9th Primetime Emmy Awards

|+ {{sronly|Programs}}

• The Phil Silvers Show (CBS){{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (CBS)
• Father Knows Best (NBC)
• The Jack Benny Program (CBS)
• Person to Person (CBS)

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Series, One Hour or More}}

• Caesar's Hour (NBC){{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Climax! (CBS)
• The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS)
• Omnibus (CBS)
• The Perry Como Show (NBC)

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Coverage of a Newsworthy Event}}

• Years of Crisis (CBS){{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Andrea Doria Sinking (CBS)
• Andrea Doria Survivors Arrive in New York (CBS)
• National Political Conventions (ABC)
• National Political Conventions (NBC)

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best New Program Series}}

• Playhouse 90 (CBS){{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Air Power (CBS)
• The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (NBC)
• The Ernie Kovacs Show (NBC)
• The Steve Allen Sunday Show (NBC)

|+ {{sronly|Lead performances}}

• Sid Caesar – Caesar's Hour as various characters (NBC){{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Jack Benny – The Jack Benny Program as Jack Benny (CBS)
• Robert Cummings – The Bob Cummings Show as Bob Collins (CBS)
• Ernie Kovacs – The Ernie Kovacs Show as himself (NBC)
• Phil Silvers – The Phil Silvers Show as MSgt. Ernest G. Bilko (CBS)

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Continuing Performance by a Comedienne in a Series}}

• Nanette Fabray – Caesar's Hour as various characters (NBC){{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Edie Adams – The Ernie Kovacs Show as herself (NBC)
• Gracie Allen – The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as Gracie Allen (CBS)
• Lucille Ball – I Love Lucy as Lucy Ricardo (CBS)
• Ann Sothern – Private Secretary as Susie McNamara (CBS)

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Continuing Performance by an Actress in a Dramatic Series}}

• Loretta Young – The Loretta Young Show as herself (NBC){{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Jan Clayton – Lassie as Ellen Miller (CBS)
• Ida Lupino – Four Star Playhouse as various characters (CBS)
• Peggy Wood – Mama as Mama (CBS)
• Jane Wyman – Jane Wyman Theatre as herself (NBC)

|+ {{sronly|Supporting performances}}

• Carl Reiner – Caesar's Hour as various characters (NBC){{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Art Carney – The Jackie Gleason Show as Ed Norton (CBS)
• Paul Ford – The Phil Silvers Show as Col. John T. Hall (CBS)
• William Frawley – I Love Lucy as Fred Mertz (CBS)
• Ed Wynn – Playhouse 90: "Requiem for a Heavyweight" as Army (CBS)

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Supporting Performance by an Actress}}

• Pat Carroll – Caesar's Hour as various characters (NBC){{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Ann B. Davis – The Bob Cummings Show as Charmaine Schultz (CBS)
• Audrey Meadows – The Jackie Gleason Show as Alice Kramden (CBS)
• Mildred Natwick – Ford Star Jubilee: "Blithe Spirit" as Madame Arcati (CBS)
• Vivian Vance – I Love Lucy as Ethel Mertz (CBS)

|+ {{sronly|Single performances}}

• Jack Palance – Playhouse 90: "Requiem for a Heavyweight" as Harlan "Mountain" McClintock (CBS){{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Lloyd Bridges – Alcoa-Goodyear Playhouse: "Tragedy in a Temporary Town" as Alec Beggs (NBC)
• Fredric March – Producers' Showcase: "Dodsworth" as Sam Dodsworth (NBC)
• Sal Mineo – Studio One: "Dino" as Dino Minetta (CBS)
• Red Skelton – Playhouse 90: "The Big Slide" as Buddy McCoy (CBS)

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Single Performance by an Actress}}

• Claire Trevor – Producers' Showcase: "Dodsworth" as Fran Dodsworth (NBC){{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Edna Best – Ford Star Jubilee: "This Happy Breed" as Ethel Gibbons (CBS)
• Gracie Fields – The United States Steel Hour: "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" as Sarah Dowey (CBS)
• Nancy Kelly – Studio One: "The Pilot" as Sister M. Aquinas (CBS)
• Evelyn Rudie – Playhouse 90: "Eloise" as Eloise (CBS)

|+ {{sronly|Directing}}

• The Danny Thomas Show: "Danny's Comeback" – Sheldon Leonard (ABC){{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Camera Three: "As I Lay Dying" – Clay Yurdin (CBS)
• G.E. Theatre: "The Road That Led Afar" – Herschel Daugherty (CBS)
• Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers: "The Traitor" – George Archainbaud (NBC)
• You Are There: "The First Moscow Purge Trial" – William Russell (CBS)

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Direction, One Hour or More}}

• Playhouse 90: "Requiem for a Heavyweight" – Ralph Nelson (CBS){{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• The 20th Century Fox Hour: "Child of the Regiment" – Lewis Allen (CBS)
• The Dinah Shore Chevy Show: "Frank Sinatra" – Bob Banner (NBC)
• Kraft Television Theatre: "A Night to Remember" – George Roy Hill (NBC)
• NBC Opera Theatre: "La Boheme" – Kirk Browning (NBC)
• Playhouse 90: "Forbidden Area"– John Frankenheimer (CBS)

|+ {{sronly|Writing}}

• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Fog Closing In" – James P. Cavanagh (CBS){{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Frontier: "Patrol" – Morton Fine and David Friedkin (NBC)
• The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp: "The Buntime" – Dan Ullman (ABC)
• The Loretta Young Show: "The Pearl" – Richard Morris (NBC)
• Telephone Time: "Man with the Beard" – John Nesbitt (ABC)

| style="vertical-align:top;" width="50%" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Teleplay Writing, One Hour or More}}

• Playhouse 90: "Requiem for a Heavyweight" – Rod Serling (CBS){{double dagger|alt=Winner}}
• Alcoa-Goodyear Playhouse: "Joey" – Louis Peterson (NBC)
• Alcoa-Goodyear Playhouse: "Tragedy in a Temporary Town" – Reginald Rose (NBC)
• Kraft Television Theatre: "A Night to Remember" – George Roy Hill and John Whedon (NBC)
• Playhouse 90: "Sizeman and Son" – Elick Moll (CBS)

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

|+Programs with multiple major nominations

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

|+Programs with multiple major awards