娱乐英语新闻:"Modern Family," "Mad Men" big winners at Emmy Awards

Actor Al Pacino won the Emmy for lead actor in TV movie for his portrayal of Jack Kevorkian in HBO's "You Don't Know Jack."

For the Emmy for best supporting actor in a drama series, Aaron Paul of the "Breaking Bad" was the winner and the Emmy for supporting actress went to Archie Panjabi of "The Good Wife."

Edie Falco was named best actress in comedy series "Nurse Jackie," while Jane Lynch of "Glee" took home the Emmy for supporting comedy actress and Jim Parsons of CBS "Big Bang Theory" won best actor in comedy series.

However, CBS "The Amazing Race," which had won the Emmy for outstanding reality-competition program in consecutively seven years finally lost, as Bravo's "Top Chef" claimed the prize.

The HBO World War II 10-episode saga "The Pacific" beat out the Public Broadcasting Service's "Return to Cranford" to win the Outstanding Miniseries.

Comedy Central was also a big winner. "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" won its eighth consecutive Emmy as outstanding variety, music or comedy series, beating out NBC's short-lived "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien."

The Emmy Awards focus more on entertainment, deemed the television equivalent to the Academy Awards (for film) and Grammy Awards (for music.) The Primetime Emmys are presented in recognition of excellence of American primetime television programming.

The Emmy ceremony was shown live coast-to-coast for the first time in 1976 and are currently broadcast in rotation among the ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox networks.