The 39th Annual International Emmys

Lady Gaga with International Emmy Founders Award Recipient Nigel Lythgoe

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The 39th Annual International Emmy Awards, hosted by Jason Priestley, was held on November 21, 2011 at the New York Hilton. Winners span 6 countries: Chile (first time), Belgium, Canada, Portugal, Sweden and The United Kingdom.

Lady Gaga surprised guests by opening the show and presenting Nigel Lythgoe with the International Emmy Founders Award. Nigel is executive producer of American Idol and co-creator & executive producer of So You Think You Can Dance.

Here are the 10 International Emmy Award Winners:

Arts Programming: Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne (United Kingdom)

Best Performance by an Actor: Christopher Eccleston in Accused (United Kingdom)

Best Performance by an Actress: Julie Walters in MO (United Kingdom)

Children & Young People: ¿Con Qué Sueñas? (What is Your Dream?) (Chile)

Comedy: Benidorm Bastards (Belgium)

Documentary: Life with Murder (Canada)

Drama Series: Accused (United Kingdom)

Non-Scripted Entertainment: The World's Strictest Parents (United Kingdom)

Telenovela: Lacos de Sangue (Blood Ties) (Portugal)

TV Movie/Mini-Series: Millennium (Sweden)

Below images taken by fashionably petite at International Emmy Awards - Press Room

Jessica Szhor with Host Jason Priestley

Danny Pino

The Directorate Award Recipient, Subhash Chandra with Presenter Archie Panjabi

Drama Series: Accused - Sita Williams and Roxy Spencer

Comedy: Benidorm Bastards - Katrien Van Nieuwenhove (middle) and Tim Van Aeist (right)

John Larroquette

Children & Young People: ¿Con Qué Sueñas? (What is Your Dream?)

Children & Young People: ¿Con Qué Sueñas? (What is Your Dream?) - Samantha Artal Susskand and Paula Andrea Gomez Vera

Arts Programming: Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne - Tim Carter and Lucy Hillman

Edward Herrmann

Telenovela: Lacos de Sangue (Blood Ties) - Guilherme Bokel and Luis Marques

Amy Hargreaves and Rick Hoffman

Documentary: Life with Murder - John Kastner and Silva Basmajian and Presenter Dan Rather

Non-Scripted Entertainment: The World's Strictest Parents - Sam Whittaker and Tim Carter

TV Movie/Mini-Series: Millenium - Soren Staermose (center front) and Susan Billberg Rydholm (2nd from left) with Presenters Jessica Szhor and Vladimir Brichta (right)

- Kim Weling