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Altyn-Zhylky is on IradOne tonight from 19:00. Film, music, books, the gold horse statuettes. Who is watching?

I am watching for the dresses and for the moment, every year, when a microphone dies.

I am watching to see who the DPI gives the gold horses to this year. Prediction: whoever sang at the election concert. 88.74% of the prizes to the usual people.

WAKE UP IRAD

I will make a page on the portal with ALL the winners!! Every year from now. Starting with this one.

sorry if broken

Microphone died at 21:09. Tradition kept. The lady getting the novel prize just kept talking with no sound for two minutes. Nobody stopped her. Big applause anyway. Best speech of the night.

Good evening (good morning here). I watched the stream in Chicago with my coffee. It froze four times, but I saw the country-folk prize. The young man thanked his grandmother, and then the St. Luka mission nurses who looked after his father on the summer pasture. I did not expect to be moved at seven in the morning.

Ak, with respect, I don't think a young man thanking some nurses is a DPI plot.

The mission is paid with Swift Hooves money. Swift Hooves money comes through IradOne. IradOne is the DPI. Follow the money Uncle. Follow it to the end, not to the nurses.

WAKE UP IRAD

Altyn-Zhylky 2012. The film category is, as always, three restorations and one documentary about a dam. I am rooting for the Zarina restoration.

Sadikov is in the hall. They showed him for one second, row three.

They showed old Sadikov again. The whole hall stood. I stood up in my kitchen. My wife asked why. I said: because they did.

Zarina restoration won. I am not crying. I am a professional.

Music prize: a man with a komuz and a man with a guitar. Nice men, both. Mor-Wave not nominated. Mor-Wave is never nominated. Thirteen years.

IradOdin is showing it with a Russian voiceover over the speeches. The voiceover man gave up after an hour and now says "he thanks his mother" for every winner.

To be fair to him, they all thank their mother.

tüntolk re-formed this year. If they are nominated tonight I will eat my Polivoks.

Not nominated. Polivoks safe.

The host's dress tonight looked like a shyrdak that lost a fight. I mean this as a compliment. Mostly.

First year with IradOne's new exclusive rights. Result: four ad breaks before the first prize. I have seen the same Talasbank advert eleven times. I could perform it.

Alikhan's first awards. Watch. In two years every gold horse goes to somebody from his youth channel. Remember I said it. Screenshot it. They will delete this forum before they admit it.

Point of order: the Altyn-Zhylky rules (yes, I have read them) say the jury is "independent of the broadcaster". The rules do not define "independent". I'll leave that there.

Herald's piece for the twentieth: Twenty years of the Golden Horse. They forgot the 2003 tie. I didn't.

Akyrky Ashuu won the television drama prize. Deserved. Episode six, the pass in the snow.

Ak would have said it was rigged. I miss arguing with him a little. Very little.

The horses in Akyrky Ashuu were Chongtor. Correct horses for that pass. Prize deserved.

In memoriam opened with Sadikov. They played ten seconds of the last ride from Desert Sun's Rebellion. Not enough. Never enough.

WHITE STALLION IN FOG. BEST ALBUM.

tüntolk not in the hall. Somebody from the label took the gold horse and read one line from Mira: "Thank the boiler."

THANK THE BOILER. I need this on a shirt. Twenty years of standing in steam and it's one line on state television.

The archbishop's people were in the front row. They clapped for the Akyrky Ashuu actors and folded their hands for the tüntolk prize. Both clearly on camera. That is Iradi theology in one shot.