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Sky Original titles were among the key winners at the Nastri d’Argento Grandi Serie 2026, receiving three prestigious awards just announced. Luca Argentero was named Best Leading Actor for Avvocato Ligas, Corrado Guzzanti won Best Supporting Actor for I delitti del BarLume, now in its thirteenth season, while the third season of Call My Agent – Italia received the Nastro d’Argento for Best Comedy Series.

The awards, assigned by the Italian Film Journalists in collaboration with the Film Commission Regione Campania, will be presented tonight, June 6, at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. All the awarded series are available exclusively on Sky and streaming only on NOW.

Luca Argentero received the award for Best Leading Actor for his performance as Lorenzo Ligas, a brilliant and unscrupulous lawyer and a true rock star of the Milan courthouse, in Avvocato Ligas. The six-episode series is based on the novel Un caso complicato per l’avvocato Ligas. Perdenti by Gianluca Ferraris and is produced by Sky Studios and Fabula Pictures, directed by Fabio Paladini. The screenplay is written by Federico Baccomo, Jean Ludwigg, Leonardo Valenti, Matteo Bozzi, Camilla Buizza and Francesco Tosco. Alongside Luca Argentero, the main cast includes Marina Occhionero, Barbara Chichiarelli, Gaia Messerklinger and Flavio Furno.

Corrado Guzzanti was awarded Best Supporting Actor for I delitti del BarLume, the long-running Sky Original production from Sky Studios and Palomar, a Mediawan Company, freely inspired by the world of Marco Malvaldi’s I delitti del BarLume book series, published by Sellerio Editore. The series is directed by Roan Johnson, who also serves as creative producer, together with Marco Teti and Milena Cocozza. The screenplay is written by Roan Johnson, Davide Lantieri, Ottavia Madeddu and Carlotta Massimi. The cast also features Filippo Timi, Lucia Mascino, Alessandro Benvenuti, Atos Davini, Massimo Paganelli, Marco Messeri, Michele Di Mauro, Enrica Guidi and Stefano Fresi.

Call My Agent – Italia, the Italian adaptation of the French cult series Dix pour cent, set behind the scenes of the entertainment industry, was named Best Comedy Series. The series stars Michele Di Mauro, Sara Drago and Maurizio Lastrico, alongside Sara Lazzaro, Francesco Russo, Paola Buratto, Kaze, Emanuela Fanelli and Corrado Guzzanti, with new entries Nicolas Maupas and Gianmarco Saurino.

The award goes to director Simone Spada, screenwriters Federico Baccomo, Camilla Buizza and Tommaso Renzoni, and producers Sky Studios and Palomar. Guest stars in the third season of Call My Agent – Italia included Luca Argentero, Michelle Hunziker, Aurora Ramazzotti, Stefania Sandrelli, Marco Bocci, Vinicio Marchioni, Francesco Montanari, Edoardo Pesce, Alessandro Roia and Daniela Virgilio, together with Miriam Leone and Ficarra & Picone.