53rd Primetime Emmy Awards

53rd Primetime Emmy Awards
Date	November 4, 2001 September 16 (original schedule, postponed due to September 11th attacks) October 7 (postponed again due to the start of the War in Afghanistan) (Ceremony) September 8, Shrine Auditorium (Creative Arts Awards)
Location	Shubert Theatre, LA, CA
Host	Ellen DeGeneres
Television/Radio coverage
Network	CBS

The 53rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were finally held Sunday, November 4, 2001, seven weeks late. The awards show was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres and was broadcast on CBS. The ceremony was re-scheduled twice from its original date of September 16 at the Shrine Auditorium because of the September 11, 2001 attacks that occurred five days prior to the event. It was also removed from its rescheduled date of October 7 again at the same venue as a result of the start of the War in Afghanistan. The event was then relocated to the Shubert Theater. The Shubert had previously hosted the 1973 and 1976 ceremonies and was slated for demolition in 2002.

Barbra Streisand sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" in a surprise appearance at the close, in honor of the victims of the attacks.^[1]

Sex and the City became the first premium channel to win Outstanding Comedy Series, this was its only major award. The NBC cult hit Freaks and Geeks accomplished a rare feat, though it only ran for one season, it was nominated two different years for writing. The episode "Bowling" made Malcolm in the Middle just the second show, and first comedy, to have two different episodes win awards for directing and writing. The Defenders was the first show to do this in 1963 and 1965. (Specific episodes were not nominated in the comedy categories until the late 1960s).

In the drama field The West Wing won its second straight Outstanding Drama Series Emmy, and led all shows with four major awards on the night. The Sopranos led all shows with 15 major nominations, and was second to The West Wing with three major wins.

Winners and Nominees

Eric McCormack, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series winner

Edie Falco, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series winner

Doris Roberts, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series winner

Allison Janney, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series winner

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Programs

Outstanding Comedy Series	Outstanding Drama Series
Sex and the City, (HBO) Everybody Loves Raymond, (CBS) Frasier, (NBC) Malcolm in the Middle, (Fox) Will & Grace, (NBC)	The West Wing, (NBC) ER, (NBC) Law & Order, (NBC) The Practice, (ABC) The Sopranos, (HBO)
Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Series	Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special
Late Show with David Letterman, (CBS) The Chris Rock Show, (HBO) The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, (Comedy Central) Politically Incorrect, (ABC) Saturday Night Live, (NBC)	Cirque du Soleil: Dralion, (Bravo) The 73rd Annual Academy Awards, (ABC) Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: Live in New York City, (HBO) Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning, (HBO) Saturday Night Live: Presidential Bash 2000, (NBC)
Outstanding Made for Television Movie	Outstanding Miniseries
Wit, (HBO) 61*, (HBO) Conspiracy, (HBO) For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story, (HBO) Laughter on the 23rd Floor, (Showtime)	Anne Frank: The Whole Story, (ABC) Further Tales of the City, (Showtime) Hornblower: Mutiny, (A&E) Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, (ABC) Nuremberg, (TNT)

Acting

Lead performances

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Eric McCormack as Will Truman on Will & Grace, (Episode: "Lows in the Mid-Eighties"), (NBC) Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Frasier Crane on Frasier, (Episode: "Frasier’s Edge"), (NBC) John Lithgow as Dr. Dick Solomon on 3rd Rock from the Sun, (Episode: "Red, White, and Dick"), (NBC) Frankie Muniz as Malcolm on Malcolm in the Middle, (Episode: "Bowling"), (Fox) Ray Romano as Ray Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond, (Episode: "Ray’s Journal"), (CBS)	Patricia Heaton as Debra Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond, (Episode: "The Canister"), (CBS) Calista Flockhart as Ally McBeal on Ally McBeal, (Episode: "Falling Up"), (Fox) Jane Kaczmarek as Lois on Malcolm in the Middle, (Episode: "Flashback"), (Fox) Debra Messing as Grace Adler on Will & Grace, (Episode: "Lows in the Mid-Eighties"), (NBC) Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City, (Episode: "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell"), (HBO)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano on The Sopranos, (Episode: "Amour Fou"), (HBO) Andre Braugher as Dr. Benjamin Gideon on Gideon’s Crossing, (Episode: "The Lottery"), (ABC) Dennis Franz as Andy Sipowicz on NYPD Blue, (Episode: "In the Wind"), (ABC) Rob Lowe as Sam Seaborn on The West Wing, (Episode: "Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail"), (NBC) Martin Sheen as President Jed Bartlet on The West Wing, (Episode: "Two Cathedrals"), (NBC)	Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano on The Sopranos, (Episode: "Second Opinion"), (HBO) Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi on The Sopranos, (Episode: "Employee of the Month"), (HBO) Amy Brenneman as Amy Gray on Judging Amy, (Episode: "The Undertow"), (CBS) Marg Helgenberger as Catherine Willows on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, (Episode: "Justice is Served"), (CBS) Sela Ward as Lily Manning on Once and Again, (Episode: "Second Time Around"), (ABC)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
Kenneth Branagh as Reinhard Heydrich on Conspiracy, (HBO) Andy García as Arturo Sandoval on For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story, (HBO) Gregory Hines as Bill "Bojangles" Robinson on Bojangles, (Showtime) Ben Kingsley as Otto Frank on Anne Frank: The Whole Story, (ABC) Barry Pepper as Roger Maris on 61*, (HBO)	Judy Davis as Judy Garland on Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, (ABC) Judi Dench as Elizabeth on The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, (HBO) Hannah Taylor-Gordon as Anne Frank on Anne Frank: The Whole Story, (ABC) Holly Hunter as Billie Jean King on When Billie Beat Bobby, (ABC) Emma Thompson as Vivian Bearing on Wit, (HBO)

Supporting performances

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Peter MacNicol as John Cage on Ally McBeal, (Episodes: "Reasons to Believe" + "In Search of Barry White"), (Fox) Peter Boyle as Frank Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond, (Episodes: "The Wallpaper" + "Frank Paints the House"), (CBS) Robert Downey, Jr. as Larry Paul on Ally McBeal, (Episodes: "Sex, Lies, and Second Thoughts" + "The Obstacle Course"), (Fox) Sean Hayes as Jack McFarland on Will & Grace, (Episodes: "Grace 0, Jack 2000" + "Gypsies, Tramps, and Weed"), (NBC) David Hyde Pierce as Dr. Niles Crane on Frasier, (Episodes: "Hooping Cranes" + "Daphne Returns"), (NBC)	Doris Roberts as Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond, (Episodes: "The Sneeze" + "Ray’s Journal"), (CBS) Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green on Friends, (Episodes: "The One with Rachel’s Assistant" + "The One Where They All Turn Thirty"), (NBC) Kim Cattrall as Samantha Jones on Sex and the City, (Episodes: "Where There’s Smoke...", + "Running with Scissors"), (HBO) Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay on Friends, (Episodes: "The One with Phoebe’s Cookies" + "The One with Joey’s New Brain"), (NBC) Megan Mullally as Karen Walker on Will & Grace, (Episodes: "Husbands and Trophy Wives" + "Crazy in Love"), (NBC)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Bradley Whitford as Josh Lyman on The West Wing, (Episodes: "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen", Part 2 + "Noël"), (NBC) Dominic Chianese as Junior Soprano on The Sopranos, (Episodes: "Another Toothpick" + "Second Opinion"), (HBO) Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos, (Episodes: "Fortunate Son" + "Pine Barrens"), (HBO) Richard Schiff as Toby Ziegler on The West Wing, (Episodes: "The Leadership Breakfast" + "17 People"), (NBC) John Spencer as Leo McGarry on The West Wing, (Episodes: "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen", Part 1 + "The Leadership Breakfast"), (NBC)	Allison Janney as C. J. Cregg on The West Wing, (Episodes: "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen", Part 1 + "Galileo"), (NBC) Stockard Channing as First Lady Abbey Bartlet on The West Wing, (Episodes: "Bartlet’s Third State of the Union" + "The War at Home"), (NBC) Tyne Daly as Maxine Gray on Judging Amy, (Episodes: "Unnecessary Roughness" + "Water World"), (CBS) Maura Tierney as Nurse Abby Lockhart on ER, (Episodes: "Fear of Commitment" + "Where the Heart Is"), (NBC) Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano on The Sopranos, (Episodes: "Proshai, Livushka" + "Employee of the Month"), (HBO)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
Brian Cox as Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring on Nuremberg, (TNT) Alan Alda as Willie Walters on Club Land, (Showtime) Colin Firth as Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart on Conspiracy, (HBO) Victor Garber as Sidney Luft on Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, (ABC) Ian Holm as Patrick on The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, (HBO) Stanley Tucci as Adolf Eichmann on Conspiracy, (HBO)	Tammy Blanchard as Young Judy Garland on Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, (ABC) Anne Bancroft as Mama Gruber on Haven, (CBS) Brenda Blethyn as Auguste Rottgen-van Pels on Anne Frank: The Whole Story, (ABC) Holly Hunter as Rebecca Waynon on Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, (Showtime) Audra McDonald as Susie Monahan on Wit, (HBO)

Guest performances

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series	Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
Derek Jacobi as Jackson Hedley on Frasier, (Episode: "The Show Must Go Off"), (NBC) Victor Garber as Ferguson on Frasier, (Episode: "Taking Liberties"), (NBC) Robert Loggia as Grandpa Victor on Malcolm in the Middle, (Episode: "Grandparents"), (Fox) Gary Oldman as Richard Crosby on Friends, (Episode: "The One with Monica and Chandler’s Wedding"), (NBC) Michael York as Sid Barry on The Lot, (Episode: "Daddy Dearest, Stiffed"), (AMC)	Jean Smart as Lana Gardner on Frasier, (NBC) Jami Gertz as Kimmy Bishop on Ally McBeal, (Episode: "Tis the Season"), (Fox) Cloris Leachman as Grandma Ida on Malcolm in the Middle, (Episode: "Grandparents"), (Fox) Bernadette Peters as Cindy on Ally McBeal, (Episode: "The Getaway"), (Fox) Susan Sarandon as Cecilia Monroe on Friends, (Episode: "The One with Joey’s New Brain"), (NBC)
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series	Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
Michael Emerson as William Hinks on The Practice, (Episode: "An Early Frost"), (ABC) René Auberjonois as Judge Mantz on The Practice, (Episode: "We Hold These Truths"), (ABC) James Cromwell as Bishop Lionel Stewart on ER, (Episode: "A Walk in the Woods"), (NBC) Patrick Dempsey as Aaron Brooks on Once and Again, (Episode: "Strangers and Brothers"), (ABC) Oliver Platt as Oliver Babish on The West Wing, (Episode: "The Fall’s Gonna Kill You"), (NBC)	Sally Field as Maggie Wyczenski on ER, (Episode: "Sailing Away"), (NBC) Kathy Baker as Mrs. Peters on Boston Public, (Episode: "Entitled"), (ABC) Dana Delany as Mary Sullivan on Family Law, (Episode: "Safe at Home"), (CBS) Annabella Sciorra as Gloria Trillo on The Sopranos, (Episode: "Amour Fou"), (HBO) Jean Smart as Sherry Regan on The District, (Episode: "The Agony and the Ecstasy"), (CBS)

Directing

Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series	Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
Todd Holland, for Malcolm in the Middle, (Episode: "Bowling"), (Fox) James Burrows for Will & Grace, (Episode: "Lows in the Mid-Eighties"), (NBC) James Frawley for Ed, (Episode: "Pilot"), (NBC) Charles McDougall for Sex and the City, (Episode: "Easy Come, Easy Go"), (HBO) Jeff Melman, for Malcolm in the Middle, (Episode: "Flashback"), (Fox)	Thomas Schlamme for The West Wing, (Episode: "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen"), (NBC) Steve Buscemi for The Sopranos, (Episode: "Pine Barrens"), (HBO) Allen Coulter for The Sopranos, (Episode: "University"), (HBO) Laura Innes for The West Wing, (Episode: "Shibboleth"), (NBC) Jonathan Kaplan for ER, (Episode: "The Visit"), (NBC) Tim Van Patten for The Sopranos, (Episode: "Amour Fou"), (HBO)
Outstanding Directing for a Variety or Music Program	Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or Movie
David Mallet for Cirque du Soleil: Dralion, (Bravo) Jerry Foley for Late Show with David Letterman, (CBS) Chris Hilson for Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: Live in New York City, (HBO) Louis J. Horvitz for The 73rd Annual Academy Awards, (ABC) Paul Miller for The 54th Annual Tony Awards, (CBS)	Mike Nichols for Wit, (HBO) Robert Allan Ackerman for Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, (ABC) Billy Crystal for 61*, (HBO) Robert Dornhelm for Anne Frank: The Whole Story, (ABC) Frank Pierson for Conspiracy, (HBO)

Writing

Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series	Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series
Alex Reid for Malcolm in the Middle, (Episode: "Bowling"), (Fox) Rob Burnett, Jon Beckerman for Ed, (Episode: "Pilot"), (NBC) Paul Feig for Freaks and Geeks, (Episode: "Discos and Dragons"), (NBC) Jeff Greenstein for Will & Grace, (Episode: "Lows in the Mid-Eighties"), (NBC) Michael Patrick King for Sex and the City, (Episode: "Easy Come, Easy Go"), (HBO)	Robin Green, Mitchell Burgess for The Sopranos, (Episode: "Employee of the Month"), (HBO) Lawrence Konner for The Sopranos, (Episode: "Second Opinion"), (HBO) Frank Renzulli, David Chase for The Sopranos, (Episode: "Amour Fou"), (HBO) Aaron Sorkin for The West Wing, (Episode: "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen"), (NBC) Terence Winter, Tim Van Patten for The Sopranos, (Episode: "Pine Barrens"), (HBO)
Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program	Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries or Movie
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, (Comedy Central) The Chris Rock Show, (HBO) Late Night with Conan O'Brien, (NBC) Late Show with David Letterman, (CBS) Saturday Night Live, (NBC)	Loring Mandel for Conspiracy, (HBO) Kirk Ellis for Anne Frank: The Whole Story, (ABC) Robert L. Freedman for Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, (ABC) Hank Steinberg for 61*, (HBO) Emma Thompson, Mike Nichols for Wit, (HBO)

Most major nominations

By network ^{[note 1]}

• HBO – 44
• NBC – 43
• ABC – 24
• CBS – 15
• Fox – 13

By program

• The Sopranos (HBO) – 15
• The West Wing (NBC) – 12
• Malcolm in the Middle (Fox) – 8
• Will & Grace (NBC) – 7
• Anne Frank: The Whole Story (ABC) / Conspiracy (HBO) / Frasier (NBC) / Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (ABC) – 6

Most major awards

By network ^{[note 1]}

• HBO – 8
• NBC – 8
• ABC – 4
• CBS – 3
• Fox – 3
• Bravo – 2

By program

• The West Wing (NBC) – 4
• The Sopranos (HBO) – 3

Notes

1. "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.

In Memoriam

Carroll O'Connor Jack Elliott Richard Mulligan William Hanna Robert Trout Perry Como Rosemary DeCamp Alan Rafkin John Cannon Werner Klemperer Dale Evans Arlene Francis Stan Margulies Beah Richards

Fred de Cordova Ann Sothern Ray Walston Imogene Coca Victor Borge Jack Haley, Jr. Jason Robards Kathleen Freeman Jack Lemmon Steve Allen Barbara Olson Berry Berenson David Angell

References

1. Streisand's stage fright spiked with thought of terror, By Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY, 12-12-2001
2. "2001 Primetime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved April 19, 2013.

External links

• Emmys.com list of 2001 Nominees & Winners
• 2001 Emmy Awards at the Internet Movie Database