1956 Primetime Emmy Awards
The 8th Emmy Awards were held on March 17, 1956 at the Pan Pacific Auditorium in Hollywood , California , USA . The ceremony was hosted by Art Linkletter and aired on NBC .
Nominations and winners
Program prices
| category | Award winners | program | Nominations |
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| Best Dramatic Series | Producers' Showcase , NBC |
Climax , CBS Goodyear Television Playhouse , NBC Studio One , CBS The United States Steel Hour , CBS |
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| Best Action or Adventure Series (best action or adventure series) | Disneyland , ABC |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents , CBS The Lineup , CBS Police Report , NBC Smoking Guns , CBS |
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| Best Variety Series (Best Entertainment Series) | The Ed Sullivan Show , CBS |
The Dinah Shore Show , NBC Ford Star Jubilee , CBS The Perry Como Show , NBC Shower of Stars , CBS |
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| Best Music Series (best music show) | Your Hit Parade , NBC |
Coke Time With Eddie Fisher , NBC The Dinah Shore Show , NBC The Perry Como Show , NBC The Voice of Firestone , ABC |
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| Best Audience Participation Series (quiz, panel, etc.) (best participation program (quiz, picture puzzles, etc.)) | The $ 64,000 Question , CBS |
I've Got a Secret , CBS People are Funny , NBC What's My Line? , CBS You Bet Your Life , NBC |
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| Best Comedy Series (Best Comedy Series) | The Phil Silvers Show , CBS |
The Bob Cummings Show , CBS Caesar's Hour , NBC The George Gobel Show , NBC The Jack Benny Show , CBS Make Room for Daddy , ABC |
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| Best Documentary Program (Best Documentation Program) | Omnibus , CBS |
Meet the Press , NBC Person to Person , CBS See It Now , CBS Wide Wide World , NBC |
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| Best Special Event Or News Program (special or best newscast) | A-bomb coverage , CBS |
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Awards , NBC Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Awards , NBC Baseball-World Series , NBC Football-Rose Bowl , NBC |
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| Best Children's Program (best children's program) | Lassie , CBS |
Ding Dong School , NBC Howdy Doody , NBC Kukla, Fran and Ollie , ABC The Mickey Mouse Club , ABC The Pinky Lee Show , NBC |
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| Best Single Program of the Year (best single piece of the year) | Producers' Showcase , NBC (episode 1.7 Peter Pan) |
Disneyland , ABC (episode 2.13 Davy Crockett and the River Pirates) Ford Star Jubilee , CBS (episode 1.3 The Caine Mutiny Court Martial) Make Room for Daddy ABC (episode 2.24 Peter Pan Meets Rusty Williams) Producers' Showcase , NBC (episode 2.4 The Sleeping Beauty) The United States Steel Hour , CBS (episode 2.14 No Time for Sergeants) Wide Wide World , NBC (episode The American West) |
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| Best Contribution To Daytime Programming (best contribution to the day program) | Matinee Theater , NBC |
Arlene Francis for Home , NBC Dave Garroway for Today , NBC The Bob Crosby Show , CBS The Garry Moore Show , CBS |
Producer prices
| category | Award winners | program | Nominations |
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| Best Producer - Film Series (Best Producer recorded series) | Walt Disney | Disneyland , ABC |
James D. Fonda for You Are There , CBS Paul Henning for The Bob Cummings Show , CBS Nat Hiken for The Phil Silvers Show , CBS Frank LaTourette for Medic , NBC |
| Best Producer - Live Series (Best Producer Live Series) | Fred Coe | Producers' Showcase , NBC |
Herbert Brodkin for Goodyear Television Playhouse , NBC Hal Kanter for The George Gobel Show , NBC Martin Manulis for Climax , CBS The Theater Guild for The United States Steel Hour , CBS Barry Wood for Wide Wide World , NBC |
Director awards
| category | Award winners | program | Nominations |
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| Best Director - Film Series (Best Director recorded series) | Nat Hiken | The Phil Silvers Show , CBS |
Rod Amateau for The Bob Cummings Show , CBS (episode 1.25 The Return of the Wolf) Bernard Girard for You Are There , CBS (episode 4.7 Grant and Lee at Appomattox) Alfred Hitchcock for Alfred Hitchcock Presents , CBS (episode 1.10 The Case of Mr .Pelham) Sheldon Leonard for Make Room for Daddy , ABC Jack Webb for Police Report , NBC |
| Best Director - Live Series (Best Director Live series) | Franklin J. Schaffner | Ford Star Jubilee , CBS (episode 1.3 The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial) |
John Frankenheimer for Climax , CBS (episode 2.11 Portrait in Celluloid) Clark Jones for Producers 'Showcase , NBC (episode 1.7 Peter Pan) Delbert Mann for Producers' Showcase , CBS (episode 2.1 Our Town) Alex Segal for The United States Steel Hour , CBS (episode 2.14 No Time for Sergeants) |
| Best Art Direction - Film Series (Best Art Direction Recorded Series) | William Ferrari | You Are There , CBS |
Duncan Cramer for Four Star Playhouse , CBS Ernst Fegté for Medic , NBC Serge Krizman for Schlitz Playhouse of Stars , CBS Peter Proud for The Adventures of Robin Hood , CBS |
| Best Art Direction - Live Series ( Best Art Direction Live Series ) | Otis Riggs | Producers' Showcase , NBC |
Jan Scott for Hallmark Hall of Fame , NBC Don Shirley for The Perry Como Show , NBC William Craig Smith for Lux Video Theater , NBC James Vance for Climax , CBS |
Screenplay Awards
Technology awards
| category | Award winners | program | Nominations |
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| Best Camera Work - Live Show (Best Cinematography live show) | T. Miller | Studio One , CBS |
AJ Cunningham for Climax , CBS Joe Strauss for Lux Video Theater , NBC Les Vaught for Art Linkletter's House Party , CBS |
| Best Cinematography For Television (Best TV camera) | William Sickner | Medic , NBC (ep.2.9 Black Friday) |
Norbert Brodine for The Loretta Young Show , NBC (ep.2.35 I Remember the Rani) Edward Colman for the police report , NBC George Diskant for the Four Star Playhouse , CBS (ep.3.28 The Collar) Robert Pittack for Private Secretary , CBS |
| Best Editing Of A Television Movie (Best TV section) | Edward W. Williams | Alfred Hitchcock Presents , CBS (episode 1.7 Breakdown) |
Samuel E. Beetley for Four Star Playhouse , CBS (ep.3.28 The Collar) Jason H. Bernie for Navy Log , CBS (ep.1.7 Operation Three-In-One) Stanley Frazen and Guy Scarpitta for The Bob Cummings Show , CBS Daniel Nathan for Fireside Theater , NBC (episode 1.5 Little Guy) |
| Best Engineering Technical Achievement (Best Technical Equipment) | RCA Tricolor Picture |
Automatic Iris Control Color Wipe Amplifier DuMont Electronicam Electronic Editing Machine Ultra-Violet Kinescope Recording of RCA |
Music awards
| category | Award winners | program | Nominations |
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| Best Musical Contribution ( Best Musical Contribution ) | Sammy Cahn , Jimmy Van Heusen | Producers' Showcase , NBC (episode 2.1 Our Town / Song " Love and Marriage ") |
David Broekman for Wide Wide World , NBC (series composition) Sammy Cahn , Jimmy Van Heusen for Producers' Showcase , NBC (episode 2.1 Our Town / composition) Noël Coward for Ford Star Jubilee , CBS (episode 1.2 Together with Music / song "Camarata" ) Nelson Riddle for Producers' Showcase , NBC (episode 2.1 Our Town / adaptation) |
| Best Choreographer (best choreographer) (episode 1.7) | Tony Charmoli | Your Hit Parade , NBC |
Rod Alexander for Max Liebman Spectaculars , NBC Jerome Robbins for Producers' Showcase , NBC (ep.1.7) Peter Pan James Starbuck for Max Liebman Presents and Shower of Stars , NBC, CBS June Taylor for The Jackie Gleason Show , CBS |
| Best Male Singer (best singer) | Perry Como , NBC |
Harry Belafonte Eddie Fisher , NBC Gordon MacRae , NBC Frank Sinatra , NBC |
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| Best Female Singer (best singer) | Dinah Shore , NBC |
Rosemary Clooney , Syndication Judy Garland , CBS Peggy Lee Gisele MacKenzie , NBC |
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| Best Specialty Act - Single Or Group ( Best Specialty Act - Single or Group) | Marcel Marceau , NBC |
Harry Belafonte Victor Borge Sammy Davis Jr. Donald O'Connor , NBC |
Actor Awards
| category | Award winners | program | Nominations |
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| Best Actor - Single Performance ( Best Single Actor ) | Lloyd Nolan | Ford Star Jubilee , CBS (episode 1.3 The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial) |
Ralph Bellamy for United States Steel Hour , CBS (episode 2.18 Fearful Decision) José Ferrer for Producers' Showcase , NBC (episode 2.2 Cyrano de Bergerac) Everett Sloane for Kraft Theater , NBC (episode 8.16 Patterns) Barry Sullivan for Ford Star Jubilee , CBS (Episode 1.3 The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial) |
| Best Actress - Single Performance ( Best Single Actress ) | Mary Martin | Producers' Showcase , NBC (episode 1.7 Peter Pan) |
Julie Harris for United States Steel Hour , CBS (episode 3.6 A Wind from the South) Eva Marie Saint for Producers 'Showcase , NBC (episode 2.1 Our Town) Jessica Tandy for Producers' Showcase , NBC (episode 1.11 The Fourposter) Loretta Young for The Loretta Young Show , NBC (ep.3.17 Christmas Stopover) |
| Best Actor - Continuing Performance ( Best Actor in a Series ) | Phil Silvers | The Phil Silvers Show , CBS |
Bob Cummings for The Bob Cummings Show , CBS Jackie Gleason for The Honeymooners , CBS Danny Thomas for Make Room for Daddy , ABC Robert Young for Father Knows Best , CBS |
| Best Actress - Continuing Performance ( Best Actress in a Series ) | Lucille Ball | I love Lucy , CBS |
Gracie Allen for The Burns and Allen Show , CBS Eve Arden for Our Miss Brooks , CBS Jean Hagen for Make Room for Daddy , ABC Ann Sothern for Private Secretary , CBS |
| Best Supporting Actor in a Series Regular (Best Supporting Actor Series) | Kind Carney | The Honeymooners , CBS |
Ed Begley for Kraft Television Theater , NBC (episode 8.16 Patterns) William Frawley for I Love Lucy , CBS Carl Reiner for Caesar's Hour , NBC Cyril Ritchard for Producers' Showcase , NBC (episode 1.7 Peter Pan) |
| Best Actress In A Supporting Role (Best Series Supporting Actress) | Nanette Fabray | Caesar's Hour , NBC |
Ann B. Davis for The Bob Cummings Show , CBS (ep.1.21 Schultzy's Dream World) Jean Hagen for Make Room for Daddy , ABC Audrey Meadows for The Honeymooners , CBS Thelma Ritter for Goodyear Television Playhouse , NBC (ep.4.17 The Catered Affair) |
Moderator prices
| category | Award winners | program | Nominations |
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| Best Mc Or Program Host (Best Moderator) | Perry Como , NBC |
Alistair Cooke , CBS John Charles Daly , CBS Dave Garroway , NBC Alfred Hitchcock , CBS |
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| Best News Reporter Or Commentator (Best news reporter or commentator) | Edward F. Murrow , CBS |
John Charles Daly , ABC Douglas Edwards , CBS Clete Roberts , CBS John Cameron Swayze , NBC |
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| Best Comedian (Best Comedian) | Phil Silvers , CBS |
Jack Benny , CBS Sid Caesar , NBC Art Carney , CBS George Gobel , NBC |
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| Best Comedienne (best comedian) | Nanette Fabray , NBC |
Gracie Allen , CBS Eve Arden , CBS Lucille Ball , CBS Ann Sothern , CBS |
Special prices
| category | Award winners | program | Nominations |
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| Governors Award | Dwight D. Eisenhower ( for the use and promotion of television as a medium ) | ||
| Best Commercial Campaign (Best advertising campaign) | ford |
Bank of America Chrysler Hamm's Beer Piel's Beer |