1993 American television programming awards
- September 19, 1993
(Ceremony) - September 18, 1993
(Creative Arts Awards)
Location | Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California |
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Presented by | Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |
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Hosted by | Angela Lansbury |
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Highlights |
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Most awards | |
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Most nominations | Northern Exposure (9) |
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Outstanding Comedy Series | Seinfeld |
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Outstanding Drama Series | Picket Fences |
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Outstanding Miniseries | Prime Suspect II |
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Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series | Saturday Night Live |
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Television/radio coverage |
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Network | ABC |
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The 45th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 19, 1993. The ceremony was broadcast on ABC and was hosted by Angela Lansbury. MTV received its first major nomination at this ceremony.
For its fourth season, Seinfeld won its first, and only, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. Cheers was once again nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series. It was nominated for all eleven years that it ran and won four times. This tied the record set by M*A*S*H which also went 11/11, but only won once.
On the drama side, Northern Exposure was the defending champion and was seen heavily as the favorite coming into the ceremony being the most nominated show with nine major nominations—but in a major upset, Picket Fences took home Outstanding Drama Series. Northern Exposure set the dubious record for the largest shutout of all time, as it lost all 11 major nominations; including its Creative Arts Emmy Awards nominations, the record increases to 0/16. This record would later be tied by The Larry Sanders Show in 1997, but both of these records were later broken by Mad Men (0/17) in 2012, and again by The Handmaid's Tale (0/21) in 2021.
With David Clennon's win for Outstanding Comedy Guest Actor, this was the first time HBO won an Acting Emmy.
Winners and nominees
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Programs
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| - Bob Hope: The First 90 Years (NBC)
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- Barbarians at the Gate (HBO)
- Stalin (HBO)
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Acting
Lead performances
- Ted Danson as Sam Malone in Cheers (NBC) (Episode: "The Guy Can't Help It")
- Tim Allen as Tim Taylor in Home Improvement (ABC) (Episode: "Where There's a Will, There's a Way")
- John Goodman as Dan Conner in Roseanne (ABC) (Episode: "Terms of Estrangement", Part 2)
- Jerry Seinfeld as Jerry Seinfeld in Seinfeld (NBC) (Episode: "The Opera")
- Garry Shandling as Larry Sanders in The Larry Sanders Show (HBO) (Episode: "What Have You Done for Me Lately?")
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- Tom Skerritt as Jimmy Brock in Picket Fences (CBS) (Episode: "High Tidings")
- Scott Bakula as Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap (NBC) (Episode: "Lee Harvey Oswald: October 5, 1957-November 22, 1963")
- Michael Moriarty as Ben Stone in Law & Order (NBC) (Episode: "Night and Fog")
- Rob Morrow as Joel Fleischman in Northern Exposure (CBS) (Episode: "Kaddish for Uncle Manny")
- Sam Waterston as Forrest Bedford in I'll Fly Away (NBC) (Episode: "All in the Life")
| - Kathy Baker as Jill Brock in Picket Fences (CBS) (Episode: "Thanksgiving")
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Supporting performances
| - Laurie Metcalf as Jackie Harris in Roseanne (ABC) (Episodes: "Crime and Punishment" + "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home")
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- Chad Lowe as Jesse McKenna in Life Goes On (ABC) (Episodes: "Lost Weekend" + "Bedfellows")
- Barry Corbin as Maurice J. Minnifield in Northern Exposure (CBS) (Episodes: "The Big Feast" + "Sleeping with the Enemy")
- John Cullum as Holling Vincoeur in Northern Exposure (CBS) (Episodes: "Learning Curve" + "Mud and Blood")
- Fyvush Finkel as Douglas Wambaugh in Picket Fences (CBS) (Episodes: "Thanksgiving" + "The Body Politic")
- Dean Stockwell as Al Calavicci in Quantum Leap (NBC) (Episodes: "Lee Harvey Oswald: October 5, 1957 – November 22, 1963" + "Killin' Time: June 18, 1958")
| - Mary Alice as Marguerite Peck in I'll Fly Away (NBC) (Episodes: "Ruler of My Heart" + "The Third Man")
- Cynthia Geary as Shelly Tambo in Northern Exposure (CBS) (Episodes: "Kaddish for Uncle Manny" + "Mud and Blood")
- Kay Lenz as Maggie Zombro in Reasonable Doubts (NBC) (Episodes: "Two Women" + "Wish You Were Here")
- Kellie Martin as Becca Thatcher in Life Goes On (ABC) (Episodes: "Visions" + "Last Wish")
- Peg Phillips as Ruth Anne in Northern Exposure (CBS) (Episodes: "Blowing Bubbles" + "Revelations")
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- Beau Bridges as Terry Harper in The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (HBO)
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Individual performances
Directing
Writing
| - Homicide: Life on the Street (NBC): "Three Men and Adena" – Tom Fontana
- Homefront (ABC): "The Lacemakers" – Bernard Lechowick
- Law & Order (NBC): "Manhood" – Story by : Walon Green and Robert Nathan
Teleplay by : Robert Nathan - Northern Exposure (CBS): "Kaddish for Uncle Manny" – Jeff Melvoin
- Northern Exposure (CBS): "Midnight Sun" – Geoffrey Neigher
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- The Ben Stiller Show (Fox)
- The Kids in the Hall (HBO)
- Late Night with David Letterman (NBC)
- Rick Reynolds: Only the Truth Is Funny (Showtime)
- Saturday Night Live (NBC)
| - The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (HBO) – Jane Anderson
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Most major nominations
Networks with multiple major nominations[note 1] Network | No. of Nominations |
NBC | 45 |
CBS | 36 |
HBO | 35 |
ABC | 20 |
Programs with multiple major nominations Program | Category | Network | No. of Nominations |
Northern Exposure | Drama | CBS | 9 |
Seinfeld | Comedy | NBC | 8 |
Barbarians at the Gate | Movie | HBO | 6 |
The Larry Sanders Show | Comedy |
Cheers | Comedy | NBC | 5 |
Citizen Cohn | Movie | HBO |
I'll Fly Away | Drama | NBC |
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom | Movie | HBO |
Stalin |
Law & Order | Drama | NBC | 4 |
Picket Fences | CBS |
Roseanne | Comedy | ABC |
The 65th Annual Academy Awards | Variety | 3 |
Dream On | Comedy | HBO |
Late Night with David Letterman | Variety | NBC |
Murphy Brown | Comedy | CBS |
Saturday Night Live | Variety | NBC |
The 46th Annual Tony Awards | CBS | 2 |
Alex Haley's Queen | Miniseries |
Family Pictures | ABC |
Home Improvement | Comedy |
Homefront | Drama |
Homicide: Life on the Street | NBC |
Life Goes On | ABC |
Prime Suspect II | Miniseries | PBS |
Quantum Leap | Drama | NBC |
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe | Variety | Showtime |
Sinatra | Miniseries | CBS |
Sisters | Drama | NBC |
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Variety |
Tru | Movie | PBS |
Most major awards
Networks with multiple major awards[note 1] Network | No. of Awards |
NBC | 10 |
HBO | 7 |
CBS | 5 |
ABC | 4 |
Fox | 2 |
PBS |
Programs with multiple major awards Programs | Category | Network | No. of Awards |
Picket Fences | Drama | CBS | 3 |
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom | Movie | HBO |
Seinfeld | Comedy | NBC |
Homicide: Life on the Street | Drama | 2 |
Roseanne | Comedy | ABC |
Saturday Night Live | Variety | NBC |
- Notes
- ^ a b "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.
References
- ^ Emmys.com list of 1993 Nominees & Winners
External links
- Emmys.com list of 1993 Nominees & Winners
- 45th Primetime Emmy Awards at IMDb