Primetime Emmy Award

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Primetime Emmy Award
60th Primetime Emmy Awards
Awarded for	Excellence in primetime television
Presented by	ATAS
Country	United States
First awarded	1949
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The Primetime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming. First awarded in 1949, they were originally referred to as just the "Emmy Awards" until the first Daytime Emmy Award ceremonies were held in the 1970s, and the word "primetime" was added to disambiguate between the two.

The Primetime Emmys generally air in mid-September, on the Sunday before the official start of the fall television season. They are currently seen in rotation among the four major networks (CBS, ABC, NBC, and FOX). However, the 2006 Primetime Emmys (broadcast on NBC) aired a few weeks early, on Sunday, August 27, 2006, in order to accommodate NBC's coverage of Sunday Night NFL Football beginning in September.

Award categories

Current awards

Primetime Emmys are currently awarded in the following categories:

Creative Arts Primetime Emmys

Creative Arts Emmys are awarded in the following categories (some of which separately recognize work based on whether a single-camera and multi-camera setup was used):

Retired awards

A number of awards have been retired throughout the years, including some that have been replaced by similar award categories in the Daytime Emmys, Sports Emmys, and other areas of recognition.

• Actor of the Year
• Actress of the Year
• Best Kinescope Show
• Best Live Show
• Best New Program
• Most Outstanding Kinescoped Personality
• Most Outstanding Live Personality
• Outstanding Live Sports Special †
• Outstanding Sports Personality †
• Outstanding Program Achievement by Individuals in Daytime Drama ‡
• Outstanding Program Achievement in Daytime Drama ‡
• Best Sports Coverage†
• Best Western Series (1958-1959 only)

_{† Replaced by a similar category in the Sports Emmy Awards}

^{‡ Replaced by a similar category in the Daytime Emmy Awards}

Leading Nominees

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MOST EMMY NOMINATIONS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL:

• Jac Venza: 57
• Hector Ramirez: 52

MOST EMMY NOMINATIONS FOR A PROGRAM:

• ER: 122
• Cheers: 117

MOST EMMYS WON BY INDIVIDUALS:

• James L. Brooks: 20
• Edward J. Greene: 19
• Dwight Hemion: 18

MOST EMMYS WON BY A SERIES:

• Frasier: 37

MOST EMMYS WON BY A MINISERIES:

• John Adams (2008): 13

MOST EMMYS WON BY A MOVIE OF THE WEEK:

• Eleanor and Franklin (1976): 11

MOST EMMYS WON IN A SINGLE YEAR BY A NETWORK:

• CBS (1974): 44

MOST EMMY WINS AS BEST DRAMA SERIES:

• Hill Street Blues: 4
• L.A. Law: 4
• The West Wing: 4

MOST EMMY WINS AS BEST COMEDY SERIES:

• Frasier: 5
• The Dick Van Dyke Show: 5

MOST PROGRAM NOMINATIONS IN A SINGLE AWARDS YEAR

COMEDY SERIES

• 30 Rock (2008): 17 nominations

DRAMA SERIES

• NYPD Blue (1994): 27 nominations

MINISERIES

• Roots (1977): 37 nominations

MADE FOR TELEVISION MOVIE

• Eleanor and Franklin (1976) and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977): 17 nominations

VARIETY PROGRAM Motown Returns To The Apollo (1985): 11 nominations

Performers with the most Primetime Emmys

• Carl Reiner won a total of nine Primetime Emmy Awards, five of which were for his work on The Dick Van Dyke Show (Outstanding Comedy Series, Program Achievement, Writing in a Comedy series and Writing in a Comedy/Variety/Music series). He also won the award for Outstanding Guest Actor for his performance on Mad About You, and two Emmys for his performance on Caesar's Hour. In 1967, he won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy/Variety/Music series, for The Sid Ceasar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special.
• Cloris Leachman's eighth Emmy made her the "winningest" female performer in Emmy history. Previously, she had been tied with Mary Tyler Moore and Tracey Ullman (although afterward, in the press room, Leachman correctly pointed that not all of Ullman's Emmys are for performing).
• Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show (1961-1963, 1966-1967).
• Kelsey Grammer has won five Emmy Awards: four for his portrayal of Frasier Crane on Frasier (1994-1995, 1998, 2004) and one for his voice-over work as Sideshow Bob on the series The Simpsons (2006). He has several other nominations as Frasier on that series as well as on Cheers and Wings (for a 1992 guest appearance). This makes him the only actor to earn Emmy nominations for portraying the same character on three different programs.
• John Laroquette also won five Emmy Awards; four (in a row) for his portrayal of Dan Fielding on Night Court and one for his guest role on The Practice.

See also

• Emmy Award
• List of Primetime Emmy Award winners
• List of Primetime Emmy Awards ceremonies
• List of African American Acting Nominations

External links

• Primetime Emmy Awards
• Emmy Gift Bags
• emmys.org - Advanced Primetime Awards Search
• Emmy Awards coverage on DigitalHit.com
• Emmy Awards Online with Emmy news, nominees and winners.