Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series
This article lists the nominations and winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series television awards since its inception in 1951. The award is considered one of the most important awards in the context of the Emmy Awards and has changed its name many times. Between 1951 and 1954 the award was named Best Dramatic Show , 1955 and 1956 Best Dramatic Series . In 1957 no award was given. In 1958 the award was given in two categories: Best Dramatic Anthology Series and Best Dramatic Series with Continuing Characters . In 1959 it was called Best Dramatic Series - Less Than One Hour . In 1960 it was renamed Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Drama . He kept the name until 1965. In 1966 the name was changed for the sixth time. The title Outstanding Dramatic Series or Outstanding Series-Drama was in use from 1966 onwards. After that, the name was changed to Outstanding Drama Series .
Winners and nominations
The following table, sorted by decades, lists all winners and nominees. The data comes from the "Primetime Emmy Awards Database".
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Channel ranking
Most of the profits
- 4 Emmys
- game of Thrones
- LA Law - Star Lawyers, Tricks, Litigation
- Mad Men
- Hill Street Police Station
- The West Wing - At the center of power
- 3 Emmys
- The house on Eaton Place
- Preston & Preston
- Playhouse 90
- 2 Emmys
- Breaking Bad
- Cagney & Lacey
- Cobra, take over
- Lou Grant
- Picket Fences - Crime scene garden fence
- Practice - The lawyers
- The Sopranos
- United States Steel Hour
Most of the nominations
- 11 nominations
- 8 nominations
- 7 nominations
- Emergency Room - The emergency room
- The Sopranos
- Mad Men
- Studio One
- The West Wing - At the center of power
- 6 nominations
- Chief Physician Dr. West phall
- LA Law - Star Lawyers, Tricks, Litigation
- New York Cops - NYPD Blue
- Hill Street Police Station
- 5 nominations
- 4 nominations
- The X-Files - The FBI's Creepy Cases
- Alaska, of all places
- The best years
- Dexter
- Dr. House
- Lost
- The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse
- Practice - The lawyers
- Homeland
- 3 nominations
- An American family
- The boss
- Chicago Hope - end of the line hope
- China Beach
- CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators
- Detective Rockford - just give us a call
- Downton Abbey
- Dr. med. Marcus Welby
- Fame - the way to fame
- The house on Eaton Place
- Cobra, take over
- Magnum
- Murder is her hobby
- Merciless city
- Police Story - Always on the job
- Preston & Preston
- Robert Montgomery Presents
- Six Feet Under - People always die
- The streets of San Francisco
- Tennis rackets and cannons
- This is Us
- The United States Steel Hour
- The Waltons
- Back to the past
- 2 nominations
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents
- Baretta
- Boardwalk Empire
- Boston Legal
- Celanese Theater
- Dallas
- Damages - In the web of power
- The Dick Powell Show
- Good Wife
- Grey's Anatomy
- I'll fly away
- Kojak - deployment in Manhattan
- Kraft Television Theater
- With umbrella, charm and bowler hat
- The model and the snoop
- Picket Fences - Crime scene garden fence
- Playhouse 90
- Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
- Quincy
- Beauty and the Beast
- The incorruptible
- The White Shadow
- Westworld
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ 59th Primetime Emmys Winners Revealed , Emmys.org. September 16, 2007. Retrieved December 18, 2007.
- ↑ Sopranos wins top prize at Emmys , BBC News . September 17, 2007. Retrieved December 18, 2007.
- ↑ 1958 there were two different categories Best Dramatic Series with Continuing Characters and Best Dramatic Anthology Series . Smoking Colts won Best Dramatic Series with Continuing Characters and Playhouse 90 won the Best Dramatic Anthology Series award .
- ↑ 1959 there were two different categories for drama series: Best Dramatic Series - Less Than One Hour and Best Dramatic Series - One Hour or Longer . Alcoa-Goodyear Theater won Best Dramatic Series - Less Than One Hour and Playhouse 90 won Best Dramatic Series - One Hour or Longer .
- ↑ a b c d e Shown as part of Masterpiece Theater .
- ↑ a b c d e as part of the NBC Mystery Movie series
- ↑ PBS '' Rumpole 'Back in Emmy Race - as a Drama . In: Los Angeles Times , August 20, 1988.
- ^ Howard Rosenberg: A TV Critic Marks His Emmy Ballot . In: Los Angeles Times , August 28, 1988.
- ^ John Voland: First Off. . . In: Los Angeles Times , August 10, 1988.