Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
{{Short description|Award for drama series directing}}
{{Infobox award
| name = Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
| awarded_for = Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
| presenter = Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
| country = United States
| year = 1955
| holder = Frederick E.O. Toye,
Shōgun (2024)
| website = {{url|emmys.com}}
}}
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series is presented to the best directing of a television drama series, usually for a particular episode.Though this category is the dominant one in which dramatic directing has been recognized, there were a few years in which the categories were determined by running time, not genre. Until 1979, miniseries and television films competed alongside drama series.
Winners and nominations
=1950s=
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! width="5%" | Year ! width="30%" | Program ! width="30%" | Episode ! width="30%" | Nominee(s) ! width="5%" | Network |
| colspan=5|Best Direction |
|---|
| rowspan=6 align=center|1955
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Studio One |style="background:#FAEB86;"| "Twelve Angry Men"Nominated for Best Individual Program of the Year |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Franklin J. Schaffner |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| Four Star Playhouse
|"The Answer" |CBS |
| The Loretta Young Show
|"The Clara Schumann Story" |NBC |
| The United States Steel Hour
|"The Interview" |ABC |
| Waterfront
|"Christmas in San Pedro" |
| colspan=2|Your Hit Parade
|NBC |
| rowspan=13 align=center|1956
!colspan=4|Best Director - Film Series |
| colspan=2 style="background:#FAEB86;"|The Phil Silvers Show
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Nat Hiken |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents
|"The Case of Mr. Pelham" |rowspan=2|CBS |
| The Bob Cummings Show
|"Return of the Wolf" |
| colspan=2|Dragnet
|NBC |
| colspan=2|Make Room for Daddy
|ABC |
| You Are There
|"Grant & Lee at Appomattox" |CBS |
| colspan=4|Best Director - Live Series |
| style="background:#FAEB86;"|Ford Star Jubilee
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|"The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial"Nominated for Best Single Program of the Year |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Franklin J. Schaffner |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| Climax!
|"Portrait in Celluloid" |CBS |
| rowspan=2|Producers' Showcase
|"Peter Pan"Won Best Single Program of the Year |Clark Jones |rowspan=2|NBC |
| "Our Town" |
| The United States Steel Hour
|Alex Segal |CBS |
| rowspan=13 align=center|1957
!colspan=4|Best Direction - Half-Hour or Less |
| style="background:#FAEB86;"|The Danny Thomas Show
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Danny's Comeback" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Sheldon Leonard |style="background:#FAEB86;"|ABC |
| Camera Three
|"As I Lay Dying" |Clay Yurdin |rowspan=2|CBS |
| General Electric Theater
|"The Road That Led Afar" |
| Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
|"The Traitor" |NBC |
| You Are There
|"First Moscow Purge Trial" |[[William D. Russell (director)|William D. Russell ]] |CBS |
| colspan=4|Best Direction - One Hour or More |
| style="background:#FAEB86;"|Playhouse 90
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Requiem for a Heavyweight" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Ralph Nelson |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
|"October 5, 1956" |rowspan=3|NBC |
| Kraft Television Theatre |
| NBC Opera Theatre
| align=center| "La Boheme" |
| Playhouse 90
|"Forbidden Area" |John Frankenheimer |CBS |
| The 20th Century Fox Hour
|"Child of the Regiment" |CBS |
| rowspan=12 align=center|1958
!colspan=4|Best Direction - Half-Hour or Less |
| style="background:#FAEB86;"|Alfred Hitchcock Presents
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|"The Glass Eye" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Robert Stevens |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| colspan=2|The Danny Thomas Show
|Sheldon Leonard |ABC & CBS |
| colspan=2|Father Knows Best
|NBC |
| colspan=2|The Patrice Munsel Show
|Clark Jones |ABC |
| colspan=2|Your Hit Parade
|Bill Hobin |NBC |
| colspan=4|Best Direction - One Hour or More |
| colspan=2 style="background:#FAEB86;"|The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Bob Banner |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame
|NBC |
| rowspan=3|Playhouse 90
|John Frankenheimer |rowspan=3|CBS |
| "Helen Morgan"
|George Roy Hill |
| "The Miracle Worker" |
| rowspan=10 align=center|1959
!colspan=4|Best Direction of a Single Program of a Dramatic Series Less Than One Hour |
| style="background:#FAEB86;"|Alcoa-Goodyear Theatre
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Eddie" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Jack Smight |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents
|"Lamb to the Slaughter" |Alfred Hitchcock |CBS |
| rowspan=2|General Electric Theater
|"Kid at the Stick" |rowspan=3|NBC |
| "One is a Wanderer" |
| Peter Gunn
|"The Kill" |
| colspan=4|Best Direction of a Single Dramatic Program – One Hour or Longer |
| style="background:#FAEB86;"|Hallmark Hall of Fame
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Little Moon of Alban"Nominated for Most Outstanding Single Program of the Year |style="background:#FAEB86;"|George Schaefer |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| rowspan=2|Playhouse 90
|George Roy Hill |rowspan=2|CBS |
| "A Town Has Turned to Dust"
|John Frankenheimer |
=1960s=
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| colspan=5|Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama |
|---|
| rowspan=3 align=center|1960
|colspan=2 style="background:#FAEB86;"|The Moon and Sixpence |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Robert Mulligan |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| Ford Startime
|"The Turn of the Screw" |NBC |
| Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
|"The Untouchables" |CBS |
| rowspan=3 align=center|1961
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Hallmark Hall of Fame |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Macbeth"Won Program of the Year |style="background:#FAEB86;"|George Schaefer |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| NBC Sunday Showcase
|"Sacco-Vanzetti Story"Nominated for Program of the Year |NBC |
| Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
|"The Man in the Funny Suit" |CBS |
| rowspan=5 align=center|1962
|colspan=2 style="background:#FAEB86;"|The Defenders |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Franklin J. Schaffner |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| Alcoa Premiere
|"People Need People" |ABC |
| Dr. Kildare
|"Shining Image" |NBC |
| colspan=2|Naked City
|ABC |
| Westinghouse Presents
|"Come Again to Carthage" |CBS |
| rowspan=5 align=center|1963
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|The Defenders |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"The Madman" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Stuart Rosenberg |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| Alcoa Premiere
|rowspan=2|ABC |
| Ben Casey
|"A Cardinal Act of Mercy" |
| The DuPont Show of the Week
|"Big Deal in Laredo" |rowspan=2|NBC |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame
|"Invincible Mr. Disraeli" |George Schaefer |
| rowspan=5 align=center|1964
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|East Side/West Side |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Who Do You Kill?" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Tom Gries |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
|"Something About Lee Wiley" |Sydney Pollack |NBC |
| rowspan=2|The Defenders
|Stuart Rosenberg |rowspan=2|CBS |
| "Moment of Truth" |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame
|"The Patriots" |George Schaefer |NBC |
| colspan=5|Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment - Directors |
| rowspan=3 align=center|1965
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|The Defenders |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"The 700 Year-Old Gang" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Paul Bogart |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame
|George Schaefer |NBC |
| colspan=2|My Name Is Barbra
|CBS |
| colspan=5|Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama |
| rowspan=4 align=center|1966
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"The Game" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Sydney Pollack |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| rowspan=2|Hallmark Hall of Fame
|"Eagle in a Cage"Nominated for Outstanding Dramatic Program |rowspan=2|George Schaefer |rowspan=3|NBC |
| "Inherit the Wind" |
| I Spy
|"A Cup of Kindness" |
| rowspan=4 align=center|1967
|colspan=2 style="background:#FAEB86;"|Death of a SalesmanWon Outstanding Dramatic Program |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Alex Segal |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| CBS Playhouse
|"The Final War of Olly Winter" |Paul Bogart |CBS |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame
|"Anastasia" |George Schaefer |NBC |
| colspan=2|Mark Twain Tonight!
|Paul Bogart |CBS |
| rowspan=4 align=center|1968
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS Playhouse |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Dear Friends" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Paul Bogart |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| CBS Playhouse
|"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" |George Schaefer |rowspan=3|CBS |
| colspan=2|The Crucible
|Alex Segal |
| Mission: Impossible
|"The Killing" |
| rowspan=3 align=center|1969
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS Playhouse |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"The People Next Door" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|David Greene |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| CBS Playhouse
|"Secrets" |Paul Bogart |CBS |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame
|Fielder Cook |NBC |
=1970s=
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| colspan=5 | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama |
|---|
| rowspan=3 align=center|1970
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS Playhouse |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Shadow Game" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Paul Bogart |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame
|rowspan=2|NBC |
| NBC World Premiere Movie |
| colspan=5 | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama - A Single Program of a Series with Continuing Characters and/or Theme |
| rowspan=3 align=center|1971
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|The Bold Ones: The Senator |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"The Day the Lion Died" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Daryl Duke |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| The Bold Ones: The Senator
|"A Single Blow of a Sword" |NBC |
| Hawaii Five-O
|"Over Fifty? Steal!" |CBS |
| rowspan=3 align=center|1972
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|The Bold Ones: The Lawyers |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"The Invasion of Kevin Ireland" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Alexander Singer |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| Columbo
|"Short Fuse" |NBC |
| The Man and the City
|"Hands of Love" |ABC |
| rowspan=3 align=center|1973
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Kung Fu |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"An Eye for an Eye" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Jerry Thorpe |style="background:#FAEB86;"|ABC |
| Columbo
|"The Most Dangerous Match" |Edward M. Abroms |NBC |
| The Waltons
|"The Love Story" |CBS |
| colspan=5 | Best Directing in Drama - A Single Program of a Series with Continuing Characters and/or Theme |
| rowspan=3 align=center|1974
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|The Blue KnightNominated for Outstanding Limited Series |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Part III" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Robert Butler |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| rowspan=2|The Waltons
|"The Journey" |rowspan=2|CBS |
| "The Thanksgiving Story" |
| colspan=5 | Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series |
| rowspan=5 align=center|1975
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Upstairs, Downstairs |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"A Sudden Storm" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Bill Bain |style="background:#FAEB86;"|PBS |
| Benjamin FranklinWon Outstanding Limited Series
|"The Ambassador" |rowspan=3|CBS |
| rowspan=2|Kojak
|"Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die" |
| "I Want to Report a Dream..." |
| The Streets of San Francisco
|"The Mask of Death" |ABC |
| rowspan=6 align=center|1976
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Rich Man, Poor Man |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Part I: Chapters 1 & 2" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|David Greene |style="background:#FAEB86;"|ABC |
| Beacon Hill
|"Pilot" |CBS |
| Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
|"Part IV" |PBS |
| Lincoln
|"Crossing Fox River" |NBC |
| Rich Man, Poor Man
|"Part VI: Chapter 8" |ABC |
| Upstairs, Downstairs
|"Women Shall Not Weep" |Christopher Hodson |PBS |
| rowspan=5 align=center|1977
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Roots |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Part I" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|David Greene |style="background:#FAEB86;"|ABC |
| The Adams Chronicles
|"John Quincy Adams: President" |PBS |
| rowspan=3|Roots
|"Part II" |rowspan=3|ABC |
| "Part III" |
| "Part VI" |
| rowspan=5 align=center|1978
|colspan=2 style="background:#FAEB86;"|Holocaust |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Marvin J. Chomsky |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| colspan=2|The Dain Curse
|CBS |
| colspan=2|I, Claudius
|PBS |
| colspan=2|King
|NBC |
| colspan=2|Washington: Behind Closed Doors
|ABC |
| rowspan=4 align=center|1979
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|The White Shadow |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Pilot" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Jackie Cooper |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| rowspan=3|Lou Grant
|"Murder" |rowspan=3|CBS |
| "Prisoner" |
| "Schools" |
=1980s=
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| bgcolor="#bebebe"
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| rowspan=5 align=center|1980
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Lou Grant |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Cop" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Roger Young |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| rowspan=3|Lou Grant
|"Andrew, Part 2" |rowspan=3|CBS |
| "Hollywood" |
| "Influence" |
| Skag
|"Pilot" |NBC |
| rowspan=6 align=center|1981
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Hill Street Blues |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Hill Street Station" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Robert Butler |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| American Dream
|"Pilot" |ABC |
| rowspan=2|Hill Street Blues
|"Jungle Madness" |rowspan=2|NBC |
| "Up in Arms" |
| rowspan=2|Lou Grant
|"Pack" |Burt Brinckerhoff |rowspan=2|CBS |
| "Strike"
|Gene Reynolds |
| rowspan=5 align=center|1982
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Fame |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"To Soar and Never Falter" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Harry Harris |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| Fame
|"Musical Bridge" |rowspan=3|NBC |
| rowspan=2|Hill Street Blues
|"The Second Oldest Profession" |Robert Butler |
| "The World According to Freedom" |
| Lou Grant
|"Hometown" |Gene Reynolds |CBS |
| rowspan=4 align=center|1983
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Hill Street Blues |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Life in the Minors" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Jeff Bleckner |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| rowspan=2|Fame
|"And the Winner Is..." |rowspan=2|NBC |
| "Feelings"
|Robert Scheerer |
| The Mississippi
|"Old Hatred Die Hard" |CBS |
| rowspan=4 align=center|1984
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Hill Street Blues |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Goodbye, Mr. Scripps" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Corey Allen |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| Fame
|"Sheer Will" |Robert Scheerer |rowspan=3|NBC |
| rowspan=2|Hill Street Blues
|"Doris in Wonderland" |
| "Midway to What?" |
| rowspan=5 align=center|1985
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Cagney & Lacey |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Heat" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Karen Arthur |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| rowspan=2|Hill Street Blues
|"El Capitan" |Georg Stanford Brown |rowspan=4|NBC |
| "The Rise and Fall of Paul the Wall"
|Thomas Carter |
| rowspan=2|Miami Vice
|"Cool Runnin'" |
| "Smuggler's Blues" |
| rowspan=5 align=center|1986
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Cagney & Lacey |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Parting Shots" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Georg Stanford Brown |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| Amazing Stories
|"The Mission" |rowspan=2|NBC |
| Hill Street Blues
|"Two Easy Pieces" |
| rowspan=2|Moonlighting
|"The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" |rowspan=2|ABC |
| "My Fair David" |
| rowspan=5 align=center|1987
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|L.A. Law |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Pilot" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Gregory Hoblit |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| Cagney & Lacey
|"Turn, Turn, Turn, Part 2" |CBS |
| L.A. Law
|"The Venus Butterfly" |NBC |
| rowspan=2|Moonlighting
|"Atomic Shakespeare" |Will Mackenzie |rowspan=2|ABC |
| "I Am Curious... Maddie" |
| rowspan=6 align=center|1988
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|St. Elsewhere |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Weigh In, Way Out" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Mark Tinker |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| China Beach
|"Pilot" |ABC |
| rowspan=4|L.A. Law
|"Beauty and Obese" |rowspan=4|NBC |
| "Full Martial Jacket"
|Win Phelps |
| "Handroll Express" |
| "The Wizard of Odds
|Gregory Hoblit |
| rowspan=5 align=center|1989
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Tanner '88 |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"The Boiler Room" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Robert Altman |style="background:#FAEB86;"|HBO |
| rowspan=2|L.A. Law
|"I'm in the Nude for Love" |rowspan=3|NBC |
| "To Live and Diet in L.A." |
| Midnight Caller
|"Conversations with the Assassin" |Thomas Carter |
| thirtysomething
|"We'll Meet Again" |ABC |
=1990s=
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| bgcolor="#bebebe"
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| rowspan=5 align=center|1990
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Equal Justice |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Promises to Keep" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Thomas Carter |rowspan=2 style="background:#FAEB86;"|ABC |
| style="background:#FAEB86;"|thirtysomething
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|"The Go-Between" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Scott Winant |
| rowspan=2|L.A. Law
|"The Last Gasp" |rowspan=2|NBC |
| "Noah's Bark"
|Win Phelps |
| Twin Peaks
|"Pilot" |ABC |
| rowspan=4 align=center|1991
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Equal Justice |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"In Confidence" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Thomas Carter |style="background:#FAEB86;"|ABC |
| China Beach
|"You, Babe" |rowspan=2|ABC |
| Cop Rock
|"Pilot" |
| L.A. Law
|"God Rest You Murray Gentleman" |NBC |
| rowspan=5 align=center|1992
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|I'll Fly Away |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"All God's Children" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Eric Laneuville |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| China Beach
|"Rewind" |Mimi Leder |ABC |
| L.A. Law
|"Say Goodnight, Gracie" |Rick Wallace |NBC |
| Northern Exposure
|"Seoul Mates" |rowspan=2|CBS |
| The Trials of Rosie O'Neill
|"Heartbreak Hotel" |
| rowspan=6 align=center|1993
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Homicide: Life on the Street |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Gone for Goode" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Barry Levinson |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| I'll Fly Away
|"Until Tomorrow" |Eric Laneuville |rowspan=2|NBC |
| Law & Order
|"Conspiracy" |
| Sirens
|"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" |ABC |
| Sisters
|"Crash and Born" |Nancy Malone |NBC |
| The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
|"Northern Italy, 1918" |ABC |
| rowspan=5 align=center|1994
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|NYPD Blue |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Tempest in a C-Cup" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Daniel Sackheim |style="background:#FAEB86;"|ABC |
| Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
|"Pilot" |Robert Butler |rowspan=4|ABC |
| rowspan=3|NYPD Blue
|"Guns 'N Rosaries" |
| "Pilot"
|Gregory Hoblit |
| "True Confessions" |
| rowspan=5 align=center|1995
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|ER |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Love's Labor Lost" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Mimi Leder |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| Chicago Hope
|"Life Support" |CBS |
| ER
|"Pilot" |NBC |
| My So-Called Life
|"Pilot" |Scott Winant |rowspan=2|ABC |
| NYPD Blue
|"Innuendo" |
| rowspan=5 align=center|1996
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Chicago Hope |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Leave of Absence" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Jeremy Kagan |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| rowspan=2|ER
|"The Healers" |Mimi Leder |rowspan=2|NBC |
| "Hell and High Water" |
| Murder One
|"Chapter One" |Charles Haid |rowspan=2|ABC |
| NYPD Blue
|"Blackboard Jungle" |Mark Tinker |
| rowspan=5 align=center|1997
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|NYPD Blue |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Where's 'Swaldo?" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Mark Tinker |style="background:#FAEB86;"|ABC |
| rowspan=3|ER
|"Fear of Flying" |Christopher Chulack |rowspan=3|NBC |
| "Last Call"
|Rod Holcomb |
| "Union Station"
|Tom Moore |
| The X-Files
|"Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" |Fox |
| rowspan=5 align=center|1998
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Brooklyn South |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Pilot" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Mark Tinker |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| style="background:#FAEB86;"|NYPD Blue
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Lost Israel, Part 2" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Paris Barclay |style="background:#FAEB86;"|ABC |
| Chicago Hope
|"Brain Salad Surgery" |CBS |
| ER
|NBC |
| The X-Files
|Fox |
| rowspan=5 align=center|1999
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|NYPD Blue |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Hearts and Souls" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Paris Barclay |style="background:#FAEB86;"|ABC |
| Law & Order
|"Empire" |rowspan=2|NBC |
| Law & Order/Homicide: Life on the Street
|"Sideshow" |Edwin Sherin |
| The Sopranos
|"The Sopranos" |HBO |
=2000s=
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| bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%" | Year ! width="30%" | Program ! width="30%" | Episode ! width="30%" | Nominee(s) ! width="5%" | Network |
| rowspan=5 align=center|2000
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|The West Wing |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Pilot" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Thomas Schlamme |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| rowspan=2|ER
|"All in the Family" |rowspan=2|NBC |
| "Such Sweet Sorrow" |
| rowspan=2|The Sopranos
|"Funhouse" |rowspan=2|HBO |
| "The Knight in White Satin Armor" |
| rowspan=6 align=center|2001
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|The West Wing |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"In the Shadow of Two Gunmen" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Thomas Schlamme |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| ER
|"The Visit" |Jonathan Kaplan |NBC |
| rowspan=3|The Sopranos
|"Amour Fou" |rowspan=3|HBO |
| "Pine Barrens" |
| "University"
|Allen Coulter |
| The West Wing
|"Shibboleth" |NBC |
| rowspan=5 align=center|2002
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Six Feet Under |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Pilot" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Alan Ball |style="background:#FAEB86;"|HBO |
| The Shield
|"Pilot" |FX |
| 24
|Fox |
| rowspan=2|The West Wing
|"The Indians in the Lobby" |rowspan=2|NBC |
| "Posse Comitatus" |
| rowspan=5 align=center|2003
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|The West Wing |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Twenty Five" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Christopher Misiano |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| Six Feet Under
|"Nobody Sleeps" |rowspan=3|HBO |
| rowspan=2|The Sopranos
|"Whitecaps" |John Patterson |
| "Whoever Did This"
|Tim Van Patten |
| 24
|"Day 2: 10:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m." |Fox |
| rowspan=5 align=center|2004
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Deadwood |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Deadwood" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Walter Hill |style="background:#FAEB86;"|HBO |
| ER
|"The Lost" |NBC |
| Nip/Tuck
|"Pilot" |FX |
| rowspan=2|The Sopranos
|"Irregular Around the Margins" |Allen Coulter |rowspan=2|HBO |
| "Long Term Parking"
|Tim Van Patten |
| rowspan=7 align=center|2005
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Lost |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Pilot" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|J. J. Abrams |style="background:#FAEB86;"|ABC |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
|"Grave Danger" |CBS |
| Deadwood
|"Complications" |HBO |
| Grey's Anatomy
|ABC |
| Huff
|"Crazy Nuts & All Fucked Up" |
| Rescue Me
|"Guts" |FX |
| The West Wing
|"2162 Votes" |Alex Graves |NBC |
| rowspan=7 align=center|2006
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|24 |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Day 5: 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m." |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Jon Cassar |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Fox |
| Big Love
|"Pilot" |HBO |
| Lost
|ABC |
| Six Feet Under
|Alan Ball |rowspan=3|HBO |
| rowspan=2|The Sopranos |
| "Members Only"
|Tim Van Patten |
| The West Wing
|"Election Day, Part 1" |NBC |
| rowspan=7 align=center|2007
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|The Sopranos |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Kennedy and Heidi" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Alan Taylor |style="background:#FAEB86;"|HBO |
| Battlestar Galactica
| "Exodus, Part 2" |
| Boston Legal
|"Son of the Defender" |ABC |
| Friday Night Lights
|"Pilot" |rowspan=2|NBC |
| Heroes
|"Genesis" |
| Lost
|ABC |
| Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
|"Pilot" |Thomas Schlamme |NBC |
| rowspan=5 align=center|2008
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|House |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"House's Head" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Greg Yaitanes |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Fox |
| Boston Legal
|"The Mighty Rogues" |ABC |
| Breaking Bad
|"Pilot" |AMC |
| Damages
|Allen Coulter |FX |
| Mad Men
|Alan Taylor |AMC |
| rowspan=5 align=center|2009
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|ER |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"And in the End..." |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Rod Holcomb |style="background:#FAEB86;"|NBC |
| Battlestar Galactica
|"Daybreak, Part 2" |Sci Fi |
| Boston Legal
|"Made in China" & "Last Call" |Bill D'Elia |ABC |
| Damages
|"Trust Me" |FX |
| Mad Men
|"The Jet Set" |AMC |
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Total awards by network
Programs with multiple awards
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;4 awards
- NYPD Blue (3 consecutive)
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;3 awards
- CBS Playhouse (consecutive)
- The Defenders (2 consecutive)
- Hill Street Blues (2 consecutive)
- The West Wing (2 consecutive)
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;2 awards
- Boardwalk Empire (consecutive)
- The Crown
- Cagney & Lacey (consecutive)
- Equal Justice (consecutive)
- ER
- Game of Thrones (consecutive)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
- Succession
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Programs with multiple nominations
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;13 nominations
- ER (NBC)
- The Sopranos (HBO)
;12 nominations
- Hill Street Blues (NBC)
- L.A. Law (NBC)
;11 nominations
- Game of Thrones (HBO)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC)
;10 nominations
- Lou Grant (CBS)
;9 nominations
- NYPD Blue (ABC)
- Succession (HBO)
;8 nominations
- The West Wing (NBC)
;7 nominations
- The Crown (Netflix)
- Playhouse 90 (CBS)
;6 nominations
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;5 nominations
- Breaking Bad (AMC)
- The Defenders (CBS)
- Fame (NBC)
- The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu)
;4 nominations
- Downton Abbey (PBS)
- Lost (ABC)
- Mad Men (AMC)
- Moonlighting (ABC)
- Roots (ABC)
;3 nominations
- 24 (Fox)
- Boston Legal (ABC)
- Cagney & Lacey (CBS)
- Chicago Hope (CBS)
- China Beach (ABC)
- General Electric Theatre (NBC)
- Law & Order (NBC)
- Six Feet Under (HBO)
- The Waltons (CBS)
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;2 nominations
- Alcoa Premiere (ABC)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (CBS)
- Battlestar Galactica (Syfy)
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (NBC)
- The Bold Ones: The Senator (NBC)
- Columbo (NBC)
- Damages (FX)
- Deadwood (HBO)
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (NBC)
- Equal Justice (ABC)
- Homicide: Life on the Street (NBC)
- House of Cards (Netflix)
- I'll Fly Away (NBC)
- The Knick (Cinemax)
- Kojak (CBS)
- Miami Vice (NBC)
- The Morning Show (Apple TV+)
- Producers' Showcase (NBC)
- Rich Man, Poor Man (PBS)
- Sirens (ABC)
- Stranger Things (Netflix)
- thirtysomething (ABC)
- The United States Steel Hour (ABC)
- Upstairs, Downstairs (PBS)
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS)
- The X-Files (Fox)
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Individuals with multiple awards
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;3 awards
- Paul Bogart
- David Greene (2 consecutive)
- Mark Tinker (2 consecutive)
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;2 awards
- Paris Barclay (consecutive)
- Robert Butler
- Thomas Carter (consecutive)
- George Schaefer
- Franklin J. Schaffner (consecutive)
- Thomas Schlamme (consecutive)
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Individuals with multiple nominations
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;10 nominations
;9 nominations
;7 nominations
;6 nominations
;5 nominations
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;4 nominations
;3 nominations
- Paris Barclay
- Jason Bateman
- Burt Brinckerhoff
- Georg Stanford Brown
- Benjamin Caron
- Christopher Chulack
- Fielder Cook
- Stephen Daldry
- Bill D'Elia
- David Greene
- George Roy Hill
- Eric Laneuville
- Mark Mylod
- David Nutter
- Sydney Pollack
- Jeremy Podeswa
- Franklin J. Schaffner
- Robert Scheerer
- Alan Taylor
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;2 nominations
- Phil Abraham
- Edward M. Abroms
- Corey Allen
- Alan Ball
- Bob Banner
- Jeff Bleckner
- Benjamin Caron
- Marvin J. Chomsky
- Mel Damski
- The Duffer Brothers
- Alex Graves
- Charles Haid
- Harry Harris
- Jessica Hobbs
- Clark Jones
- Jonathan Kaplan
- Lee H. Katzin
- Buzz Kulik
- Will Mackenzie
- Michelle MacLaren
- Nancy Malone
- Tom Moore
- Ralph Nelson
- Andrij Parekh
- John Patterson
- Win Phelps
- Stuart Rosenberg
- Daniel Sackheim
- Miguel Sapochnik
- Lorene Scafaria
- Edwin Sherin
- Jack Smight
- Steven Soderbergh
- Rick Wallace
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See also
Notes
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