2001 Primetime Emmy Awards
The 2001 Emmy Awards were held on November 4, 2001 at the Shubert Theater . The 53rd edition of the Emmy Awards was originally supposed to take place in the Shrine Auditorium , but the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , four days before the planned award ceremony, made it necessary to postpone it. The second appointment had to be rescheduled because of the beginning of the war in Afghanistan . Ellen DeGeneres hosted the evening .
Barbra Streisand sang at the end in honor of the victims of September 11th You'll Never Walk Alone .
Main categories
Comedy series
(Outstanding Comedy Series)
Drama series
(Outstanding Drama Series)
Miniseries
(Outstanding Miniseries)
TV movie
(Outstanding Made-for-Television Movie)
Variety, music or comedy show
(Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Program)
Variety, music or comedy special
(Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special)
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Cirque du Soleil ’s Dralion
- Academy Awards 2001
- Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band: Live In New York City
- Ellen DeGeneres : The Beginning
- Saturday Night Live ’s Presidential Bash 2000
main actor
Leading actor in a comedy series
(Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series)
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Eric McCormack as Will Truman in Will & Grace
- Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane in Frasier
- John Lithgow as Dick Solomon in Behind the Moon Immediately Left
- Frankie Muniz as Malcolm Wilkerson in Malcolm in the thick of it
- Ray Romano as Ray Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond
Leading actor in a drama series
(Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series)
-
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano in The Sopranos
- Andre Braugher as Ben Gideon in Gideon's Crossing
- Dennis Franz as Andy Sipowicz in New York Cops - NYPD Blue
- Rob Lowe as Sam Seaborn in The West Wing
- Martin Sheen as Josiah Bartlet in The West Wing
Leading actress in a comedy series
(Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series)
-
Patricia Heaton as Debra Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond
- Calista Flockhart as Ally McBeal in Ally McBeal
- Jane Kaczmarek as Lois Wilkerson in Malcolm in the middle
- Debra Messing as Grace Adler in Will & Grace
- Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City
Leading actress in a drama series
(Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series)
-
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano in The Sopranos
- Lorraine Bracco as Jennifer Melfi in The Sopranos
- Amy Brenneman as Amy Gray in Just In Case, Amy
- Marg Helgenberger as Catherine Willows in CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators
- Sela Ward as the Lily Collector in One More Thing
supporting cast
Supporting actor in a comedy series
(Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series)
-
Peter MacNicol as John Cage in Ally McBeal
- Peter Boyle as Frank Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond
- Robert Downey Jr. as Paul in Ally McBeal
- Sean Hayes as Jack McFarland in Will & Grace
- David Hyde Pierce as Niles Crane in Frasier
Supporting actor in a drama series
(Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series)
-
Bradley Whitford as Josh Lyman in The West Wing
- Dominic Chianese as Junior Soprano in Die Sopranos
- Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti in The Sopranos
- Richard Schiff as Toby Ziegler in The West Wing
- John Spencer as Leo McGarry in The West Wing
Supporting actor in a comedy series
(Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series)
-
Doris Roberts as Marie Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond
- Jennifer Aniston for playing Rachel Green in Friends
- Kim Cattrall as Samantha Jones in Sex and the City
- Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay in Friends
- Megan Mullally as Karen Walker in Will & Grace
Supporting actor in a drama series
(Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series)
-
Allison Janney as CJ Cregg in The West Wing
- Stockard Channing as Abbey Bartlet in The West Wing
- Tyne Daly as Maxine Gray in Just In Case, Amy
- Maura Tierney as Abby Lockhart in Emergency Room
- Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano in The Sopranos
Guest actor
Guest actor in a comedy series
(Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series)
-
Derek Jacobi as Jackson Hedley on Frasier
- Victor Garber as Peter Bovington in Frasier
- Robert Loggia as Grandpa Victor in Malcolm right in the middle
- Gary Oldman as Richard Crosby in Friends
- Michael York as Colin Rhome in The Lot
Guest actor in a drama series
(Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series)
Guest actress in a comedy series
(Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series)
Guest actress in a drama series
(Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Story of the Emmy Awards. (No longer available online.) Sky Germany , archived from the original on November 26, 2011 ; Retrieved December 5, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Edna Gundersen: Streisand's stage fright spiked with thought of terror. USA Today , December 12, 2001; accessed December 5, 2011 .
