Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series
Awarded for	Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
First awarded	2016 (awarded to Childrens Hospital)
Last awarded	2020 (awarded to Better Call Saul Employee Training: Legal Ethics With Kim Wexler)
Website	emmys.com

This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. The category was initiated in 2016 alongside Outstanding Short Form Variety Series and Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series. The awards replaced the now-retired category for Outstanding Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program. In 2021, this award will be merged Short Form Variety Series to form the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Comedy, Drama or Variety Series. These awards were not presented at the Primetime Emmy Awards show, but at the Creative Arts Emmy Award show.

Winners and nominations

indicates the winner

2010s

Year	Program	Producers	Network
2016 (68th) ^[1]
	Childrens Hospital	Rob Corddry, Jonathan Stern, David Wain, Keith Crofford and Mike Lazzo, executive producers; Krister Johnson, co-executive producer	Adult Swim
	Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462	Troy Miller, Dave Erickson and David Wiener, executive producers; Tally Barr, producer	AMC
	Hack Into Broad City	Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, Tony Hernandez and Lilly Burns, executive producers; Ryan McCormick, producer	ComedyCentral.com
	Her Story	Katherine Reed Fisher, executive producer/producer; Eve Ensler, executive producer; Jen Richards and Laura Zak, co-executive producers	YouTube
	UnREAL: The Auditions	Tamara Kaiser and Christian Martin, executive producers	Lifetime
2017 (69th) ^[2]
	Los Pollos Hermanos Employee Training	Dan Appel, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Ariel Levine and Melissa Bernstein, executive producers; Rob Knox, producer	AMC
	Brown Girls	Sam Bailey and Fatimah Asghar, producers	OpenTV
	Fear the Walking Dead: Passage	Dave Erickson, Frank Scherma and Justin Wilkes, executive producers; Andrew Bernstein, producer	AMC.com
	Hack Into Broad City	Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, Tony Hernandez and Lilly Burns, executive producers; Kelsie Kiley, producer	ComedyCentral.com
	Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot	Geoffrey Colo, Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jeffrey Bell, Jeph Loeb and Joe Quesada, executive producers	ABCd / ABC.com
2018 (70th) ^[3]
	James Corden's Next James Corden	Ben Winston, Rob Crabbe, James Corden, Adam Abramson, Ryan McKee, executive producers; David Lamattina, producer	CBS on Snapchat
	aka Wyatt Cenac	Wyatt Cenac, executive producer; Chris Marsh and Daniel Goldberg, producers	Topic.com
	An Emmy for Megan	Megan Amram, Dave Kneebone and Janel Kranking, executive producers; Joseph Carnegie, producer	anemmyformegan.com
	Grey's Anatomy: B Team	Abby Chambers, executive producer; Val Cheung, producer; Produced by Mohamed Saad Mansoor	abc.go.com
	The Walking Dead: Red Machete	Alex Coley Brown, Noam Dromi, Jay Williams, executive producers; Nick Bernardone and Avi Youabian, producers	AMC.com
2019 (71st) ^[4]
	State of the Union ^{[note 1]}^[5]	Nick Hornby, Stephen Frears, Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning and Emile Sherman, executive producers	Sundance
	An Emmy for Megan	Megan Amram, Janel Kranking and Dave Kneebone, executive producers; Joseph Carnegie, producer	anemmyformegan.com
	Hack Into Broad City	Tony Hernandez, Lilly Burns, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, executive producers; Kelsie Kiley, co-executive producer; Nick Paley, producer	ComedyCentral.com
	It's Bruno!	Solvan "Slick" Naim, executive producer; Molly Conners, Amanda Bowers and Vincent Morano, producers	Netflix
	Special	Jim Parsons, Todd Spiewak, Eric Norsoph, Ryan O'Connell and Anna Dokoza, executive producers	Netflix

2020s

Year	Program	Producers	Network
2020 (72nd) ^[6]
	Better Call Saul Employee Training: Legal Ethics With Kim Wexler	Dan Appel, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Ariel Levine and Melissa Bernstein, executive producers; James Heth, producer	AMC.com
	The Good Place Presents: The Selection	Michael Schur, Morgan Sackett and David Hyman, executive producers; Eric Kissack, Matt Quezada and Doug Smith, producers	NBC
	Most Dangerous Game	Nick Santora, Gero Bauknecht, Gerd Schepers, Gordon Gray, Liam Hemsworth and Phil Abraham, executive producers	Quibi
	Reno 911!	Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney-Silver, John Landgraf and Peter Principato, executive producers; David Lincoln, producer	Quibi
	Star Trek: Short Treks	Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Frank Siracusa and John Weber, executive producers; Aaron Baiers, co-executive producer	CBS All Access

Programs with multiple awards

Totals include wins for Outstanding Short Form Comedy, Drama or Variety Series.

3 awards

Childrens Hospital

2 awards

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis

Programs with multiple nominations

Totals include nominations for Outstanding Short Form Comedy, Drama or Variety Series.

5 nominations

Childrens Hospital

3 nominations

2 nominations

An Emmy for Megan

Total awards by network

AMC – 2
Adult Swim – 1
CBS on Snapchat – 1
Sundance – 1

Notes

^ In 2019, the AMC series Better Call Saul Employee Training: Madrigal Electromotive Security was nominated. The nomination was rescinded after it was determined that several episodes were shorter than two minutes, violating the TV Academy's rule that six episodes air during the eligibility period with a runtime of at least two minutes. Sixth place finisher State of the Union became the fifth nominee, going on to win the category.

References

^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 18, 2016.
^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
^ "Nominees | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 16, 2019.
^ Petski, Denise (July 19, 2019). "Television Academy Rules Emmy-Nominated 'Better Call Saul' Short Form Series Ineligible After All". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 28, 2020.

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series

Childrens Hospital (2016)
Los Pollos Hermanos Employee Training (2017)
James Corden's Next James Corden (2018)
State of the Union (2019)
Better Call Saul Employee Training: Legal Ethics with Kim Wexler (2020)

v t e Primetime Emmy Award categories
Programs	Comedy Series Drama Series Limited or Anthology Series Television Movie Reality Competition Program Talk Series Scripted Variety Series Animated Program Documentary or Nonfiction Series Documentary or Nonfiction Special Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking Game Show Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special Short Form Comedy, Drama or Variety Series Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series Structured Reality Program Unstructured Reality Program Variety Special (Live) Variety Special (Pre-Recorded)
Performance	Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Lead Actor in a Drama Series Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Lead Actress in a Drama Series Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Guest Actor in a Drama Series Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Guest Actress in a Drama Series Performer in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Character Voice-Over Performance Host for a Game Show Host for a Reality or Competition Program Narrator
Directing	Directing for a Comedy Series Directing for a Drama Series Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Directing for a Variety Series Directing for a Variety Special Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program Directing for a Reality Program
Writing	Writing for a Comedy Series Writing for a Drama Series Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Writing for a Variety Series Writing for a Variety Special Writing for a Nonfiction Programming
Animation	Individual Achievement in Animation
Casting	Casting for a Comedy Series Casting for a Drama Series Casting for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Casting for a Reality Program
Choreography	Choreography for Scripted Programming Choreography for Variety and Reality Programming
Cinematography	Cinematography for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program Cinematography for a Reality Program Cinematography for a Series (Half-Hour) Cinematography for a Series (One Hour)
Commercials	Commercial
Costume Design	Contemporary Costumes Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes Period Costumes Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Programming
Hairstyling	Contemporary Hairstyling Hairstyling for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program Period and/or Character Hairstyling
Lighting	Lighting Design / Lighting Direction for a Variety Series Lighting Design / Lighting Direction for a Variety Special
Main Title / Motion Design	Main Title Design Motion Design
Makeup	Contemporary Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program Period and/or Character Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) Prosthetic Makeup
Music	Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special Music Composition for a Series Music Direction Music Supervision Original Main Title Theme Music Original Music and Lyrics
Picture Editing	Picture Editing for a Multi-Camera Comedy Series Picture Editing for a Single-Camera Comedy Series Picture Editing for a Drama Series Picture Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program Picture Editing for a Structured or Competition Reality Program Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program Picture Editing for Variety Programming
Production Design	Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More) Production Design for a Narrative Period or Fantasy Program (One Hour or More) Production Design for a Narrative Program (Half-Hour or Less) Production Design for a Variety or Reality Series Production Design for a Variety Special
Sound Editing	Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One-Hour) Sound Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special Sound Editing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program (Single or Multi-Camera)
Sound Mixing	Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One-Hour) Sound Mixing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction Program (Single or Multi-Camera) Sound Mixing for a Reality Program (Single or Multi-Camera) Sound Mixing for a Variety Series or Special
Special Effects	Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie / Special and Visual Effects in a Single Episode
Stunts	Stunt Coordination Stunt Performance
Technical Direction	Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Series Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Special
Engineering	Engineering Philo T. Farnsworth Award
Retired	Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series Children's Program Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Series Costumes for a Series Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special Hairstyling for a Limited Series or Movie Hairstyling for a Single-Camera Series Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program Interactive Program Makeup for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic) New Series Program of the Year Short Form Animated Program Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Short Form Variety Series Super Emmy Variety Series Voice-Over Performance
Emmy categories Primetime Daytime International Sports Children's and Family