| Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Motion Design | |
| Awarded For: | Outstanding Motion Design |
| Presenter: | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
| Country: | United States |
| Holder: | Jim Henson Idea Man (2024) |
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Motion Design is an annual award given to recognize the best motion design work of the year. The award was introduced as a Primetime Emmy category at the 67th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in 2015. Winners are selected by a jury.[1]
| Year | Program | Recipients | Network | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 (67th) [2] | How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson | Miles Presland Donovan, creative producer; Luke Best, art director/illustrator; Peter Mellor, animation director; Chris Sayer, animator | PBS | |
| 2016 (68th) | ||||
| 2017 (69th) [3] | 13th | Angus Wall and Leanne Dare, co-creative directors; Lynn Cho, designer; Dan Meehan and Ekin Akalin, animators | Netflix | |
| Beyond Magic | Orion Tait, executive creative director; Thomas Schmid and Daniel Oeffinger, creative directors; William Trebutien, lead animator | ABC | ||
| 2018 (70th) [4] | Broad City | Mike Perry, animation director; Isam Prado, supervising animator; Eric Perez, Maya Edelman, and Barbara Benas, animators[5] | Comedy Central | |
| Wasted! The Story of Food Waste | Mike Houston, design and graphics director; Daniel de Graaf, as art director; Naoko Saito, Ryan Frost, and Chris King, motion graphics and visual effects artists[6] | Starz | ||
| 2019 (71st) [7] | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Michelle Higa Fox and Jorge L. Peschiera, creative directors; Yussef Cole, head of animation; Brandon Sugiyama and Paris London Glickman, lead animators | Netflix |
| Year | Program | Recipients | Network |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (72nd) [8] | Leanne Dare, creative director; Eben McCue, Sebastian Hoppe-Fuentes, and David Navas, animators | Netflix | |
| 2021 (73rd) [9] | Calls | Alexei Tylevich, creative director; Ethan Stickley, designer/animator; Scott Ulrich, Daisuke Goto, and Chi Hong, animators; James Connelly, editor | Apple TV+ |
| 2022 (74th) [10] | Home Before Dark | Jon Berkowitz and Brad Colwell, creative directors; Kimberly Tang, associate creative director; Nolan Borkenhagen, art director | |
| 2023 (75th) [11] | Ms. Marvel | Ian Spendloff, director; David Lochhead, Daniella Marsh and David Stumpf, designers; Philip Robinson and Matthew Thomas, 3D artists | Disney+ |
| 2024 (76th) | Jim Henson Idea Man | Mark Thompson, Seamus Walsh and Mark Caballero, creative directors; Ivan Viaranchyk and Max Strizich, designers; Momo Zhao, animator |