Showing posts with label Outstanding Special Visual Effects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Outstanding Special Visual Effects. Show all posts

Sunday, June 8, 2025

"Star Trek" and "Laugh-In" win Primetime Emmys 1969



Back when television shows were the best, Star Trek, Laugh-in, and Bewitched were nominated for several Primetime Emmys, at the 21st annual ceremony held June 8, 1969. Star Trek and Laugh-In were nominated for the same award: Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction and Scenic Design. Unfortunately, Mission: Impossible took that award.

Laugh-In was also nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy, Variety or Music for Gordon Wiles, Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music, Outstanding Variety or Musical Program, Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy, Variety or Music, and three nominations for Special Classification Achievement-Individuals (Variety Performances) Arte Johnson, Ruth Buzzi (winner) and Goldie Hawn. Laugh-In received two nominations for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Electronic Production and won one.

Leonard Nimoy received a nomination for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series for his role as Spock. Episode Assignment: Earth was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing.

Episode The Tholian Web won a Special Classification of Outstanding Individual Achievements-Special Photographic Effects.  

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Cost of Living" wins two Primetime Emmys 1992



The twentieth episode of the fifth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Cost of Living, won two Primetime Emmys at the 44th annual ceremony held August 30, 1992.  Only four other episodes of TNG have achieved this.  Cost of Living won for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series. It received a nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Hairstyling for a Series.

Episodes Conundrum and A Matter of Time tied with a show The Last Halloween for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects.

Episode Unification II was nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Art Direction along with an episode of Murder, She Wrote, but they lost to Northern Exposure.  Bummer.

Unification I was nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore).

Power Play was nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Series.

The Next Phase was nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement for a Drama Series.


Monday, September 19, 2022

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine wins 3 Primetime Emmys 1993



For its first season, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine racked up three Primetime Emmy wins and four more nominations at the 45th ceremony held September 19, 1993.  The program was hosted by Angela Lansbury.  Actually, the creative awards were handed out the day before. 

Deep Space Nine won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Main Title Theme Music. 

The first episode Emissary won for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects, and was nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Art Direction for a Series and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Drama Series. 

Captive Pursuits won for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series, beating Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Inner Light.

Emissary Part II was nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Series with Next Generation's Time's Arrow, Part 2, but both lost to The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

Move Along Home, which has been panned by fans as being one of the worst episodes of the series was nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Hairstyling, but lost to the Next Generation's Time's Arrow, Part II.