “Best educational program”, “Best social program” and “Best entertainment project”.

It should be noted that 397 applications were submitted to participate in “Tumar” 2018, of which 355 applications drawn up in accordance with the award policy requirements were accepted to be considered by the jury.  

National “Tumar” TV Awards was established by Ministry of Information and Communications of the Republic of Kazakhstan to reveal the most qualitative and up-to-date TV content; support gifted professionals; stimulate commitment to domestic TV content enhancement and develop  qualitative Kazakhstani TV.        

The list of winners:

Best News program:  “Informbureau”, 31^st channel;

Best Regional TV Channel: “Zhetyssu”;

Best Entertainment Project:  “Men Kazakhpyn” (I am Kazakh), Qazaqstan channel;

Best Director’s Work: “Bylo Delo” (“It was”) by Kuanysh Orazaliyev, KTK channel;

Best Operator’s Work: “Nayedine c prirodoi” (“Alone with nature”) by Maxim Levitin,  Kazakh TV;

Best TV Journalist: Askhat Niyazov, 1^st Channel Eurasia;

Best TV Presenter: Dana Nurzhigit, Qazaqstan channel;

Best TV Season Event: “Ulttyk Muzykalyk Zhulde” (National Music Award), Khabar channel;

Best Social Project: “Kareket” (Deed), Qazaqstan channel;

Best Educational Program: “Sokrovische natsii” (The Nation`s  Treasure), Kazakh TV;

Best Series: “Assyl Arna”, Astana channel;

Best Documentary: “Tak moglo byt`” (It might have been ), «567 Cinema»;

“60th Anniversary of Kazakhstani TV: For contribution to TV development” nomination award was given to Sovet Makssutov;

Kazakh TV channel obtained the 20^th Jubilee of Astana Medal for its “My Astana” project.