France has big night at International Emmys<br><br>NEW YORK (AP) France had a big night Monday at the International Emmys with a leading three awards, louboutin femme led by the hit crime thriller "Engrenages" ("Spiral") which won for best drama series. But the normally festive ceremony was tempered by reflections on the recent Paris attacks by Islamic militants.<br><br>"Engrenages" Executive Producer Anne Landois noted that the production team works closely with police to offer a realistic look at the French judicial system. She thanked tiffany outlet italia the police for their response to the attacks and their efforts "to preserve our values."<br><br>"I would like to dedicate this award to ray ban sunglasses sale the victims of despair and hate, and I hope that love and generosity will win in France air max 90 pas cher and all over the world," said the show's star, Caroline Proust, who plays a police captain, in her acceptance remarks at the awards ceremony at the Hilton New York.<br><br>"Engrenages," won the Emmy for its fifth season in which its heroes try to unravel the double air max pas cher murder of a mother and child as they plunge into a world of organized crime, drugs and girl gangs.<br><br>The Emmy for arts programming went to "Illustre Inconnu: Comment Jacques Jaujard a Sauve le Louvre" ("The Man Who Saved the Louvre") about the French National Museums director who organized a resistance group to keep hogan outlet uomo thousands of artworks out of the Nazis' hands.<br><br>"This movie is mainly about art, but it's also about resistance against mbt outlet milano barbarism," said co director Pierre Pochart.<br><br>The other French winner was "Soldat Blanc" ("White Soldier"), about two young soldiers in Saigon whose friendship is shattered when they end up on opposite sides in the early days of the Viet Minh insurgency against French colonial rule, which took the Emmy for best TV movie/mini series.<br><br>The tone for evening the was set by the host, Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef, dubbed "the Jon Stewart michael kors watches outlet L of the Arab world," who paused with the joke making in his opening monologue to observe that "the world is still in a state of trauma" after recent attacks in Paris, Mali, Lebanon, Nigeria, Kenya and the Sinai in his home country.<br><br>"When people get together to celebrate art and creativity and the best of what the human race can aspire to cheap herve leger we find our capacity to heal and to grow," he said. on Jan. 3 on PBS.<br><br>McGovern said Fellowes' "all knowing hand may have led the cast into some sticky situations hogan outlet milano both upstairs and down but the michael kors uk stores wisdom, the sensitivity and the humor of his writing was never faulted at least not for those of us who outwitted what he would call the Grim Reaper."<br><br>Fellowes noted that he was a late starter who finally got his big break when director Robert Altman asked him to write the Oscar winning original screenplay for the 2001 film "Gosford Park." He dedicated his award to "all herve leger online those men and women many more talented than I am who have never been given the chance to show what they can do."<br><br>The best actor award went to Maarten Heijmans of the Netherlands for "Ramses," which chronicles the rise and herve leger sale fall of the popular Dutch singer and actor Ramses Shaffy. Norway's Anneke von der Lippe won the best actress herve leger dress sale Emmy for "Eyewitness" in which she plays a longchamp pas cher soldes 756 small town police chief caught in the middle of a murder investigation.<br><br>Britain's only win came in the tiffany outlet opinioni non scripted entertainment category for "50 Ways to Kill air max 90 Your Mammy," in which thrill seeking Irish TV presenter Baz Ashmawy brought his mother along for an extreme bucket sac longchamp pas cher list trip around the world that had her doing such daredevil stunts as skydiving and alligator wrangling. He brought his mother to the ceremony "as proof I didn't actually kill her."<br><br>"I'm the proof that it is very hard to kill an Irish mammy," said Nancy Ashmawy.<br><br>Brazil won two Emmys. "Doce de Mae" ("Sweet Mother"), which stars veteran Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro as an aging matriarch who dispenses wisdom scarpe hogan outlet online 7- to her family, won in the comedy category. "Imperio" ("Empire"), about a man who becomes wealthy michael kors outlet by smuggling precious stones only to see his empire collapse, received the Emmy for best telenovela.<br><br>South Africa's "Miners nike air max pas cher Shot Down," which covers the 2012 Marikana massacre in which government security forces fatally shot 34 striking miners, took the Emmy in the documentary category. Its director Rehad Desai dedicated the ray ban sale online award lisseur babyliss pas cher to victims of the massacre and their families "and to the continuing fight for justice and equality in South Africa."<br><br>Michael Douglas presented the honorary International Emmy Directorate Award to Richard Plepler, chairman and CEO of HBO. Douglas noted that when major studios turned the project down, HBO gave the go ahead to make "Behind the Candelabra," for which the actor won a Primetime Emmy for his portrayal of flamboyant gay pianist Liberace.
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