47th Primetime Emmy Awards
The 47th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were held Sunday, September 10, 1995. The awards show was hosted by Jason Alexander and Cybill Shepherd. It was broadcast on Fox. Nominees and winners are listed below, winners are in bold.
Frasier won its second consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, and led all shows with five major wins. For the second straight year a freshman drama series came into the ceremony with a bevy of major nominations, but failed to win for Outstanding Drama Series. ER led all shows with 15 major nominations, and won three major awards, but lost the top prize to NYPD Blue. A show that was in a similar situation to ER the previous year.
Winners and Nominees
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Programs
Acting
Lead performances
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series |
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series |
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- Candice Bergen as Murphy Brown on Murphy Brown, (Episode: "Requiem for a Crew Guy"), (CBS)
- Roseanne Barr as Roseanne Conner on Roseanne, (Episode: "Thanksgiving 1994"), (ABC)
- Ellen DeGeneres as Ellen Morgan on Ellen, (Episode: "The Spa"), (ABC)
- Helen Hunt as Jamie Buchman on Mad About You, (Episode: "The Ride Home"), (NBC)
- Cybill Shepherd as Cybill Sheridan on Cybill, (Episode: "Virgin, Mother, Crone"), (CBS)
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Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series |
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series |
- Mandy Patinkin as Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on Chicago Hope, (Episode: "Over the Rainbow"), (CBS)
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Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special |
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special |
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Supporting performances
Guest performances
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series |
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series |
- Carl Reiner as Alan Brady on Mad About You, (Episode: "The Alan Brady Show"), (NBC)
- Sid Caesar as Mr. Stein on Love & War, (Episode: "At the Pantheon", Part 2), (CBS)
- Nathan Lane as Phil on Frasier, (Episode: "Fool Me Once, Shame On You. Fool Me Twice..."), (NBC)
- Robert Pastorelli as Eldin Bernecky on Murphy Brown, (Episode: "Bye, Bye Bernecky"), (CBS)
- Paul Reubens as Andrew J. Lansing III on Murphy Brown, (Episode: "The Good Nephew"), (NBC)
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- Cyndi Lauper as Marianne Lugasso on Mad About You, (Episode: "Money Changes Everything"), (NBC)
- Bebe Neuwirth as Lilith Sternin on Frasier, (Episode: "Adventures in Paradise", Part 2), (NBC)
- Christina Pickles as Judy Geller on Friends, (Episode: "The One Where Nana Dies Twice"), (NBC)
- Jean Stapleton as Aunt Vivian on Grace Under Fire, (Episode: "The Road to Paris, Texas"), (ABC)
- JoBeth Williams as Madeline on Frasier, (Episode: "Adventures in Paradise", Part 2), (NBC)
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Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series |
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series |
- Paul Winfield as Judge Harold Nance on Picket Fences, (Episode: "Enemy Lines"), (CBS)
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- Shirley Knight as Agnes Cantwell on NYPD Blue, (Episode: "Large Mouth Bass"), (ABC)
- Amy Brenneman as Janice Licalsi on NYPD Blue, (Episode: "For Whom The Skell Tolls"), (ABC)
- Rosemary Clooney as Madame X on ER, (Episode: "Going Home"), (NBC)
- Colleen Flynn as Jodi O’Brien on ER, (Episode: "Love’s Labor Lost"), (NBC)
- CCH Pounder as Agent Kazdin on The X-Files, (Episode: "Duane Barry"), (Fox)
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Directing
Writing
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Comedy Series |
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Drama Series |
- Chuck Ranberg, Anne Flett-Giordano for Frasier, (Episode: "An Affair to Forget"), (NBC)
- Jeff Greenstein, Jeff Strauss for Friends, (Episode: "The One Where Underdog Gets Away"), (NBC)
- Joe Keenan for Frasier, (Episode: "The Matchmaker"), (NBC)
- Garry Shandling, Peter Tolan for The Larry Sanders Show, (Episode: "The Mr. Sharon Stone Show"), (HBO)
- Peter Tolan for The Larry Sanders Show, (Episode: "Hank’s Night in the Sun"), (HBO)
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- Lance Gentile for ER, (Episode: "Love’s Labor Lost"), (NBC)
- Chris Carter for The X-Files, (Episode: "Duane Barry"), (Fox)
- Michael Crichton for ER, (Episode: "Pilot"), (NBC)
- Winnie Holzman for My So-Called Life, (Episode: "Pilot"), (ABC)
- David Milch, Walon Green, Steven Bochco for NYPD Blue, (Episode: "Simone Says"), (ABC)
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Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Variety or Music Program |
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Miniseries or a Special |
- Dennis Miller Live, (HBO)
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- Alison Cross for Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, (NBC)
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Most major nominations
- By network [note 1]
- NBC – 56
- CBS – 32
- HBO – 27
- ABC – 20
- By program
- ER (NBC) – 15
- Frasier (NBC) / NYPD Blue (ABC) – 9
- The Burning Season (HBO) / Friends (NBC) / Indictment: The McMartin Trial (HBO) / The Larry Sanders Show (HBO) / Seinfeld (NBC) – 6
Most major awards
- By network [note 1]
- NBC – 14
- HBO – 7
- CBS – 6
- ABC – 3
- By program
- Frasier (NBC) – 5
- ER (NBC) / Picket Fences (CBS) / Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (NBC) – 3
- Notes
- 1 2 "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.
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