Telegatto
Telegatto awarded to Madonna in 1992
Awarded for	Television award
Country	Italy
First awarded	1984
Last awarded	2008

Telegatto (a composition of television and gatto, meaning "cat", after the trophy, which is a little statue representing a cat), was an Italian television award first conceived in 1971 following the contest Gran Premio internazionale dello Spettacolo, though the first award ceremony wasn't held until 1984. It was sponsored by the weekly magazine TV Sorrisi e Canzoni and broadcast on Canale 5. The prize was a golden cat statue with the network's initials on its face. It was inspired by a cartoon from the television series Super Classifica Show, a cult show in the 1980s and early 1990s. The award ceremony was cancelled in 2009.

On 12 March 2018, on the occasion of a press conference for the photography book dedicated to the event,^[1] and a decade after the last edition, the director of TV Sorrisi e Canzoni, Aldo Vitali, hypothesized the return of the event in Milan for October of the same year, to be hosted by Carlo Conti. The show, however, never resurfaced.^[2]

Hosts

• 1984 Mike Bongiorno, Cinzia Lenzi, Gabriella Golia, Fabrizia Carminati
• 1985 Mike Bongiorno, Cinzia Lenzi, Gabriella Golia, Alessandra Buzzi, Susanna Messaggio, Fiorella Pierobon
• 1986 Mike Bongiorno, Milly Carlucci
• 1987 Mike Bongiorno, Carol Alt, Renée Simonsen
• 1988 Mike Bongiorno, Gabriella Carlucci
• 1989 Mike Bongiorno, Heather Parisi
• 1990 Corrado, Elisabetta Gardini
• 1991 Corrado, Raffaella Carrà
• 1992 Corrado, Fabrizio Frizzi and Antonella Elia
• 1993 Corrado, Milly Carlucci
• 1994 Corrado, Alba Parietti^[3]
• 1995 Corrado, Mara Venier
• 1996 Corrado, Mara Venier^[4]
• 1997 Pippo Baudo, Milly Carlucci
• 1998 Pippo Baudo, Milly Carlucci^[5]
• 1999 Pippo Baudo, Milly Carlucci^[6]
• 2000 Paolo Bonolis, Raffaella Carrà^[7]
• 2001 Gerry Scotti, Maria De Filippi^[8]
• 2002 Pippo Baudo, Alessia Marcuzzi^[9]
• 2003 Pippo Baudo, Alessia Marcuzzi^[10]
• 2004 Gerry Scotti, Raffaella Carrà^[11]
• 2005 Suspended
• 2006 Pippo Baudo, Michelle Hunziker^[12]
• 2007 Claudio Bisio, Vanessa Incontrada
• 2008 Pippo Baudo, Michelle Hunziker

American Telegatto winners

• Dallas – 1984
• Raiders of the Lost Ark – 1985
• Quo Vadis? – 1985
• Dallas – 1985
• V- Visitors – 1985 (union of V and V: The Final Battle)
• Dynasty – 1985
• V- Visitors – 1986
• Dallas – 1986
• awarded to Joan Collins for Dynasty – 1986
• North and South – 1987
• Dallas – 1987
• Capitol – 1987 (special award)
• Dynasty – 1988
• Guiding Light – 1988
• Dynasty – 1989
• Happy Days – 1989 (special award)
• Fame – 1989 (special award)
• Loving – 1989 'special award)
• awarded to Sylvester Stallone – 1990
• awarded to Edward Asner for Lou Grant – 1990
• The Young and the Restless – 1990 (special award)
• Twin Peaks – 1991
• The Bold and the Beautiful – 1991
• awarded to Robert Mitchum – 1991
• awarded to Robert De Niro – 1991
• Miami Vice – 1992
• MacGyver – 1992
• awarded to Arnold Schwarzenegger – 1992
• awarded to Madonna – 1992
• Perry Mason – 1993
• Beverly Hills, 90210 – 1993
• awarded to Dustin Hoffman – 1993
• awarded to Michael Douglas – 1993
• Columbo – 1994
• Beverly Hills, 90210 – 1994
• Magnum, P.I. – 1994
• The Bold and the Beautiful – 1994
• Beverly Hills, 90210 – 1995
• awarded to Kirk Douglas – 1995 (Platinum Award)
• awarded to Steven Seagal – 1995
• awarded to Tony Curtis – 1996 (Platinum Award)
• Dallas – 1996
• The X-Files – 1996
• The Bold and the Beautiful – 1996
• awarded to Joe Pesci – 1996 (Platinum Award)
• ER – 1997
• The Bold and the Beautiful – 1997
• awarded to Eli Wallach – 1997 (Platinum Award)
• Murder, She Wrote – 1999
• awarded to James Coburn – 2000
• The Simpsons – 2000
• awarded to George Clooney – 2000
• awarded to Elizabeth Taylor – 2001
• awarded to Robert Wagner – 2001
• awarded to Sean Connery – 2002
• awarded to Peter O'Toole – 2002
• awarded to Ernest Borgnine – 2003
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – 2003
• awarded to Susan Sarandon – 2003

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