Steven Spielberg was honored for his contributions to the small screen during the presentation of the International Emmy Awards.
Spielberg said Monday at the gala awards ceremony in Manhattan, where he received this year’s International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Founders Award:
I got my start in television. I got my first break when I … was 21 years old directing ‘Night Gallery,’ so I owe a lot to television.
An Irish comedian Graham Norton, who honored television programs produced outside the US, hosted the ceremony. The award for best drama series went to the time-shifting police saga “Life on Mars,” and “Little Britain’ took the best comedy title. Veteran British actor Ray Winstone was awarded as a best actor for the British detective series “Vincent” while Maryam Hassouni, a Moroccan living in the Netherlands, won the best actress trophy for her role as a Palestinian terrorist in the Dutch TV movie ‘Offers.
A British series, “Sugar Rush,” which looks at the world of a 15-year-old lesbian, won in the children and young people category.
