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The 2011 Seoul International Drama Awards ceremony held Aug. 31 at the KBS Hall in Seoul honored outstanding dramas, actors, directors and writers, drawing 204 drama entries from 37 countries.
The Chinese drama “Three Kingdoms” won the night’s Grand Prize as the “world’s best drama” for 2010 to 2011.
The Golden Bird and Silver Bird Prizes were presented to two outstanding dramas in the TV movie, mini-series and series drama categories.
In the TV movie category, Germany’s “Shades of Happiness” won the Top Excellence Award with Ireland’s “When Harvey Met Bob” bagging the Excellence Award.
In the mini-series category, “Luther” of the United Kingdom won the Golden Bird while “Pillars of the Earth” from Germany won the Silver Bird prize.
In the series category, Romania’s “In the Name of Honour” won the top prize while Brazil’s “Passione” was runner-up.
Afghanistan’s “Eagle Four” and New Zealand’s “The Amazing Extraordinary Friends 5” were given the special awards while the United States’ “The Walking Dead” was honored with the invitational award.
In the individual awards, Miguel Alexandre won as best director for “Shades of Happiness” while Spain’s Albert Espinosa bagged the best screenwriter award for “The Red Band Society."
The best actor award went to Jianbin Chen for “Three Kingdoms” while Na Moon Hee won as best actress for the Korean drama “It’s Me, Grandma."
In the Yahoo! People’s Choice online voting, singer and actor Park Yoochun, member of boy band JYJ, won the popularity award for Korea.
Other winners are Charmaine Sheh for Hong Kong, Xiaotong Yu for China, Ryunosuke Kamiki for Japan and Man Shu Jian for Taiwan.
The best Korean dramas and actors were also awarded during the ceremony.
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Information Courtesy of MB / JONATHAN M. HICAP
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