46th Primetime Emmy Awards explained
The 46th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 11, 1994. The ceremony was hosted by Patricia Richardson and Ellen DeGeneres. It was broadcast on ABC. Comedy Central received its first major nomination at this ceremony.
For its first season, the Cheers spin-off Frasier won Outstanding Comedy Series and four total major awards. For the second straight year Picket Fences won Outstanding Drama Series, it too won four major awards, but the more impressive drama series was newcomer NYPD Blue, which took home three major awards.
NYPD Blue came into the ceremony with 17 major nominations. This broke Hill Street Blues record for most nominations by a drama or comedy series of 16 set in 1982, and put it in second place all time behind Roots which gained 21 major nominations in 1977. NYPD Blue set another milestone when it received every nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series, this marked only the ninth time that a show had received every nomination in a category. This feat has not been accomplished since.
The television film And the Band Played On also made Emmy history. It set a new record when it received nine major nominations, the most ever for a television movie. The record was maintained for twenty years, until The Normal Heart received nine major nominations in 2014. Both films won the top prize, but each lost all six of their acting nominations, directing, and writing to other projects.
Winners and nominees
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Programs
Acting
Lead performances
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| - Candice Bergen as Murphy Brown on Murphy Brown (CBS) (Episode: "It's Just Like Riding a Bike")
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- Hume Cronyn as Robert Samuel Peek in To Dance with the White Dog (CBS)
| - Kirstie Alley as Sally Goodson in David's Mother (CBS)
- Bette Midler as Mama Rose in Gypsy (CBS)
- Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect III (PBS)
- Jessica Tandy as Cora Peek in To Dance with the White Dog (CBS)
- Joanne Woodward as Maggie Moran in Breathing Lessons (CBS)
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Supporting performances
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| - Laurie Metcalf as Jackie Harris in Roseanne (ABC) (Episodes: "Labor Day" + "Past Imperfect")
- Shelley Fabares as Christine Armstrong in Coach (ABC) (Episodes: "Nice Job If You Can Get It" + "The Stand-In")
- Faith Ford as Corky Sherwood in Murphy Brown (CBS) (Episodes: "The Young and the Rest of Us" + "The More Things Stay The Same")
- Sara Gilbert as Darlene Conner in Roseanne (ABC) (Episodes: "Two Down, One to Go" + "Everybody Comes to Jackie's")
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes in Seinfeld (NBC) (Episodes: "The Mango" + "The Opposite")
- Liz Torres as Mahalia Sanchez in The John Larroquette Show (NBC) (Episodes: "Pilot" + "God")
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- Fyvush Finkel as Douglas Wambaugh in Picket Fences (CBS) (Episodes: "Turpitude" + "Squatter's Rights")
- Gordon Clapp as Greg Medavoy in NYPD Blue (ABC) (Episodes: "Ice Follies" + "Abandando Abandoned")
- Barry Corbin as Maurice J. Minnifield in Northern Exposure (CBS) (Episodes: "The Mystery of the Old Curio Shop" + "The Gift of the Maggie")
- Nicholas Turturro as James Martinez in NYPD Blue (ABC)(Episodes: "Up on the Roof" + "Guns 'N' Rosaries")
- Ray Walston as Henry Bone in Picket Fences (CBS) (Episodes:"Blue Christmas" + "Abominable Snowman")
| - Leigh Taylor-Young as Rachel Harris in Picket Fences (CBS) (Episodes: "Remote Control" + "Divine Recall")
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| - Cicely Tyson as Castralia in Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (CBS)
- Anne Bancroft as Lucy Marsden in Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (CBS)
- Swoosie Kurtz as Mrs. Johnstone in And the Band Played On (HBO)
- Lee Purcell as Ann Thielman in Secret Sins of the Father (NBC)
- Lily Tomlin as Dr. Selma Dritz in And the Band Played On (HBO)
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Individual performances
- Tracey Ullman – Tracey Ullman Takes on New York (HBO)
- Whoopi Goldberg – The 66th Annual Academy Awards (ABC)
- Phil Hartman – Saturday Night Live (NBC)
- Mike Myers – Saturday Night Live (NBC)
- Lily Tomlin – Growing Up Funny (Lifetime) as Madame Lupe
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Directing
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- The 47th Annual Tony Awards (ABC) – Walter C. Miller
- The 66th Annual Academy Awards (ABC) – Jeff Margolis
- Late Show with David Letterman (CBS) – Hal Gurnee
- Saturday Night Live (NBC) – Dave Wilson
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC) – Ellen Brown
- Tracey Ullman Takes on New York (HBO) – Don Scardino
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Writing
- Frasier (NBC): "The Good Son" – David Angell, Peter Casey and David Lee
- Frasier (NBC): "The Show Where Lilith Comes Back" – Ken Levine and David Isaacs
- The Larry Sanders Show (HBO): "Larry's Agent" –
- Seinfeld (NBC): "The Mango" –
- Seinfeld (NBC): "The Puffy Shirt" – Larry David
| - NYPD Blue (ABC): "Steroid Roy" – Ann Biderman
- NYPD Blue (ABC): "NYPD Lou" – Ted Mann
- NYPD Blue (ABC): "Personal Foul" –
- NYPD Blue (ABC): "Pilot" –
- NYPD Blue (ABC): "Tempest in a C-Cup" – Gardner Stern
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| - David's Mother (CBS) – Bob Randall
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Most major nominations
Networks with multiple major nominations[2] | Network | No. of
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| CBS | 42 |
| NBC | 39 |
| ABC | 36 |
| HBO | 24 | |
Programs with multiple major nominations| Program | Category | Network | No. of
Nominations |
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| NYPD Blue | Drama | ABC | 17 |
| And the Band Played On | Movie | HBO | 9 |
| Seinfeld | Comedy | NBC | 8 |
| Frasier | Comedy | NBC | 6 |
| Picket Fences | Drama | CBS |
| Mad About You | Comedy | NBC | 5 |
| Breathing Lessons | Movie | CBS | 4 |
| The Larry Sanders Show | Comedy | HBO |
| Roseanne | ABC |
| Saturday Night Live | Variety | NBC |
| To Dance with the White Dog | Movie | CBS |
| Tracey Ullman Takes on New York | Variety | HBO |
| The 66th Annual Academy Awards | Variety | ABC | 3 |
| David's Mother | Movie | CBS |
| Gypsy |
| The John Larroquette Show | Comedy | NBC |
| Late Show with David Letterman | Variety | CBS |
| Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All | Miniseries |
| Prime Suspect III | PBS |
| The 47th Annual Tony Awards | Variety | CBS | 2 |
| Coach | Comedy | ABC |
| Dennis Miller Live | Variety | HBO |
| Home Improvement | Comedy | ABC |
| Law & Order | Drama | NBC |
| Murphy Brown | Comedy | CBS |
| Northern Exposure | Drama |
| Sisters | NBC |
| Tales of the City | Miniseries | PBS |
| The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Variety | NBC |
| World War II: When Lions Roared | Miniseries | |
Most major awards
Networks with multiple major awards[3] | Network | No. of
Awards |
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| CBS | 13 |
| ABC | 6 |
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| HBO | 4 | |
Programs with multiple major awards| Program | Category | Network | No. of
Awards |
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| Frasier | Comedy | NBC | 4 |
| David's Mother | Movie | CBS | 3 |
| NYPD Blue | Drama | ABC |
| Picket Fences | CBS | |
- Notes
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1994 Emmys.com list of 1994 Nominees & Winners
- "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.
- "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.
