See all the winners of the Kultainen Venla gala in this story.
At the Golden Venla gala, the best television programs of 2023 and their creators were awarded today.
Prizes were awarded in a total of 24 categories. The winners of the two categories, performer of the year and program of the year, were chosen based on public voting, the members of the Television Academy voted for the others.
The audience voted for performer of the year Kai “Kaitsu” Rinkinenwas awarded as program of the year On the spectrum.
Kai Rinkinen is the performer of the year. Matti Matikainen
Kirjo has a program for the year. Matti Matikainen
One of the prizes awarded was the award for the program and documentary series of the year. It won Linda Lampenius documentary series Linda.
Lampenius was embarrassed by his award, because he was recently awarded as the vainest celebrity of the year in Finland.
In his victory speech, however, he wanted to say one thing.
– I want to send greetings to Peter Nygård to prison. The greetings are like this: Who won? Women won! Lampenius acknowledged.
See below for a list of all the winners.
Event award
UMK23 (Yle Areena and Yle TV1, Yle Creative contents and media)
Sports program of the year
Women’s World Cup 2023 (Yle Areena and Yle TV2, Yle Urheilu)
Lifestyle program of the year
Grand Designs Finlandseason 2 (MTV Katsomo and MTV3, Fremantle Media Finland)
Game show of the year
Grandmasterseason 4 (MTV Katsomo and MTV3, Rabbit Films)
Discussion program of the year
Fridayseason 8 (Yle Areena and Yle TV1, Yle News and Current Affairs)
The final broadcast of the 2023 New Music Competition won the event award. Käärijä won UMK in 2023. Elle Laitila
Screenwriter of the Year (Fiction)
Hannu Kontturi and Antti Pesonen from the series Siege (Nelonen and Ruutu, Mediawan Finland)
Director of the Year (Fiction)
Mika Kurvinen from the series Pig mafia (C More / MTV Katsomo, Kaiho Republic)
Comedy series of the year
Sunday lunchseason 4 (C More / MTV Katsomo, Yellow Film & TV)
Drama series of the year
Pig mafia (C More / MTV Katsomo, Kaiho Republic)
News and current affairs program of the year
MOT (Yle Areena and Yle TV1, Yle News and Current Affairs)
Linda Lampenius sent greetings to Peter Nygård. Matti Matikainen
Program and documentary series of the year
Linda (MTV Katsomo and MTV3, Moskito Television)
Follow-up reality of the year
On the spectrum (Yle Areena and Yle TV2, Fremantle Media Finland)
Children’s and youth program of the year
HS Children’s news (Nelonen and Ruutu, Sanoma Media Finland/news)
Competition reality of the year
Dancing with the Starsseason 16 (MTV Katsomo and MTV3, Banijay Finland)
Kirjolla was awarded as monitoring reality of the year and program of the year in the public vote. Matti Matikainen
Screenwriter of the year (entertainment, reality and events)
Jukka Lindström, Yasir Gaily, Anders Helenius, Ursula Herlin, Sara Vainio and Janne Zareff from the program A rough weeknight (Yle Areena and Yle TV1, Yle Creative contents and media)
Director of the year (entertainment, reality and events)
Jussi Korva and Olli Horttana from the program Amazing Race Finland (Nelonen and Ruutu, Moskito Television)
Musical entertainment of the year
The song of my lifeseason 5 (Yle Areena and Yle TV1, Yle Luovat omzentil ja media/Yellow Film & TV)
Entertainment program of the year
A rough weeknight (Yle Areena and Yle TV1, Yle Creative contents and media)
Presenter of the year
Katja Ståhl (Yle Areena and Yle TV1, Yle Creative contents and media/Yellow Film & TV)
Katja Ståhl is host of the year. Matti Matikainen
Lifetime Achievement Award
Rauli Virtanen
Supporting Actor of the Year
Miitta Sorvali from the series The Duke of Siposeason 3 (Elisa Viihde Viaplay, Yellow Film & TV)
Leading Actor of the Year
Elias Salonen from the series Siege (Nelonen and Ruutu, Mediawan Finland)
Performer of the Year (voted by the public)
Kai “Kaitsu” Rinkinen
Program of the Year (voted by the public)
On the spectrum