47th Primetime Emmy Awards

• Frasier (NBC)
• Friends (NBC)
• The Larry Sanders Show (HBO)
• Mad About You (NBC)
• Seinfeld (NBC)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Drama Series}}

• NYPD Blue (ABC)
• Chicago Hope (CBS)
• ER (NBC)
• Law & Order (NBC)
• The X-Files (Fox)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special}}

• Barbra Streisand: The Concert (HBO)
• The 67th Annual Academy Awards (ABC)
• AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Steven Spielberg (NBC)
• A Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman (NBC)
• Eagles: Hell Freezes Over (MTV)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Miniseries}}

• Joseph (TNT)
• Buffalo Girls (CBS)
• Children of the Dust (CBS)
• Martin Chuzzlewit (PBS)
• A Woman of Independent Means (NBC)

• Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Frasier Crane in Frasier (NBC) (Episode: "Adventures in Paradise", Part 2)
• John Goodman as Dan Conner in Roseanne (ABC) (Episode: "The Blaming of the Shrew")
• Paul Reiser as Paul Buchman in Mad About You (NBC) (Episode: "Cake Fear")
• Jerry Seinfeld as Jerry Seinfeld in Seinfeld (NBC) (Episode: "The Diplomat's Club")
• Garry Shandling as Larry Sanders in The Larry Sanders Show (HBO) (Episode: "The Mr. Sharon Stone Show")

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series}}

• Candice Bergen as Murphy Brown in Murphy Brown (CBS) (Episode: "Requiem for a Crew Guy")
• Roseanne Barr as Roseanne Conner in Roseanne (ABC) (Episode: "Thanksgiving 1994")
• Ellen DeGeneres as Ellen Morgan in Ellen (ABC) (Episode: "The Spa")
• Helen Hunt as Jamie Buchman in Mad About You (NBC) (Episode: "The Ride Home")
• Cybill Shepherd as Cybill Sheridan in Cybill (CBS) (Episode: "Virgin, Mother, Crone")

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series}}

• Kathy Baker as Jill Brock in Picket Fences (CBS) (Episode: "Frogman Returns")
• Claire Danes as Angela Chase in My So-Called Life (ABC) (Episode: "Pilot")
• Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote (CBS) (Episode: "Dear Deadly")
• Sherry Stringfield as Dr. Susan Lewis in ER (NBC) (Episode: "Motherhood")
• Cicely Tyson as Carrie Grace Battle in Sweet Justice (NBC) (Episode: "In the Name of the Sun")

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special}}

• Glenn Close as Margarethe Cammermeyer in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (NBC)
• Sally Field as Bess Gardner Steed in A Woman of Independent Means (NBC)
• Anjelica Huston as Calamity Jane in Buffalo Girls (CBS)
• Diane Keaton as Amelia Earhart in Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight (TNT)
• Alfre Woodard as Berniece Charles in The Piano Lesson (CBS)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series}}

• David Hyde Pierce as Dr. Niles Crane in Frasier (NBC) (Episodes: "Flour Child" + "An Affair to Forget")
• Jason Alexander as George Costanza in Seinfeld (NBC) (Episodes: "The Gymnast" + The Race)
• Michael Richards as Cosmo Kramer in Seinfeld (NBC) (Episodes: "The Jimmy" + "The Fusilli Jerry")
• David Schwimmer as Dr. Ross Geller in Friends (NBC) (Episodes: "The One with the Sonogram at the End" + "The One with the Blackout")
• Rip Torn as Arthur in The Larry Sanders Show (HBO) (Episodes: "Like No Business I Know" + "Arthur's Crisis")

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series}}

• Christine Baranski as Maryann Thorpe in Cybill (CBS) (Episode: "Starting on the Wrong Foot")
• Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay in Friends (NBC) (Episodes: "The One with the Monkey" + "The One with Two Parts: Part 1")
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes in Seinfeld (NBC) (Episodes: "The Beard" + "The Fusilli Jerry")
• Laurie Metcalf as Jackie Harris in Roseanne (ABC) (Episodes: "Bed and Bored" + "Single Married Female")
• Liz Torres as Mahalia Sanchez in The John Larroquette Show (NBC) (Episodes: "Faith" + "In the Pink")

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series}}

• Julianna Margulies as Carol Hathaway in ER (NBC) (Episodes: "Make of Two Hearts" + "Sleepless in Chicago")
• Barbara Babcock as Dorothy Jennings in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (CBS) (Episode: "Ladies Night")
• Tyne Daly as Alice Henderson in Christy (CBS) (Episode: "The Hunt")
• Sharon Lawrence as Sylvia Costas in NYPD Blue (ABC) (Episodes: "Travels With Andy" + "Un-American Graffiti")
• Gail O'Grady as Donna Abandando in NYPD Blue (ABC) (Episodes: "A Murder With Teeth In It" + "Un-American Graffiti")

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special}}

• Judy Davis as Diane in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (NBC)
• Shirley Knight as Peggy Buckey in Indictment: The McMartin Trial (HBO)
• Sônia Braga as Regina De Carvalho in The Burning Season (HBO)
• Sissy Spacek as Spring Renfro in The Good Old Boys (TNT)
• Sada Thompson as Virginia McMartin in Indictment: The McMartin Trial (HBO)

• Frasier (NBC): "The Matchmaker" – David Lee
• Friends (NBC): "The One with the Blackout" – James Burrows
• The Larry Sanders Show (HBO): "Hank's Night in the Sun" – Todd Holland
• The Nanny (CBS): "Canasta Master" – Lee Shallat Chemel
• Seinfeld (NBC): "The Jimmy" – Andy Ackerman

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Drama Series}}

• ER (NBC): "Love's Labor Lost" – Mimi Leder
• Chicago Hope (CBS): "Life Support" – Lou Antonio
• ER (NBC): "Pilot" – Rod Holcomb
• My So-Called Life (ABC): "Pilot" – Scott Winant
• NYPD Blue (ABC): "Innuendo" – Mark Tinker

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Miniseries or a Special}}

• The Burning Season (HBO) – John Frankenheimer
• Citizen X (HBO) – Chris Gerolmo
• Indictment: The McMartin Trial (HBO) – Mick Jackson
• The Piano Lesson (CBS) – Lloyd Richards
• Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (NBC) – Jeff Bleckner

• Frasier (NBC): "An Affair to Forget" – Chuck Ranberg and Anne Flett-Giordano
• Frasier (NBC): "The Matchmaker" – Joe Keenan
• Friends (NBC): "The One Where Underdog Gets Away" – Jeff Greenstein and Jeff Strauss
• The Larry Sanders Show (HBO): "Hank's Night in the Sun" – Peter Tolan
• The Larry Sanders Show (HBO): "The Mr. Sharon Stone Show" – Garry Shandling and Peter Tolan

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Drama Series}}

• ER (NBC): "Love's Labor Lost" – Lance Gentile
• ER (NBC): "Pilot" – Michael Crichton
• My So-Called Life (ABC): "Pilot" – Winnie Holzman
• NYPD Blue (ABC): "Simone Says" – {{StoryTeleplay|s=Steven Bochco, David Milch and Walon Green|t=Walon Green and David Milch}}
• The X-Files (Fox): "Duane Barry" – Chris Carter

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Miniseries or a Special}}

• Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (NBC) – Alison Cross
• The Burning Season (HBO) – {{StoryTeleplay|s=William Mastrosimone|t=William Mastrosimone, Michael Tolkin and Ron Hutchinson}}
• Citizen X (HBO) – Chris Gerolmo
• Indictment: The McMartin Trial (HBO) – Abby Mann and Myra Mann
• The Piano Lesson (CBS) – August Wilson

|+Networks with multiple major nominations"Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.

| NBC

| 56

| CBS

| 32

| HBO

| 27

| ABC

| 20

|+Programs with multiple major nominations

| ER

| rowspan="2"|Drama

| NBC

| 11

| NYPD Blue

| ABC

| 7

| The Burning Season

| Movie

| HBO

| rowspan="5"|6

| Frasier

| Comedy

| NBC

| Indictment: The McMartin Trial

| Movie

| rowspan="2"|HBO

| The Larry Sanders Show

| rowspan="2"|Comedy

| Seinfeld

| NBC

| Citizen X

| Movie

| HBO

| rowspan="4"|5

| Friends

| Comedy

| NBC

| The Piano Lesson

| rowspan="2"|Movie

| CBS

| Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

| NBC

| Chicago Hope

| Drama

| CBS

| 4

| Barbra Streisand: The Concert

| Variety

| HBO

| rowspan="5"|3

| Buffalo Girls

| Miniseries

| CBS

| Mad About You

| Comedy

| NBC

| My So-Called Life

| Drama

| rowspan="3"|ABC

| Roseanne

| Comedy

| The 67th Annual Academy Awards

| Variety

| rowspan="10"|2

| Cybill

| Comedy

| CBS

| Dennis Miller Live

| Variety

| HBO

| Joseph

| Miniseries

| TNT

| Late Show with David Letterman

| Variety

| rowspan="2"|CBS

| Picket Fences

| Drama

| Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher

| rowspan="2"|Variety

| Comedy Central

| The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

| rowspan="2"|NBC

| A Woman of Independent Means

| Miniseries

| The X-Files

| Drama

| Fox

|+Networks with multiple major awards"Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.

| NBC

| 12

| HBO

| 8

| CBS

| 5

| ABC

| 2

|+Programs with multiple major awards

| Frasier

| Comedy

| rowspan="3"|NBC

| 5

| ER

| Drama

| rowspan="2"|3

| Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

| Movie

| Barbra Streisand: The Concert

| Variety

| rowspan="3"|HBO

| rowspan="4"|2

| The Burning Season

| rowspan="2"|Movie

| Indictment: The McMartin Trial

| Picket Fences

| Drama

| CBS