NEW YORK (AP) – Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench received International Emmy nominations Monday for their roles in the BBC One TV movie “Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot.”
Brazil had a leading seven nominations, followed by Britain with six, including best actor and actress for Hoffman and Dench.
The two Oscar-winning acting veterans were honored for their roles in “Esio Trot,” based on Dahl’s children’s novel about a lonely aging bachelor who tries to woo the widow in the flat below, who is overly fond of her pet tortoise.
Germany had five nominations, including best TV movie/miniseries and best actor (Florian Stetter) for “Nackt Unter Wolfen (Naked Among Wolves),” an adaptation of the novel by East German author Bruno Apitz about prisoners in the Buchenwald concentration camp who risk their lives to hide a Polish-Jewish boy.
Canada and South Korea each had three nominations, while Argentina, France and the Philippines had two apiece.