Primetime Emmy Awards 1993

The 45th Emmy Awards were held on September 19, 1993 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena , California . The show was hosted by Angela Lansbury .

Award winners and nominations (selection)

Programs

Best comedy series	Best drama series
Seinfeld , NBC Cheers , NBC Listen who's hammering , ABC The Larry Sanders Show , CBS Murphy Brown , NBC	Picket Fences , CBS Alaska , of all places , CBS An American dream , ABC I'll fly away , NBC Law & Order , NBC
Best variety, music or comedy series	Best variety, music or comedy special
Saturday Night Live , NBC Late Show with David Letterman , CBS MTV Unplugged : " Rod Stewart ", MTV The Tonight Show with Jay Leno , NBC	Bob Hope : The First 90 Years , CBS 46th Annual Tony Awards , CBS Academy Awards 1993 , ABC Great Performances, Episode: "Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall" , PBS The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe , Showtime
Best TV movie	Best miniseries
The corporation , HBO Stalin , HBO Citizen Cohn , HBO The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom , CBS True , PBS	Prime Suspect II , PBS Alex Haley's Queen , CBS Scenes from a family , ABC The Jacksons - An American Dream , ABC Frank Sinatra - The Way to the Top , CBS

actor

Leading roles

Best Actor in a Comedy Series	Best leading actress in a comedy series
Ted Danson as Sam Malone in Cheers , episode: "The Guy Can't Help It," NBC Tim Allen as Tim Taylor in Listen, Who's Hammering , Episode: "Where There's a Will, There's a Way," ABC John Goodman as Dan Conner in Roseanne , Episode: "Terms of Estrangement," ABC Jerry Seinfeld as Jerry Seinfeld in Seinfeld , episode: "The Puffy Shirt", NBC Garry Shandling as Larry Sanders on The Larry Sanders Show , Episode: "What Have You Done for Me Lately?", HBO	Roseanne Barr as Roseanne Conner in Roseanne , Episode: "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home," ABC Kirstie Alley as Rebecca Howe in Cheers , episode: "One for the Road," NBC Candice Bergen as Murphy Brown in Murphy Brown , Episode: "Games Mothers Play," CBS Helen Hunt as Jamie Buchman in Crazy About You , episode: "Pilot," NBC Marion Ross as Sophie Berger in Brooklyn Bridge , episode: "Brave New Worlds," CBS
Best Actor in a Drama Series	Best leading actress in a drama series
Tom Skerritt as Jimmy Brock in Picket Fences , Episode: "High Tidings," CBS Scott Bakula as Sam Beckett in Back to the Past , episode: "Lee Harvey Oswald: October 5, 1957-November 22, 1963", NBC Michael Moriarty as Ben Stone in Law & Order , Episode: "Night and Fog", NBC Rob Morrow as Joel Fleischmann in Alaska , of all things, episode: "Kaddish for Uncle Manny," CBS Sam Waterston as Forrest Bedford in I'll Fly Away , episode: "All in the Life," NBC	Kathy Baker as Jill Brock on Picket Fences , Episode: "Thanksgiving," CBS Swoosie Kurtz as Alex Halsey in A Strauss of Daughters , episode: "Mirror, Mirror", NBC Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher in Murder Is Her Hobby , episode: "Night of the Coyote," CBS Regina Taylor as Lilly in I'll Fly Away , Episode: "Comfort and Joy", NBC Janine Turner as Maggie O'Connell in Alaska , of all places, episode: "Love's Labor Mislaid," CBS
Best Actor in a Miniseries or Special	Best Actress in a Miniseries or Special
Robert Morse as Truman Capote in Tru , PBS Robert Blake as John List in The Last Judgment - The John List Story , CBS Robert Duvall as Josef Stalin in Stalin , HBO James Garner as F. Ross Johnson in The Corporation , HBO James Woods as Roy Marcus Cohn in Citizen Cohn , HBO	Holly Hunter as Wanda Holloway in The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, HBO Glenn Close as Sarah Witting on Sarah Between Land and Sea , CBS Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison in Hot Suspicion II , PBS Maggie Smith as Violet Venable in Suddenly, Last Summer, PBS Joanne Woodward as Maggie Moran in Breathing Exercises, CBS

Supporting roles

Best supporting actor in a comedy series	Best supporting actress in a comedy series
Michael Richards as Cosmo Kramer in Seinfeld, episode: "The Watch" + "The Junior Mint", NBC Jason Alexander as George Costanza in Seinfeld , episode: "The Contest" + "The Outing", NBC Michael Jeter as Herman Stiles in Daddy Makes Us All , episode: "Harlan Deals a Meal" + "The Really Odd Couple", NBC Jeffrey Tambor as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show , Episode: "Guest Host" + "Hank's Contract", HBO Rip Torn as Arthur on The Larry Sanders Show , "The Spiders Episode" + "The New Producer", HBO	Laurie Metcalf as Jackie Harris in Roseanne , Episode: "Crime and Punishment" + "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home", ABC Shelley Fabares as Christine Armstrong in Coach, Episode: "Love Me Tender" + "Vows", ABC Sara Gilbert as Darlene Conner in Roseanne , "Good Girls, Bad Girls" + "Playing with Matches", ABC Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes in Seinfeld, episode: "The Contest" + "Mambo", NBC Rhea Perlman as Carla Tortelli in Cheers , Episode: "Loathe and Marriage" + "It's Lonely on the Top", NBC
Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Chad Lowe as Jesse McKenna in Everything Okay, Corky? , Episode: "Lost Weekend" + "Bedfellows", CBS Barry Corbin as Maurice J. Minnifield in Alaska , of all places , episode: "The Big Feast" + "Sleeping with the Enemy", CBS John Cullum as Holling Vincoeur in Alaska , of all places , episode: "Learning Curve" + "Mud and Blood", CBS Fyvush Finkel as Douglas Wambaugh in Picket Fences , episode: "Thanksgiving" + "The Body Politic", CBS Dean Stockwell as Al Calavicci in Back to the Past , episode: "Lee Harvey Oswald: October 5, 1957 - November 22, 1963" + "Killin 'Time: June 18, 1958", NBC	Mary Alice as Marguerite Peck in I'll Fly Away , episodes: "Ruler of My Heart" + "The Third Man", NBC Cynthia Geary as Shelly Tambo in Alaska , of all things, episodes: "Kaddish for Uncle Manny" + "Mud and Blood", CBS Kay Lenz as Maggie Zombro in The Prosecutor and the Cop , episodes: "Two Women" + "Wish You Were Here", NBC Kellie Martin as Becca Thatcher in Everything Okay, Corky? , Episodes: "Visions" + "Last Wish", ABC Peg Phillips as Ruth Anne in Alaska , of all things , episodes: "Blowing Bubbles" + "Revelations", CBS
Best supporting actor in a miniseries or a special	Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Special
Beau Bridges as Terry Harper in The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom , HBO Brian Dennehy as John McArthur in Heart to Kill , ABC Jonathan Pryce as Henry Kravis in The Corporation , HBO Peter Riegert as Peter Cohen in The Group , HBO Maximilian Schell as Vladimir Lenin in Stalin , HBO	Mary Tyler Moore as Georgia Tann in Unscrupulous Mothers , Lifetime Ann-Margret as Sally Jackson in Alex Haley's Queen , CBS Lee Grant as Dora Cohn in Citizen Cohn , HBO Peggy McCay as Virginia Bembenek in A Woman on the Run - The Lawrencia Bembenek Story , NBC Joan Plowright as Olga on Stalin , HBO

Guest appearance

Best guest actor in a comedy series	Best guest actress in a comedy series
David Clennon as Peter Brewer on Dream On , episode: "For Peter's Sake," HBO Tom Berenger as Don Santry in Cheers , episode: "One for the Road", NBC Dana Carvey as himself on The Larry Sanders Show , episode: "Guest Host", HBO Bill Erwin as Sid Fields in Seinfeld , episode: "The Old Man", NBC Joel Gray as Jacob in Brooklyn Bridge , episode: "The Last Immigrant", NBC	Tracey Ullman as Dava Levine in Love & War , episode: "The Prima Dava", CBS Carol Burnett as herself on The Larry Sanders Show , episode: "The Spider Episode," HBO Ruby Dee as Aurelia Danforth in Daddy Makes Us All , episode: "They Can't Take That Away From Me," CBS Shelley Long as Diane Chambers in Cheers , episode: "One for the Road", NBC Gwen Verdon as Kitty in Dream On , episode: "For Peter's Sake," HBO
Best guest actor in a drama series	Best guest actress in a drama series
Laurence Fishburn as Martin McHenry in Tribeca episode: "The Box", Fox Adam Arkin as Adam in Alaska , of all places , episode: "The Big Feast", CBS John Glover as Dennis Atwood in Crime & Punishment , episode: "Best Laid Plans," NBC Michael Jeter as Peter Lebeck in Picket Fences , episode: "Frog Man", NBC Richard Kiley as Hayden Langston in Picket Fences , episode: "Thanksgiving," NBC	Elaine Stritch as Lannie Stiglitz in Law & Order , Episode: "Point of View", ABC Bibi Besch as Jane O'Connell in Alaska , of all things, episode: "Grosse Pointe 48230", CBS Rosanna Carter as Eulalia Jefferson in I'll Fly Away , Episode: "What's in a Name", NBC Diane Ladd as Charlotte Cooper in Dr. Quinn - Passionate Doctor , Episode: Pilot, "NBC Gwen Verdon as Jessie Doohen in Homicide: A Year on Murderous Streets , episode: "A Ghost of a Chance", NBC

Director

Best individual performance in the direction of a comedy series	Best individual performance in the direction of a drama series
Betty Thomas for Dream On , episode: "For Peter's Sake", NBC Peter Bonerz for Murphy Brown , episode: "You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato", CBS James Burrows for Cheers , episode: "One for the Road", NBC Tom Cherones for Seinfeld , episode: "The Contest", NBC Eric Laneuville for Dream On , episode: "And Bimbo Was His Name-o", HBO	Barry Levinson for Homicide: A Year on Murderous Streets , episode: "Gone for Good", NBC Billie August for The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones , episode: "Northern Italy, 1918", ABC Robert Butler for Lady Cops , Episode: "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love", ABC Eric Laneuville for I'll Fly Away , episode: "Until Tomorrow", NBC Nancy Malone for A Bouquet of Daughters , episode: "Crash & Born", NBC Edwin Sherin for Law & Order , episode: "Conspiracy", NBC
Best individual performance in the direction of a variety, music or comedy show	Best individual performance in the direction of a variety, music or comedy show, mini-series or special
Walter C. Miller for The 46th Annual Tony Awards , ABC Robert Altman for Great Performances : Black and Blue , PBS Hal Gurnee for Late Night with David Letterman , NBC Jeff Margolis for 1993 Academy Awards , ABC	James Steven Sadwith for Frank Sinatra - The way to the top Glenn Jordan for The Corporation , HBO Daniel Petrie for A Town Torn Apart , NBC Frank Pierson for Citizen Cohn , HBO Michael Ritchie for The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom , HBO

script

Best script for a comedy series	Best script for a drama series
Larry David for Seinfeld , episode: "The Contest", NBC Larry Charles for Seinfeld , episode: "The Outing", NBC David Crane , Marta Kauffman for Dream On , episode: "For Peter's Sake", HBO Garry Shandling , Dennis Klein for The Larry Sanders Show , episode: "The Hey Now Episode," HBO Garry Shandling, Paul Simms , Peter Tolan , Rosie Shuster for The Larry Sanders Show , episode: "The Spider Episode", HBO	Tom Fontana for Homicide: A Year on Murderous Streets , episode: "Three Men and Adena", ABC Bernard Lechowik for Homefront , episode: "The Lacemakers", ABC Jeff Melvoin for Alaska , of all places, episode: "Kaddish for Uncle Manny", CBS Robert Nathan , Walon Green for Law & Order , episode: "Manhood", NBC Geoffrey Neigher for Alaska , of all places , episode: "Midnight Sun", CBS
Best script for a variety or comedy show	Best script for a miniseries or a special
The Ben Stiller Show , Fox Late Night with David Letterman , NBC The Kids in the Hall , HBO Rick Reynolds : Only the Truth Is Funny , Showtime	Jane Anderson for The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom , HBO David Franzoni for Citizen Cohn , PBS Larry Gelbart for The Corporation , HBO Jennifer Miller for Scenes from a Family , ABC Paul Monash for Stalin , HBO

Web links

Commons : 1993 Emmy Awards  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• Primetime Emmy Awards 1993 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website