The 15th TVyNovelas Awards were an academy of special awards to the best soap operas and TV shows. The awards ceremony took place on May 15, 1997 in Teatro Alameda, San Ángel,

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The ceremony was televised in Mexico by

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and

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hosted the show. ''Cañaveral de pasiones'' won 10 awards, the most for the evening, including Best Telenovela. Other winners ''La antorcha encendida'' won 9 awards, ''Bendita mentira'', ''Luz Clarita'' and ''Sentimientos ajenos'' won 2 awards and ''Tú y yo'' won 1 award. Juan_Soler

Summary of awards and nominations

Winners and nominees

Telenovelas

Others

Special Awards

* Career as an Actress:

Jacqueline Andere María Esperanza Jacqueline Andere-Aguilar (born August 20, 1938) is a Mexican actress. Life and career Andere was born in a Jewish family located Mexico City on August 20 1938. Her appearances in telenovelas began with 1960's '' Vida por Vid ...

* Career as an Actor:

Ernesto Alonso Ernesto Alonso (February 28, 1917 – August 7, 2007) was a Mexican producer, director, cinematographer and actor. He was nicknamed "''El Señor Telenovela''" ("Mr. Soap Opera") because most of his work centered on telenovelas known around the w ...

* Female Singer of the Year: Lucero * Male Singer of the Year:

Enrique Iglesias Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (; (born 8 May 1975) is a Spanish singer and songwriter. He started his recording career in the mid-1990s on the Mexican indie label Fonovisa and became the bestselling Spanish-language act of the decade. By the ...

* Female Singer Career:

María Victoria María Victoria Gutiérrez Cervantes (born 26 February 1927 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Guadalajara, Jalisco) is a Mexican actress, singer, and comedian. She is best known for starring in the Telesistema Mexicano sitcom ''La criada bien criada'' and ...

* Male Singer Career: Pedro Fernández * Best Latin American Hostess with International Projection:

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Commercial Awards

* Most Beautiful Figure:

Mónika Sánchez Mónika Sánchez (born Mónika Analia Sánchez Torre on 3 December 1974 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress. Early life Sánchez was born on 3 December 1974 in Mexico City. She is the daughter of Mexican writer and poet, Fernando Sánc ...

awarded for Super Jeans Shop * Most Beautiful Skin:

Ana Patricia Rojo Ana Patricia Rojo Stein (born February 13, 1974) is a Mexican actress and singer. She is famous for her participation in many telenovelas of Televisa, like ''María la del barrio'' as Penelope Linares (1995), '' Esmeralda'' as Georgina Pérez-Mo ...

awarded for Lubrider

Absent

People who did not attend the ceremony and were nominated in the shortlist in each category: * Benjamín Cann *

Humberto Zurita Humberto Zurita (, born September 2, 1954) is a Mexican actor, director and producer. Zurita, one of 10 siblings from Torreón, Coahuila, is best known as actor, director and producer of telenovelas. Acting career He made his first stage appea ...

Jorge Russek Jorge is a Spanish and Portuguese given name. It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος (''Georgios'') via Latin ''Georgius''; the former is derived from (''georgos''), meaning "farmer" or "earth-worker". The Latin form ''Georgius' ...

(For health reasons, his daughters, Zully and Vanessa, received the award)

References

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