Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography#Choreographers with multiple wins
{{Short description|Annual award}}
{{Infobox award
| name = Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography for Scripted Programming
| awarded_for = Outstanding Choreography
| presenter = Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
| country = United States
| year = 1955
| website = {{url|emmys.com}}
}}
{{Infobox award
| name = Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography for Variety or Reality Programming
| awarded_for = Outstanding Choreography
| presenter = Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
| country = United States
| year = 1955
| holder = The 76th Annual Tony Awards (2024)
| website = {{url|emmys.com}}
}}
This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography. With the exception of 2013, the award is given at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony.{{cite web|last1=Garron|first1=Barry|title=65th Primetime Emmys|url=http://www.emmys.com/news/awards-news/65th-primetime-emmys-wrap}}
Starting in 2019, separate awards are given for scripted programs and reality or variety programs.{{cite web |url=https://www.emmys.com/sites/default/files/press/rules-181213-v1.pdf |title=Television Academy Rules Changes for 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards |author= |date=December 13, 2018 |publisher=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |access-date=February 12, 2019 }}
Winners and nominations
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! width="5%" | Year ! width="30%" | Program ! width="30%" | Routine(s) ! width="30%" | Nominees ! width="5%" | Network |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;| 2010 (62nd) {{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2010/outstanding-choreography |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=2016-07-18}} |
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| align=center| "Gravity", "Addiction/Koop Island Blues/One" | Fox |
| The 82nd Annual Academy Awards
| align=center| "Opening Number", "No One Wants to Do It Alone/Score Suite" | rowspan=3|ABC |
| rowspan=2|Dancing with the Stars
| align=center| "Living on Video", "Anything Goes" |
| align=center| "Malaquena"
| Chelsie Hightower and Derek Hough |
| So You Think You Can Dance
| align=center| "Fear" | Fox |
| rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;| 2011 (63rd) {{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2011/outstanding-choreography |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=2016-07-18}} |
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| rowspan=2|So You Think You Can Dance | align=center| "Scars", "Fallin{{'"}}, "Outta Your Mind" | rowspan=2|Fox |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| align=center| "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic", "When We Dance", "This Bitter Earth – On the Nature of Daylight" |
| Dancing with the Stars
| align=center| "I Write Sins Not Tragedies", "Hedwig's Theme", "My Love" | ABC |
| rowspan=3|So You Think You Can Dance
| align=center| "Oh Yeah", "Boogie Shoes", "I Surrender" | rowspan=3|Fox |
| align=center| "Mad World", "Sundrenched World", "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" |
| align=center| "Collide", "How It Ends", "Fix You" |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;| 2012 (64th) {{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2012/outstanding-choreography |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=2016-07-18}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Smash | align=center| "National Pastime", "Let's Be Bad", "Never Met a Wolf" | Joshua Bergasse | NBC |
| Dancing with the Stars
| align=center| "Without You" | Travis Wall, Teddy Forance and Nick Lazzarini | ABC |
| rowspan=3|So You Think You Can Dance
| align=center| "Whatever Lola Wants", "Please Mr. Jailor", "Where Do I Begin" | Spencer Liff | rowspan=3|Fox |
| align=center| "Misty Blue", "Velocity"
| Christopher Scott |
| align=center| "In This Shirt", "Turning Tables", "Heart Asks for Pleasure First" |
| rowspan="8" style="text-align:center;| 2013 (65th) {{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2013/outstanding-choreography |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=2016-07-18}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| align=center| "Hey Pachuco", "Para Los Rumberos", "Walking on Air" | ABC |
| Dancing with the Stars
| align=center| "Heart Cry", "Stars" | Derek Hough and Allison Holker | ABC |
| colspan=2| Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel (Live from Lincoln Center)
| PBS |
| rowspan=4|So You Think You Can Dance
| align=center| "Call of the Wild (Circle of Life)", "Love Cats", "Beautiful People" | rowspan=4|Fox |
| align=center| "The Power of Love", "Wild Horses" |
| align=center| "Possibly Maybe", "Turning Page", "Sail" |
| align=center| "Where the Light Gets In", "Without You", "Unchained Melody" |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;| 2014 (66th) {{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2014/outstanding-choreography |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=2016-07-18}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| align=center| "Puttin' on the Ritz", "Gold Rush", "Run the World" | Fox |
| Dancing with the Stars
| align=center| "Human", "Ameksa", "Too Darn Hot" | ABC |
| rowspan=3|So You Think You Can Dance
| align=center| "The Edge of Glory", "Feelin' Good", "I Can't Make You Love Me" | rowspan=3|Fox |
| align=center| "Trigger", "Sand", "The Gravel Road"
| Christopher Scott |
| align=center| "Hanging by a Thread", "Wicked Game", "Medicine" |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;| 2015 (67th) {{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2015/outstanding-choreography |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=2016-07-18}} |
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| align=center| "Elastic Heart" | Derek Hough, Julianne Hough and Tessandra Chavez | ABC |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| align=center| "Wave", "When I Go", "Wind Beneath My Wings" | Fox |
| Dancing with the Stars
| align=center| "369", "It's Not Unusual", "Sing with a Swing-Apache" | ABC |
| rowspan=2|So You Think You Can Dance
| align=center| "Hernando's Hideaway", "World on a String", "Maybe This Time" | Spencer Liff | rowspan=2|Fox |
| align=center| "Vow", "So Broken", "Europe, After the Rain" |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;| 2016 (68th) {{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2016/outstanding-choreography |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=2016-07-18}} |
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| align=center| "Runaway Baby", "Take U There", "Summer Thing" | MTV |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| align=center| "I'm So Good at Yoga", "A Boy Band Made Up of Four Joshes", "Settle for Me" | Kathryn Burns | The CW |
| Dancing with the Stars
| align=center| "Footprints in the Sand", "Grace Kelly", "Cry Little Sister" | ABC |
| rowspan=2|So You Think You Can Dance
| align=center| "Beautiful Friends", "November", "Gimme All Your Love" | rowspan="2"|Fox |
| align=center| "Dibidy Dop"
| Anthony Morigerato |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;| 2017 (69th) {{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2017/outstanding-choreography |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=July 13, 2017}} |
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| align=center| "On Top of the World", "Carol of the Bells" | ABC |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| align=center| "The Mirror", "Send in the Clowns", "She Used to Be Mine" | Fox |
| Dancing with the Stars
| align=center| "Kairos" | rowspan=2|ABC |
| The Real O'Neals
| align=center| "Born This Way", "West Side Story", "Boyfriend" | Fred Tallaksen |
| So You Think You Can Dance
| align=center| "Unsteady", "This Is Not the End" | Fox |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;| 2018 (70th) {{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2018/outstanding-choreography |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=July 13, 2018}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| align=center| "Brand New", "To Make You Feel My Love" | Fox |
| The Late Late Show with James Corden
| align=center| "The Greatest Showman", "Crosswalk the Musical on Broadway" | CBS |
| rowspan=3|So You Think You Can Dance
| align=center| "Change Is Everything", "Strange Fruit" | rowspan=3| Fox |
| align=center| "The Man That Got Away", "L-O-V-E"
| Al Blackstone |
| align=center| "Prism", "Say You Won't Let Go"
| Christopher Scott |
| rowspan=13 style="text-align:center" | 2019 (71st) |
| colspan="6"| Outstanding Choreography for Scripted Programming |
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| align=center| "Don’t Be a Lawyer", "Antidepressants Are So Not a Big Deal" | Kathryn Burns | The CW |
| colspan="7"| Outstanding Choreography for Variety or Reality Programming{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2019/outstanding-choreography-for-variety-or-reality-programming |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=July 19, 2019}} |
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| align=center| "Piece by Piece", "Don't Wanna Think", "Fix You" | Tessandra Chavez | NBC |
| rowspan=2| So You Think You Can Dance
| align=center| "It Takes a Lot to Know a Man", "Glass Heart Concerto" | rowspan=2| Fox |
| align=center| "Juice", "Bump", "Yummy" |
| rowspan=3| World of Dance
| align=center| "Drop It Like It's Hot", "Headband", "DNA" | Melvin "Timtim" Rogador | rowspan=3| NBC |
| align=center| "Malhari", "Yeh Raat", "O Fortuna" |
| align=center| "Pegate", "La Malanga", "Caminare"
| Karen Forcano and Ricardo Vega |
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| rowspan="8" style="text-align:center;| 2020 (72nd) ! colspan="6"| Outstanding Choreography for Scripted Programming{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2020/outstanding-choreography-for-scripted-programming |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=September 1, 2020}} |
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| Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist | align=center| "All I Do Is Win", "I've Got the Music in Me", "Crazy" | NBC |
| colspan="7"| Outstanding Choreography for Variety or Reality Programming{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2020/outstanding-choreography-for-variety-or-reality-programming |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=July 30, 2020}} |
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| align=center| "I'll Be Seeing You", "Mambo Italiano", "The Girl from Ipanema" | Al Blackstone | Fox |
| The Oscars
| align=center| "Come Alive (Opening Sequence)" | Jemel McWilliams | ABC |
| Savage X Fenty Show
| align=center| "Statues", "Benches", "Window" |
| So You Think You Can Dance
| align=center| "Enough Is Enough", "Sign of the Times" | Fox |
| World of Dance
| align=center| "Dos Jueyes", "El Ray Timbal" | Jefferson Benjumea and Adrianita Avila | NBC |
| rowspan="13" style="text-align:center;| 2021 (73rd) ! colspan="6"| Outstanding Choreography for Scripted Programming{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2021/outstanding-choreography-for-scripted-programming |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=July 16, 2021}} |
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| Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square | align=center| "Christmas Is the Time", "Dance Studio", "High School Dance", "Christmas on the Square Finale" | Netflix |
| Genius: Aretha
| align=center| "Jump", "Satisfaction", "See Saw" | Dondraico Johnson | Nat Geo |
| Lucifer
| align=center| "Another One Bites the Dust", "Hell", "Bad to the Bone" | Brooke Lipton | Netflix |
| rowspan=2| Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
| align=center| "Black Man in a White World", "Tightrope" | Mandy Moore and Luther Brown | rowspan=2| NBC |
| align=center| "Hello Dolly", "Starships", "Let's Get Loud"
| Mandy Moore |
| colspan="7"| Outstanding Choreography for Variety or Reality Programming{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2021/outstanding-choreography-for-variety-or-reality-programming |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=July 16, 2021}} |
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| align=center| "Paso Doble - Uccen", "Tap Dance - Let's Fall in Love for the Night" | ABC |
| Christmas in Rockefeller Center
| align=center| "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" | NBC |
| Dancing with the Stars
| align=center| "Argentine Tango - Toxic", "Freestyle - Sparkling Diamonds" | rowspan=2| ABC |
| The Disney Holiday Singalong
| align=center| "Jingle Bells" |
| Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 2
| align=center| "Garden Scene" |
| World of Dance
| align=center| "Come Thru", "Superbad, Superslick", "Bohemian Rhapsody" | Marie Haince Lebel | NBC |
| rowspan="12" style="text-align:center;| 2022 (74th) ! colspan="6"| Outstanding Choreography for Scripted Programming{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2022/outstanding-choreography-for-scripted-programming |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=July 12, 2022}} |
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| Euphoria | align=center| "Call Me Irresponsible", "Holding Out for a Hero", "Cheerleader" | HBO |
| Goliath
| align=center| "The Pain Killer" | Fred Tallaksen |
| The Porter
| align=center| "Opening Stardust Dance Number", "Willie Johnson Dance Number", "Lucy's Featured Performance", "Songbird" | BET+ |
| Schmigadoon!
| align=center| "Corn Puddin'", "Tribulation", "With All of Your Heart" |
| Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
| align=center| "Hello Dolly", "Starships", "Let's Get Loud" | Mandy Moore and Jillian Meyers |
| colspan="7"| Outstanding Choreography for Variety or Reality Programming{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2022/outstanding-choreography-for-variety-or-reality-programming |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=July 12, 2022}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| align=center| "Opening" |
| Annie Live!
| align=center| "Hard Knock Life", "We Got Annie", "NYC" | NBC |
| Dancing with the Stars
| align=center| "I Got 5 on It", "Dark Fantasy" | rowspan="3" | ABC |
| The Oscars
| align=center| "Be Alive" |
| Step Into… The Movies with Derek and Julianne Hough
| align=center| "Moulin Rouge - Roxanne" | Tessandra Chavez and Derek Hough |
| rowspan="12" style="text-align:center;| 2023 (75th) ! colspan="6"| Outstanding Choreography for Scripted Programming{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2023/outstanding-choreography-for-scripted-programming |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=July 13, 2023}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| align=center| "The History", "San Quentin Blues" | Jon Boogz | Starz |
| rowspan="2"|Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies
| align=center| "New Cool", "Hand Jive", "The Boom" | rowspan="2"|Paramount+ |
| align=center| "Pulling Strings", "Hit Me Again", "High Rollin'"
| Jeffrey Mortensen and Louise Hradsky |
| The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
| align=center| "Trash Man", "Dream Kitchen" |
| Schmigadoon!
| align=center| "Bells and Whistles", "Good Enough to Eat", "Bustin' Out" |
| colspan="7"| Outstanding Choreography for Variety or Reality Programming{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2023/outstanding-choreography-for-variety-or-reality-programming |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=July 13, 2023}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| align=center| "Higher" | Disney+ |
| rowspan="2"|Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration
| align=center| "Be Our Guest" | Jamal Sims, Phillip Chbeeb and Makenzie Dustman | rowspan="2"|ABC |
| align=center| "Rose Petal Suite Pt. I"
| Phillip Chbeeb and Makenzie Dustman |
| Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl
| align=center| "The Family Madrigal", "Surface Pressure" | Disney+ |
| Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4
| align=center| "Chameleon", "Pride Rock" |
| rowspan="11" style="text-align:center;| 2024 (76th) ! colspan="6"| Outstanding Choreography for Scripted Programming{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2024/outstanding-choreography-for-scripted-programming |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=July 19, 2024}} |
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| The Idol | align=center| "Rehearsal", "Music Video Shoot", "Dollhouse" | Nina McNeely | HBO |
| Only Murders in the Building
| align=center| "Oliver's Dream Sequence", "Creatures of the Night" | Hulu |
| Palm Royale
| align=center| "The Rhumba", "Maxine's Entrance" | Brooke Lipton | rowspan="2"|Apple TV+ |
| Physical
| align=center| "Jean Franc's Advanced Aerobics Class", "Figure 8's Commercial", "Xanadu & Dreams" | Jennifer Hamilton |
| colspan="7"| Outstanding Choreography for Variety or Reality Programming{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2024/outstanding-choreography-for-variety-or-reality-programming |title=Nominees/Winners | Television Academy |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=July 19, 2024}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| align=center| "Opening Number", "Lifetime Achievement" | Karla Puno Garcia | CBS |
| Dancing with the Stars
| align=center| "Moon River", "La Vie en rose" | Valentin Chmerkovskiy and Jenna Johnson | ABC |
| Dick Van Dyke 98 Years of Magic
| align=center| "Step in Time" | Alison Faulk and Kiki Nyemchek | CBS |
| The Oscars
| align=center| "I'm Just Ken", "In Memoriam" | ABC |
| RuPaul's Drag Race
| align=center| "Dance!", "Queen of Wind", "Power" | MTV |
Programs with multiple wins
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;5 wins
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;2 wins
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Programs with multiple nominations
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;43 nominations
;22 nominations
;7 nominations
;6 nominations
;5 nominations
;4 nominations
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;3 nominations
;2 nominations
- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
- The Drew Carey Show
- Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies
- The Jackie Gleason Show
- Malcolm in the Middle
- Schmigadoon!
- The Tracey Ullman Show
- Your Hit Parade
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Choreographers with multiple wins
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;4 wins
;3 wins
- Tony Charmoli
- Marguerite Derricks
- Alan Johnson
- Mia Michaels
- Mandy Moore
- Walter Painter
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;2 wins
- Paula Abdul
- Kathryn Burns
- Tessandra Chavez
- Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo
- Christopher Dean
- Ron Field
- Sarah Kawahara
- Rob Marshall
- Kenny Ortega
- Michael Peters
- Wade Robson
- Travis Wall
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Choreographers with multiple nominations
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;13 nominations
;12 nominations
;11 nominations
;10 nominations
;8 nominations
;7 nominations
- Ernie Flatt
- Alan Johnson
- Walter Painter
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;6 nominations
;5 nominations
;4 nominations
- Tessandra Chavez
- Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo
- Parris Goebel
- Rob Marshall
- Kenny Ortega
- Michael Seibert
- Fred Tallaksen
;3 nominations
- Monie Adamson
- Paula Abdul
- Sandra Bezic
- Ron Field
- Julianne Hough
- Rosie Perez
- Jamal Sims
- Christopher Scott
- Stacey Tookey
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;2 nominations
- Rod Alexander
- Debra Brown
- Luther Brown
- Cheryl Burke
- Kathryn Burns
- Phillip Chbeeb
- Don Crichton
- Makenzie Dustman
- Christopher Gattelli
- Tom Hansen
- Jamie Isley
- Sarah Kawahara
- Jamie King
- Charles Klapow
- Spencer Liff
- Joseph Malone
- Travis Payne
- Vincent Paterson
- Michael Peters
- Wade Robson
- Michael Smuin
- Albert Stephenson
- Bonnie Story
- Sonya Tayeh
- June Taylor
- Paul Taylor
- Twyla Tharp
- Jayne Torvill
- Sergio Trujillo
- Dee Dee Wood
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