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The Emmys keep buying what Mad Men is selling. The 1960s Madison Avenue saga won its fourth consecutive best drama series award on Sunday, while big-hearted romp Modern Family claimed its second best comedy trophy.

Modern Family producer Steve Levitan, whose picture of the US family today includes gay couples and interracial families, told of being approached during shooting by a real-life gay couple who wanted to say thanks.

"They said, 'You're not just making people laugh, you're making them more tolerant'," said Levitan, whose show received a total of five awards.

Kyle Chandler was the surprise winner in the best drama actor category for the last season of Texas football drama “Friday Night Lights.”

Julianna Margulies won top drama acting honors for The Good Wife. As part of the ER medical drama cast, she won a supporting actress Emmy in 1995.

Melissa McCarthy of Mike & Molly was honored as best lead actress in a comedy series with an Emmy and a glitzy prom queen's crown, while Jim Parsons of The Big Bang Theory earned his second trophy in the best actor category.

Moments earlier, she and her fellow nominees had broken with tradition by jumping up on stage as their names were called, led by Amy Poehler of “Parks and Recreation.”

They earned a standing ovation from many in the audience, which seemed fitting in a year in which TV shows and movies are giving women edgier leading roles. Among them is the box-office hit Bridesmaids, which featured McCarthy.

Other winners included Jason Katims of Friday Night Lights for outstanding writing, and Margo Martindale for best supporting actress for the show “Justified,” Peter Dinklage, for sci-fi fantasy “Game of Thrones,” and filmmaker Martin Scorsese, who received a directing trophy for Boardwalk Empire.

The ceremony aired by Fox opened with a pre-taped comedy sketch that generated controversy because Alec Baldwin's part was cut after he included a joke about the News Corp phone hacking scandal. Fox is a unit of News Corp.

Modern Family won four Emmys: best supporting comedy actress, best supporting comedy actor, best writing for a comedy and best direction for a comedy series.

Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell, who play husband and wife on the series, won best supporting actor honors for a comedy series.

"Oh, my God, I don't know what I'm going to talk about in therapy next week," said a shocked-looking Bowen. "I won something."

（中國日報網英語點津 Helen 編輯）

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?Christine Mallari is an intern at China Daily. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in a nearby suburb before moving for college. After recently graduating from the University of Iowa with a degree in English, Journalism and Mass Communications, she moved to Beijing to work with China Daily. Though she has been working in journalism since high school, this is her first time doing so abroad.