Screen Source presents:

1996 Primetime Emmy Award Winners

The 48th annual ceremonies were held September 8, 1996

at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California


The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 1996 Primetime Emmy Awards celebrate and honor television's greatest shows, producers, directors, writers, actors and actresses.

Broadcast live from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, the Primetime Emmy Awards reach an international television audience of 60 million people.

Hosted by Paul Reiser

Category

Winner

Show

Network

Comedy Series

Frasier

NBC

Drama Series

ER

NBC

Miniseries

Gulliver's Travels

NBC

Made for TV Movie

Truman

HBO

Variety (music or comedy series)

Dennis Miller Live

HBO

Variety (music or comedy special)

The Kennedy Center Honors

CBS

Cultural Program

Itzhak Perlman: In The Fiddler's House

PBS

Children's Program

Peter and the Wolf

ABC

Informational Special

Survivors of the Holocaust

TBS

Informational Series

Time Life's Lost Civilizations

NBC

Animated Program (one hour or less)

A Pinky and the Brain Christmas Special

WB

Best Actor (comedy series)

John Lithgow

3rd Rock From the Sun

NBC

Best Actor (drama series)

Dennis Franz

NYPD Blue

ABC

Best Actor (miniseries or special)

Alan Rickman

Rasputin

HBO

Best Actress (comedy series)

Helen Hunt

Mad About You

NBC

Best Actress (drama series)

Kathy Baker

Picket Fences

CBS

Best Actress (miniseries or special)

Helen Mirren

Prime Suspect: Scent of Darkness

PBS

Individual Performance (variety or musical program)

Tony Bennett

Tony Bennet Live by Request: A Valentine Special

A&E

Best Supporting Actor (comedy series)

Rip Torn

The Larry Sanders Show

HBO

Best Supporting Actor (drama series)

Ray Walston

Picket Fences

CBS

Best Supporting Actor (miniseries or special)

Tom Hulce

The Heidi Chronicles

TNT

Best Supporting Actress (comedy series)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Seinfeld

NBC

Best Supporting Actress (drama series)

Tyne Daly

Christy

CBS

Best Supporting Actress (miniseries or special)

Greta Scacchi

Rasputin

HBO

Guest Actor (comedy series)

Tim Conway

Coach

ABC

Guest Actor (drama series)

Peter Boyle

The X-Files

FOX

Guest Actress (comedy series)

Betty White

The John Larroquette Show

NBC

Guest Actress (drama series)

Amanda Plummer

The Outer Limits

Showtime

Writing (comedy series)

Frasier

NBC

Writing (drama series)

Darin Morgan

The X-Files

FOX

Writing (miniseries or special)

Simon Moore

Gulliver's Travels

NBC

Writing (variety or music program)

Dennis Miller Live

HBO

Directing (comedy series)

Michael Lembeck

Friends

NBC

Directing (drama series)

Jeremy Kagan

Chicago Hope

CBS

Directing (miniseries or special)

John Frankenheimer

Andersonville

TNT

Directing (variety or music program)

Louis J. Horvitz

The Kennedy Center Honors

CBS

Music Composition (series)

Hummie Mann

Picture Windows (Language of the Heart)

Showtime

Music Composition (miniseries or special)

Ernest Troost

Canterville Ghost

ABC

Music Direction

Glen Roven

Sinatra: 80 Years My Way

ABC

Music and Lyrics

Lee Adams & Charles Strouse

Bye Bye Birdy

ABC

Main Title Theme Music

Mike Post

Murder One

ABC

Choreography

Anita Mann & Charonne Mose

1995 Miss America Pageant

NBC

Cinematography (series)

John S. Bartley

The X-Files

FOX

Cinematography (miniseries or special)

Elemer Ragalyi

Rasputin

HBO

Editing (series - single-camera)

Jon Koslowsky

JAG

NBC

Editing (series - multi-camera)

Ron Volk

Frasier

NBC

Editing (miniseries or special - single-camera)

David Beatty

Tuskegee Airmen

HBO

Editing (miniseries or special - multi-camera)

Mark West

20 Years of Comedy on HBO

HBO

Art Direction (series)

Murder One

ABC

Art Direction (miniseries or special)

Gulliver's Travels

NBC

Art Direction (variety or music program)

Muppets Tonight

ABC

Casting (series)

Debi Manwiller

Chicago Hope

CBS

Casting (miniseries or special)

Mary Colquhoun

Truman

HBO

Casting (miniseries or special)

Robi Reed-Humes

Tuskegee Airmen

HBO

Costuming (series)

Cybill

CBS

Costuming (miniseries or special)

Jean Rosone

The Christmas Box

CBS

Costume Design (series)

Carolyn Grifel

Remember WENN

AMC

Costume Design (miniseries or special)

Dinah Collin

Pride & Prejudice

A&E

Costume Design (variety or music program)

Jane Ruhm

The Best of Tracey Takes On

HBO

Graphic Design and Title Sequences

Caroline In The City

NBC

Makeup (series)

Star Trek: Voyager

UPN

Makeup (miniseries or special)

Patricia Green & Kevin Haney

Kissinger and Nixon

TNT

Hairstyling (series)

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

CBS

Hairstyling (miniseries or special)

Aileen Seaton

Gulliver's Travels

NBC

LIghting Direction (comedy series)

Donald A. Morgan

Home Improvement

ABC

LIghting Direction (drama, variety, miniseries or special)

Greg Brunton

68th Annual Academy Awards

ABC

Technical Direction (series)

The Tonight Show With Jay Leno

NBC

Technical Direction (miniseries or special)

Sinatra: 80 Years My Way

ABC

Sound Editing (series)

The X-Files

FOX

Sound Editing (miniseries or special)

Tuskegee Airmen

HBO

Sound Mixing (comedy series or special)

Frasier

NBC

Sound Mixing (variety or music series or special)

Richard Lewzet & Ken Hahn

Music for the Movies: The Hollywood Sound

PBS

Sound Mixing (drama series)

The X-Files

FOX

Sound Mixing (drama miniseries or special)

Harvest of Fire

CBS

Individual Achievement (informational programming)

The Private Life of Plants

TBS

Individual Achievement (informational programming)

Allan Holzman (editor)

Survivors of the Holocaust

TBS

Achievement in Animation

Natasha Dabizha

The Animated Tales

HBO

Special Visual Effects

Tim Webber

Gulliver's Travels

NBC

President's Award

Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial

AMC

Governors Award

The Native Americans: Behind the Legends, Beyond the Myths

TBS

Governors Award

Erase The Hate

USA


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