NEW DELHI: Renowned Indian filmmaker Ashok Amritraj and his Hyde Park Entertainment have won the International Emmy Kids Award for Best TV Movie/Mini-series for its production of Lost Christmas.

The award was part of the awards by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences which honoured excellence in children?s programming around the world at the inaugural International Emmy Kids Awards held in New York earlier this month.

The programme, a partnership between Hyde Park, the BBC, Impact Film & Television Ltd., and Image Nation, aired first on the BBC. The film was also nominated for a British Academy Award (BAFTA) and a UK Broadcast Award.

?I?m thrilled that we won an International Emmy Kids Award for Lost Christmas. I want to congratulate our cast and crew and our partners,? said Amritraj.

Lost Christmas is an urban fairy tale set in Manchester about how a series of tragic events are reversed one Christmas Eve, giving a young boy and those around him the happy ending they were destined.

As Chairman and CEO of the Hyde Park Entertainment Group, Amritraj has produced or executive produced over 100 films during the span of his 30-year career, with a worldwide gross in excess of $2 billion, and has won numerous awards. Recently, Amritraj?s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance made in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment and starring Nicolas Cage, grossed over $150 million worldwide. In 2013, production commenced on The Untitled Elmore Leonard Project starring Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes, and Tim Robbins, and pre-production has started on Every Secret Thing, a thriller starring Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks and Dakota Fanning, as well as Midnight Sun, a family adventure film in the vein of Free Willy, directed by Roger Spottiswoode (Tomorrow Never Dies)