2009 International Emmy Awards Winners

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the winners of the 37th International Emmy Awards at a Gala event held in the New York Hilton, hosted by British television celebrity, Graham Norton.

A cast of international celebrities including Ed Westwick, Edie Falco, Alexa Chung, Moby, Katharine McPhee, Rachel Roy, Stephanie March, Keke Palmer, Matt Bomer, Matthew Rhys, Paul Schulze, Paula Zahn, Barbara Walters and Henry Kissinger, presented the International Emmy statue to the winners in front of an international audience of 1,000 entertainment professionals and media executives.
Winners span 6 countries across Europe, Asia and South America.

2009 International Emmy Awards Winners

Arts Programming

The Mona Lisa Curse
Oxford Film & Television for Channel 4
United Kingdom
Art critic Robert Hughes tells the story of the rise of contemporary art, and reflects on a life spent talking and writing about the art he loves, and often loathes.

Nicolas Kent (Executive Producer) and Mandy Chang (Director)

Best Performance by an Actor

Ben Whishaw
as Ben Coulter
Criminal Justice
BBC
United Kingdom
Ben, a young man, finds himself accused of murder but is unable to recall what happened. He thinks he should tell the truth but his legal team knows otherwise.

Best Performance by an Actress

Julie Walters
as Dr. Anne Turner
A short Stay in Switzerland
BBC
United Kingdom
Diagnosed with an incurable neurological disease nearly identical to the one that killed her husband, Dr. Anne Turner seeks assisted suicide in a Zurich clinic.

Children & Young People

Dustbin Baby
Kindle Entertainment
United Kingdom
Dustbin Baby tells the story of April, an adopted teenager, who sets out to find where she came from and, on the way, discovers where she belongs.

Julia Ouston (Producer) and Juliet May (Director)

Comedy

Hoshi Shinichi’s Short Shorts
Telecom Staff for NHK in association with NHK Enterprises
Japan
Author Hoshi Shinichi has written over 1,000 short stories filled with offbeat humor and trenchant wit. In this program, they find new life at the hands of young artists.

Akemi Yamamoto (Executive Producer) and Toshio Nakanishi (Executive Producer)

Documentary

The Ascent of Money
Chimerica Media Limited / Education Broadcasting Corporation for Channel 4
United Kingdom
Professor Niall Ferguson goes on a tour of world finance and demonstrates that behind every great historical phenomenon – empires and republics, wars and revolutions – there lies a financial secret.

Adrian Pennink (Series Director) and Prof. Niall Ferguson (Writer/Host)

Drama Series

The Protectors
Danish Broadcasting Corporation in association with ZDF / NRK / SVT
Denmark
The Protectors follows a special unit from the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, and their endeavors to protect the fundamental idea of democracy in a changing – and often unstable – world.

Sven Clausen (Producer) and Peter Thorsboe (Series Creator, Writer)

Non-Scripted Entertainment

The Phone
Park Lane TV Productions
The Netherlands
A phone, hidden in a public place, keeps ringing until someone takes the call. The contestant is then transported in a world only seen in spy movies.

Willem Brom (Executive Producer) and Adriaan Demenint (Executive Producer)

Telenovela

India – A Love Story
TV Globo
Brazil
The untouchable Bahuan, raised by a Brahmin, is in love with Maya. But he knows her family will be against their wedding if they find out the truth.

Glória Perez (Writer) and Marcos Schechtman (Director)

TV Movie/Mini-Series

The Wolves of Berlin
Ziegler Film GmbH & Co. KG / ZDF
Germany
The Wolves of Berlin is the story of a youth gang starting in 1948 in post war Berlin. The story follows the Wolves through the building of the Berlin wall until its fall in 1989.

Prof. Regina Ziegler (Executive Producer) and Heiner Gatzemeier (Producer)