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- The Television Academy tonight celebrated the 72nd Emmy Awards, recognizing excellence in primetime programming and individual achievement for the 2019-2020 television season.
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The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2019, until May 31, 2020, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. [2]
Sep 20, 2020 · The Television Academy tonight celebrated the 72nd Emmy Awards, recognizing excellence in primetime programming and individual achievement for the 2019-2020 television season.
Sep 20, 2020 · The Television Academy tonight celebrated the 72nd Emmy Awards, recognizing excellence in primetime programming and individual achievement for the 2019-2020 television season. Get the complete Emmy winners list here.
In 1987, with Walt Disney Company executive Richard Frank serving as president, the Academy made a bold move to license the Emmy Awards ceremony in a multi-year deal to the Fox network, which at the time was in its first year of existence, for $3 million a year.
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The first Emmy Awards only gave out awards in five categories: Best Film Made for Television, Most Outstanding Television Personality, Most Popular Television Program, a technical award, a special one-time award, and the station award for Outstanding Overall Achievement. In 1950, the Academy added several categories, including one for best commerci...
In 1951, the 3rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards had an unusual host: a future chief justice in the United States Supreme Court. At the time, Earl Warren was the governor of California. It wasn't until two years later, in 1953, after a failed presidential bid, that he was appointed the 14th chief justiceof the United States Supreme Court.
Hosted by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, the 1952 Emmy Awards were the first to consider shows outside of Los Angeles area programming. Previously, only shows that had been produced or aired in the L.A. area were eligible to win. But in 1952, Your Show of Shows, which was filmed in New York City and aired nationwide, won the trophy for best variety s...
According to Variety columnist Sheilah Graham, the 1953 awards weren't the Emmy's best year. In her write-up she noted, "Nothing much happened at the Emmy Awards, apart from the stage proscenium falling down and conking a violinist on the head, and the mic going out of order for 10 minutes, silencing host Art Linkletter." Another article in the mag...
In the last year of its run, sketch comedy show Caesar's Hour made Emmy history by winning awards in all four major acting categories. The first show to do so, Sid Caesar, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, and Pat Carroll all took home statuettes for their performances as various characters. In addition, Caesar's Hourwon Best Series, One Hour or More.
The number of Emmy categories has fluctuated over the years, from six in 1949 to 27 today. While today's categories are fairly whittled down, covering all the basics without a hoard of superfluous extras, that hasn't always been the case. For example, at the 1958 Emmys, a truly nonsensical division was added: Best Continuing Performance in a Series...
In 1961, The Flintstones cartoon made history when it became the first animated TV show to be nominated for Best Comedy Series. No other animated series would accomplish the same feat until Family Guywas nominated in 2009. The only first lady, to date, to win an Emmy Award, Jackie Kennedy took home her statuette for her famed televised White House ...
The Dick Van Dyke Showswept the 1963 Emmy awards. The sitcom, which aired for five years, won in the series, writing, and directing categories. One of the show's stars, Mary Tyler Moore, would go on to make her own Emmy history just over a decade later. Two network presidents, Fred W. Friendly of CBS News and Thomas W. Moore of ABC, boycotted the 1...
The 1969 awards marked the first time that the Outstanding Drama Series statuette went home to a studio that was not one of the big three. PBS predecessor, the National Educational Television Network, won the night with top honors for its show NET Playhouse. The anthology series would go on to be nominated two more times.
In the first 21 iterations of the Primetime Emmy Awards, shows from the "big three" television networks—ABC, CBS, and NBC—had been the primary victors. But in 1970, their trophy sweep came to a halt when Susan Hampshire of The Forsyte Sagawon the statuette for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series: The Forsyte Sagaaired on PBS.
The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards: Directed by Hamish Hamilton, Glenn F. Clements, Whit Conway, James B. Merryman. With Paul Mescal, Cynthia Erivo, Zendaya, Julia Garner. Awards show celebrating and honoring television's best; Jimmy Kimmel host; H.E.R. performs.
Sep 20, 2020 · TV’s biggest night looked a little different this year, with host Jimmy Kimmel leading viewers through a socially-distanced 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony from the Staples Center, with...
