Brazil, Germany Dominate International Emmy Nominees

CANNES, October 9: At a press conference in Cannes today,
the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the
nominees for the 34th International Emmy Awards, with Brazil and Germany each
receiving a record five nominations.

There are a total of 36 nominees in nine categories,
spanning nine countries. Winners will be announced at a ceremony on November
20, 2006 at the Hilton New York Hotel.

In addition to the presentation of the International Emmy
Awards, the Academy will present two special awards. The International Emmy
Founders Award will be presented to Steven Spielberg, and the International
Emmy Directorate Award will be presented to CME and Ronald S. Lauder.

In arts programming, the nominees are I Am Dali: Secrets
of a Genius from NHK, John Peel's
Record Box from Initial in the U.K.,
Knowledge is the Beginning from ZDF/ARTE
Germany and Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music from BBC Bristol.

For best performance by an actor, the nominees are Bernard
Farcy for De Gaulle, Bernard Hill for A
Very Social Secretary, Shen Lin for
Feng Qi's Confession and Ray Winstone for Vincent. Actress nods went to Lucy Cohu for The
Queen’s Sister, Maryam Hassouni for Offers, Heike Makatsch for Against All Odds (Margarete Steiff) and Imelda Staunton for My Family and
Other Animals.

In children and young people, Boys Will Be Boys from Monster Film for NRK is up against Elias
– The Little Rescue Boat from
Filmkameratene, Johnny and the Bomb
from the U.K.’s Childsplay Television and Sugar Rush from Shine for Channel 4.

The comedy nominees are the BBC’s Little Britain, Sony Pictures Film’s und Fernseh’s Paare, Globo TV’s The Amateurs, and talkbackTHAMES’ The I.T. Crowd.

In documentaries, the contenders are 9/11 The Falling Man from Darlow Smithson Productions, Hiroshima from BBC/TFI/ZDF/Discovery Channel, How
Putin Came To Power from Wilton Films/Quark
Productions/ARTE France and The Search for Happiness from Filmquadrat GmbH/Westdeutscher Rundfunk.

Drama nods went to Life on Mars (Kudos Film & TV Ltd.), Little Missy (Globo TV), Mandrake (Conspiração Filmes Entretenimento/HBO Ole) and Vincent
(Granada).

The non-scripted entertainment nominees are Big Brother
Brazil 6 from TV Globo/Endemol, Ramsay's
Kitchen Nightmares from Optomen Television,
Supernanny from Ricochet and The
Strict School of the Fifties from ZDF.

In the TV movie/mini-series category, HBO Ole Original’s Filhos
do Carnaval is up against Nuit
Noire, October 17, 1961 from Cipango, The
Crown Princess from AB Svensk Filmindustri
and the BBC/Power co-production The Virgin Queen.