Emmy Awards
Introduction
The Emmy Awards are United States television production awards, similar to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment.
The first Emmy Awards were presented on January 25, 1949 at the Hollywood Athletic Club. The name "Emmy" was a feminization of "immy", a nickname used for the image orthicon tubes that were common in early television cameras. Shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy in the first awards ceremony. The Emmy Awards trophies are currently made by a private company with a manufacturing site at the maximum security El Dorado Correctional Facility, in El Dorado, Kansas.
The statuette of a winged woman holding an atom has since become the symbol of the TV Academies' goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television: The wings represent the muse of art; the atom the electron of science. It was created by television engineer Louis McManus, using his wife as a model.
Awards
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV)
- won Best Editing of a Television Film for episode "Breakdown" (editor Edward W Williams) in 1956
- won Best Teleplay Writing: Half Hour Or Less for episode "Fog Closing In" (writer James P Cavanagh) in 1957
- won Best Direction: Half Hour Or Less for episode "The Glass Eye" (director Robert Stevens) in 1958
Nominations
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV)
- nominated for Best Action Or Adventure Series in 1956
- nominated for Best Director: Film Series for episode "The Case of Mr Pelham" (director Alfred Hitchcock) in 1956
- nominated for Best Series: Half Hour or Less in 1957
- nominated for Best Dramatic Anthology Series in 1958
- nominated for Best Direction Of A Single Program Of A Dramatic Series: Less Than One Hour for episode "Lamb to the Slaughter" (director Alfred Hitchcock) in 1959
- nominated for Best Dramatic Series: Less Than One Hour in 1959
- nominated for Best Writing Of A Single Program Of A Dramatic Series: Less Than One Hour for episode "Lamb to the Slaughter" (writer Roald Dahl) in 1959
- nominated for Outstanding Achievement In Art Direction And Scenic Design (art director John J Lloyd) in 1960
- nominated for Outstanding Achievement In Film Editing For Television for episode "Man from the South" (editor Edward W Williams) in 1960
- nominated for Outstanding Achievement In Film Editing For Television for episode "Incident in a Small Jail" (editor Edward W Williams) in 1961
- nominated for Outstanding Writing Achievement In Drama: Adaptation for episode "The Jar" (writer James Bridges) in 1964
