Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Awarded for	Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
First awarded	1975
Currently held by	Mike White, The White Lotus (2022)
Website	emmys.com

This is a list of the winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

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Chronology of category names

Over the years, the scope of this award has evolved and the name with which it has been presented reflects those changes:

1975: Director of the Year – Special
1976: Outstanding Directing in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy
1977: Outstanding Directing in a Special Program
1978–1979: Outstanding Directing in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy
1980–1986: Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or Special
1987–1992: Outstanding Directing in a Miniseries or Special
1993–1996: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Miniseries or Special
1997–1998: Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or Special
1999–2000: Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or Movie
2001–2002: Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special
2003–2015: Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special
2016–2020: Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special
2021–present: Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

Winners and nominations

1970s

Year	Program	Episode	Nominee(s)	Network
1971 (23rd) ^[1]
	The Price		Fielder Cook	NBC
	A Clear and Present Danger		James Goldstone	NBC
	Hamlet		Peter Wood	NBC
	Tribes		Joseph Sargent	ABC
1972 (24th) ^[2]
	The Glass House		Tom Gries	CBS
	Brian's Song		Buzz Kulik	ABC
	The Homecoming: A Christmas Story		Fielder Cook	CBS
	Look Homeward, Angel		Paul Bogart	CBS
	The Snow Goose		Patrick Garland	NBC
1973 (25th) ^[3]
	The Marcus-Nelson Murders		Joseph Sargent	CBS
	That Certain Summer		Lamont Johnson	ABC
	A War of Children		George Schaefer	CBS
1974 (26th) ^[4]
	The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman		John Korty	CBS
	A Case of Rape		Boris Sagal	NBC
	The Execution of Private Slovik		Lamont Johnson	NBC
	The Migrants		Tom Gries	CBS
	Pueblo		Anthony Page	ABC
1975 (27th) ^[5]
	Love Among the Ruins		George Cukor	ABC
	The Law		John Badham	NBC
	The Missiles of October		Anthony Page	ABC
	QB VII	"Part 1" & "Part 2"	Tom Gries	ABC
	Queen of the Stardust Ballroom		Sam O'Steen	CBS
1976 (28th) ^[6]
	Eleanor and Franklin		Daniel Petrie	ABC
	Babe		Buzz Kulik	CBS
	Fear on Trial		Lamont Johnson	CBS
	A Moon for the Misbegotten		José Quintero and Gordon Rigsby	ABC
1977 (29th) ^[7]
	Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years		Daniel Petrie	ABC
	Helter Skelter		Tom Gries	CBS
	Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys		Fielder Cook	NBC
	Raid on Entebbe		Irvin Kershner
	Tail Gunner Joe		Jud Taylor
1978 (30th) ^[8]
	The Defection of Simas Kudirka		David Lowell Rich	CBS
	Breaking Up		Delbert Mann	ABC
	The Gathering		Randal Kleiser	ABC
	Our Town		George Schaefer	NBC
	Something for Joey		Lou Antonio	CBS
	Verna: USO Girl		Ronald F. Maxwell	PBS
1979 (31st) ^[9]
	Friendly Fire		David Greene	ABC
	Les Misérables		Glenn Jordan	CBS
	Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story		Lou Antonio	CBS

1980s

Year	Program	Episode	Nominee(s)	Network
1980 (32nd) ^[10]
	Attica		Marvin J. Chomsky	ABC
	All Quiet on the Western Front		Delbert Mann	ABC
	Amber Waves		Joseph Sargent	ABC
	Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones		William Graham	CBS
	The Scarlett O'Hara War		John Erman	NBC
1981 (33rd) ^[11]
	Kent State		James Goldstone	NBC
	Bitter Harvest		Roger Young	NBC
	Masada	"Part 4"	Boris Sagal (posthumously)	ABC
	The Shadow Box		Paul Newman	ABC
	Shōgun	"Part 5"	Jerry London	NBC
1982 (34th) ^[12]
	Inside the Third Reich		Marvin J. Chomsky	ABC
	Brideshead Revisited	"Et in Arcadia Ego"	Michael Lindsay-Hogg and Charles Sturridge	PBS
	Mae West		Lee Philips	ABC
	Skokie		Herbert Wise	CBS
1983 (35th) ^[13]
	Who Will Love My Children?		John Erman	ABC
	Smiley's People	"Part 6"	Simon Langton	Syndicated
	Special Bulletin		Edward Zwick	NBC
	The Thorn Birds	"Part 2"	Daryl Duke	ABC
	The Winds of War	"Into the Maelstrom"	Dan Curtis	ABC
1984 (36th) ^[14]
	Concealed Enemies	"Part 3"	Jeff Bleckner	PBS
	The Day After		Nicholas Meyer	ABC
	Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter		Lamont Johnson
	Something About Amelia		Randa Haines
	A Streetcar Named Desire		John Erman
1985 (37th) ^[15]
	Wallenberg: A Hero's Story		Lamont Johnson	NBC
	The Burning Bed		Robert Greenwald	NBC
	Consenting Adult		Gilbert Cates	ABC
	Do You Remember Love		Jeff Bleckner	CBS
	Fatal Vision		David Greene	NBC
	The Jewel in the Crown	"Crossing the River"	Christopher Morahan and Jim O'Brien	PBS
1986 (38th) ^[16]
	Love Is Never Silent		Joseph Sargent	NBC
	Death of a Salesman		Volker Schlöndorff	CBS
	An Early Frost		John Erman	NBC
	The Execution of Raymond Graham		Daniel Petrie	ABC
	Resting Place		John Korty	CBS
1987 (39th) ^[17]
	Promise		Glenn Jordan	CBS
	Escape from Sobibor		Jack Gold	CBS
	LBJ: The Early Years		Peter Werner	NBC
	Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder	"Part 1"	Paul Bogart
	Unnatural Causes		Lamont Johnson
1988 (40th) ^[18]
	Lincoln		Lamont Johnson	NBC
	The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank		John Erman	CBS
	Billionaire Boys Club		Marvin J. Chomsky	NBC
	Echoes in the Darkness		Glenn Jordan	CBS
	The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story		Paul Wendkos	NBC
1989 (41st) ^[19]
	Lonesome Dove	"Part 1" & "Part 4"	Simon Wincer	CBS
	I Know My First Name is Steven		Larry Elikann	NBC
	My Name Is Bill W.		Daniel Petrie	ABC
	Roe vs. Wade		Gregory Hoblit	NBC
	War and Remembrance	"Part 6" & "Part 7"	Dan Curtis	ABC

1990s

Year	Program	Episode	Nominee(s)	Network
1990 (42nd) ^[20]
	Caroline?		Joseph Sargent	CBS
	Do You Know the Muffin Man?		Gilbert Cates	CBS
	The Final Days		Richard Pearce	ABC
	The Kennedys of Massachusetts		Lamont Johnson	ABC
	A Killing in a Small Town		Stephen Gyllenhaal	CBS
1991 (43rd) ^[21]
	The Josephine Baker Story		Brian Gibson	HBO
	Absolute Strangers		Gilbert Cates	CBS
	Decoration Day		Robert Markowitz	NBC
	Sarah, Plain and Tall		Glenn Jordan	CBS
1992 (44th) ^[22]
	Miss Rose White		Joseph Sargent	NBC
	Broadway Bound		Paul Bogart	ABC
	Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232		Lamont Johnson
	Homefront	"Pilot"	Ron Lagomarsino
	I'll Fly Away	"Pilot"	Joshua Brand	NBC
	Mark Twain and Me		Daniel Petrie	Disney
1993 (45th) ^[23]
	Sinatra		James Steven Sadwith	CBS
	Barbarians at the Gate		Glenn Jordan	HBO
	Citizen Cohn		Frank Pierson
	The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom		Michael Ritchie
	A Town Torn Apart		Daniel Petrie	NBC
1994 (46th) ^[24]
	Against the Wall		John Frankenheimer	HBO
	And the Band Played On		Roger Spottiswoode	HBO
	Gypsy		Emile Ardolino	CBS
	My Breast		Betty Thomas
	To Dance with the White Dog		Glenn Jordan
1995 (47th) ^[25]
	The Burning Season		John Frankenheimer	HBO
	Citizen X		Chris Gerolmo	HBO
	Indictment: The McMartin Trial		Mick Jackson	HBO
	The Piano Lesson		Lloyd Richards	CBS
	Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story		Jeff Bleckner	NBC
1996 (48th) ^[26]
	Andersonville		John Frankenheimer	TNT
	Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story		Peter Werner	Lifetime
	Gulliver's Travels		Charles Sturridge	NBC
	The Heidi Chronicles		Paul Bogart	TNT
	The Late Shift		Betty Thomas	HBO
1997 (49th) ^[27]
	The Odyssey		Andrei Konchalovsky	NBC
	Bastard out of Carolina		Anjelica Huston	Showtime
	Crime of the Century		Mark Rydell	HBO
	Gotti		Robert Harmon
	In the Gloaming		Christopher Reeve
1998 (50th) ^[28]
	George Wallace		John Frankenheimer	TNT
	Don King: Only in America		John Herzfeld	HBO
	From the Earth to the Moon	"Can We Do This?"	Tom Hanks	HBO
	Merlin		Steve Barron	NBC
	12 Angry Men		William Friedkin	Showtime
1999 (51st) ^[29]
	The Temptations		Allan Arkush	NBC
	The Baby Dance		Jane Anderson	Showtime
	Dash and Lilly		Kathy Bates	A&E
	Joan of Arc		Christian Duguay	CBS
	A Lesson Before Dying		Joseph Sargent	HBO

2000s

Year	Program	Episode	Nominee(s)	Network
2000 (52nd) ^[30]
	The Corner		Charles S. Dutton	HBO
	Annie		Rob Marshall	ABC
	Fail Safe		Stephen Frears and Martin Pasetta	CBS
	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge		Martha Coolidge	HBO
	RKO 281		Benjamin Ross	HBO
2001 (53rd) ^[31]
	Wit		Mike Nichols	HBO
	Anne Frank: The Whole Story		Robert Dornhelm	ABC
	Conspiracy		Frank Pierson	HBO
	Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows		Robert Allan Ackerman	ABC
	61*		Billy Crystal	HBO
2002 (54th) ^[32]
	Band of Brothers		David Frankel, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, Mikael Salomon, and Tony To	HBO
	The Gathering Storm		Richard Loncraine	HBO
	James Dean		Mark Rydell	TNT
	The Laramie Project		Moisés Kaufman	HBO
	Path to War		John Frankenheimer	HBO
2003 (55th) ^[33]
	Door to Door		Steven Schachter	TNT
	Live from Baghdad		Mick Jackson	HBO
	My House in Umbria		Richard Loncraine	HBO
	The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone		Robert Allan Ackerman	Showtime
	Soldier's Girl		Frank Pierson	Showtime
2004 (56th) ^[34]
	Angels in America		Mike Nichols	HBO
	Ike: Countdown to D-Day		Robert Harmon	A&E
	The Lion in Winter		Andrei Konchalovsky	Showtime
	Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness		Tom Hooper	PBS
	Something the Lord Made		Joseph Sargent	HBO
2005 (57th) ^[35]
	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers		Stephen Hopkins	HBO
	Empire Falls		Fred Schepisi	HBO
	Lackawanna Blues		George C. Wolfe
	Warm Springs		Joseph Sargent
2006 (58th) ^[36]
	Elizabeth I		Tom Hooper	HBO
	Bleak House		Justin Chadwick	PBS
	Flight 93		Peter Markle	A&E
	The Girl in the Café		David Yates	HBO
	High School Musical		Kenny Ortega	Disney
	Mrs. Harris		Phyllis Nagy	HBO
2007 (59th) ^[37]
	Prime Suspect: The Final Act		Philip Martin	PBS
	Broken Trail		Walter Hill	AMC
	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee		Yves Simoneau	HBO
	Jane Eyre		Susanna White	PBS
	Tsunami: The Aftermath		Bharat Nalluri	HBO
2008 (60th) ^[38]
	Recount		Jay Roach	HBO
	Bernard and Doris		Bob Balaban	HBO
	The Company		Mikael Salomon	TNT
	Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale		Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant	HBO
	John Adams		Tom Hooper	HBO
2009 (61st) ^[39]
	Little Dorrit	"Part 1"	Dearbhla Walsh	PBS
	Generation Kill	"Bomb in the Garden"	Susanna White	HBO
	Grey Gardens		Michael Sucsy
	Into the Storm		Thaddeus O'Sullivan
	Taking Chance		Ross Katz
	Wallander: One Step Behind		Philip Martin	PBS

2010s

Year	Program	Episode	Nominee(s)	Network
2010 (62nd) ^[40]
	Temple Grandin		Mick Jackson	HBO
	Georgia O'Keeffe		Bob Balaban	Lifetime
	The Pacific	"Part 8"	David Nutter and Jeremy Podeswa	HBO
	The Pacific	"Part 9"	Tim Van Patten
	You Don't Know Jack		Barry Levinson
2011 (63rd) ^[41]
	Downton Abbey	"Episode One"	Brian Percival	PBS
	Carlos		Olivier Assayas	Sundance
	Cinema Verite		Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini	HBO
	Mildred Pierce		Todd Haynes
	Too Big to Fail		Curtis Hanson
2012 (64th) ^[42]
	Game Change		Jay Roach	HBO
	Hatfields & McCoys		Kevin Reynolds	History
	Hemingway & Gellhorn		Philip Kaufman	HBO
	Luther		Sam Miller	BBC America
	Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia		Paul McGuigan	PBS
2013 (65th) ^[43]
	Behind the Candelabra		Steven Soderbergh	HBO
	The Girl		Julian Jarrold	HBO
	Phil Spector		David Mamet	HBO
	Ring of Fire		Allison Anders	Lifetime
	Top of the Lake	"Part 5"	Jane Campion and Garth Davis	Sundance
2014 (66th) ^[44]
	Fargo	"Buridan's Ass"	Colin Bucksey	FX
	American Horror Story: Coven	"Bitchcraft"	Alfonso Gomez-Rejon	FX
	Fargo	"The Crocodile's Dilemma"	Adam Bernstein	FX
	Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight		Stephen Frears	HBO
	The Normal Heart		Ryan Murphy	HBO
	Sherlock: His Last Vow		Nick Hurran	PBS
2015 (67th) ^[45]
	Olive Kitteridge		Lisa Cholodenko	HBO
	American Horror Story: Freak Show	"Monsters Among Us"	Ryan Murphy	FX
	Bessie		Dee Rees	HBO
	The Honorable Woman		Hugo Blick	Sundance
	Houdini		Uli Edel	History
	The Missing		Tom Shankland	Starz
	Wolf Hall		Peter Kosminsky	PBS
2016 (68th) ^[46]
	The Night Manager		Susanne Bier	AMC
	All the Way		Jay Roach	HBO
	Fargo	"Before the Law"	Noah Hawley	FX
	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	"From the Ashes of Tragedy"	Ryan Murphy
		"Manna from Heaven"	Anthony Hemingway
		"The Race Card"	John Singleton
2017 (69th) ^[47]
	Big Little Lies		Jean-Marc Vallée	HBO
	Fargo	"The Law of Vacant Places"	Noah Hawley	FX
	Feud: Bette and Joan	"And the Winner Is... (The Oscars of 1963)"	Ryan Murphy	FX
	Genius	"Einstein: Chapter One"	Ron Howard	Nat Geo
	The Night Of	"The Art of War"	James Marsh	HBO
	The Night Of	"The Beach"	Steven Zaillian	HBO
2018 (70th) ^[48]
	The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story	"The Man Who Would Be Vogue"	Ryan Murphy	FX
	Godless		Scott Frank	Netflix
	Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert		David Leveaux and Alex Rudzinski	NBC
	The Looming Tower	"9/11"	Craig Zisk	Hulu
	Paterno		Barry Levinson	HBO
	Patrick Melrose		Edward Berger	Showtime
	Twin Peaks		David Lynch	Showtime
2019 (71st) ^[49]
	Chernobyl		Johan Renck	HBO
	Escape at Dannemora		Ben Stiller	Showtime
	Fosse/Verdon	"Glory"	Jessica Yu	FX
	Fosse/Verdon	"Who's Got the Pain?"	Thomas Kail	FX
	A Very English Scandal		Stephen Frears	Prime Video
	When They See Us		Ava DuVernay	Netflix

2020s

Year	Program	Episode	Nominee(s)	Network
2020 (72nd)
	Unorthodox		Maria Schrader	Netflix
	Little Fires Everywhere	"Find a Way"	Lynn Shelton (posthumous)	Hulu
	Normal People	"Episode 5"	Lenny Abrahamson	Hulu
	Watchmen	"It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice"	Nicole Kassell	HBO
		"Little Fear of Lightning"	Steph Green
		"This Extraordinary Being"	Stephen Williams
2021 (73rd)
	The Queen's Gambit		Scott Frank	Netflix
	Hamilton		Thomas Kail	Disney+
	I May Destroy You	"Ego Death"	Sam Miller and Michaela Coel	HBO
	I May Destroy You	"Eyes Eyes Eyes Eyes"	Sam Miller
	Mare of Easttown		Craig Zobel
	The Underground Railroad		Barry Jenkins	Prime Video
	WandaVision		Matt Shakman	Disney+
2022 (74th)
	The White Lotus		Mike White	HBO
	Dopesick	"The People vs. Purdue Pharma"	Danny Strong	Hulu
	The Dropout	"Green Juice"	Michael Showalter
	The Dropout	"Iron Sisters"	Francesca Gregorini
	Maid	"Sky Blue"	John Wells	Netflix
	Station Eleven	"Wheel of Fire"	Hiro Murai	HBO Max

Directors with multiple wins

4 wins

John Frankenheimer (3 consecutive)
Joseph Sargent

2 wins

Directors with multiple nominations

9 nominations

6 nominations

5 nominations

4 nominations

3 nominations

2 nominations

Programs with multiple nominations

4 nominations

American Crime Story
Fargo

3 nominations

Watchmen

2 nominations

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v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
1970s	Fielder Cook (1971) Tom Gries (1972) Joseph Sargent (1973) John Korty (1974) George Cukor (1975) Daniel Petrie (1976) Daniel Petrie (1977) David Lowell Rich (1978) David Greene (1979)
1980s	Marvin J. Chomsky (1980) James Goldstone (1981) Marvin J. Chomsky (1982) John Erman (1983) Jeff Bleckner (1984) Lamont Johnson (1985) Joseph Sargent (1986) Glenn A. Jordan (1987) Lamont Johnson (1988) Simon Wincer (1989)
1990s	Joseph Sargent (1990) Brian Gibson (1991) Joseph Sargent (1992) James Steven Sadwith (1993) John Frankenheimer (1994) John Frankenheimer (1995) John Frankenheimer (1996) Andrei Konchalovsky (1997) John Frankenheimer (1998) Allan Arkush (1999)
2000s	Charles S. Dutton (2000) Mike Nichols (2001) David Frankel, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, Mikael Salomon and Tony To (2002) Steven Schachter (2003) Mike Nichols (2004) Stephen Hopkins (2005) Tom Hooper (2006) Philip Martin (2007) Jay Roach (2008) Dearbhla Walsh (2009)
2010s	Mick Jackson (2010) Brian Percival (2011) Jay Roach (2012) Steven Soderbergh (2013) Colin Bucksey (2014) Lisa Cholodenko (2015) Susanne Bier (2016) Jean-Marc Vallée (2017) Ryan Murphy (2018) Johan Renck (2019)
2020s	Maria Schrader (2020) Scott Frank (2021) Mike White (2022)

v t e Primetime Emmy Award categories
Programs	Comedy Series Drama Series Limited or Anthology Series Television Movie Reality Competition Program Talk Series Scripted Variety Series Animated Program Short Form Animated Program Documentary or Nonfiction Series Documentary or Nonfiction Special Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking Game Show Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special Short Form Comedy, Drama or Variety Series Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series Structured Reality Program Unstructured Reality Program Variety Special (Live) Variety Special (Pre-Recorded)
Performance	Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Lead Actor in a Drama Series Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Lead Actress in a Drama Series Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Guest Actor in a Drama Series Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Guest Actress in a Drama Series Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Character Voice-Over Performance Host for a Game Show Host for a Reality or Competition Program Narrator
Directing	Directing for a Comedy Series Directing for a Drama Series Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Directing for a Variety Series Directing for a Variety Special Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program Directing for a Reality Program
Writing	Writing for a Comedy Series Writing for a Drama Series Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Writing for a Variety Series Writing for a Variety Special Writing for a Nonfiction Programming
Animation	Individual Achievement in Animation
Casting	Casting for a Comedy Series Casting for a Drama Series Casting for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Casting for a Reality Program
Choreography	Choreography for Scripted Programming Choreography for Variety and Reality Programming
Cinematography	Cinematography for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program Cinematography for a Reality Program Cinematography for a Series (Half-Hour) Cinematography for a Series (One Hour)
Commercials	Commercial
Costume Design	Contemporary Costumes Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes Period Costumes Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Programming
Hairstyling	Contemporary Hairstyling Hairstyling for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program Period and/or Character Hairstyling
Lighting	Lighting Design / Lighting Direction for a Variety Series Lighting Design / Lighting Direction for a Variety Special
Main Title / Motion Design	Main Title Design Motion Design
Makeup	Contemporary Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program Period and/or Character Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) Prosthetic Makeup
Music	Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special Music Composition for a Series Music Direction Music Supervision Original Main Title Theme Music Original Music and Lyrics
Picture Editing	Picture Editing for a Comedy Series Picture Editing for a Drama Series Picture Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program Picture Editing for a Structured or Competition Reality Program Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program Picture Editing for Variety Programming
Production Design	Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More) Production Design for a Narrative Period or Fantasy Program (One Hour or More) Production Design for a Narrative Program (Half-Hour or Less) Production Design for a Variety, Reality or Competition Series Production Design for a Variety Special
Sound Editing	Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One-Hour) Sound Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special Sound Editing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program (Single or Multi-Camera)
Sound Mixing	Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One-Hour) Sound Mixing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program (Single or Multi-Camera) Sound Mixing for a Variety Series or Special
Special Effects	Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie / Special and Visual Effects in a Single Episode
Stunts	Stunt Coordination for a Comedy Series or Variety Program Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Drama Series, Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Stunt Performance
Technical Direction	Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Series Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Special
Engineering	Engineering Philo T. Farnsworth Award
Retired	Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series Children's Program Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Series Costumes for a Series Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special Hairstyling for a Limited Series or Movie Hairstyling for a Single-Camera Series Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program Interactive Program Makeup for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic) Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series New Series Program of the Year Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Short Form Variety Series Super Emmy Variety Series Voice-Over Performance
Emmy categories Primetime Daytime International Sports Children's and Family

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