Emmy Awards

Andy Ackerman on how he got a job editing for WKRP in Cincinnati and winning an Emmy for the show

Berle Adams on the controversy over Fred Astaire winning the Emmy for Best Actor for An Evening With Fred Astaire

Berle Adams on distributing the Emmys internationally

Robert Adler on getting an Emmy award for his invention

Ray Aghayan on getting an Emmy category for costume designers and winning the first Emmy for costume design with Bob Mackie in 1967

Chris Albrecht on The Sopranos winning Emmys

Alan Alda on doing a handspring down the aisle to accept the Emmy for writing

Jason Alexander on being nominated for Emmys

Debbie Allen on being nominated for several Emmys for the TV show Fame

Debbie Allen on the Emmy winning "Othello" episode of Fame

Debbie Allen on her Emmy win for Motown 30, What's Going On? for choreographing "African American Odyssey"

Charlie Andrews on producing the 1969 Emmy Awards

John Aniston on being nominated for an Emmy for his role of "Victor Kiriakis" on Days of Our Lives, and on what he hopes happens to the character

Alan A. Armer on winning an Emmy for The Fugitive

Editor Janet Ashikaga on winning the Emmy for cutting "The Subway" episode of Seinfeld

Editor Janet Ashikaga on winning an Emmy for the "Small Town" episode of Sports Night

Dick Askin on the Television Academy's mission to honor excellence 

Dick Askin on the importance of the Emmy brand

Hank Azaria on winning Emmy awards for his work in The Simpsons

Rick Baker on the production of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and winning an Emmy for the show

Alan Ball on his Emmy win for directing Six Feet Under

George Balzer on being nominated for Emmys and winning an Emmy

Bob Banner on winning an Emmy for The Dinah Shore Chevy Show and a number of other awards over the years

Paris Barclay on winning an Emmy for directing an episode of NYPD Blue

Bob Barker on his multiple Emmy wins

Bonnie Bartlett and William Daniels on winning Emmys for St. Elsewhere

William Bell on winning an Emmy for The Young and the Restless

Donald P. Bellisario on Magnum, P.I.'s multiple Emmy nominations

Tom Bergeron on his Emmy nominations

Tom Bergeron on co-hosting the Emmy Awards

Shelley Berman on finding out he was nominated for an Emmy for his work on Curb Your Enthusiasm; on Larry David's reaction to the news

Sharon Bialy on her first Emmy nomination -- for Breaking Bad, and on actors she cast winning Emmys

Bruce Bilson on the popularity of Get Smart and winning an Emmy for directing it

Frank Biondo on winning Emmys

 Robert Blackman on winning Emmys for Star Trek: The Next Generation

William Blinn on winning an Emmy for Brian's Song

Steven Bochco on his 1971 Emmy nomination for Columbo -- complete with denim tux

Steven Bochco on NBC president Fred Silverman's prediction that Hill Street Blues would win the Emmy

Paul Bogart on The Defenders' "700 Year Old Gang" and winning an Emmy for it

Haskell Boggs on winning various awards -- including the Emmy -- and the highlight of his career

Mili Lerner Bonsignori on how video tape affected documentary editing, and on her Emmy nominations

Mili Lerner Bonsignori on winning her first Emmy for editing But What About the Children?

Mili Lerner Bonsignori on winning her second Emmy for editing CBS Reports: The Defense of the United States: A Call to Arms

Anthony Bourdain on his various awards and Emmy nominations

Peter Boyle on wining an Emmy for his role as "Clyde Bruckman" on The X-Files

Ed Bradley on his attitude toward winning awards

Carl Brainard on photographing and attending the early Emmy Awards ceremonies

Carl Brainard on how the early Emmy Awards voting worked

Carl Brainard on doing photography for the Television Academy and for the Emmy Awards

Carl Brainard on the first photo of the Emmy award

Kevin Bright on winning an Emmy for his work on the pilot of In Living Color

Kevin Bright on Friends' Emmy wins, and the fact that it didn't win any until the show's eighth season

James L. Brooks on Room 222 beating Sesame Street as best new show

Show co-creator/writer James L. Brooks on Grant Tinker supporting taping of an episode of  The Mary Tyler Moore Show that the network was against, and winning an Emmy for it

James L. Brooks on the two part episode of Taxi: "Scenskees From a Marriage" - Latka's affair, for which Carol Kane won an Emmy

James L. Brooks on winning Emmys for multiple genres

Janie Bryant on winning an Emmy for her costume design on Deadwood  and what made the costumes stand out; on being at the ceremony

Allan Burns on winning an Emmy for He & She 

Allan Burns on a memorable moment from the night he and Chris Hayward won an Emmy for He & She

Allan Burns on a photo of an Emmy win for The Mary Tyler Moore Show

James Burrows on Cheers  winning Emmys and feeling like the show was a hit

James Burrows on Cheers winning Emmys

Sid Caesar on winning an Emmy in 1952 on the same day his son was born -- and finding out at the hospital that he'd won

Dann Cahn on Lucky Strike Showtime winning one of the first Emmy awards

Dann Cahn on, "The Necklace," the Emmy-winning episode of Your Show Time (misquoted as part of Lucky Strike Showtime)

Editor Dann Cahn on editing the pilot of DEA and being nominated for an Emmy and winning the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award

David Canary on his Daytime Emmy wins for All My Children

Kevin Carlisle on winning an Emmy for his work on The 3rd Barry Manilow Special

Glenn Gordon Caron on the 16 Emmy nominations Moonlighting received, a record at the time; on his reaction to not winning any Emmys

Glenn Gordon Caron on Patricia Arquette winning an Emmy for Medium

Chris Carter on the "Alex Krycek" character on The X-Files, and on getting an Emmy nomination for the episode "Duane Barry" which he directed

Chris Carter on the importance of Emmy nominations and other awards for The X-Files team and himself

Thomas Carter on winning an Emmy for directing Equal Justice

Nancy Cartwright on winning an Emmy in 1992 for Outstanding Voiceover artist

Dan Castellaneta on The Simpsons episode "Lisa's Pony" for which he won an Emmy for Outstanding Voiceover Performance

Gilbert Cates on winning an Emmy for producing the Oscars

Dick Cavett on writing for Johnny Carson for the Emmys

Tucker Cawley on the Everybody Loves Raymond episode "Baggage" for which he won an Emmy

Tucker Cawley on winning an Emmy for writing for Everybody Loves Raymond

Leo Chaloukian on Ryder Sound being nominated for 6 Emmys in 1977, and for 14 in 1981 and on winning and Oscar and Emmy in 1986

Marge Champion on choreographing Queen of the Stardust Ballroom  for which she won an Emmy

Glen and Les Charles on Cheers' early Emmy wins

Glen and Les Charles on Cheers' early Emmy wins

RuPaul Charles on winning an Emmy for RuPaul's Drag Race

Tony Charmoli on receiving an Emmy and a Dance Magazine Award for his choreography on Your Hit Parade

Tony Charmoli on winning an Emmy for choreographing and directing for a Mitzi Gaynor special

Tony Charmoli on winning and Emmy for directing and choreographing the special Gypsy In My Soul for Shirley MacLaine

Tony Charmoli on highlights of his career, including his Emmy wins

David Chase on how winning an Emmy for writing Off the Minnesota Strip affected his career; on his opinion about how awards can have a negative impact as well

Michael Chiklis on his Emmy and Golden Globe wins for The Shield

Margaret Cho on being nominated for an Emmy for her guest role on 30 Rock

Dick Clark on producing the Emmys

Alf Clausen on winning Emmys for his involvement in The Simpsons

Tim Conway and Harvey Korman on being inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame and winning Emmys

Joan Ganz Cooney on her documentary, Poverty, Anti-Poverty and the Poor and winning an area Emmy for the program

Joan Ganz Cooney on Emmy awards for Sesame Street

Anderson Cooper on winning an Emmy for his coverage of Princess Diana, and his feelings about awards in general

Jeanne Cooper on her first Emmy-nominated role on Ben Casey for "But Linda Only Smiled"

Jeanne Cooper on her and son Corbin Bernsen's Emmy nominations for their work on L.A. Law and on her Daytime Emmy

Ken Corday on primetime specials before the Emmys

Ken Corday on the Daytime Emmys

Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman on winning an Emmy for their made-for-television movie An Early Frost

David Crane and Marta Kauffman on being nominated for an Emmy for Dream On

David Crane and Marta Kauffman on getting a mistaken Emmy nomination for Friends, due to a teleprompter error

Judy Crown on her work on the Television Academy Board of Governors

Judy Crown on styling hair for The Great Houdini, and on winning an Emmy for it

Billy Crystal on being nominated for an Emmy for his work on Saturday Night Live

Billy Crystal on his HBO special Midnight Train to Moscow, for which he won an Emmy

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

Jane Curtin on winning Emmy awards for Kate & Allie

Tyne Daly on winning her sixth Emmy for Judging Amy for her character "Maxine Gray"

Tyne Daly on winning her first Emmy for Cagney & Lacey

Tyne Daly on being, at the time, the most-nominated actress for Emmys

William Daniels on winning Emmys for his role on St. Elsewhere

Ann B. Davis on winning two Emmys for The Bob Cummings Show, aka Love That Bob

John Debney on winning an Emmy for composing for The Young Riders

Fred de Cordova on his many Emmys

Thomas Del Ruth on winning Emmys for The West Wing

Sam Denoff on winning his first Emmy (for The Dick Van Dyke Show) from a hospital bed

Sam Denoff on winning his second Emmy (for The Dick Van Dyke Show) from a hospital bed

Sam Denoff on winning an Emmy for his work on the Sid Caesar Reunion special

Dixon Dern on the lawsuit over the Emmy Awards settling by the creation of two separate academies: NATAS in New York and ATAS in Hollywood; the "divorce" of the Emmys into primetime and daytime awards how the Emmy award itself was divvied up in the negotiation between NATAS and ATAS; unusual for a trademark

Joe DeTullio on being nominated for Emmys for Saturday Night Live

George Spiro Dibie on the technique for which he won his first Emmy 

George Spiro Dibie on winning his first Emmy 

George Spiro Dibie on winning two Emmys for Growing Pains - largely for lighting night scenes

George Spiro Dibie on winning his fifth Emmy for Sister, Sister

Robert Dickinson on his first Emmy win for lighting on Solid Gold

Robert Dickinson on how winning an Emmy changed his career

Kelley Dixon on being nominated for, and winning Emmys for her work on Breaking Bad

Ramin Djawadi on winning Emmys in 2018 and 2019 for his work on Game of Thrones, but not being able to attend because of the concert tour, and who he would have thanked in an acceptance speech

Elinor Donahue on being asked to be a judge for the Miss Emmy contest

Phil Donahue on winning his first Emmy

Patty Duke on winning an Emmy for her role in the 1970 TV movie My Sweet Charlie

Rebecca Eaton on Masterpiece Mystery's Sherlock winning Emmy awards

Rebecca Eaton on how WGBH and their British co-producers work together in the process of Emmy nominations

Rebecca Eaton on how it feels to accept an Emmy award, and on public speaking in general

Dick Ebersol on Saturday Night Live  winning 4 Emmys at the end of the first season

Garvin Eddy on being nominated for an Emmy for Roseanne

Stephanie Edwards on being nominated for a Daytime Emmy for Everyday with John Bennett Perry 

Hector Elizondo on the Chicago Hope episode "Bridge Over Troubled Watters" for which he won an Emmy

Diane English on winning her first Emmy

Danny Epstein on winning Emmys for Music Direction for Sesame Street

Jeff Fager on his feelings about awards and his Emmys, in particular

Edie Falco on winning and being nominated for Emmys and other awards for The Sopranos

Edie Falco on the tribute to James Gandolfini that she presented at the Emmys in 2013

Edie Falco on winning an Emmy for Nurse Jackie in 2010 and her feelings about the series being classified as a comedy

Edie Falco on winning an Emmy for Nurse Jackie in 2010 and her feelings about the series being classified as a comedy

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's colleagues, and Harry Lubcke naming the Emmy Awards after the image orthicon tube

Jamie Farr on Loretta Swit's Emmy win for an episode of M*A*S*H

Irving Fein on being surprised and unprepared for his Emmy win for producing The Jack Benny Program

Director Norman Felton on Robert Montgomery Presents winning its first Emmy

Patricia Field on winning an Emmy for Costume Design for Mother Goose Rock 'n Rhyme; but she missed getting her award because she got lost

Sally Field on how playing "Sybil" in Sybil impacted her life, and on winning an Emmy for the role

Bob Finkel on directing the first televised Emmy Awards broadcast

Bob Finkel on The Andy Williams Show winning Emmys

Bob Finkel on producing and directing Emmy broadcasts, and winning an Emmy while producing the Emmys

Bob Finkel on what he learned from producing and directing Emmy broadcasts, and applying it to other awards broadcasts

Gerald Perry Finnerman on working with Telly Savalas on Kojak, and on being nominated for an Emmy for the show

Tom Fontana on the St. Elsewhere episode "The Women" and winning an Emmy

Tom Fontana on the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Three Men and Adena" and winning an Emmy for it

Ray Forrest on the awards Children's Theatre won

John Forsythe on the quality of the live shows in the '50s and his first Emmy nomination 

Michael J. Fox on winning an Emmy for his role of "Alex P. Keaton" on Family Ties

Sonny Fox on the Television Academy serving the purposes of the Emmy

Richard Frank on his time as the president of the Television Academy

John Frankenheimer on winning an Emmy with Martin Manulis for Rod Serling's "Portrait in Celluloid" episode of Climax!  

John Frankenheimer on directing the Emmy-winnig episode of Playhouse 90 "The Comedian"

Dennis Franz on his Emmy nominations and wins

Ian Fraser on conducting for the Emmy Awards

Gerald Fried on winning an Emmy for the main theme for Roots

Harry Friedman on winning Emmys for Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!

Ron Friedman on being nominated for an Emmy for his work writing for The Danny Kaye Show, and on leaving the show

William Froug on "Eddie" for Alcoa-Goodyear Theatre and Mickey Rooney not winning and Emmy for his performance

Eileen Fulton on winning a Lifetime Achievement Emmy for her work on As the World Turns

Arthur Gardner on the experience of winning an Emmy for The Rifleman

Brad Garrett on winning Emmys for Everybody Loves Raymond

Frank Gifford on the Emmy-winning telecast covering Franz Klammer's run at Innsbruck for the Olympics

Melissa Gilbert on being nominated for an Emmy for The Miracle Worker

Paul Michael Glaser on directing Miami Vice and being nominated for an Emmy and DGA award

Lesli Linka Glatter on her Emmy nominations for Mad Men and Homeland, and 7 total Emmy nominations (at the time)

Sharon Gless and Barney Rosenzweig on Gless "finally" winning an Emmy for Cagney & Lacey

Jerry Goldsmith on composing for Jericho and being nominated for Emmys for composing for Thriller and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Jerry Goldsmith on composing for the made-for-television movie The Red Pony for which he won an Emmy

Julian Gomez on winning Emmys for The Amazing Race

Louis Gossett, Jr. on winning an Emmy for his role as "Fiddler" in Roots

Carl Gottlieb on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour winning Emmys after it was cancelled

Curt Gowdy on his Emmy wins and being the first sportscaster to win a Peabody

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

Lee Grant on winning an Emmy for her performance on Peyton Place

Walon Green on NYPD Blue winning the Emmy for Outstanding Drama in 1995, and on leaving the show after one year

Robert Guillaume on winning two Emmy awards

Hal Gurnee on The David Letterman Show being cancelled after a short run, and on the show winning a Daytime Emmy

Hal Gurnee on being honored with Emmys for his work on Late Show with David Letterman

Earle Hagen on career highlights, including winning an Emmy

Donald Hall on his father receiving a special Emmy in 1961 for Hallmark Hall of Fame

Earl Hamner on The Waltons multiple Emmy wins and its resonance with viewers

Dean Hargrove on being nominated for an Emmy for The Bob Newhart Show (which aired 1961-62)

Dean Hargrove on writing for the NBC Mystery Movie wheel series for Columbo (for which he won an Emmy) and McCloud

Patricia Heaton on winning an Emmy for the "Bad Moon Rising" episode of Everybody Loves Raymond  

Patricia Heaton on winning her first and second Emmy for Everybody Loves Raymond

Dwight Hemion on winning Emmys

Dwight Hemion and Gary Smith on dealing with performers like Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. and on winning Emmys

Danette Herman on The Sopranos reunion at the Emmy Awards

Winifred Hervey on winning her first Emmy for The Golden Girls

Arthur Hiller on his Emmy nomination for Naked City

Martin Hoade on winning an Emmy for his work in religious programming on NBC

Hal Holbrook on performing Mark Twain Tonight! on CBS in 1967 and being nominated for an Emmy for his performance

Silvio Horta on Ugly Betty's Emmy nomination

Louis J. Horvitz on the 2002 Academy Awards - the first after 9/11 (cont.)

Louis J. Horvitz on the 2002 Academy Awards - the first after 9/11

Ron Howard on Arrested Development's Emmy win for Outstanding Comedy Series

Felicity Huffman on winning the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Desperate Housewives in 2005

Roy Huggins on Maverick winning an Emmy

Kim Hunter on receiving various Emmy nominations

Suzuki Ingerslev on her first Emmy nominations -- for Tracey Takes On...

Ken Levine and David Isaacs on being nominated for an Emmy for the M*A*S*H episode, "Point of View"

Ken Levine and David Isaacs on winning an Emmy for Cheers

Allison Janney on her Emmy wins for The West Wing

Al Jean on The Simpsons ancillary products and Emmy awards

Herb Jellinek on ABC getting the Emmy Awards for three years starting in 1993, and on the "wheel" agreement

Herb Jellinek on adding an Emmy category for commercials, and on the Television Academy's relationship with the National Academy

Geri Jewell on why there was an expectation she would be nominated for Emmys for her work on The Facts of Life, and why she thinks she never was

Charles Floyd Johnson on winning an Emmy for best drama as a producer on The Rockford Files

Lamont Johnson on his winning an Emmy for Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

Lamont Johnson on directing The Kennedys of Massachusetts, for which he won an Emmy

Kathryn Joosten on her Emmy wins for Desperate Housewives

Hal Kanter on The Ed Wynn Show winning Emmys

Hal Kanter on The George Gobel Show winning Emmys

Hal Kanter on getting another Emmy nomination for Julia

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

Sidney M. Katz on winning a Emmy for editing The Defenders

Elodie Keene on winning an Emmy for editing L.A. Law

Elodie Keene on winning an Emmy as producer of L.A. Law

David E. Kelley on Picket Fences' Emmy wins

David E. Kelley on being the only producer in history to win Emmys for drama and comedy series in one year (The Practice and Ally McBeal)

H. Wesley Kenney on directing ABC Afternoon Playbreak: Miss Kline We Love You, for which he won an Emmy

Kim Kimble on being nominated for an Emmy for her work on the 1997 television movie Cinderella

Don Roy King on winning an Emmy for The Mike Douglas Show

Don Roy King on winning Emmys for his work on Saturday Night Live

Michael Patrick King on realizing Sex and the City was popular after its first Emmy nominations

Michael Patrick King on Sex and the City being the first cable series to win Best Comedy Show at the Emmy Awards

Ernest Kinoy on winning an Emmy for The Defenders

William Klages on his Emmy nominations and wins

Jack Klugman on "The Blacklist" episode of The Defenders and winning an Emmy for the role

Buz Kohan on writing for the Smith-Hemion production America Salutes Richard Rodgers: The Sound of His Music and winning an Emmy for the show

Buz Kohan on his daughter, Jenji Kohan, writing for Tracey Takes On... and winning an Emmy, and his son David Kohan winning an Emmy, making his family one of only two families with three members that have won Emmy awards (Danny, Marlo, and Tony Thomas are the other family/members)

Tim Conway and Harvey Korman on being inducted into the TV Hall of Fame and winning Emmys

Angela Lansbury on her many Emmy nominations, but no wins

Vicki Lawrence on the episode of The Carol Burnett Show which won her an Emmy

Norman Lear on All in the Family winning Emmys

Norman Lear on All in the Family winning multiple Emmys during its run

Norman Lear on Bill Dana writing the "Sammy's Visit" episode of All in the Family -- and the script not being submitted for an Emmy award for Bill Dana

David Lee on returning to The Jeffersons after his first Emmy nomination for Cheers

David Lee on the Emmy-winning Frasier episode "The Matchmaker" and various farcical episodes

David Lee on Frasier's unprecedented number of Emmy wins

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

Sheldon Leonard on winning Emmys

Dr. John Leverence on the Emmys "cutoff rule" that almost made the final season of The Sopranos ineligible for nomination until the year after it aired, and how then-HBO chairman Chris Albrecht appealed to the Television Academy Awards department and the accommodation was made to allow the show to be eligible for an Emmy in its final year

Dr. John Leverence on Emmy category classifications and changes, such as with the program Shameless which had elements of both comedy and drama categories, and how the show's producers appealed to change the classification to a comedy

John Leverence on the classification of a program for the Emmys 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, and on the process by which programs that wish to change categories submit a number of the show's episodes to an "Industry Panel" (an anonymous group of high-level programming executives)

Dr. John Leverence on the ambiguity surrounding how programs are categorized, and on the issues surrounding the classification of the documentary Surviving R. Kelly as a documentary rather than as an informational series, resulting in a review by the peer group of the guidelines defining the category

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 category of supporting player in long-form 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 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 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 how and when the names of the winners get affixed to the actual Emmy statuette - since no one knows the names of the winners in advance, all the nominees' names are actually engraved on plates in advance then the non-winning plates are disposed of and the winners' names are affixed to the statuette

Dr. John Leverence on the origin of and design of the Emmy statuette, designed by Louis McManus; on the actual weight (about six pounds) and heft of the statuette, made out of compound metal by R.S. Owens

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 - the names of the Emmy winners are first disclosed when the envelopes are opened live on the telecast

Dr. John Leverence on bearing witness through his long tenure as the Administrator of the Emmy Awards to the sheer stupor experienced by those who win an Emmy award and some of his memories of various people getting injured by the physical award statuette, and on sound editor Russ Tinsley, whose son Rusty had a prosthetic leg, winning the award and waiting for his son to put the leg back on before he would go onstage to receive the award

Dr. John Leverence on actor Jon Hamm being overwhelmed by finally winning an Emmy award after numerous nominations

Dr. John Leverence on Viola Davis winning an Emmy for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series in 2015 (for How to Get Away with Murder) as the first Black actress to win in that category

Dr. John Leverence on how the Television Academy has addressed inclusivity and avoid the kind of criticism that the #OscarsSoWhite reaction to the Motion Picture Academy's Oscar awards has experienced in recent years

Dr. John Leverence on the single-most valuable asset of the Awards department as well as 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 the importance of the Television Academy Foundation Interviews program and its extraordinary value which he believes scholars will reference for one-hundred years

Dr. John Leverence on his role as a consultant on matters of eligibility for the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards and for the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards

Dr. John Leverence on being a spectator of the Emmys -- the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards (2020) -- for the first time in forty years, and on how innovations for the ceremony might continue in subsequent years and what he enjoyed about the 2020 ceremony

Dr. John Leverence on how the Television Academy addressed matters of social justice at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards

Dr. John Leverence on the record number of Black performers to win at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards

Dr. John Leverence on Schitt's Creek sweeping the comedy category at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards

Dr. John Leverence on what did and did not work well at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards -- the trash can on fire

Ken Levine and David Isaacs on being nominated for an Emmy for the M*A*S*H episode, "Point of View" 

Ken Levine and David Isaacs on winning an Emmy for Cheers

Barry Levinson on winning two Emmys for his work on The Carol Burnett Show

Steve Levitan on winning multiple Emmys for Modern Family

Judith Light on winning two Daytime Emmys for playing "Karen Wolek" on One Life to Live

Hal Linden on being nominated for and winning Emmys

William Link on My Sweet Charlie for which he and Richard Levinson won an Emmy

Art Linkletter on winning an Emmy in 1954 and on the tragic death of his daughter Diane Linkletter

James Lipton on the creation of Inside the Actors Studio which eventually set a record for Emmy nominations

Charles Lisanby on his multiple Emmy wins for production design

Christopher Lloyd on winning an Emmy for Frasier for Best Series

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

James L. Loper on a 1993 boycott involving the Emmy Awards

Julia Louis-Dreyfus on winning an Emmy for her Seinfeld character "Elaine Benes" 

Julia Louis-Dreyfus on winning an Emmy for her role as "Selina Meyer" on Veep  

Susan Lucci on her All My Children  fans and their reaction to her Emmy experiences

Susan Lucci on her notorious Emmy losing streak

Susan Lucci on breaking her Emmy losing streak in 1999

Will Mackenzie on directing Scrubs, starring Zach Braff, and on winning an Emmy for his work on that show

Bob Mackie on working with producer Alan Handley on Alice Through the Looking Glass - the first show to win an Emmy for costume design

Bob Mackie on winning an Emmy for Alice Through The Looking Glass

William H. Macy on his 1997 Emmy nomination for ER

Jodi Mancuso on winning six Emmys for her work on Saturday Night Live and on the challenges of doing prosthetics on the show

Loring Mandel on winning an Emmy for the CBS Playhouse episode "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"

Barry Manilow on winning an Emmy for his first TV special

Barry Manilow on his Emmy winning special Manilow: Music and Passion

Anita Mann on being nominated for two Emmys for Solid Gold

Anita Mann on choreographing the Miss America Pageant for which she won an Emmy

Martin Manulis on receiving numerous Emmys

Bob Markell on breaking a design rule that won him an Emmy award in 1954 for art direction of a live show

Bob Markell on the Emmy-winning episode of The Defenders, "The Madman"

Bob Markell on The Defenders winning further Emmys

Bob Markell on the Emmy-winning Bicentennial Minutes

E.G. Marshall on the fame that resulted from his starring on The Defenders, and on winning Emmys for his work on the show

Peter Marshall on his Emmys for Hollywood Squares

John Martinelli on how Emmy wins affected his career

John Martinelli on his Emmys and being the President of ACE (American Cinema Editors)

Leslie H. Martinson on directing Maverick and winning an Emmy

Jerry Mathers on Leave It To Beaver being nominated for an Emmy

Jerry Mathers on events that lead to the rumor that he had been killed in action

Beth McCarthy-Miller on being nominated for multiple Emmys

Jim McKay on winning an Emmy for ABC's Wide World of Sports in 1968

Eryn Krueger Mekash on using Christien Tinsley's transfer method for aging characters on an episode of Nip/Tuck, and getting nominated for an Emmy for that episode

Eryn Krueger Mekash on winning an Emmy for the makeup on The Normal Heart

Lee Mendelson on winning and being nominated for several Emmys for his various animated works

S. Epatha Merkerson on winning a Golden Globe and an Emmy for her role in Lackawanna Blues

David Milch on winning Emmys and other awards for NYPD Blue

Walter C. Miller on directing 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin, starring Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire for which he won an Emmy

Don Mischer on winning his first Emmy for directing Donahue and Kids 

Don Mischer on producing the Emmy Awards

John Moffitt on Van Dyke and Company winning an Emmy and Bob Einstein's acceptance comment

John Moffitt on his long association with the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Creative Arts Emmy Awards

Ricardo Montalban on his Emmy-winning performance as an American Indian in How the West was Won

Rita Moreno on having the "EGOT" (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) and on studying acting

Rita Moreno on her Emmy-winning guest appearances as "Rita Capkovic" on The Rockford Files

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

On winning an Emmy for M*A*S*H

Pat Morita on appearing in Amos with Kirk Douglas, for which he was nominated for an Emmy

Thad Mumford on winning an Emmy for The Electric Company

Bill Mumy on writing music for Adventures in Wonderland and on his Emmy nomination

Jonathan Murray on winning his first Emmy for Starting Over

Hal Needham on his Emmy

Bob Newhart on his big break at the local Chicago Emmy Awards and recording his first comedy album

Bill Nye on Bill Nye, The Science Guy's Emmy wins and accolades

Bill Nye on Bill Nye, The Science Guy's Emmy wins

Ed O'Neill on taking himself out of the lead actor category for an Emmy for his work on Modern Family

Don Ohlmeyer on winning an Emmy in 1975 for Monday Night Football and on winning an Emmy for the recap of the 1972 Munich Olympics

Don Ohlmeyer on producing the 1977 Emmy Awards

Edward James Olmos on winning an Emmy award and his favorite Miami Vice  episodes

Suze Orman on winning her first Emmy and beating out Martha Stewart, who she was rooting for

Lyn Paolo on winning her first Emmy, for costume design on the World War II period show Homefront, and on attending the Creative Arts Emmy Awards in 1992

Gail Parent on winning an Emmy for writing The Carol Burnett Show

Gail Parent on being nominated for Emmys for The Golden Girls

Marty Pasetta on directing the Emmy Awards

Jacques Pépin on Julia & Jacques Cooking at Home winning a Daytime Emmy Award, and on working with Julia Child

Alan Perris on negotiations for the networks to carry the Emmys

Alan Perris on the Emmy Awards

Alan Perris on the significance of the Emmy

Bill Persky on writing (with Sam Denoff) the Emmy-winning The Dick Van Dyke Show episode "Coast to Coast Big Mouth"

Bill Persky on the Kate & Allie episode "The Very Loud Family" which he won an Emmy for directing

Daniel Petrie, Sr. on directing Eleanor and Franklin, for which he won an Emmy

Daniel Petrie, Sr. on directing the sequel to Eleanor and Franklin, Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years, which also won multiple Emmys

Carroll Pratt on providing audience reaction enhancement for live shows like the Emmy Awards

Carroll Pratt on what awards, including the Emmy, have meant to him in his career

Jeff Probst on hosting the Emmy Awards and winning an Emmy

Bob Carroll, Jr. & Madelyn Pugh Davis on producing I Love Lucy and the Emmy Awards

Charlotte Rae on being nominated for an Emmy for The Facts of Life, and on leaving the show

Hector Ramirez on his Emmy win for the "Steadicam Tango"

Hector Ramirez on holding the then-record for the most Emmy nominations; on attending the ceremony

Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas on the receiving Lifetime Achievement Award from the News and Documentary Emmy Awards

Tony Randall on winning the Emmy for playing "Felix Unger" on The Odd Couple, and on the end of the show

Keith Raywood on winning Emmys for his work on the MTV Video Music Awards and Saturday Night Live

Carl Reiner on winning his first Emmy on Casear's Hour

Carl Reiner on Emmy awards for The Dick Van Dyke Show

Carl Reiner on wishing he had worn his hair for his first Emmy win

Rob Reiner on winning Emmys for All in the Family

John Rich on working with Gunsmoke producer Norm Macdonnell and assisting the editor, who won the Emmy that year

Joan Rivers on winning a Daytime Emmy for The Joan Rivers Show

Doris Roberts on being nominated for an Emmy for her role on St. Elsewhere and what her husband, William Goyen, who was very ill said about her then-recent appearance on The Love Boat

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

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

Fatima Robinson on receiving her first Emmy nomination for producing the 2021 Grammys, and her first choreography Emmy nomination for Beyonce's performance at the 2022 Oscars

Phil Roman on winning multiple Emmys

Meta Rosenberg on winning an Emmy for The Rockford Files

Barney Rosenzweig on winning an Emmy for Cagney & Lacey

Sharon Gless and Barney Rosenzweig on Gless "finally" winning an Emmy for Cagney & Lacey

Stanley Ralph Ross on writing an episode of All in the Family for which he was nominated for an Emmy, and on working with Norman Lear

Glenda Rovello on her three Emmy wins for her work on Will & Grace

Glenda Rovello on winning an Emmy for her work on 2 Broke Girls

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

Stanley Rubin on the Emmy nominations for his TV movie, Babe

Stanley Rubin on his Emmy statue for Your Show Time

Stanley Rubin on a picture with his Emmy statue for Your Show Time

Pat Sajak on winning his first Emmy for Outstanding Game Show Host

Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas on the receiving Lifetime Achievement Award from the News and Documentary Emmy Awards

Jay Sandrich on the episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show that won Mary Tyler Moore an Emmy

Isabel Sanford on winning an Emmy for playing "Louise Jefferson" on The Jeffersons

Ted Sarandos on Netflix winning an Emmy for House of Cards, and on the confusion over whether Netflix should quality for Emmy Awards because it was a streaming series

Ted Sarandos on 13th having been nominated and eligble for both Emmys and Academy Awards, and on how Netflix's content has been embraced, or not, by the Academies

Joseph Sargent on winning the Emmy for The Marcus Nelson Murders

Thomas Schlamme on winning Emmys for Tracey Takes On and Sports Night

Arthur Schneider on editing Lorne Greene's American West, and on winning and being nominated for Emmys

Sherwood Schwartz on winning an Emmy for writing on The Red Skelton Show

Jan Scott on doing art direction for NBC Matinee Theater, and on being nominated for Emmys

John Shaffner on winning Emmys for the David Copperfield specials

John Shaffner on designing the set for The Emmy Awards

John Shaffner on Charlie Sheen's involvement with the Emmy Awards

John Shaffner on reinventing the Emmy Awards

Judith Sheindlin on Judge Judy being nominated for Emmys

David Shore on being nominated for an Emmy for an episode of Law and Order

David Shore on House being nominated for Emmys

John Silva on winning Emmys for creating the Telecopter

John Silva on receiving an Emmy, handed to him by Mary Tyler Moore

Treva Silverman on The Monkees winning Emmys, and on the end of the show

Treva Silverman on being the first female writer to win an Emmy

Treva Silverman on winning the "Super Emmy" for writing "The Lou and Edie Story" for The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Treva Silverman on submitting Mary Tyler Moore Show scripts for Emmy consideration

Chet Simmons on his sports Lifetime Achievement Emmy award

Garry Simpson on winning an Emmy at the 1977 Emmys

John Singleton on being nominated for an Emmy for American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson

John Singleton on being nominated for an Emmy for American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson

Erika Slezak on holding the record for most Daytime Emmys in one category (at that time)

Dick Smith on challenges for his Emmy-winning makeup for Hal Holbrook on Mark Twain Tonight!

Dick Smith on his Oscar-winning makeup for Amadeus starring F. Murray Abraham and finally winning and Emmy 

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

Yeardley Smith on winning an Emmy in 1992 for playing "Lisa Simpson" on The Simpsons

Mark Snow on composing for the TV movie Something About Amelia, being invited to the set, and the fact that he was nominated for an Emmy for it

Herbert F. Solow on memories of Mission: Impossible and Star Trek

Herbert F. Solow on the Emmy win for the TV show, The Courtship of Eddie's Father

Aaron Spelling on winning an Emmy for the HBO movie And the Band Played On

Darren Star on Sex and the City's Golden Globe and Emmy wins

Leonard Stern on how Syd Cassyd got him to be among the very first votes for the Television Academy; his desire to emphasize television as an important medium and the role the new Academy should take

Leonard Stern on the award ceremony associated with the Academy: the Emmys; receiving the first nomination for writing (for The Honeymooners) but no invitation to the ceremony

On his recollection of the early Emmy award shows in the 1950s

Jeremy Stevens on winning an Emmy for The Electric Company

Producer Bob Stewart on Pyramid's Emmy wins

Norman Stiles on winning a Daytime Emmy for the Sesame Street episode "Farewell, Mr. Hooper"

Jeffrey Tambor on his Emmy nominations

June Taylor on winning an Emmy for The Jackie Gleason Show

Marlo Thomas on winning an Emmy for her dramatic role on Nobody's Child

Richard Thomas on winning an Emmy for playing "John-Boy" on The Waltons

Grant Tinker on The Mary Tyler Moore Show garnering numerous Emmys (29 total) - the most for one show, ever

Grant Tinker on his confrontation with Judd Hirsch at the Emmys

Stanford Tischler on winning an Emmy for editing M*A*S*H

Daniel J. Travanti on Hill Street Blues' Emmy wins

Neil Travis on how producer Stan Margulies described him while accepting Travis' Emmy for Roots

Alex Trebek on winning a Daytime Emmy for hosting Jeopardy!

Ret Turner on where he keeps his Emmys

Leslie Uggams on winning a Daytime Emmy for Fantasy

Tracey Ullman on The Tracey Ullman Show winning Emmys, and on attending the Emmy Awards ceremony

Tracey Ullman on her proudest career achievement

Dick Van Dyke on winning an Emmy award in 1963

Timothy Van Patten on The White Shadow's Emmy nominations

Jac Venza on awards in his career, including the Emmy

Jac Venza on producing "Itzhak Perlman: Fiddling for the Future" and "Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler's House" for Great Performances, for which he won an Emmy

Bruce Vilanch on writing jokes for the Academy Awards on the fly, and on Billy Crystal's Jack Palance jokes -- for which they won an Emmy

Bruce Vilanch on how the events of 9/11 affected the Emmy Awards in 2001 and the Academy Awards in 2002

Bruce Vilanch on the difference between writing for the Emmy Awards and the Academy Awards

Ellen M. Violett on her Emmy nominations

W.G. Snuffy Walden on his Emmy win for The West Wing

Malcolm-Jamal Warner on being nominated for an Emmy for The Cosby Show

Ruth Warrick on being nominated for an Emmy for Peyton Place

Keenen Ivory Wayans on winning an Emmy for In Living Color and his seven Emmy nominations

Dennis Weaver on his Emmys for Gunsmoke and on working with the writers and producers

Matthew Weiner on winning his first Emmy for Mad Men despite the show being "unknown"

John Wells on various awards he's received for his work, including the Emmy

Michael Westmore on winning an Emmy for makeup for the television movie about Frankenstein

Michael Westmore on his surprise at winning an Emmy for makeup for the television movie, Why Me?

Ellen Wheeler on winning a Daytime Emmy for playing "Marley" and "Vicki" on Another World

Ellen Wheeler on Guiding Light's Emmy nominations and wins

Tucker Wiard on winning an Emmy for editing on The Carol Burnett Show

Tucker Wiard on winning an Emmy for the final episode of The Carol Burnett Show

Tucker Wiard on winning an Emmy for Murphy Brown

Tucker Wiard on favorite episodes of Murphy Brown including the Emmy-winning, "On a Plane"

Tucker Wiard on winning an Emmy for the miniseries The Scarlett Letter

Joseph M. Wilcots on being nominated for Emmys for Roots

Dan Wilcox on winning a Daytime Emmy for his work on Sesame Street

Fred Willard on hosting his talk show What's Hot, What's Not? and being nominated for a Daytime Emmy

Fred Willard on his Emmy nominations

Larry Wilmore on being nominated for an Emmy for writing on In Living Color

Hugh Wilson on winning an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Writing for Frank's Place for the episode "The Bridge"

Henry Winkler on being nominated for an Emmy on The Practice but never winning a Primetime Emmy award (at the time of this interview)

Jonathan Winters on winning an Emmy for his role on Davis Rules

Ben Wolf on working on the special Brigadoon, for which he won an Emmy

Ben Wolf on shooting various other shows for which he won Emmys

Dick Wolf on the many Emmy nominations and awards his shows have gotten

David L. Wolper on winning an Emmy for The Making of the President: 1964

David L. Wolper on Roots winning Emmys

Jane Wyatt on winning three Emmys for her role on Father Knows Best

Bud Yorkin on being nominated for Emmys for An Evening with Fred Astaire

Leo Yoshimura on Emmy nominations and wins, and on his proudest career achievement

Alan Young on winning Emmys for The Alan Young Show

Kim Zimmer on her Daytime Emmy Award wins

Alan Zweibel on the early explosion in the popularity of Saturday Night Live, and on the show winning Emmys