{"id":448,"date":"2011-11-21T13:25:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T18:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iemmys.wpengine.com\/?p=448"},"modified":"2018-11-07T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T21:27:15","slug":"lady-gaga-opens-show-by-presenting-nigel-lythgoe-with-international-emmy-founders-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iemmys.tv\/lady-gaga-opens-show-by-presenting-nigel-lythgoe-with-international-emmy-founders-award\/","title":{"rendered":"LADY GAGA OPENS SHOW BY PRESENTING NIGEL LYTHGOE WITH INTERNATIONAL EMMY\u00ae FOUNDERS AWARD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lady Gaga Opens Show By Presenting Nigel Lythgoe With International Emmy\u00ae Founders Award <\/span><\/h1>\n

WINNERS SPAN 6 COUNTRIES: CHILE (FIRST TIME) BELGIUM, CANADA, PORTUGAL, SWEDEN AND THE UNITED KINGDOM <\/span>
\n<\/span><\/h2>\n


\nNEW YORK, November 21, 2011 – <\/strong>The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the winners of the 39th International Emmy\u00ae Awards tonight at a Gala event held at the New York Hilton, hosted by actor Jason Priestley. <\/p>\n

Winners span 6 countries: Chile (first time) Belgium, Canada, Portugal, Sweden and The United Kingdom. <\/p>\n

Lady Gaga surprised the audience of over 1,000 international entertainment & media executives by opening the show and presenting The International Emmy Founders Award to Nigel Lythgoe, the executive producer of television juggernaut American Idol and the co-creator & executive producer of So You Think You Can Dance. <\/p>\n

The International Emmy Directorate Award was presented to Subhash Chandra, Chairman of India\u2019s Zee TV by actress Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife) and Citigroup Chairman Richard Parsons. <\/p>\n

The 10 International Emmy Award Winning programs and performances are: <\/p>\n

Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne (Arts Programming), Benidorm Bastards (Comedy), Life with Murder (Documentary), Con que Suenas (Children & Young People), Lacos de Sangre (Telenovela), Millennium (TV Movie\/Mini-Series), The World\u2019s Strictest Parents (Non-Scripted Entertainment), Accused (Drama Series), Julie Walters (Best Performance by an Actress) and Christopher Eccleston (Best Performance by an Actor). Complete winners information follows this release. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe congratulate tonight\u2019s winners for their outstanding achievements as they enter into Emmy history.\u201d said Academy President & CEO Bruce Paisner. \u201cThe Academy is proud to be the preeminent global showcase for excellence in television programming and performances.\u201d<\/p>\n

2011 INTERNATIONAL EMMY\u00ae AWARD WINNERS <\/span><\/p>\n

ARTS PROGRAMMING <\/span>
\nGareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne<\/strong> <\/em>
\nTwenty Twenty Television
\nUnited Kingdom
\nGareth Malone is passionate about opera while most British teenagers are not. David Pickard, head of renowned opera house Glyndebourne, wants Malone to help him stage a brand new opera featuring untrained teenagers. Malone has just seven months to find 50 teenagers from all over southeast England and train them from scratch to match the world class standards of Glyndebourne. <\/p>\n

\nBEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR <\/span>
\nChristopher Eccleston<\/strong>
\nas Willy Houlihan
\nAccused <\/i>
\nRSJ Films for BBC One
\nUnited Kingdom
\nLapsed Catholic plumber Willy Houlihan is about to tell his wife Carmel that he’s been cheating on her when their daughter announces she’s getting married. Willy struggles both with his secret and with the costs of the upcoming wedding. He makes a pact with God that he’ll give up his mistress if God will help him with his financial difficulties. Later, Willy finds a packet containing \u00a320,000 in the back of a taxi. He bets it all in a game of roulette and wins; however, it turns out the money is all forged notes and Willy is arrested. <\/p>\n

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS <\/span>
\nJulie Walters<\/strong>
\nas Mo Mowlam
\nMO <\/i>
\nITV Studios for Channel 4
\nUnited Kingdom
\nMo Mowlam\u2019s charisma, warmth, passion, and unorthodox approach to politics helps her achieve some monumental landmarks in recent British history. <\/p>\n

\nCHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE <\/span>
\n\u00bfCon Qu\u00e9 Sue\u00f1as? (What is your Dream?)<\/strong><\/em>
\nMi Chica Producciones \/ CNTV \/ TVN
\nChile
\n\u00bfCon qu\u00e9 Sue\u00f1as? explores the world of children. What are their lives like? What makes them happy? What makes them sad? What are their dreams? The show seeks to capture their innocence, fantasies, and imagination, and explores how the places they live in shapes their lives and ways of seeing the world. <\/p>\n

\nCOMEDY <\/span>
\nBenidorm Bastards<\/em> <\/strong>
\nShelter \/ VMMA
\nBelgium
\nBenidorm Bastards is an edgy hidden camera show that follows seven senior citizens who make it their mission to trick as many young people as they can. <\/p>\n

\nDOCUMENTARY <\/span>
\nLife with Murder<\/strong> <\/em>
\nJS Kastner Productions \/ The National Film Board of Canada in association with CTV
\nCanada
\nWhen 20-year-old Mason Jenkins is charged with the murder of his only sibling, 18-year-old Jennifer, his parents are faced with the decision of whether to accept their daughter\u2019s alleged killer back into the family or to sever ties with him, obliterating their family in the process. The film follows their evolving relationship as disturbing new facts surface about the murder and Mason continues to assert his innocence. <\/p>\n

\nDRAMA SERIES <\/span>
\nAccused<\/strong> <\/em>
\nRSJ Films for BBC One
\nUnited Kingdom
\nAccused tells the stories of people accused of crimes as they sit in the holding cells on the corridor beneath a crown court, awaiting the verdict of their trial. <\/p>\n

\nNON-SCRIPTED ENTERTAINMENT <\/span>
\nThe World’s Strictest Parents<\/strong> <\/em>
\nTwenty Twenty Television
\nUnited Kingdom
\nIn each episode of The World\u2019s Strictest Parents, two unruly British teenagers leave their fraught family lives behind and spend 10 days living abroad with a strict host family in an attempt to change their behavior. <\/p>\n

\nTELENOVELA <\/span>
\nLa\u00e7os de Sangue (Blood Ties)<\/strong> <\/em>
\nS.I.C. (Sociedade Independente de Comunica\u00e7\u00e3o) \/ TV Globo
\nPortugal Two sisters are swept away by a river current. Their father manages to save In\u00eas, the older sister, but dies trying to save the younger one, whose body is never recovered. Years later In\u00eas has to fight for Jo\u00e3o\u2019s love against Diana, the sister everyone thought dead and who has returned to take revenge on In\u00eas. <\/p>\n

\nTV MOVIE\/MINI-SERIES <\/span>
\nMillennium<\/strong> <\/em>
\nYellow Bird \/ SVT \/ ZDF \/ Nordisk Film
\nSweden
\nMillennium follows investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the ruthless, anti-social computer hacker Lisbeth Salander. Together they unravel various crimes \u2013 from the mystery of a missing girl, to sex trafficking, to a far reaching government conspiracy, in which Lisbeth herself has suffered severe injustices in connection and has sworn revenge. <\/p>\n

About the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences<\/strong>
\nThe International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is a membership based organization comprised of leading media and entertainment figures from over 50 countries and 500 companies from all sectors of television including internet, mobile and technology. The Academy\u2019s yearly schedule of events includes the prestigious International Emmy\u00ae Awards Ceremony held in New York, The International Digital Emmy\u00ae Awards at MIPTV and a series of industry events such as Academy Day, The International Emmy\u00ae World Television Festival and Panels on substantive industry topics. The Academy was chartered with a mission to recognize excellence in television produced outside of the United States and it presents The International Emmy\u00ae Awards in the following fifteen categories: Arts Programming; Best Performance by an Actress; Best Performance by an Actor; Current Affairs; Children & Young People; Comedy; Digital Program: Children & Young People; Digital Program: Fiction; Digital Program: Non-Fiction; Documentary; Drama Series; News; Non-Scripted Entertainment; Telenovela; TV Movie\/Mini-Series. For more information go to www.iemmys.tv<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\nPRESS CONTACTS<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences <\/span><\/b>
\nEva Obadia
\nCommunications Director\u00a0
\n<\/span>eva.obadia@iemmys.tv<\/span><\/a>
\nT: 212-489-6969 <\/span>
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\n<\/span>The Lippin Group\u00a0 <\/span><\/b>
\nMatt Biscuiti <\/span>
\nmatt@lippingroup.com<\/a>
\nT: 212-986-708<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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