Awards Shows

Berle Adams on distributing the Emmys internationally

Ray Aghayan on designing for the Academy Awards, starting in 1968

Debbie Allen on choreographing the Academy Awards ten times

Charlie Andrews on producing the 1969 Emmy Awards show

Army Archerd on covering the red carpet at the Academy Awards

Army Archerd on filming a scene of California Suite at the Academy Awards

Army Archerd on Ingrid Bergman being shunned then accepted by the Hollywood community

Carl Brainard on his involvement with the early Emmy Awards ceremonies

Gilbert Cates on producing the Academy Awards

Gilbert Cates on memorable moments from Academy Awards that he's produced

Tony Charmoli on directing and choreographing for The People's Choice Awards

Margaret Cho on playing a North Korean general on the 72nd Golden Globe Awards, hosted by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey

Roy Christopher on how he came to production design for the Academy Awards, and on the first one he worked on, directed by Marty Pasetta

Roy Christopher on doing production design for the Emmy Awards

Roy Christopher on doing production design for the Grammys

Dick Clark on producing The American Music Awards

Dick Clark on producing the Emmys

Bill Conti on the technical processes in place for conducting the orchestra at the Academy Awards

Bill Conti on being asked to conduct and be music director for the Academy Awards

Bill Conti on playing someone off when their acceptance speech goes long at the Academy Awards

Bill Conti on playing Julia Roberts off when her speech went long at the Academy Awards

Bill Conti on being music director for the Academy Awards

Pierre Cossette on producing The Grammys  (Part 1)

Pierre Cossette on producing The Grammys (Part 2)

Billy Crystal on paying tribute to Robin Williams at the 2014 Emmy Awards telecast, and on his friendship with Williams

Billy Crystal on hosting the Grammys

Billy Crystal on hosting the Academy Awards

Ian Fraser on conducting The Emmy Awards

Mitzi Gaynor on performing with Donald O'Connor on the 1954 Academy Awards

Mitzi Gaynor on singing "There's No Business Like Show Business" on the 1961 Academy Awards

Mitzi Gaynor on singing "Georgy Girl" on the 1967 Academy Awards - the most heralded performance on an Oscar broadcast

Whoopi Goldberg on hosting the Academy Awards four times, preparations for hosting, and memorable Oscar moments

Whoopi Goldberg on attending the Oscars for her nomination in The Color Purple -- with her date, Michael J. Fox

Herb Granath on a meeting of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences board with actors regarding the Daytime Emmy Awards

Dwight Hemion on directing Disney's American Teacher Awards

Dwight Hemion on directing the Television Academy Hall of Fame

Dwight Hemion on winning Emmy Awards

Danette Herman on assistant producing the Grammys, Emmy Awards, and Academy Awards telecasts

Danette Herman on coordinating talent for the Kennedy Center Honors

Danette Herman on talent coordinating for the Academy Awards (Part 2)

Louis J. Horvitz on directing the Academy Awards since 1997, working with various hosts, and challenges of the show

Louis J. Horvitz on first directing the Academy Awards in 1997

Louis J. Horvitz on highlights of some of the Academy Awards that he's directed

Louis J. Horvitz on various hosts of the Emmy Awards

Louis J. Horvitz on how production numbers on the Academy Awards and the Emmys differ

Herb Jellinek on the Emmy Awards

Robert Johnson on the BET Awards and BET's internet presence

Quincy Jones on producing the 1996 Academy Awards

Hal Kanter on working on the Academy Awards shows and winning an Emmy for the show in 1991

Arnie Kogen on writing for the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards

Buz Kohan on writing for Academy Awards shows

Eugene Lee on designing the Emmy Awards one year when it was in Pasadena

Dr. John Leverence on the history of the split between the National and Hollywood Chapters of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and how the Daytime awards were briefly administered by the Hollywood Chapter in the '80s and '90s and why that ended (it is now administered by the national chapter, or NATAS), and on the background of the "wheel" - the license agreement between the major networks who broadcast the Awards show and the Television Academy on an exclusive, rotating basis

Dr. John Leverence on the Primetime Emmy Awards nomination process

Dr. John Leverence on how proposals to the rules and procedures for the Emmys are considered and implemented

Dr. John Leverence on the impact of allowing cable to compete in the Primetime Emmy Awards

Dr. John Leverence on the similarities between the issues faced by both the Television Academy and the Motion Picture Academy in their approaches to categorizing eligibility for content that is niche programming, not mass-marketed to the general public and how this impacts viewership of the programs

Dr. John Leverence on the "gentlemen's agreement" that used to exist among the networks not to air competing content during the Emmys telecast, and on why the Emmys telecast is traditionally scheduled in September on the Sunday night before the Fall television season began

Dr. John Leverence on the Emmys cutoff rule that almost made the final season of The Sopranos ineligible until the year after it aired

Dr. John Leverence on Emmy category classifications and changes, such as with the program Shameless which had elements of both comedy and drama categories

Dr. John Leverence on the classification of a program for the Emmy Awards based on its running time: if a program is 30 minutes it is considered a comedy and if it is 60 minutes it is considered a drama (unless the show appeals this decision)

Dr. John Leverence on the ambiguity surrounding how programs are categorized for an Emmy Award

Dr. John Leverence on the issue with guest actors and the eligibility rules around their eligibility for Emmy nominations

Dr. John Leverence on the issues surrounding the Emmy category of supporting player in longform and the issues surrounding the so-called "Ellen Burstyn Rule" (Ed note: Dr. Leverence would like to note he misspoke here and meant Ellen Burstyn, not Ellen Barkin)

Dr. John Leverence on the importance of the rules of the Emmy Awards being transparent, and on the difficulties in processing the nominations to check eligibility

Dr. John Leverence on how Emmy Award eligibility decisions are appealed

Dr. John Leverence on which Television Academy rules he personally lobbied to change after so many years administering the Emmys

Dr. John Leverence on the Television Academy Rule of 14 where if in two consecutive years a category has fewer than 14 Emmy nominations, the Television Academy Board votes on whether to discontinue the category or merge it with another

Dr. John Leverence on the 2009 decision to expand the main Primetime Emmy award categories beyond five nominees

Dr. John Leverence on the issues arising from the same individual winning an Emmy in the same category every year

Dr. John Leverence on the "wheel" which established the Emmy Awards show as a pan-industry event by showcasing it on a different network each year on a revolving basis, and the lingering question of how this might work with different platforms in the future

Dr. John Leverence on how and when the names of the winners get affixed to the actual Emmy statuette

Dr. John Leverence on the origin of and design of the Emmy statuette, designed by Louis McManus

Dr. John Leverence on the ballot and voting process and how the accounting firm Ernst & Young is able to keep the names of the winners secret until they are announced on the telecast

Dr. John Leverence on the NCTA (National Cable Television Association) and their attempt to compete with the Emmys by coming up with the Cable ACE awards, and on the importance of the Emmy Award within the industry and how people react to winning the award

Dr. John Leverence on bearing witness through his long tenure as the Administrator of the Emmy Awards of the sheer stupor experienced by those who win an Emmy Award

Dr. John Leverence on the single-most valuable asset of the Awards department and his role as the Administrator of the awards: to maintain the integrity of the Emmy, and on how the administration of the award does deal with certain housekeeping measures, but the real challenge is to deal with substantive issues which, if not properly handled, may result in a diminishment of the integrity of the award

Dr. John Leverence on his advice to those who succeed him at the Emmy awards after his retirement: on protecting the integrity of the award as a sacred object

Dr. John Leverence on the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards (2020)

Dr. John Leverence on how the proliferation of content impacts award shows

Dr. John Leverence on chairing the committee for the 2020 Engineering Awards

Dr. John Leverence on how well award ceremonies, particularly the Emmys, have handled the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic

Jerry Lewis on hosting the 1959 Academy Awards telecast, which ran short

Charles Lisanby on his design work on the 60th Annual Academy Awards and his idea to helicopter a giant Oscar statue over the "Hollywood sign"

Kurt Loder on the MTV Music Video Awards

James L. Loper on moving The Emmy Awards to FOX and the license fee for The Emmy Awards

Bob Mackie on designing clothing for the red carpet and designing production numbers for the Academy Awards

Anita Mann on dancing on and choreographing the Academy Awards

Beth McCarthy-Miller on directing The MTV Music Awards

Eryn Krueger Mekash on her work for the 60th Annual Academy Awards and how she got her start on several ABC shows, including General Hospital

Nolan Miller on designing for the Academy Awards

Walter C. Miller on directing The Country Music Awards

Walter C. Miller on directing and producing The Grammys

Walter C. Miller on being unhappy with the results from a year he directed The Emmy Awards

Walter C. Miller on what makes a good awards show host

Walter C. Miller on directing The Grammys

Walter C. Miller on directing the Tony Awards

Walter C. Miller on directing the People's Choice Awards and the Latin Grammys

Don Mischer on producing the Tony Awards with Angela Lansbury as host

Don Mischer on producing the Emmy Awards

John Moffitt on directing the CableACE Awards

Donald A. Morgan on winning his first Emmy, for the pilot of Mr. Belvedere

Donald A. Morgan on becoming director of photography for the NAACP Image Awards for many years and on his experiences working on the show

Horace Newcomb on televising the Peabody Awards

Marty Pasetta on directing and producing the Grammys

Marty Pasetta on directing the Academy Awards

Marty Pasetta on directing the Academy Awards

Marty Pasetta on directing the Academy Awards

Jeff Probst on hosting the Emmy Awards and winning an Emmy

Martha Quinn on the MTV Video Music Awards

Hector Ramirez on shooting live award shows

Hank Rieger on the Emmy Awards during the 1960s

Hank Rieger on how the Emmy Awards were divided up when NATAS and the Television Academy split

Doris Roberts on both she and James Coco winning Emmys for St. Elsewhere

Doris Roberts on her Emmy Award wins, as well as other award wins

Fatima Robinson on working with Pharrell Williams on his performances of "Happy" at the Grammys and the Oscars

Fatima Robinson on the challenges of working on live awards shows

Fatima Robinson on choreographing and/or producing segments for the Grammys and the Oscars

Stanley Rubin on winning the first Emmy Award ever to awarded a "film made for television" for Your Show Time at the first Emmy Awards ceremony on January 25, 1949

Ted Sarandos on the controversy over whether the film "Roma" was a feature film, since it was produced and streamed on Netflix and nominated for Academy Awards

Ted Sarandos on 13th having been nominated and eligble for both Emmy Awards and Academy Awards

George Schlatter on producing The Grammy Awards

George Schlatter on creating and producing The American Comedy Awards

John Shaffner on designing the set for The Emmy Awards

John Shaffner on reinventing The Emmy Awards

Garry Shandling on hosting the Emmys

Mel Shavelson on writing material for the Academy Awards telecasts hosted by Bob Hope

Nina Shaw on writing a 2017 article for Variety about the lack of diversity in Oscar nominations

Cybill Shepherd on co-hosting (with Jason Alexander) the 47th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards

G.E. Smith on acting as music director for the Emmy Awards in 1988

Sid Smith on directing the 1969 and 1979 New York portions of the Emmy Awards

Neil Travis on the experience of winning the Oscar for "Dances with Wolves" (on the live broadcast)

Ret Turner on costume design for the Academy Awards

Jac Venza on executive producing the first hour of the Tony Awards

Bruce Vilanch on writing for the Academy Awards

Bruce Vilanch on writing for the Academy Awards

Ellen M. Violett on her Emmy nominations

Matthew Weiner on winning his first Emmy for Mad Men despite the show being "unknown"; on the 60th annual Emmy Awards show

Lauren Zalaznick on producing the VH1 Fashion Awards, and on changes made to the show from 1995 to 1996

Kim Zimmer on her Daytime Emmy Award wins