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52 unusual facts about Emmy Award


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November 30 – Dick Clark (died April 18, 2012), Emmy Award-winning American television and radio personality, game show host and businessman, served as chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions

Allan Gurganus

It was made into a CBS television play, with Cicely Tyson winning one of its four Emmy Awards as best supporting actress in the role of the freed slave Castalia.

Anthony Sabatino

Anthony Sabatino (October 30, 1944 – April 10, 1993) was an art director who won an Emmy Award for his work on the TV-series Fun House.

Antonia Ford

Now & Forever Yours: Letters to an Old Soldier was a critical success, winning, among others, an Emmy Award nomination for cinematography.

Bayou Bucks

Unable to find any hunting videos to his liking, Aycock sought the knowledge to produce his own video, and worked his way up the ranks part time at The Southeastern Channel under Emmy Award winning mentor Rick Settoon.

Billy Branch

Billy Branch is a three-time Grammy nominee, a retired two-term governor for the Chicago Grammy Chapter, an Emmy Award winner, and a winner of the Addy Award.

Blue Valley High School

Tiger TV is put together by Broadcast II students taught by former Emmy Award winning KSHB-TV anchor/reporter Denny Brand.

Bobby Au-yeung

35th International Emmy Award 2007 Nominee for Best Performance by an Actor ~ Dicey Business

Cape May Times

The Cape May Times was created in 2001 by Jane Kashlak, a former WNBC investigative producer and five-time New York Emmy Award winner.

Chris Hansen

Hansen has received seven Emmy Awards, four Edward R. Murrow Awards, three Clarion awards, the Overseas Press Club award, an IRE, the National Press Club award, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Award; as well as awards for excellence from the Associated Press and United Press International.

Craig Zadan

He has been nominated for the Emmy Award eight times, along with his co-executive producer Meron (and the respective producers).

Dave Gage

:*Kick (by Pilotfish Productions for California Dept of Conservation, 2007) - Gage provided the music for this Emmy Award-winning PSA

Donna Wyant

She is an Emmy Award winning producer, and Clio Award recipient for her network television promotional campaigns.

Edwin Myrwyn Rowlands

The couple had two children: a son, David, and a daughter, Virginia, who is best known as the Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress Gena Rowlands.

Emerald Web

In addition to recording their music and performing in concert, Emerald Web composed many television soundtracks, including National Geographic, PBS Nova, CNN, Apple Computers, NASA and Carl Sagan's documentary films, winning several Emmy Awards.

Famous People Players

A Little Like Magic, which detailed the company's operation and success, was an Emmy Award-winning documentary.

Frederick C. Peerenboom

Along with these commentaries, his unique visual introductions, mid-breaks, and closes helped him win five Emmy Awards for his TV performances.

Game Change

The film received numerous award nominations, and won four Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries for Julianne Moore, who portrayed Sarah Palin.

Hardcash Productions

Hardcash specialises in current affair programmes and has won three Emmys, three RTS Journalism Awards and a BAFTA for Channel 4's Dispatches.

James Cellan Jones

For the miniseries Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1974), Cellan Jones won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.

Jeanne Betancourt

In television, Betancourt has garnered the National Psychological Award for Excellence in the Media, two Humanitas Awards, and six Emmy Award nominations.

John Edward Chilberg II

John was nominated twice for Emmy Awards, in 1979 for Outstanding Art Direction for a Series: Battlestar Galactica episode "Saga of a Star World" together with others, and in 1981 for Outstanding Art Direction for a Series: Dynasty premiere episode(#1): "Oil" also together with others.

KERN

Emmy Award winning writer Ken Levine (known as Ken Stevens) got his start in radio at KERN in 1971.

Kwame Dawes

In 2009, Dawes won an Emmy Award in the category of New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Arts, Lifestyle & Culture.

Martin S. Zied

--- Don't mess with this line! --->Martin S. (Marty) Zied (Born November 30, 1951) is a six-time Emmy Award winning documentary television and film producer, director, and writer.

Maryland Public Television

Maryland Public Television has earned awards ranging from television Emmys for its quality productions to government citations for its volunteerism and educational accomplishments.

Mike Boland

Michael Boland (cinematographer), won 1992 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming - Cinematography

Mimi Freedman

Her most recent project was directing a documentary about Marlon Brando for Turner Classic Movies, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award.

Mushtaq Gazdar

He was also associated with international film productions, including the Emmy Award winner Traffik.

N. J. Burkett

Burkett is best known for his coverage of the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001, for which he shared or was awarded-outright many prestigious honors including the George Foster Peabody Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award and the Emmy Award for Outstanding On-Camera Achievement from the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Narrative Television Network

The Narrative Television Network has received an Emmy Award, a Media Access Award and an International Film and Video Award for its pioneering work in making movies, television and educational programming accessible for the visually impaired.

New Day Films

Its has also distributed nine Academy Award nominated films including The Collector of Bedford Street, and four Emmy Award-winning titles, as well as films that have been broadcast on P.O.V., Independent Lens, HBO and other national programs.

New England Collegiate Baseball League

Founded in 1993, the NECBL began its direction under George Foster, former Cincinnati Reds and New York Mets All-Star and Major League Baseball home run leader, and Emmy Award-winning television producer/director Joseph Consentino.

New York State Theatre Institute

Among NYSTI's count of more than forty-five premiere productions are William Gibson's “Rag Dolly,” which toured to Moscow in 1986 (a later version opened on Broadway as Raggedy Ann) and Paul Shyre's “Hizzoner!,” starring Tony Lo Bianco, which won five Emmy awards in a WNET/13 co-production and later played on Broadway before touring to Moscow in 1989.

Olivier Minne

His career was marked by a nomination for a 7 d’Or award (equivalent of an Emmy Award in the United States) for Best TV Host in 2000, for his work with Universal Studios.

Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants

This episode was nominated for a 2002 Emmy for outstanding animated program, but lost to Futurama.

Peter Himmelman

He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2002 for his song "Best Kind Of Answer" which appeared in the CBS series Judging Amy, for which Himmelman also composed the score.

Peter Whitbread

He concentrated mostly on writing for the theatre, and in 1974 his drama Mr Axelford’s Angel won the Emmy Award for Best Television Play.

Richard Stoltzman

The program featuring Stoltzman has been praised by critics and audiences alike and was the recipient of an Emmy Award in the International Performing Arts category.

Robert H. Rines

He shared an Emmy Award with playwright Paul Shyre in 1987 for the television and later Broadway play Hizzoner the Mayor.

Ron Insana

Insana was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy Award as part of NBC's coverage of 9/11, and in 1999, Insana was named one of the top 100 business news journalists of the century by TJFR Group.

Rowsley

Philip Whitehead, MP, MEP, author and Emmy Award-winning television producer, was brought up here.

Rudy Toth

The brother's notably orchestrated the music (with Rudy conducting) for the Emmy Award nominated CBS production of Once Upon the Brothers Grimm.

Sacred Arias: The Home Video

The PBS Great Performances program was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program during the 2000 Emmy awards.

Sheriff John

Rovick won an Emmy Award in 1952 and appeared on the Emmy broadcast in 1998, introduced by longtime fan Michael Richards.

The Sudden Storm

Director Bill Bain won an Emmy Award in 1975 for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for his work this episode.

Thomas Piercy

His discography includes "Gotham Ensemble Plays Ned Rorem", a CD of chamber music featuring the clarinet (released by Albany Records), "CAFE", a CD of music for clarinet and guitar (released by Tonada Records), the world-premier recording of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's "Ballad in Memory of Shirley Horn" and the Emmy Award winning CD and DVD "Juno Baby." He can also be heard on commercials, film and theater recordings.

Todd Harrison

In 2008 Harrison received an Emmy Award from The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for serving as executive producer of Minyanville's World In Review, television's first animated business news show.

Todd Harrison is the founder and CEO of the Emmy Award-winning internet media company Minyanville.

Tracey Wigfield

Tracey Wigfield (born 1983) is an American comedy writer who won an Emmy Award in 2013 for her work on 30 Rock.

Water Education Foundation

In 2009 the Foundation won a regional Emmy award for the 2008 public television documentary, Salt of the Earth: Salinity in California’s Central Valley hosted by comedian Paul Rodriguez.

Worlds of Fun

Snoopy's Hot Summer Lights was a one million dollar investment that uses special effects and sound design, custom designed for Worlds of Fun by Emmy Award-Winning RWS and Associates.


6 Rms Riv Vu

In 1974, Carol Burnett and Alan Alda starred in a televised version that garnered both of them Emmy Award nominations.

Adam Roffman

Adam started his career working as an intern on the Emmy-winning program Bill Nye the Science Guy in 1996.

Alabama Shakespeare Festival

Tony Award–winning actor Norbert Leo Butz and Emmy Award–winning actor Michael Emerson were two of the program's most successful alumni.

Blake Neely

Neely has contributed to and been credited on dozens of film and TV projects over the years such as: Everwood (which earned him a 2003 Emmy Award nomination for the theme), on the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films, King Kong, The Last Samurai, The Great Buck Howard and many more.

Carl Byker

As a producer Byker won the 1997 Emmy Award (shared with Blaine Baggett and Jay Winter) for The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century in the category of Outstanding Informational Series.

Craig Zisk

He has also earned multiple Emmy nominations for The Larry Sanders Show and Weeds, including a nomination for Best Director for a Comedy.

Eliot Frankel

Eliot Frankel (1923 – February 4, 1990) was a three-time Emmy Award recipient as a NBC producer and University Professor

Elliot Scheiner

Scheiner has received 24 Grammy Award nominations, 7 of which he won, and he has been awarded four Emmy nominations, two Emmy Award for his work with the Eagles on their farewell tour broadcast, and the documentary film History of the Eagles, three TEC Awards nominations, a TEC Hall of Fame inductee, and recipient of the Surround Pioneer Award.

Scheiner was nominated in 2005 for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety or Music Series or Special or Animation, for his mixing for Eric Clapton in Great Performances; Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival (1972).

Frank Q. Dobbs

He was a technical consultant on Amargosa (2000), Todd Robinson's documentary about Death Valley Junction dancer-painter Marta Becket, which won a 2003 Emmy Award for cinematographer Curt Apduhan, in addition to numerous festival awards and nominations.

Greg P. Russell

He has won a Emmy Award in 1989 for Outstanding Film Sound Mixing in his work on Muppet Babies.

Harve Brosten

1978: - Won - All in the Family - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, with Bob Weiskopf, Barry Michael Harman, and Bob Schiller

Helen Kushnick

The film starred Kathy Bates as Kushnick, who received an Emmy Award nomination for her role, and won a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award.

Holly Carter

Carter’s career started in television casting, handling such Emmy Award winning projects as The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Roc, In Living Color, Martin, and several others.

Jenji Kohan

Kohan has received seven Emmy Award nominations, winning as supervising producer of Tracey Takes On...; Kohan shared a CableACE Award in 1996 for her work on that show.

Josh Elliott

Elliott received a local Emmy Award in New York City in 2005 for writing and contributing to Angles on MSG Network and served as one of the co-hosts for Super Bowl XL for Westwood One Sports.

Ken Estin

In 1982 Ken won an Emmy Award for Best Writing in a Comedy Series for the episode "Elegant Iggy" featuring Christopher Lloyd on Taxi and in 1989 he won an Emmy Award for producing the The Tracey Ullman Show.

Kickin' It

The series was created by Emmy nominated producer, Jim O'Doherty who started his career as a sitcom writer and producer for the television comedies 3rd Rock from the Sun, Grounded for Life, and The Tracy Morgan Show.

Kristopher Carter

Carter began his career as one of the youngest composers to work for Warner Bros. He received an Emmy Award for Batman Beyond and has received five other Emmy nominations.

Marco Zappia

He was nominated for 18 Emmy Awards, winning twice, first for Hee Haw in 1971, and then for the 1980 special Christmas in the Holy Land.

Matt Osterman

Osterman has also collaborated closely with Emmy Award winner and Guinness World Record Holder, Dan Buettner, helping him found the Quest Network and establish the Blue Zones.

My Father and My Mother

The teleplay broadcast in February 1968, and received an Emmy award nomination for the score, written by Bernard Green.

Nick Castle

in Kingsport, Tennessee the son of Millie and Nicholas Charles Castle, Sr. who was an actor and top choreographer for motion pictures, television, and the stage, and was nominated for an Emmy.

Penny Crone

A three-time local Emmy Award-winner, well known in the New York area for her coverage of the city's police and fire departments and the New York Yankees, Crone's additional credits include on-air reporting for WCBS-TV, WNYW-TV and WWOR-TV in New York, as well as a stint at KHOU-TV in Houston.

Rebecca Sugar

Her work on Adventure Time gained her Emmy Award nominations for "It Came From the Nightosphere" and "Simon & Marcy", and an Annie Award nomination for Best Storyboarding in a Television Production.

Rosa Magalhães

In 2007 Rosa Magalhães created the opening show of the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro for which she would receive in the following year the most important award in the television world, the Emmy Award for best costumes.

Rosalind Cash

In 1996, she was posthumously nominated for an Emmy Award, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, for her role on General Hospital.

Sarah Biasini

Biasini made her film debut in 2004 starring in the Emmy-nominated French mini-series, Julie, Chevalier de Maupin, a swashbuckling adventure story loosely based on the life of the sword-wielding 17th-century opera star Julie d'Aubigny (Mlle. Maupin).

Solomon Wilcots

During this time he spent spent three seasons (1998–2000) as a sideline reporter for ESPN's Sunday Night football, for which he received an Emmy Award in 2000 for sideline reporting.

The Valiant Years

Richard Rodgers won an Emmy award in 1962 for the music he wrote for the programme.

Victor Wolfson, who wrote several episodes, won an Emmy Award 1960-1961 for Outstanding Writing Achievement in the Documentary Field.

Toms River High School North

Demetri Martin (born 1973), Emmy Award-nominated comedian, host of comedy central program Important Things, actor, and writer.

University of Texas at Tyler

Allen R. Morris - Emmy Award winning producer/director/writer; formerly with KLTV; frequent actor at Tyler Civic Theatre from 1979 to 1990; attended marketing and communications courses in early 80's while working on a Master's Degree.

Vern Oakley

Oakley received top honors at the International Film and Television Festival for his direction of the Emmy Award-winning children's television series Reading Rainbow.

Victor Pemberton

His television production work included the British version of Fraggle Rock (second series onwards), and several independent documentaries including the 1989 International Emmy Award-winning Gwen: A Juliet Remembered, about stage actress Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies.

Victor Wolfson

In 1961, he wrote several episodes for ABC's 26-part television series Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years which earned him an Emmy Award 1960-1961 for Outstanding Writing Achievement in the Documentary Field.

Ziggy Steinberg

He then went on to write "The Bob Newhart Show," "The David Steinberg Show," "The American Music Awards" (from 1976 through 1980), "It's Garry Shandling's Show," several Lily Tomlin specials for CBS, including "Lily: Sold Out" for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and which won an Emmy Award in the category of Best Musical or Variety Show.