International Emmy winners

Julie Walters and Ben Whishaw picked up the top acting awards as British TV productions won five International Emmys on Monday, on a night that saw Brazil get its first ever.

Walters, 59, who recently has appeared on the big screen in the Harry Potter films and opposite Meryl Streep in the musical Mamma Mia!, was chosen best actress for A Short Stay in Switzerland.

Whishaw, 29, who recently played poet John Keats in director Jane Campion's romantic costume drama Bright Star, got the best actor award for the five-part BBC thriller Criminal Justice.

Brazil took home its first-ever International Emmy for India: A Love Story in the telenovela category. The TV Globo production shot on location at the Taj Mahal and other scenic Indian locales focuses on the forbidden love affair between young Indians from different castes.

David Frost, 70, was honoured with International Emmy Founders Award for a career dating back to the early 1960s when he hosted the groundbreaking satirical programme, That Was The Week That Was, which lampooned the political establishment.