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2003 Emmy Awards

30th Daytime Emmy Awards, the 2003 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring daytime programming during 2002–2003

2004 Emmy Awards

56th Primetime Emmy Awards, the 2004 Emmy Awards ceremony that honored primetime programming during 2003–2004

2007 Emmy Awards

59th Primetime Emmy Awards, the 2007 Emmy Awards ceremony that honored primetime programming during 2006–2007

2008 Emmy Awards

60th Primetime Emmy Awards, the 2008 Emmy Awards ceremony that honored primetime programming during 2007–2008

2011 Emmy Awards

38th Daytime Emmy Awards, the 2011 Emmy Awards ceremony that honored daytime programming during 2010–2011

Al Swearengen

English actor Ian McShane won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Drama in 2005 for his portrayal of the role, and was also nominated that year at the Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Brandon Sawyer (Class of 1992) -- Writer (2000–02), Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in Animation, The Penguins of Madagascar (2010)

Andrew Glassman

Andrew Glassman started his career as an Emmy Award- winning investigative broadcast journalist during which he appeared on-air at NBC News, CNBC, MSNBC, WCAU, and WNBC.

Anthony Lledo

Lledo's latest projects includes the four-time Emmy Award winning Civil War film Gettysburg, directed by Adrian Moat and executive produced by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, the horror/thriller Darkroom, directed by Britt Napier as well the animated fantasy TV series Legends of Chima which premieres early 2013.

Aunt Bee

Although many original cast members reprised their roles, Aunt Bee's portrayer, film veteran character actress and 1967 Emmy winner Frances Bavier, had retired to Siler City, North Carolina (where she died in 1989 and is buried), was in ill health, and declined to participate.

Bo Brady and Hope Williams

The pairing won the "America's Favorite Supercouple" award at the 2002 Emmy Awards, and are the face of Avon's Blue Rush perfume advertising campaign.

Boyd Estus

An Academy Award winner, Boyd Estus has received numerous awards including the CINE Golden Eagle (Where the Galaxies Are, Arthur Fiedler--Just Call Me Maestro, Flight of the Gossamer Condor), Melbourne International Film Festival Kino Award (So Many Galaxies...So Little Time), the Peabody Award (NOVA, Tender Places), the Cindy, Emmy, Telly, Hugo Award, and many others.

Brian Steidle

An award winning and Emmy nominated documentary film of the same title was also produced about Steidle's story.

Broken Saints

In the DVD version, Shandala's voice is provided by Emmy-award winner Janyse Jaud.

Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award

Alarmed at the disturbing number of nurses leaving the profession within their first few years in practice, Cherokee Uniforms provided a grant to Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning director David Hoffman to create a film for nurses and nursing students that would encourage, inspire and instruct.

Chuck Connelly

The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not for Sale, an Emmy award winning documentary directed by Jeff Stimmel, premiered at the L.A. Film Festival in June 2008 and was shown on HBO in July.

Dana Wolfe

Wolfe holds five Emmy Awards earned over a decade as a producer for Ted Koppel’s Nightline on ABC News.

Ed Whitmore

In 2003 he wrote the Waking The Dead episode Multistory, directed by Robert Bierman, which won the show an Emmy for Best International Drama Series.

Emmy Kubainski

Emmy graduated from the Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Laws and a Masters in Journalism.

Emmy the Great

On 31 October 2012, Emmy teamed up with Kate Nash on Halloween in a re-enactment of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode (Once More with Feeling) with herself as Willow.

Emy Coligado

In 2001, Coligado landed a recurring role as Emmy, the medical examiner's assistant, on the drama Crossing Jordan and, in 2002, she was cast in a regular supporting role (as Piama, Francis' wife) on the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle.

Eugene Ballet

Through the Meet the Composer project, she was commissioned to create a new work for Atlanta Ballet in collaboration with Emmy-award winning composer James Oliverio, titled Common Ground.

Fernando Rivas

Rivas composed for the popular show Sesame Street for singers as diverse as Celia Cruz, Gloria Estefan and Cyndi Lauper sharing two Emmy award wins with the Music team in 1994 and 1995.

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Ronny Thompson, Emmy Award-winning broadcaster for Comcast SportsNet.

HDBuzz

Emmy award-winning journalist and Huntington's disease advocate Charles Sabine is a Consulting Publisher to HDBuzz.

James Kahn

Among the series he worked on were Family Medical Center, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beyond Reality, TekWar (created by William Shatner), Medicine Ball, Xena: Warrior Princess, Melrose Place (which he also co-executive produced in its last years), Star Trek: Voyager (also Supervising Producer) and All My Children (for which he and the writing staff were Emmy-nominated).

Jeanne Campbell

Her younger daughter, Cusi Cram (born 1967), is also an actress (she portrayed Cassie Callison on the soap opera One Life to Live from 1981 until 1983), a Herrick-prize-winning playwright, and an Emmy-nominated writer for the children's animated television program Arthur.

John Abineri

He received an Emmy nomination for his performance as Chingachgook in the TV adaptation of Last Of The Mohicans (1971) and Hawkeye, The Pathfinder (1973).

John Kent Harrison

Other projects include The Lois Wilson Story (2010) which received a SAG nomination for Winona Ryder, William Faulkner's Old Man (1997), one of the most critically acclaimed Hallmark presentations, which won two Emmy Awards, the Humanities Prize, the Christopher Medal and a Golden Reel.

Jon Glaser

Glaser is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he performed in the sketch comedy troupes Comedy Company and Just Kidding with Jon Hein, he is a five-time Emmy nominee with the writing staff of Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

Kevin Johnn

He appeared and starred on the hit Bravo Emmy nominated show Project Runway at age 37.

Larry Gates

He played the role of Lewis from 1983 to 1996 and received the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor at the 1985 awards.

Learning for a Cause

Other publications include Raising Humanity, which features introductions by Emmy-award-winning actor Martin Sheen and Canada's First Astronaut Marc Garneau.

Michael J. Weithorn

In 2007 he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for Best Outstanding Broadband Program- Comedy for The Adventures of Baxter and McGuire.

Robin Mattson

Replacing Linda Gibboney on Santa Barbara, she received additional Emmy Nominations for her role of Gina Blake Lockridge, a role which lasted from December, 1985 through the final episode in January, 1993.

Rodger Maus

He shared an Emmy award in 1995 for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Art Direction for a Miniseries or a Special for episode 1 of the 1994 miniseries Scarlett.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

He adapted it for a highly acclaimed, award-winning 2005 HBO film, in which the parts would be played by different people, that won him the Humanitas Prize and earned Emmy and Writers Guild of America Award nominations.

Sam McDowell

The character of Sam Malone, the alcoholic ex-Red Sox pitcher portrayed by Emmy Award winning actor Ted Danson in the television program Cheers, was based on the baseball life of McDowell.

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).

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Stan Waterman, Emmy-winning cinematographer and underwater-film producer

Soap Opera Digest Awards

In 2003 the cable channel SOAPnet broadcast the awards which were hosted by Daytime Emmy nominated hosts Lisa Rinna and Ty Treadway.

Spandan Daftary

Spandan "Spoon" Daftary (born April 13, 1981 in New Castle, Pennsylvania) is a 2-time Emmy Award–winning associate producer, whose most recent work includes ESPN2's Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith, which was cancelled by the network in January 2007.

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Chuck Sheetz, artist, Emmy-winning animator and director for The Simpsons

Terri Conn

In June 2010, Conn and her former As the World Turns co-star, Austin Peck officially came out as a couple at the 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.

Texas Conference for Women

Governor Rick Perry and First Lady Anita Perry are the official hosts of the event, which has featured keynote speakers including Dr. Maya Angelou, poet, author, educator and historian; Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, writer and family health advocate; Carly Fiorina, former CEO of HP; Maria Hinojosa, Emmy-nominated journalist and author; and Melinda French Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The Experts Network

Cris Collinsworth is the Emmy Award-winning analyst and the lead analyst of NBC Sports Sunday Night Football and contributor to Showtime's Inside the NFL.

Tina Bockrath

As of May 2007, Bockrath is married to Emmy Award-winning music composer Velton Ray Bunch.

Tourette Syndrome Association

In 2005 HBO produced in conjunction with the TSA an Emmy Award-winning documentary film, I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me.

William Bemister

A 58-minute version of the film was later telecast on PBS in the United States for which Bemister won the 1981 Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism on U.S. Network Television and the 1982 CINE Golden Eagle Award.

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.


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