List of black Primetime Emmy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of Black Primetime Emmy Award winners and nominees.

While some American people of African ancestry prefer "Black," and others prefer "African American"; "African American" is considered a less appropriate umbrella term for people of African ancestry worldwide because it obscures other ethnicities or national origins. Thus, "Black" is a more inclusive umbrella term.

Facts and figures[edit]

As of the 73rd Primetime Emmys in 2021, at least one Black thespian has won in every acting category except Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Harry Belafonte and Sammy Davis Jr. were both nominated and therefore both were the first Black nominees in 1956.
Ethel Waters became the first dramatic performance nominee (male or female) in 1962, and was the first Black female nominee.
Harry Belafonte became the first Black winner (male or female) in 1960.
Bill Cosby became the first Black dramatic performance winner (male or female) in 1966.

Most nominations[edit]

Joe Earle - 25
Debbie Allen - 21
Donald A. Morgan - 19
Chris Rock - 19
Alfre Woodard - 17
RuPaul - 16
Cicely Tyson - 16
Wanda Sykes - 14
Jacqueline Glover - 13
Laurence Fishburne - 12
Rickey Minor - 12
Anthony Anderson - 11
Andre Braugher - 11
Dave Chappelle - 11
Don Cheadle - 11
Trevor Noah - 11
Keegan-Michael Key - 10
Marc Wilmore - 10
Sterling K. Brown - 9
Donald Glover - 9
Whoopi Goldberg - 9
Jordan Peele - 9
Samuel D. Pollard - 9
Paris Barclay - 8
Ashley Nicole Black - 8
Michelle Cole - 8
Bill Cosby - 8
Louis Gossett Jr. - 8
James Earl Jones - 8
Beyoncé Knowles Carter - 8
Maya Rudolph - 8
Kerry Washington - 8
Oprah Winfrey - 8
Angela Bassett - 7
W. Kamau Bell - 7
Mathan Erhardt - 7
Isabel Sanford - 7
Hayma "Screech" Washington - 7
Keenen Ivory Wayans - 7
Flip Wilson - 7
Tituss Burgess - 6
Thomas Carter - 6
Suzanne de Passe - 6
Ruby Dee - 6
Ava DuVernay - 6
Travon Free - 6
Robert Guillaume - 6
David Mills - 6
Issa Rae - 6
Tracee Ellis Ross - 6
Kenan Thompson - 6
Neil deGrasse Tyson - 6

Most wins[edit]

RuPaul - 11
Donald A. Morgan - 10
Hayma "Screech" Washington - 7
Debbie Allen - 5
Dave Chappelle - 5
Jacqueline Glover - 5
Bill Cosby - 4
Joe Earle - 4
Regina King - 4
Chris Rock - 4
Maya Rudolph - 4
Alfre Woodard - 4
Uzo Aduba - 3
W. Kamau Bell - 3
Sterling K. Brown - 3
Keith David - 3
Charles S. Dutton - 3
Laurence Fishburne - 3
Stan Lathan - 3
Stanley Nelson - 3
Samuel D. Pollard - 3
Cicely Tyson - 3
Jacqueline Wilson - 3
Paris Barclay - 2
Andre Braugher - 2
Ron Cephas Jones - 2
Suzanne de Passe - 2
Ja'Net DuBois - 2
Ava DuVernay - 2
Donald Glover - 2
Robert Guillaume - 2
Rikki Hughes - 2
James Earl Jones - 2
David Mills - 2
Rickey Minor - 2
Beah Richards - 2
Courtney B. Vance - 2
Russell Williams II - 2
Flip Wilson - 2

Lead Actor[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
1970	Bill Cosby	The Bill Cosby Show	Nominated	First Black actor to be nominated in this category.
1970	Lloyd Haynes	Room 222	Nominated	First Black actor to be nominated in this category.
1972	Redd Foxx	Sanford and Son	Nominated
1973			Nominated
1974			Nominated
1980	Robert Guillaume	Benson	Nominated
1982			Nominated
1983			Nominated
1984			Nominated
1984	Sherman Hemsley	The Jeffersons	Nominated
1985	Robert Guillaume	Benson	Won	First Black actor to win in this category.
1988	Tim Reid	Frank's Place	Nominated
2002	Bernie Mac	The Bernie Mac Show	Nominated
2003	Bernie Mac	The Bernie Mac Show	Nominated
2012	Don Cheadle	House of Lies	Nominated
2013			Nominated
2014			Nominated
2015			Nominated
2015	Anthony Anderson	Black-ish	Nominated
2016			Nominated
2017			Nominated
2017	Donald Glover	Atlanta	Won	Second Black actor to win in this category.
2018	Anthony Anderson	Black-ish	Nominated
2018	Donald Glover	Atlanta	Nominated
2019	Anthony Anderson	Black-ish	Nominated
2019	Don Cheadle	Black Monday	Nominated
2020	Anthony Anderson	Black-ish	Nominated
2020	Don Cheadle	Black Monday	Nominated
2021	Anthony Anderson	Black-ish	Nominated
2021	Kenan Thompson	Kenan	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
1966	Bill Cosby	I Spy	Won	First Black thespian (male or female) to win a Primetime Emmy. First Black actor to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy. First Black actor to win a Primetime Emmy. First Black actor to be nominated in this category. First actor to win in this category.
1967			Won
1968			Won
1981	Louis Gossett Jr.	Palmerstown, U.S.A.	Nominated
1991	James Earl Jones	Gabriel's Fire	Won	Second Black actor to win in this category.
1992	Harrison Page	Quantum Leap	Nominated
1996	Andre Braugher	Homicide: Life on the Street	Nominated
1998		Homicide: Life on the Street	Won	Third Black actor to win in this category.
2001		Gideon's Crossing	Nominated
2017	Sterling K. Brown	This Is Us	Won	Fourth Black actor to win in this category.
2018	Sterling K. Brown	This Is Us	Nominated
2018	Jeffrey Wright	Westworld	Nominated
2019	Sterling K. Brown	This Is Us	Nominated
2019	Billy Porter	Pose	Won	Fifth Black actor to win in this category. First openly gay Black man to be nominated and win in any lead acting category.
2020	Sterling K. Brown	This Is Us	Nominated
2020	Billy Porter	Pose	Nominated
2021	Sterling K. Brown	This Is Us	Nominated
	Jonathan Majors	Lovecraft Country	Nominated
	Regé-Jean Page	Bridgerton	Nominated
	Billy Porter	Pose	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
1967	Ivan Dixon	The Final War of Olly Winter (CBS Playhouse)	Nominated	First Black actor to be nominated in this category. Category was known as Best Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.
1969	Ossie Davis	Teacher, Teacher (Hallmark Hall of Fame)	Nominated	Category was known as Best Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.
1970	Al Freeman Jr.	My Sweet Charlie	Nominated	Category was known as Best Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.
1972	Billy Dee Williams	Brian's Song	Nominated	Category was known as Best Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.
1977	John Amos	Roots	Nominated	Category was known as Best Actor in a Drama or Comedy Series, Single Appearance.
	Levar Burton		Nominated	Category was known as Best Actor in a Drama or Comedy Series, Single Appearance.
	Louis Gossett Jr.		Won	First Black actor to win in this category. Category was known as Best Actor in a Drama or Comedy Series, Single Appearance.
	Ben Vereen		Nominated	Category was known as Best Actor in a Drama or Comedy Series, Single Appearance.
1978	Paul Winfield	King	Nominated	Category was known as Best Actor in a Limited Series.
1979	Louis Gossett Jr.	Backstairs at the White House	Nominated
1984		Sadat	Nominated
1987		A Gathering of Old Men	Nominated
1988	Danny Glover	Mandela	Nominated
1991	Sidney Poitier	Separate but Equal	Nominated
1995	Charles S. Dutton	The Piano Lesson (Hallmark Hall of Fame)	Nominated
1996	Laurence Fishburne	The Tuskegee Airmen	Nominated
1997	Laurence Fishburne	Miss Evers' Boys	Nominated
1997	Sidney Poitier	Mandela and de Klerk	Nominated
1998	Ving Rhames	Don King: Only in America	Nominated
1999	Don Cheadle	A Lesson Before Dying	Nominated
2001	Gregory Hines	Bojangles	Nominated
2004	Mos Def	Something the Lord Made	Nominated
2006	Andre Braugher	Thief	Won	Second Black actor to win in this category.
2011	Idris Elba	Luther	Nominated
2011	Laurence Fishburne	Thurgood	Nominated
2012	Idris Elba	Luther	Nominated
2014	Chiwetel Ejiofor	Dancing on the Edge	Nominated
2014	Idris Elba	Luther	Nominated
2015	David Oyelowo	Nightingale	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie.
2016	Idris Elba	Luther	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
	Cuba Gooding Jr.	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
	Courtney B. Vance	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Won	Third Black actor to win in this category. Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
2018	John Legend	Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
2019	Mahershala Ali	True Detective	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
2019	Jharrel Jerome	When They See Us	Won	Fourth Black actor to win in this category. First Afro-Latino to win an Emmy for acting. Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
2020	Jeremy Pope	Hollywood	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
2021	Leslie Odom, Jr.	Hamilton	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

Lead Actress[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
1969	Diahann Carroll	Julia	Nominated	First Black actress to be nominated in this category.
1979	Isabel Sanford	The Jeffersons	Nominated
1980			Nominated
1981			Won	First Black actress to win in this category.
1982			Nominated
1982	Nell Carter	Gimme a Break!	Nominated
1983	Nell Carter	Gimme a Break!	Nominated
1983	Isabel Sanford	The Jeffersons	Nominated
1984			Nominated
1985			Nominated
1985	Phylicia Rashad	The Cosby Show	Nominated
1986	Phylicia Rashad	The Cosby Show	Nominated
2016	Tracee Ellis Ross	Black-ish	Nominated
2017			Nominated
2018			Nominated
2018	Issa Rae	Insecure	Nominated
2020	Issa Rae	Insecure	Nominated
2020	Tracee Ellis Ross	Black-ish	Nominated
2021	Tracee Ellis Ross	Black-ish	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
1982	Debbie Allen	Fame	Nominated	First Black actress to be nominated in this category.
1983			Nominated
1984			Nominated
1985			Nominated
1986	Alfre Woodard	St. Elsewhere	Nominated
1992	Regina Taylor	I'll Fly Away	Nominated
1993	Regina Taylor	I'll Fly Away	Nominated
1995	Cicely Tyson	Sweet Justice	Nominated
2013	Kerry Washington	Scandal	Nominated
2014	Kerry Washington	Scandal	Nominated
2015	Viola Davis	How to Get Away with Murder	Won	First Black actress to win in this category. First time two Black actresses simultaneously nominated in this category.
2015	Taraji P. Henson	Empire	Nominated	First time two Black actresses simultaneously nominated in this category.
2016	Taraji P. Henson	Empire	Nominated
2016	Viola Davis	How to Get Away with Murder	Nominated
2017			Nominated
2019			Nominated
2020	Zendaya	Euphoria	Won	Second Black actress to win in this category. At age 24, the youngest winner in this category.
2021	Uzo Aduba	In Treatment	Nominated
	MJ Rodriguez	Pose	Nominated
	Jurnee Smollett	Lovecraft Country	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Lead Role[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
1962	Ethel Waters	"Goodnight, Sweet Blues" episode of Route 66	Nominated	First Black performer (male or female) to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for dramatic performance. First Black woman to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. First Black actress to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. First Black actress to be nominated in this category. Guest performances in regular television series were included in the category at this time.
1963	Diahann Carroll	"A Horse Has a Big Head, Let Him Worry" episode of Naked City	Nominated
1964	Ruby Dee	"Express Stop from Lenox Avenue" episode of The Nurses	Nominated
1966	Eartha Kitt	"The Loser" episode of I Spy	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
1974	Cicely Tyson	The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman	Won	First Black actress to be nominated in this category. First Black actress to win in this category. Category was known as Best Lead Actress in a Drama.
1977	Madge Sinclair	Roots	Nominated	Category was known as Best Actress in a Drama or Comedy Series, Single Appearance.
1977	Leslie Uggams	Roots	Nominated	Category was known as Best Actress in a Drama or Comedy Series, Single Appearance.
1978	Cicely Tyson	King	Nominated	Category was known as Best Actress in a Limited Series.
1979	Olivia Cole	Backstairs at the White House	Nominated
1982	Cicely Tyson	The Marva Collins Story (Hallmark Hall of Fame)	Nominated
1987	Alfre Woodard	Unnatural Causes	Nominated
1990	Alfre Woodard	A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story (The Magical World of Disney)	Nominated
1991	Lynn Whitfield	The Josephine Baker Story	Won	Second Black actress to win in this category.
1995	Alfre Woodard	The Piano Lesson (Hallmark Hall of Fame)	Nominated
1997	Alfre Woodard	Miss Evers' Boys	Won	Third Black actress to win in this category.
2000	Halle Berry	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	Won	Fourth Black actress to win in this category.
2002	Angela Bassett	The Rosa Parks Story	Nominated
2005	Halle Berry	Their Eyes Were Watching God	Nominated
2005	S. Epatha Merkerson	Lackawanna Blues	Won	Fifth Black actress to win in this category.
2007	Queen Latifah	Life Support	Nominated
2008	Phylicia Rashad	A Raisin in the Sun	Nominated
2009	Chandra Wilson	Accidental Friendship	Nominated
2011	Taraji P. Henson	Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story	Nominated
2014	Cicely Tyson	The Trip to Bountiful	Nominated
2015	Queen Latifah	Bessie	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie.
2016	Audra McDonald	Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
2016	Kerry Washington	Confirmation	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
2018	Regina King	Seven Seconds	Won	Sixth Black actress to win in this category. Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
2019	Aunjanue Ellis	When They See Us	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
2019	Niecy Nash	When They See Us	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
2020	Regina King	Watchmen	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
	Octavia Spencer	Self Made: Inspired By The Life Of Madam C.J. Walker	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
	Kerry Washington	Little Fires Everywhere	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
2021	Michaela Coel	I May Destroy You	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
2021	Cynthia Erivo	Genius: Aretha	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

Guest Actor[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
1976	Roscoe Lee Browne	Barney Miller	Nominated	First Black actor to be nominated in this category. Category was known as Best Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Comedy or Drama Series.
1986	Roscoe Lee Browne	The Cosby Show	Won	First Black actor to win in this category. Category was known as Guest Performer in a Comedy Series.
	Earle Hyman		Nominated	Category was known as Guest Performer in a Comedy Series.
	Stevie Wonder		Nominated	Category was known as Guest Performer in a Comedy Series.
1989	Sammy Davis Jr.		Nominated
1989	Cleavon Little	Dear John	Won	Second Black actor to win in this category.
1997	James Earl Jones	Frasier	Nominated
2011	Idris Elba	The Big C	Nominated
2016	Tracy Morgan	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
2017	Dave Chappelle	Saturday Night Live	Won	Third Black actor to win in this category.
2018	Sterling K. Brown	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Nominated
	Donald Glover	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
	Katt Williams	Atlanta	Won	Fourth Black actor to win in this category.
2020	Eddie Murphy	Saturday Night Live	Won	Fifth Black actor to win in this category.
2021	Dave Chappelle	Saturday Night Live	Won
	Morgan Freeman	The Kominsky Method	Nominated
	Daniel Kaluuya	Saturday Night Live	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
1993	Laurence Fishburne	Tribeca	Won	First Black actor to be nominated in this category. First Black actor to win in this category.
1994	James Earl Jones	Picket Fences	Nominated
1995	Paul Winfield	Picket Fences	Won	Second Black actor to win in this category.
1995	Vondie Curtis-Hall	ER	Nominated
1996	Danny Glover	Fallen Angels	Nominated
1996	Richard Pryor	Chicago Hope	Nominated
1997	Louis Gossett Jr.	Touched by an Angel	Nominated
1999	Charles S. Dutton	Oz	Nominated
2002		The Practice	Won	Third Black actor to win in this category.
2003		Without a Trace	Won
2003	Don Cheadle	ER	Nominated
2004	James Earl Jones	Everwood	Nominated
2005	Ossie Davis	The L Word	Nominated
2007	Forest Whitaker	ER	Nominated
2008	Glynn Turman	In Treatment	Won	Fourth Black actor to win in this category.
2014	Joe Morton	Scandal	Won	Fifth Black actor to win in this category.
2014	Reg E. Cathey	House of Cards	Nominated
2015			Won	Sixth Black actor to win in this category.
2016			Nominated
2016	Mahershala Ali		Nominated
2017	Brian Tyree Henry	This Is Us	Nominated
2018	Ron Cephas Jones		Won	Seventh Black actor to win in this category.
2019	Ron Cephas Jones		Nominated
2019	Glynn Turman	How To Get Away with Murder	Nominated
2020	Ron Cephas Jones	This Is Us	Won
2020	Giancarlo Esposito	The Mandalorian	Nominated
2021	Don Cheadle	The Falcon and the Winter Soldier	Nominated
	Courtney B. Vance	Lovecraft Country	Won	Eighth Black actor to win in this category.
	Carl Weathers	The Mandalorian	Nominated

Guest Actress[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
1986	Clarice Taylor	The Cosby Show	Nominated	First Black actress to be nominated in this category. Category was known as Guest Performer in a Comedy Series.
1988	Beah Richards	Frank's Place	Won	First Black actress to win in this category. Category was known as Guest Performer in a Comedy Series.
1989	Diahann Carroll	A Different World	Nominated	First Black actress to be nominated in this category (separate categories for actors and actresses).
1991	Whoopi Goldberg	A Different World	Nominated
1993	Ruby Dee	Evening Shade	Nominated
2012	Maya Rudolph	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
2014	Uzo Aduba	Orange Is the New Black	Won	Second Black actress to win in this category.
2014	Laverne Cox	Orange Is the New Black	Nominated	First openly transgender person to be nominated for an acting Emmy
2017	Angela Bassett	Master of None	Nominated
2017	Wanda Sykes	Black-ish	Nominated
2018	Tiffany Haddish	Saturday Night Live	Won	Third Black actress to win in this category.
	Maya Rudolph	The Good Place	Nominated
	Wanda Sykes	Black-ish	Nominated
2019	Maya Rudolph	The Good Place	Nominated
2020	Angela Bassett	A Black Lady Sketch Show	Nominated
	Maya Rudolph	The Good Place	Nominated
	Maya Rudolph	Saturday Night Live	Won	Fourth Black actress to win in this category.
	Wanda Sykes	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Nominated
2021	Yvette Nicole Brown	A Black Lady Sketch Show	Nominated
	Issa Rae	A Black Lady Sketch Show	Nominated
	Maya Rudolph	Saturday Night Live	Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
1986	Whoopi Goldberg	Moonlighting	Nominated	First Black actress to be nominated in this category. Category was known as Guest Performer in a Drama Series.
1987	Alfre Woodard	L.A. Law	Won	First Black actress to win in this category. Category was known as Guest Performer in a Drama Series.
1988	Alfre Woodard	St. Elsewhere	Nominated	Category was known as Guest Performer in a Drama Series.
1990	Ruby Dee	China Beach	Nominated
1993	Rosanna Carter	I'll Fly Away	Nominated
1995	CCH Pounder	The X-Files	Nominated
1998	Alfre Woodard	Homicide: Life on the Street	Nominated
2000	Beah Richards	The Practice	Won	Second Black actress to win in this category.
2003	Alfre Woodard	The Practice	Won	Third Black actress to win in this category.
2008	Diahann Carroll	Grey's Anatomy	Nominated
2009	CCH Pounder	The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency	Nominated
2011	Alfre Woodard	True Blood	Nominated
2011	Loretta Devine	Grey's Anatomy	Won	Fourth Black actress to win in this category.
2012	Loretta Devine	Grey's Anatomy	Nominated
2015	Khandi Alexander	Scandal	Nominated
2015	Cicely Tyson	How to Get Away with Murder	Nominated
2017	Cicely Tyson	How to Get Away with Murder	Nominated
2017	Laverne Cox	Orange Is the New Black	Nominated	Previously nominated in comedy for the same character. First openly transgender thespian to earn multiple acting awards.
2018	Viola Davis	Scandal	Nominated
	Kelly Jenrette	The Handmaid's Tale	Nominated
	Cicely Tyson	How to Get Away with Murder	Nominated
	Samira Wiley	The Handmaid's Tale	Won	Fifth Black actress to win in this category.
2019	Laverne Cox	Orange Is the New Black	Nominated
	Phylicia Rashad	This Is Us	Nominated
	Cicely Tyson	How to Get Away with Murder	Nominated
2020	Laverne Cox	Orange Is the New Black	Nominated
	Phylicia Rashad	This Is Us	Nominated
	Cicely Tyson	How to Get Away with Murder	Nominated
2021	Sophie Okonedo	Ratched	Nominated
2021	Phylicia Rashad	This Is Us	Nominated

Supporting Actor[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
1979	Robert Guillaume	Soap	Won	First Black actor to be nominated in this category. First to win in this category. Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Comedy-Variety or Music Series.
1982	Ron Glass	Barney Miller	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Variety or Music Series.
1983	Eddie Murphy	Saturday Night Live	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy, Variety or Music Series.
1986	Malcolm-Jamal Warner	The Cosby Show	Nominated
1989	Meshach Taylor	Designing Women	Nominated
2009	Tracy Morgan	30 Rock	Nominated
2014	Andre Braugher	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Nominated
2015	Andre Braugher	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Nominated
	Tituss Burgess	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Nominated
	Keegan-Michael Key	Key & Peele	Nominated
2016	Andre Braugher	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Nominated
	Tituss Burgess	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Nominated
	Keegan-Michael Key	Key & Peele	Nominated
2017	Tituss Burgess	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Nominated
2018	Tituss Burgess	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Nominated
	Brian Tyree Henry	Atlanta	Nominated
	Kenan Thompson	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
2020	Mahershala Ali	Ramy	Nominated
	Andre Braugher	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Nominated
	Sterling K. Brown	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Nominated
	William Jackson Harper	The Good Place	Nominated
	Kenan Thompson	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
2021	Carl Clemons-Hopkins	Hacks	Nominated
	Nick Mohammed	Ted Lasso	Nominated
	Kenan Thompson	Saturday Night Live	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
1969	Greg Morris	Mission: Impossible	Nominated	First Black actor to be nominated in this category. Category was known as Best Continued Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series.
1970			Nominated	Category was known as Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Drama.
1972			Nominated
1982	Taurean Blacque	Hill Street Blues	Nominated
1995	James Earl Jones	Under One Roof	Nominated
1995	Eriq La Salle	ER	Nominated
1996	James McDaniel	NYPD Blue	Nominated
1997	Eriq La Salle	ER	Nominated
1998	Eriq La Salle	ER	Nominated
1999	Steve Harris	The Practice	Nominated
2000	Steve Harris	The Practice	Nominated
2002	Dulé Hill	The West Wing	Nominated
2010	Andre Braugher	Men of a Certain Age	Nominated
2011	Andre Braugher	Men of a Certain Age	Nominated
2012	Giancarlo Esposito	Breaking Bad	Nominated
2017	Ron Cephas Jones	This Is Us	Nominated
2017	Jeffrey Wright	Westworld	Nominated
2019	Giancarlo Esposito	Better Call Saul	Nominated
2020	Giancarlo Esposito	Better Call Saul	Nominated
2020	Jeffrey Wright	Westworld	Nominated
2021	Giancarlo Esposito	The Mandalorian	Nominated
	O-T Fagbenle	The Handmaid's Tale	Nominated
	Michael K. Williams	Lovecraft Country	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
1977	Moses Gunn	Roots	Nominated	First Black actor to be nominated in this category. Category was known as Best Supporting Actor in a Drama or Comedy Series, Single Appearance.
1977	Yaphet Kotto	Raid on Entebbe (The Big Event)	Nominated	First Black actor to be nominated in this category. Category was known as Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special.
1978	Ossie Davis	King	Nominated	Category was known as Best Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
1979	Al Freeman	Roots: The Next Generations	Nominated
1979	Paul Winfield	Roots: The Next Generations	Nominated
1989	Danny Glover	Lonesome Dove	Nominated
1990	James Earl Jones	By Dawn's Early Light	Nominated
1991	James Earl Jones	Heat Wave	Won	First Black actor to win in this category.
1992	Ben Vereen	Intruders	Nominated
1996	Andre Braugher	The Tuskegee Airmen	Nominated
1997	Obba Babatundé	Miss Evers' Boys	Nominated
1997	Ossie Davis	Miss Evers' Boys	Nominated
1999	Don Cheadle	The Rat Pack	Nominated
2000	Danny Glover	Freedom Song	Nominated
2002	Don Cheadle	Things Behind the Sun	Nominated
2004	Jeffrey Wright	Angels in America	Won	Second Black actor to win in this category.
2015	Michael Kenneth Williams	Bessie	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie.
2016	Sterling K. Brown	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Won	Third Black actor to win in this category. Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
2016	Bokeem Woodbine	Fargo	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
2017	Michael Kenneth Williams	The Night Of	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
2018	Brandon Victor Dixon	Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
2019	Asante Blackk	When They See Us	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
2019	Michael K. Williams	When They See Us	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
2020	Tituss Burgess	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. The Reverend	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
	Yahya Abdul-Mateen II	Watchmen	Won	Fourth Black actor to win in this category. Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
	Jovan Adepo		Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
	Louis Gossett Jr.		Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
2021	Daveed Diggs	Hamilton	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
2021	Paapa Essiedu	I May Destroy You	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

Supporting Actress[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
1981	Marla Gibbs	The Jeffersons	Nominated	First Black actress to be nominated in this category. Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Variety or Music Series.
1982			Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Variety or Music Series.
1983			Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy, Variety or Music Series.
1984			Nominated
1984	Paula Kelly	Night Court	Nominated
1985	Marla Gibbs	The Jeffersons	Nominated
1986	Lisa Bonet	The Cosby Show	Nominated
1986	Keshia Knight Pulliam	The Cosby Show	Nominated
1987	Jackee Harry	227	Won	First Black actress to win in this category.
1988	Jackee Harry	227	Nominated
2006	Alfre Woodard	Desperate Housewives	Nominated
2007	Vanessa Williams	Ugly Betty	Nominated
2008			Nominated
2009			Nominated
2015	Niecy Nash	Getting On	Nominated
2016	Niecy Nash	Getting On	Nominated
2017	Leslie Jones	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
2018	Leslie Jones	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
2018	Zazie Beetz	Atlanta	Nominated
2020	Yvonne Orji	Insecure	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
1970	Gail Fisher	Mannix	Won	First Black actress to be nominated in this category. First Black actress to win in this category. First Black actress to win a Primetime Emmy.
1971			Nominated
1972			Nominated
1973			Nominated
1983	Madge Sinclair	Trapper John, M.D.	Nominated
1984	Madge Sinclair	Trapper John, M.D.	Nominated
1984	Alfre Woodard	Hill Street Blues	Won	Second Black actress to win in this category.
1985	Madge Sinclair	Trapper John, M.D.	Nominated
1991	Madge Sinclair	Gabriel's Fire	Won	Third Black actress to win in this category.
1992	Mary Alice	I'll Fly Away	Nominated
1993	Mary Alice	I'll Fly Away	Won	Fourth Black actress to win in this category.
1997	CCH Pounder	ER	Nominated
	Della Reese	Touched by an Angel	Nominated
	Gloria Reuben	ER	Nominated
1998	Della Reese	Touched by an Angel	Nominated
1998	Gloria Reuben	ER	Nominated
2005	CCH Pounder	The Shield	Nominated
2006	Chandra Wilson	Grey's Anatomy	Nominated
2007			Nominated
2008			Nominated
2009			Nominated
2015	Uzo Aduba	Orange Is the New Black	Won	Fifth Black actress to win in this category. With this win, she becomes first actress to win for same role in both Comedy and Drama categories.
2017	Uzo Aduba	Orange Is the New Black	Nominated
	Thandiwe Newton	Westworld	Nominated
	Samira Wiley	The Handmaid's Tale	Nominated
2018	Thandiwe Newton	Westworld	Won	Sixth Black actress to win in this category.
2020	Thandiwe Newton	Westworld	Nominated
2020	Samira Wiley	The Handmaid's Tale	Nominated
2021	Samira Wiley	The Handmaid's Tale	Nominated
2021	Aunjanue Ellis	Lovecraft Country	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
1977	Olivia Cole	Roots	Won	First Black actress to be nominated in this category. First Black actress to win in this category. Category was known as Best Supporting Actress in a Drama or Comedy Series, Single Appearance.
1977	Cicely Tyson	Roots	Nominated	First Black actress to be nominated in this category. Category was known as Best Supporting Actress in a Drama or Comedy Series, Single Appearance.
1979	Ruby Dee	Roots: The Next Generations	Nominated
1979	Esther Rolle	Summer of My German Soldier	Won	Second Black actress to win in this category.
1985	Alfre Woodard	Words by Heart (Wonderworks)	Nominated
1988	Ruby Dee	Gore Vidal's Lincoln	Nominated
1989	Paula Kelly	The Women of Brewster Place	Nominated
1991	Ruby Dee	Decoration Day	Won	Third Black actress to win in this category.
1994	Cicely Tyson	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All	Won	Fourth Black actress to win in this category.
1996	Alfre Woodard	Gulliver's Travels	Nominated
1999	Cicely Tyson	A Lesson Before Dying	Nominated
2001	Audra McDonald	Wit	Nominated
2006	Alfre Woodard	The Water Is Wide (Hallmark Hall of Fame Presentation)	Nominated
2008	Audra McDonald	A Raisin in the Sun	Nominated
2008	Alfre Woodard	Pictures of Hollis Woods (Hallmark Hall of Fame Presentation)	Nominated
2009	Cicely Tyson	Relative Stranger	Nominated
2013	Alfre Woodard	Steel Magnolias	Nominated
2014	Angela Bassett	American Horror Story: Coven	Nominated
2015	Angela Bassett	American Horror Story: Freak Show	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie.
	Regina King	American Crime	Won	Fifth Black actress to win in this category. Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie.
	Mo'Nique	Bessie	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie.
2016	Regina King	American Crime	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
2017	Regina King	American Crime	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
2018	Adina Porter	American Horror Story: Cult	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
2018	Letitia Wright	Black Museum (Black Mirror)	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
2019	Marsha Stephanie Blake	When They See Us	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
2020	Uzo Aduba	Mrs. America	Won	Sixth Black actress to win in this category. Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
2021	Renée Elise Goldsberry	Hamilton	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
2021	Moses Ingram	The Queen's Gambit	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

Short Form Acting[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series
2017	Kim Estes	Dicks	Won	First Black actor to be nominated in this category. First Black actor to win in this category.
2018	Melvin Jackson Jr.	This Eddie Murphy Role Is Mine, Not Yours	Nominated
2018	DeStorm Power	Caught The Series	Nominated
2020	Mamoudou Athie	Oh Jerome, No (Cake)	Nominated
	Corey Hawkins	Survive	Nominated
	Laurence Fishburne	#FreeRayshawn	Won	Second Black actor to win in this category.
	Stephan James	#FreeRayshawn	Nominated
2021	Kevin Hart	Die Hart	Nominated
2021	J.B. Smoove	Mapleworth Murders	Won	Third Black actor to win in this category.

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series
2016	Tracie Thoms	Send Me: an original web series	Nominated	First Black actress to be nominated in this category.
2017	Kelsey Scott	Fear the Walking Dead: Passage	Nominated
2018	Diarra Kilpatrick	American Koko	Nominated
2020	Jasmine Cephas Jones	#FreeRayshawn	Won	First Black actress to win in this category.
2021	Nathalie Emmanuel	Die Hart	Nominated
2021	Keke Palmer	Keke Palmer's Turnt Up with the Taylors	Won	Second Black actress to win in this category.

Hosting[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
2016	Steve Harvey	Little Big Shots	Nominated	First Black host to be nominated in this category.
2016	RuPaul	RuPaul's Drag Race	Won	First Black host to be nominated in this category. First Black host to win in this category.
2017	RuPaul	RuPaul's Drag Race	Won
	Snoop Dogg	Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party	Nominated
	W. Kamau Bell	United Shades of America	Nominated
2018	W. Kamau Bell	United Shades of America	Nominated
2018	RuPaul	RuPaul's Drag Race	Won
2019			Won	Category was known as Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Competition Program.
2020			Won	Category was known as Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Competition Program.
	Nicole Byer	Nailed It!	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Competition Program.
	Karamo Brown	Queer Eye	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Competition Program.
	Daymond John	Shark Tank	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Competition Program.
2021	RuPaul	RuPaul's Drag Race	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Competition Program.
	Nicole Byer	Nailed It!	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Competition Program.
	Karamo Brown	Queer Eye	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Competition Program.
	Daymond John	Shark Tank	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Competition Program.

Narrator and Voice-Over[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance
2016	Keegan-Michael Key	SuperMansion (Puss in Books)	Nominated	First Black performer to be nominated in this category.
2019	Kevin Michael Richardson	F Is for Family (The Stinger)	Nominated
2020	Leslie Odom, Jr.	Central Park (Episode One)	Nominated
	Maya Rudolph	Big Mouth (How To Have An Orgasm)	Won	First Black performer to win in this category.
	Wanda Sykes	Crank Yankers (Bobby Brown, Wanda Sykes & Kathy Griffin)	Nominated
2021	Stacey Abrams	black-ish: Election Special (Part 2)	Nominated
	Tituss Burgess	Central Park (A Fish Called Snakehead)	Nominated
	Maya Rudolph	Big Mouth (A Very Special 9/11 Episode)	Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator
2014	Whoopi Goldberg	Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley	Nominated	First Black narrator to be nominated in this category. First year of category.
2015	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Hubble's Cosmic Journey	Nominated
2016	Keith David	Jackie Robinson	Won	First Black narrator to win in this category.
2016	Laurence Fishburne	Roots	Nominated
2017	Laurence Fishburne	Year Million (Homo Sapien 2.0)	Nominated
2018	Morgan Freeman	March Of The Penguins 2: The Next Step	Nominated
2019	Angela Bassett	The Flood (First Pulse)	Nominated
2020	Angela Bassett	The Imagineering Story (The Happiest Place On Earth)	Nominated
	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	Black Patriots: Heroes Of The Revolution	Nominated
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	The Elephant Queen	Nominated
	Lupita Nyong'o	Serengeti (Destiny)	Nominated
2021	Sterling K. Brown	Lincoln: Divided We Stand (The Dogs of War)	Won	Second Black narrator to win in this category.

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance
1999	Ja'Net DuBois	The PJs	Won	First Black performer to be nominated in this category. First Black performer to win in this category.
2001	Ja'Net DuBois	The PJs	Won
2005	Keith David	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson	Won	Second Black performer to win in this category.
2008	Keith David	The War: A Necessary War	Won

Performance and Special Class Awards[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Best Specialty Act - Single or Group[edit]

Year	Name	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Specialty Act - Single or Group
1956	Harry Belafonte	Nominated	First Black performer to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award (tie with Sammy Davis Jr.). First Black performer to be nominated in this category (tie with Sammy Davis Jr.).
1956	Sammy Davis Jr.	Nominated	First Black performer to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award (tie with Harry Belafonte). First Black performer to be nominated in this category (tie with Harry Belafonte).

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program
1960	Harry Belafonte	Tonight with Belafonte (The Revlon Revue)	Won	First Black performer to be nominated in this category. First Black performer to win in this category. Category was known as Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Musical Program.
1961	Harry Belafonte	Belafonte New York	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Musical Program or Series.
1977	Ben Vereen	The Bell Telephone Jubilee	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Variety or Music.
1978	Louis Gossett Jr.	The Sentry Collection Presents Ben Vereen-His Roots	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Variety or Music.
1983	Leontyne Price	Leontyne Price, Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic (Live from Lincoln Center)	Won	Second Black performer to win in this category.
	Michael Jackson	Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever	Nominated
	Richard Pryor	Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever	Nominated
1984	Debbie Allen	Live...And in Person	Nominated
1984	Eddie Murphy	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
1985	Gregory Hines	Motown Returns to the Apollo	Nominated
1985	Patti LaBelle	Motown Returns to the Apollo	Nominated
1986	Patti LaBelle	Sylvia Fine Kaye's Musical Comedy Tonight III (Great Performances)	Nominated
	Whitney Houston	The 28th Annual Grammy Awards	Won	Third Black performer to win in this category.
	Sarah Vaughan	The 28th Annual Grammy Awards	Nominated
	Debbie Allen	An All Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.	Nominated
	Stevie Wonder	An All Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.	Nominated
1988	Ray Charles	Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration	Nominated
1991	Damon Wayans	In Living Color	Nominated
1991	Keenen Ivory Wayans	In Living Color	Nominated
1992	Natalie Cole	Unforgettable, with Love: Natalie Cole Sings the Songs of Nat King Cole (Great Performances)	Nominated
1994	Whoopi Goldberg	The 66th Annual Academy Awards	Nominated
1996		The 68th Annual Academy Awards	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Performance for a Variety or Music Program.
1996		Comic Relief VII	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Performance for a Variety or Music Program.
1999	Chris Rock	The Chris Rock Show	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Music Program.
2000	Chris Rock	Chris Rock: Bigger and Blacker	Nominated
2001	Wayne Brady	Whose Line Is It Anyway?	Nominated
2002			Nominated
2003			Won	Fourth Black performer to win in this category.
2005	Whoopi Goldberg	Whoopi Back to Broadway - The 20th Anniversary	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement - Special Class[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement - Special Class
1981	Sarah Vaughan	Rhapsody and Song-A Tribute to George Gershwin	Won
1982	Andre De Shields	Ain't Misbehavin'	Won
	Nell Carter	Ain't Misbehavin'	Won
	Gregory Hines	I Love Liberty	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Governors Award[edit]

Year	Name	Status
Primetime Emmy Governors Award
2020	Tyler Perry	Won
2021	Debbie Allen	Won

Casting[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series
2020	Victoria Thomas	Insecure	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series
2021	Kim Taylor-Coleman	Lovecraft Country	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special
1996	Robi Reed	The Tuskegee Airmen	Won	First Black casting director to win in this category. Category was known as Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or a Special.
1998	Robi Reed	Don King: Only in America	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or a Movie.
1999	Robi Reed	A Lesson Before Dying	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or a Made for Television Movie.
2015	Kim Coleman	American Crime	Nominated
2016	Victoria Thomas	Roots	Nominated
2019	Aisha Coley	When They See Us	Won
2020	Victoria Thomas	Watchmen	Won

Choreography[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography
1976	Lester Wilson	Lola!	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Achievement in Choreography.
1977	Donald McKayle	Minstrel Man	Nominated
1980	Lester Wilson	Uptown-A Musical Comedy History of Harlem's Apollo	Nominated
1981	Lester Wilson	Sixty Years of Seduction	Nominated
1982	Debbie Allen	Fame	Won
1983	Debbie Allen	Fame	Won
1983	Lester Wilson	Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever	Nominated
1984	Debbie Allen	Fame Takes a Look at Music ‘83	Nominated
1985		Fame	Nominated
1989		The Debbie Allen Special	Nominated
1990		Polly (The Magical World of Disney)	Nominated
1991		Motown 30: What's Goin' On!	Won
	George Faison	The Josephine Baker Story	Nominated
	Lester Wilson	America's Dance Honors	Nominated
1992	Lester Wilson	Comic Relief V	Nominated
1992	Debbie Allen	The 64th Annual Academy Awards	Nominated
1993		The 65th Annual Academy Awards	Nominated
1995		The 67th Annual Academy Awards	Nominated
1996	Travis Payne	1995 MTV Video Music Awards	Nominated
1996	LaVelle Smith	1995 MTV Video Music Awards	Nominated
1999	Judith Jamison	Dance in America: A Hymn for Alvin Ailey (Great Performances)	Won
1999	Debbie Allen	The 71st Annual Academy Awards	Nominated
2008	Shane Sparks	So You Think You Can Dance	Nominated
2018	Chloe Arnold	The Late Late Show with James Corden	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography For Scripted Programming[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography For Scripted Programming
2021	Debbie Allen	Christmas on the Square	Won
	Luther Brown	Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist	Nominated
	Dondraico Johnson	Genius: Aretha	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography For Variety Or Reality Programming[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography For Variety Or Reality Programming
2019	Luther Brown	So You Think You Can Dance	Nominated	First year this category was awarded.
2020	Jemel McWilliams	The Oscars	Nominated

Cinematography[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography For a Limited Series or Movie[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or Movie
2019	Bradford Young	When They See Us (Part One)	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography For a Multi-Camera Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Series
2003	Donald A. Morgan	Girlfriends	Nominated
2011	Donald A. Morgan	Retired at 35	Nominated
2011	John Simmons	Pair of Kings	Nominated
2012	John Simmons	Pair of Kings	Nominated
2014	Donald A. Morgan	Last Man Standing	Nominated
2016	John Simmons	Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn	Nominated
2017	Donald A. Morgan	The Ranch	Won
2018			Nominated
2019			Won
2020			Won
2020	John Simmons	Family Reunion	Nominated
2021	Donald A. Morgan	The Conners	Nominated
		Last Man Standing	Nominated
		The Upshaws	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography For a Nonfiction Program[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program
2017	Kira Kelly	13th	Nominated
2020	Nadia Hallgren	Becoming	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography For a Single-Camera Series (Half-Hour)[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (Half-Hour)
2020	Kira Kelly	Insecure	Nominated

Costume Design[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Contemporary Costumes[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Contemporary Costumes
2018	Michelle Cole	Black-ish	Nominated
2018	Devon Patterson		Nominated
2019	Devon Patterson		Nominated
2019	Michelle R. Cole		Nominated
2020			Nominated
2021			Nominated
2021	Devon Patterson	Euphoria	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes
2018	Sharen Davis	Westworld	Nominated
2020	Sharen Davis	Watchmen	Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Period Costumes[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Period Costumes
2016	Ruth E. Carter	Roots	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Costumes for a Period/Fantasy Series, Limited Series, or Movie.

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming
1991	Michelle Cole	In Living Color	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Costume Design for a Variety or Music Program.
1992			Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design for a Variety or Music Program.
1993			Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design for a Variety or Music Program.
1994			Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design for a Variety or Music Program.
2016	Paul Tazewell	The Wiz Live!	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Costumes For a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Program.
2018	Paul Tazewell	Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert	Nominated
2019	Olivier Rousteing	Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé	Nominated
2021	Zerina Akers	Black Is King	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Program.

Directing[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
1993	Eric Laneuville	Dream On	Nominated
2009	Millicent Shelton	30 Rock	Nominated
2010	Paris Barclay	Glee	Nominated
2013			Nominated
2014			Nominated
2017	Donald Glover	Atlanta	Won	First Black director to win in this category.
2018	Donald Glover	Atlanta	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
1984	Thomas Carter	Hill Street Blues	Nominated
1985		Hill Street Blues	Nominated
1989		Midnight Caller	Nominated
1989	Eric Laneuville	L.A. Law	Nominated
1990	Thomas Carter	Equal Justice	Won
1991	Thomas Carter	Equal Justice	Won
1992	Eric Laneuville	I'll Fly Away	Won
1993	Eric Laneuville	I'll Fly Away	Nominated
1998	Paris Barclay	NYPD Blue	Won
1999		NYPD Blue	Won
2002		The West Wing	Nominated
2014	Carl Franklin	House of Cards	Nominated
2021	Steven Canals	Pose	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
1995	Lloyd Richards	The Piano Lesson (Hallmark Hall of Fame)	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Miniseries or a Special.
2000	Charles S. Dutton	The Corner	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special.
2005	George C. Wolfe	Lackawanna Blues	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special.
2015	Dee Rees	Bessie	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Directing for Limited Series, Movie or a Dramatic Special.
2016	Anthony Hemingway	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (Manna From Heaven)	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special.
2016	John Singleton	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (The Race Card)	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special.
2019	Ava DuVernay	When They See Us	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special.
2020	Stephen Williams	Watchmen (This Extraordinary Being)	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special.
2021	Michaela Coel	I May Destroy You (Ego Death)	Nominated
2021	Barry Jenkins	The Underground Railroad	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Nonfiction Program[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Nonfiction Program
2006	Samuel D. Pollard	American Masters	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming.
2007	Spike Lee	When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming.
2017	Ava DuVernay	13th	Nominated
2017	Ezra Edelman	O.J.: Made in America	Won
2020	Nadia Hallgren	Becoming	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program.
2021	TJ Martin	Tina	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program.

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series
1971	Mark Warren	Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (Vincent Price, Rod Serling, Orson Welles)	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy, Variety or Music.
2020	Dime Davis	A Black Lady Sketch Show (Born At Night, But Not Last Night)	Nominated	First Black woman to be nominated in this category.^[1]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special
1989	Debbie Allen	The Debbie Allen Special	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Directing for a Variety or Music Program.
2011	Laurie-Ann Gibson	Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden	Nominated
2016	Chris Rock	Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo	Nominated
2016	Beyoncé Knowles Carter	Lemonade	Nominated
2018	Stan Lathan	Dave Chappelle: Equanimity	Nominated
2019	Beyoncé Knowles Carter	Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé	Nominated
2020	Stan Lathan	Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones	Won	First Black director to win this category.
2021	Dave Chappelle	8:46	Nominated
2021	Spike Lee	David Byrne's American Utopia	Nominated

Hairstyling[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling
2020	Araxi Lindsey, Enoch Williams IV, Robert C. Mathews III	Black-ish	Won
2021	Nena Ross Davis, Ka'Maura Eley, Enoch Williams IV, Robert C. Mathews III, Marcia Hamilton	Black-ish	Nominated
	Lawrence Davis, Shunika Terry	Mare of Easttown	Nominated
	Timothy Harvey	The Politician	Nominated
	Timothy Harvey, Greg Bazemore, Tene Wilder	Pose	Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Limited Series or Movie[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Limited Series or Movie
1980	Leonard Drake	The Silent Lovers	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling
1998	Leonard Drake	Don King: Only in America	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special.
2005	Charles Gregory Ross, Fay Kelly	Lackawanna Blues	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special.
2015	Lawrence Davis	Bessie	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Hairstyling for a Limited Series or a Movie.
2019	Charlene Belmond	Fosse/Verdon	Won
2019	Lawrence Cornell Davis	True Detective	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Multi-Camera Series or Special[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Multi-Camera Series or Special
2017	Lawrence Davis	Hairspray Live!	Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Single-Camera Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Single-Camera Series
2019	Sabana Majeed	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Won
2019	Mia Neal, Tim Harvey, Sabana Majeed	Pose	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Period And/Or Character Hairstyling[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Period And/Or Character Hairstyling
2020	Timothy Harvey, Sabana Majeed, Greg Bazemore, Charlene Belmond	Pose	Nominated

Lighting Direction[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lighting Direction (Electronic) for a Comedy Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lighting Direction (Electronic) for a Comedy Series
1990	Donald A. Morgan	Bagdad Cafe	Nominated
1992		Home Improvement	Won
1993			Won
1994			Won
1995			Won
1996			Won
1997			Nominated
1998			Won
1999			Won

Music[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music
1999	George Clinton, Quincy Jones III, La Rita Norman, Marie Norman	The PJs	Nominated	First Black nominee in this category.
2020	The Rza	Wu-Tang: An American Saga	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music.
2021	Michael Abels	Allen v. Farrow	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music.
2021	Kris Bowers	Bridgerton	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music.

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition For a Documentary Series or Special[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special
2020	Kamasi Washington	Becoming	Nominated
2020	Amanda Jones	Home (Maine)	Nominated	First Black woman nominated in a score category at the Emmys.
2021	Michael Abels	Allen v. Farrow (Episode 4)	Nominated
2021	Branford Marsalis	Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special
2019	Kris Bowers	When They See Us (Part Two)	Nominated
2020	Kris Bowers	Mrs. America (Reagan)	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series
1970	Quincy Jones	The Bill Cosby Show	Nominated	First Black nominee to be nominated in this category. Category was known as Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition - For a Series or a Single Program of a Series (In Its First Year Only)
1977	Quincy Jones	Roots (Part 1)	Won	First Black winner in this category.
2020	Labrinth	Euphoria (Bonnie and Clyde)	Nominated
2021	Kris Bowers	Bridgerton (Diamond of the First Water)	Nominated
2021	Raphael Saadiq	Lovecraft Country (Rewind 1921)	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction
1982	Luther Henderson	Ain't Misbehavin'	Nominated	First Black music director to be nominated in this category.
2004	Harold Wheeler	The 76th Annual Academy Awards	Nominated
2005	Rickey Minor	Genius: A Night for Ray Charles	Nominated
2007	Harold Wheeler	Dancing with the Stars	Nominated
2008	Rickey Minor	50th Annual Grammy Awards	Nominated
2009	Harold Wheeler	Dancing with the Stars	Nominated
2009	Rickey Minor	The 51st Annual Grammy Awards	Nominated
2011	Rickey Minor	An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Chaka Khan	Nominated
2014	Leon Pendarvis	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
2015	Greg Phillinganes	Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life - An All-Star GRAMMY Salute	Won	First Black music director to win in this category.
2016	Rickey Minor, Christian McBride	Smithsonian Salutes Ray Charles: In Performance at the White House	Nominated
2017	Rickey Minor	Stayin' Alive: A Grammy Salute to the Music of the Bee Gees	Nominated
2017	Rickey Minor	Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories that Changed America	Won
2018	Adam Wayne Blackstone	The Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show starring Justin Timberlake	Nominated
2018	Harold Wheeler	The Oscars	Nominated
2019	Beyoncé Knowles Carter	Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé	Nominated
	Derek Dixie	Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé	Nominated
	Rickey Minor	Aretha! A Grammy Celebration For The Queen Of Soul	Nominated
	Rickey Minor	The Oscars	Nominated
	Greg Phillinganes	Q85: A Musical Celebration For Quincy Jones	Nominated
2020	Rickey Minor	The Kennedy Center Honors	Won
	Rickey Minor	The Oscars	Nominated
	Adam Wayne Blackstone	Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show Starring Jennifer Lopez And Shakira	Nominated
	Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis	Let's Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute To Prince	Nominated
2021	Rickey Minor	Celebrating America - An Inauguration Night Special	Nominated
2021	Harvey Mason Jr.	Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Song	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics
1985	Debbie Allen	Motown Returns to the Apollo		Nominated
1990	Michael Jackson (composer and lyricist)	Sammy Davis, Jr.'s 60th Anniversary Celebration	"You Were There"	Nominated
1997	Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds (composer)	Centennial Olympic Games: Opening Ceremonies	"The Power of the Dream"	Nominated
2008	Jordan Peele	MADtv	"Sad Fitty Cent"	Nominated
2017	Common Robert Glasper Karriem Riggins	13th	"Letter to the Free"	Won
2017	Chancellor Johnathan Bennett Kenan Thompson	Saturday Night Live	"Last Christmas"	Nominated
2018	Chris Redd Kenan Thompson		"Come Back Barack"	Won
2019	Leslie Jones		"The Upper East Side"	Nominated
2020	Chad Hugo Pharrell Williams	The Black Godfather	"Letter To My Godfather"	Nominated
2020	Labrinth	Euphoria	"All For Us"	Won
2021	Harvey Mason Jr.	Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist	"Crimson Love"	Nominated

Picture Editing[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program
1998	Samuel D. Pollard	4 Little Girls	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Programming - Picture Editing.
2001		Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Picture Editing for Non-Fiction Programming.
2007		When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming.
2010		By the People: The Election of Barack Obama	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming.
2011		If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming.

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program
2017	Daysha Broadway	Born This Way	Nominated	First Black editor nominated for a recurring program.
2018	Daysha Broadway	Born This Way	Nominated
2019	Kendra Pasker	RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked	Nominated	Second Black editor nominated for a recurring program.
2020	Kendra Pasker	RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming
2004	Lance Cain	A&E in Concert: Paul McCartney in Red Square	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special.
2021	Daysha Broadway, Stephanie Filo	A Black Lady Sketch Show	Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series
2020	Lynarion Hubbard	Insecure	Won

Producer[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking
2007	Jacqueline Glover, Spike Lee, Samuel D. Pollard	When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts	Won
2007	Stanley Nelson	Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (American Experience)	Nominated
2009	Jacqueline Glover	Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery	Nominated
2010	Forest Whitaker	Brick City	Nominated
2011	Stanley Nelson, Laurens Grant	Freedom Riders	Won
2015	Rashida Jones	Hot Girls Wanted	Nominated
2016	Stanley Nelson, Laurens Grant	The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Independent Lens)	Nominated
2016	Jacqueline Glover	Jim: The James Foley Story	Won
2017	Ezra Edelman	O.J.: Made in America	Nominated
2017	T. J. Martin	LA 92	Won
2018	Yance Ford	Strong Island	Won
2019	RaMell Ross	Hale County This Morning, This Evening	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Programming (One Hour or Less)[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Programming (One Hour or Less)
1999	Larry Wilmore	The PJs	Nominated
1999	Eddie Murphy	The PJs	Nominated
2007	Marc Wilmore	The Simpsons	Nominated
2008			Won
2009			Nominated
2010			Nominated
2011			Nominated
2012			Nominated
2013			Nominated
2015			Nominated
2016			Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program[edit]

The category was retired beginning with the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards in 2021. Children's programs are now eligible only for Daytime Emmys.^[2]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program
2000	Kevin Hooks	The Color of Friendship	Won
2005	Michael Carrington	That's So Raven	Nominated
2007	Michael Carrington	That's So Raven	Nominated
2011	Jacqueline Glover	A Child's Garden of Poetry	Won
2013		A YoungArts Masterclass	Nominated
2014		Wynton Marsalis - A YoungArts Masterclass	Nominated
2015		Alan Alda and the Actor Within You: A YoungArts Masterclass	Won
2020	Mahershala Ali Amatus Karim Ali	We Are The Dream: The Kids Of The Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest	Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series
1970	Bill Cosby	The Bill Cosby Show	Nominated
1987	Winifred Hervey	The Golden Girls	Won
1988	Winifred Hervey	The Golden Girls	Nominated
1988	Tim Reid, Samm-Art Williams	Frank's Place	Nominated
2016	Kenya Barris, Anthony Anderson, E. Brian Dobbins, Laurence Fishburne, Helen Sugland, Courtney Lilly, Peter Saji, Jennifer Rice-Genzuk Henry	Black-ish	Nominated
2017	Kenya Barris, Anthony Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Helen Sugland, E. Brian Dobbins, Courtney Lilly, Jennifer Rice-Genzuk Henry, Kenny Smith, Peter Saji	Black-ish	Nominated
2017	Donald Glover	Atlanta	Nominated
2018	Donald Glover, Stephen Glover, Stefani Robinson	Atlanta	Nominated
2018	Kenya Barris, Anthony Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Helen Sugland, E. Brian Dobbins, Courtney Lilly, Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry, Peter Saji	Black-ish	Nominated
2020	Issa Rae, Prentice Penny, Melina Matsoukas, Amy Aniobi, Phil Augusta Jackson, Deniese Davis, Natasha Rothwell	Insecure	Nominated
2020	Stefani Robinson	What We Do in the Shadows	Nominated
2021	Kenya Barris, Anthony Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Helen Sugland, E. Brian Dobbins, Courtney Lilly, Lisa Muse Bryant, Robb Chavis, Marquita J. Robinson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Heidi G. McGowen	Black-ish	Nominated
2021	Caleeb Pinkett, James Lassiter, Will Smith, Luan Thomas	Cobra Kai	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Competition Program[edit]

This award has also been known as Outstanding Reality-Competition Program. In 2019, the category changed to Outstanding Competition Program.

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Competition Program
2003	Hayma "Screech" Washington, co-executive producer	The Amazing Race	Won	First Black nominee and winner in this category.
2004	Hayma "Screech" Washington, co-executive producer		Won
2005	Hayma "Screech" Washington, executive producer		Won
2006			Won
2007			Won
2008			Won
2009			Won
2017	RuPaul, executive producer; Jacqueline Wilson, Co-executive producer	RuPaul's Drag Race	Nominated	Second Black nominees in this category.
2018			Won	Second Black winners in this category.
2019			Won
2020			Won	Wilson was nominated posthumously.
2021	RuPaul, executive producer		Won
2021	Nicole Byer, executive producer	Nailed It!	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series[edit]

The award was established in 2013 as the awards restructured previous categories for Outstanding Nonfiction Series and Outstanding Nonfiction Special. The category was called Outstanding Nonfiction Series from 1998 to 2012. Prior to 1998, the category was called Outstanding Informational Series.

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series
2014	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey	Nominated
2021	Alicia Keys	American Masters	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special
1998	Jacqueline Glover, Spike Lee, Samuel D. Pollard, Daphne McWilliams	4 Little Girls	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Non-Fiction Special.
2000	Jacqueline Glover	American Hollow	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Non-Fiction Special.
2003	Jacqueline Glover, Donna Brown Guillaume	Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Non-Fiction Special (Traditional).
2010	Jacqueline Glover	Teddy: In His Own Words	Won
2012	Jacqueline Glover	Gloria: In Her Own Words	Nominated
2014	Whoopi Goldberg	Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley	Nominated
2014	Oprah Winfrey	Running from Crazy	Nominated
2015	Samuel D. Pollard	Sinatra: All or Nothing at All	Nominated
2017	Ava DuVernay	13th	Won
2017	John Singleton	L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later	Nominated
2020	Roger Ross Williams	The Apollo	Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series
1997	David Mills	NYPD Blue	Nominated
1998	David Mills	ER	Nominated
1998	Paris Barclay	NYPD Blue	Nominated
1999	Paris Barclay	NYPD Blue	Nominated
2006	Shonda Rhimes	Grey's Anatomy	Nominated
2007	Shonda Rhimes	Grey's Anatomy	Nominated
2008	Stephen Williams	Lost	Nominated
2009	Stephen Williams	Lost	Nominated
2018	Tracey Scott Wilson	The Americans	Nominated
2019	Janet Mock, Steven Canals	Pose	Nominated	First Black Trans woman producer to be nominated for the category. First Afro-Latinx producer to be nominated for the category.
2021	Shonda Rhimes	Bridgerton	Nominated
	Misha Green, Jordan Peele, Jonathan I. Kidd, Sonya Winton-Odamtten	Lovecraft Country	Nominated
	Janet Mock, Steven Canals	Pose	Nominated
	Kay Oyegun	This Is Us	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special[edit]

The award was established in 2013 as the awards restructured previous categories for Outstanding Nonfiction Series and Outstanding Nonfiction Special. Outstanding Informational Series was also awarded prior to 1998, but from 1998 to 2012 was called Outstanding Nonfiction Series. The award was called Outstanding Informational Series or Special from 2013 until 2019. Beginning in 2020, it was known as Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special.

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special
1993	Oprah Winfrey (executive producer)	Michael Jackson Talks to... Oprah Live	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Informational Special.
1995	Debra Martin Chase (executive producer), Denzel Washington (executive producer)	Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Informational Special.
1995	Quincy Jones (executive producer)	The History of Rock 'n' Roll	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Informational Series.
2001	St. Clair Bourne (executive producer), Cecil Cox (executive producer), Jacqueline Glover (supervising producer), Craig Laurence Rice (executive producer), Denzel Washington (producer)	Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Informational Special.
2013	Oprah Winfrey (executive producer)	Oprah's Master Class	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Informational Series or Special.
2015	Neil deGrasse Tyson (executive producer/host)	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Nominated
2016	Neil deGrasse Tyson (executive producer/host)	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Nominated
2016	Morgan Freeman (executive producer/host)	The Story of God with Morgan Freeman	Nominated
2017	Neil deGrasse Tyson (executive producer/host)	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Nominated
2018	Neil deGrasse Tyson (executive producer/host)	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Nominated
2018	Michael Kenneth Williams (executive producer)	Vice	Nominated
2019	Dream Hampton (executive producer), Tamra Simmons (executive producer), Brie Miranda Bryant (executive producer)	Surviving R. Kelly	Nominated
2021	Oprah Winfrey (host)	Oprah with Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special	Nominated
2021	W. Kamau Bell (executive producer/host)	United Shades of America	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Interactive Program[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Interactive Program
2018	Trevor Noah	The Daily Show With Trevor Noah	Nominated
2019	Trevor Noah	The Daily Show With Trevor Noah	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series
1989	Suzanne de Passe	Lonesome Dove	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Miniseries.
1989	Oprah Winfrey	The Women of Brewster Place	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Miniseries.
1993	Suzanne de Passe, Jermaine Jackson	The Jacksons: An American Dream	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Miniseries.
1995	Suzanne de Passe	Buffalo Girls	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Miniseries.
1999	Suzanne de Passe	The Temptations	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Miniseries.
2000	David Mills	The Corner	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Miniseries.
2015	John Ridley	American Crime	Nominated
2016	John Ridley	American Crime	Nominated
	Anthony Hemingway	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Won
	LeVar Burton	Roots	Nominated
2019	Tracey Scott Wilson	Fosse/Verdon	Nominated
2019	Ava DuVernay, Oprah Winfrey	When They See Us	Nominated
2020	Kerry Washington, Attica Locke, Raamla Mohamed, Shannon Houston	Little Fires Everywhere	Nominated
	Tanya Barfield	Mrs. America	Nominated
	Carl Beverley, Robyn Semien	Unbelievable	Nominated
	Stephen Williams, Christal Henry	Watchmen	Won
2021	Michaela Coel	I May Destroy You	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.
2021	Barry Jenkins, Colson Whitehead	The Underground Railroad	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie
1995	August Wilson	The Piano Lesson (Hallmark Hall of Fame)	Nominated
1997	Laurence Fishburne	Miss Evers' Boys	Won
1998	Thomas Carter	Don King: Only in America	Won
2000	Halle Berry	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	Nominated
2000	Oprah Winfrey	Tuesdays with Morrie	Won
2003	Forest Whitaker	Door to Door	Won
2005	Halle Berry, Ruben Santiago-Hudson	Lackawanna Blues	Nominated
2008	Susan Batson, Sean Combs	A Raisin in the Sun	Nominated
2014	Cicely Tyson	The Trip to Bountiful	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Television Movie.
2015	Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere	Bessie	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Television Movie.
2015	David Oyelowo	Nightingale	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Television Movie.
2016	Kerry Washington	Confirmation	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Television Movie.
2017	Oprah Winfrey	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Television Movie.
2018	Michael B. Jordan	Fahrenheit 451	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Television Movie.
2018	Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere	Flint	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Television Movie.
2020	Kerry Washington, Kenny Leon	American Son	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Television Movie.
2021	Debbie Allen	Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Television Movie.
	Robin Roberts, Danielle Brooks, Kenny Leon	Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Television Movie.
	Tessa Thompson, Akbar Gbajabiamila, Arinze Okwuadigbo, Obinna Okwuadigbo, Jay Gaines, Carl Daryl Washington, Nnamdi Asomugha, Gabrielle Glore, Eugene Ashe	Sylvie's Love	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Television Movie.

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding New Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding New Series
1970	Bill Cosby	The Bill Cosby Show	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Interactive Program[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Interactive Program
2019	Roger Ross Williams	Traveling While Black	Nominated
2020	Van Jones	The Messy Truth VR Experience	Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series[edit]

In 2021, this award was merged with Short Form Variety Series to form the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Comedy, Drama or Variety Series.

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series
2017	Sam Bailey	Brown Girls	Nominated
2018	Wyatt Cenac	aka Wyatt Cenac	Nominated
2020	Olatunde Osunsanmi	Star Trek: Short Treks	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series
2020	Trevor Noah	The Daily Show - Between The Scenes	Nominated
2021	Emmanuel Acho, Morolake Akinosun	Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man	Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series[edit]

In 2021, this award was merged with Short Form Comedy or Drama Series to form the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Comedy, Drama or Variety Series.

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series
2017	Trevor Noah	The Daily Show - Between The Scenes	Won
2018	Trevor Noah	The Daily Show - Between The Scenes	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program[edit]

The award was retired in 2016 and divided to recognize Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series and Outstanding Short Form Variety Series.

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program
2013	Beyoncé Knowles Carter	Super Bowl XLVII Halftime Show Starring Beyoncé	Nominated
2015	Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele	Key & Peele Presents Van and Mike: The Ascension	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Program[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Program
2009	Whoopi Goldberg	The 62nd Annual Tony Awards	Nominated
2012	LL Cool J	The 54th Annual Grammy Awards	Nominated
2015	Beyoncé Knowles Carter,	Beyoncé and JAY Z: On the Run	Nominated
	Shawn "Jay Z" Carter	Beyoncé and JAY Z: On the Run	Nominated
	Audra McDonald	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Live from Lincoln Center)	Won
2016	Reginald Hudlin	The Oscars	Nominated
2016	Chris Rock	The Oscars	Nominated
2017	Kenny Leon	Hairspray Live!	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Structured Reality Program[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Structured Reality Program
2016	LL Cool J	Lip Sync Battle	Nominated
2017			Nominated
2018			Nominated
2020	Daymond John	Shark Tank	Nominated
2021	Daymond John	Shark Tank	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program
2016	W. Kamau Bell	United Shades of America	Nominated
2017	W. Kamau Bell	United Shades of America	Won
2017	RuPaul	RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked	Nominated
2018	W. Kamau Bell	United Shades of America	Won
2018	RuPaul	RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked	Nominated
2019	W. Kamau Bell	United Shades of America	Won
2019	RuPaul	RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked	Nominated
2020	RuPaul	RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked	Nominated
2020	Kevin Hart	Kevin Hart : Don’t Fk This Up	Nominated
2021	LeBron James, Maverick Carter	Becoming	Nominated
2021	RuPaul	RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked	Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Series[edit]

This category was retired in 2015 and was separated into two categories – Outstanding Variety Sketch Series and Outstanding Variety Talk Series.

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Series
1971	Flip Wilson	The Flip Wilson Show	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Variety Series – Musical.
1972			Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Variety Series – Musical.
1973			Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Variety Musical Series.
1990	Keenen Ivory Wayans	In Living Color	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series.
1991			Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program.
1992			Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program (Series).
2000	Chris Rock	The Chris Rock Show	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series.
2001	Chris Rock	The Chris Rock Show	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series.
2004	Dave Chappelle	Chappelle's Show	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series.

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series
2015	Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele	Key & Peele	Nominated
2016	Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele	Key & Peele	Won
2020	Robin Thede, Issa Rae, Lauren Ashley Smith, Dime Davis, Deniese Davis, Montrel McKay	A Black Lady Sketch Show	Nominated
2021		A Black Lady Sketch Show	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Talk Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Talk Series
2018	Trevor Noah, David Kibuuka	The Daily Show With Trevor Noah	Nominated
2019			Nominated
2020			Nominated
2021			Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special
1969	Bill Cosby	The Bill Cosby Special	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Variety or Musical Program.
1970	Bill Cosby	The Second Bill Cosby Special	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Variety or Musical Program - Variety and Popular Music.
1971	Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne	Harry and Lena	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Single Program - Variety or Musical - Variety and Popular Music.
1972	Flip Wilson	The Flip Wilson Show (Sammy Davis, Jr., Lily Tomlin and Ed McMahon)	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Single Program - Variety or Musical - Variety and Popular Music.
1983	Suzanne de Passe	Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program.
1985	Suzanne de Passe	Motown Returns to the Apollo	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program.
1985	Lena Horne	Lena Horne: The Lady and her Music (Great Performances)	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program.
1996	Quincy Jones	The 68th Annual Academy Awards	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special.
1997	Chris Rock	Chris Rock: Bring the Pain	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special.
1998	Debra Martin Chase, Whitney Houston	Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (The Wonderful World of Disney)	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special.
2000	Chris Rock	Chris Rock: Bigger and Blacker	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special.
2004	Chris Rock	Chris Rock: Never Scared	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special.
2005	Dave Chappelle, Stan Lathan	Dave Chappelle: For What It's Worth	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special.
2007	Wanda Sykes	Wanda Sykes: Sick and Tired	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special.
2009	Chris Rock	Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special.
2010	Wanda Sykes	Wanda Sykes: I'ma Be Me	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special.
2016	Beyoncé Knowles Carter	Lemonade	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Live)[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Live)
2018	John Legend, Mike Jackson	Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert	Won	with this win, John Legend earned his EGOT
2019	Alicia Keys	The 61st Grammy Awards	Nominated
2020	Kerry Washington	Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"	Won
2020	Stephanie Allain	The Oscars	Nominated
2021	Trevor Noah	The 63rd Grammy Awards	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded)[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded)
2018	Dave Chappelle, Stan Lathan, Rikki Hughes	Dave Chappelle: Equanimity	Won
2019	Beyoncé Knowles Carter	Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé	Nominated
2019	Wanda Sykes	Wanda Sykes: Not Normal	Nominated
2020	Dave Chappelle, Stan Lathan, Rikki Hughes	Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones	Won
	Chris Robinson	Dave Chappelle: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor	Nominated
	Tiffany Haddish, Wanda Sykes	Tiffany Haddish: Black Mitzvah	Nominated
2021	Dave Chappelle	8:46	Nominated
2021	Spike Lee	David Byrne's American Utopia	Nominated

Production Design[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Production Design for a Variety Special[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Production Design for a Variety Special
2016	Hannah Beachler	Lemonade	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Production Design for Variety, Nonfiction, Event or Award Special.

Sound Editing[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special
1991	Joe Earle	Separate But Equal	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries or a Special.
1992		Cast a Deadly Spell	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Miniseries or a Special.
		Deadlock	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Miniseries or a Special.
		I'll Fly Away (Pilot)	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Miniseries or a Special.
1994		Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Miniseries or a Special.
1995		Children of the Dust	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Miniseries or a Special.
1995		In Search of Dr. Seuss	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Miniseries or a Special.
1997		Stephen King's The Shining	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries or a Special.
1998		From the Earth to the Moon	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special.
1999		Stephen King's Storm of the Century	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special.

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a One-Hour Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a One-Hour Series
1995	Joe Earle	Earth 2	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series.
1998	Joe Earle	Soldier of Fortune, Inc.	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series.

Sound Mixing[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One-Hour)[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One-Hour)
2008	Joe Earle	Dexter	Nominated
2010		Glee	Won
2011		Glee	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Limited Series or Movie[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Limited Series or Movie
1977	Willie D. Burton	Roots, Part I	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Mixing.
1977	Willie D. Burton	Roots, Part IV	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Mixing.
1988	Russell Williams II	Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami	Won	First Black sound mixer to win in this category. First Black sound mixer to win Primetime Emmy in any sound category. Category was known as Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Dramatic Miniseries or a Special.
1998		12 Angry Men	Won	First Black winner to win multiples in this category. Category was known as Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Miniseries or a Movie.
1999		The Temptations	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie.
2001	Joe Earle	Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie.
2005		Sleeper Cell	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie.
2012		American Horror Story	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie.
2013		American Horror Story: Asylum	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie.
2014		American Horror Story: Coven	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie.
2015		American Horror Story: Freak Show	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Limited Series or a Movie.
2016		The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Won
2018		The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story	Nominated
2020		American Horror Story: 1984	Nominated
2020		Hollywood	Nominated

Stunts[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Stunt Performance[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Stunt Performance
2021	Aaron Toney	The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Truth)	Nominated	First year of award. First Black nominees.
	Mens-Sana Tamakloe	Gangs of London (Episode 2)	Nominated
	Janeshia Adams-Ginyard	Lovecraft Country (I Am)	Nominated
	Lateef Crowder	The Mandalorian (Chapter 16: The Rescue)	Won

Technical Direction[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special
1986	Averill Perry	58th Academy Awards	Nominated
1991		63rd Academy Awards	Nominated
1994		66th Academy Awards	Won
1996		68th Academy Awards	Nominated

Writing[edit]

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
2002	Larry Wilmore	The Bernie Mac Show	Won
2017	Donald Glover	Atlanta	Nominated
	Stephen Glover	Atlanta	Nominated
	Lena Waithe	Master of None	Won	First Black woman to win in this category.
2018	Donald Glover	Atlanta	Nominated
2018	Stefani Robinson	Atlanta	Nominated
2020	Stefani Robinson	What We Do in the Shadows	Nominated	First Black Woman to receive more than one writing nomination.

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series
1957	Louis S. Peterson	Goodyear Television Playhouse	Nominated	Category known as Best Teleplay Writing - One Hour or More. Peterson was first Black writer nominated for an Emmy.
1996	David Mills	NYPD Blue	Nominated
1997	David Mills	NYPD Blue	Nominated
2006	Shonda Rhimes	Grey's Anatomy	Nominated
2021	Steven Canals, Janet Mock	Pose (Series Finale)	Nominated
2021	Misha Green	Lovecraft Country (Sundown)	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie[edit]

Category was previously known as Outstanding Writing in a Miniseries or a Special and Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special.

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
1995	August Wilson	The Piano Lesson (Hallmark Hall of Fame)	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Writing in a Miniseries or a Special.
2000	David Mills	The Corner	Won	First Black writer to win in this category. Category was known as Outstanding Writing in a Miniseries or a Special.
2015	Dee Rees	Bessie	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie or a Dramatic Special.
2015	John Ridley	American Crime (Episode One)	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie or a Dramatic Special.
2016	Joe Robert Cole	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (The Race Card)	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie or a Dramatic Special.
2019	Ava DuVernay	When They See Us (Part Four)	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie or a Dramatic Special.
2019	Michael Starrbury	When They See Us (Part Four)	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie or a Dramatic Special.
2020	Tanya Barfield	Mrs. America (Shirley)	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special.
2020	Cord Jefferson	Watchmen (This Extraordinary Being)	Won	Second Black writer to win in this category. Category was known as Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special.
2021	Michaela Coel	I May Destroy You	Won	Third Black writer and first Black woman to win in this category.

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program
2017	Ava DuVernay	13th	Won
2019	Sacha Jenkins	Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men	Nominated
2021	Marco Williams	Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series
1971	Flip Wilson	The Flip Wilson Show	Won	Category was known as Outstanding Writing Achievement in Variety or Music.
1972			Nominated
1973			Nominated
1984	Eddie Murphy	Saturday Night Live	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program.
1990	Damon Wayans	In Living Color	Nominated
1990	Keenen Ivory Wayans		Nominated
1991	Damon Wayans		Nominated
1991	Keenen Ivory Wayans		Nominated
1992	Damon Wayans		Nominated
	Keenen Ivory Wayans
	Larry Wilmore
	Marc Wilmore
1997	Chris Rock	Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher	Nominated
1998	Lance Crouther	The Chris Rock Show	Nominated
	Ali LeRoi
	Chris Rock
	Wanda Sykes
1999	Lance Crouther		Won
	Ali LeRoi
	Chris Rock
	Wanda Sykes
2000	Lance Crouther		Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program.
	Ali LeRoi
	Chris Rock
	Wanda Sykes
2001	Lance Crouther		Nominated
	Ali LeRoi
	Chris Rock
	Wanda Sykes
2004	Dave Chappelle	Chappelle's Show	Nominated
2009	Wyatt Cenac	The Daily Show with Jon Stewart	Won
2010			Nominated
2011			Won
2012			Won
2013	Travon Free		Nominated
2014	Travon Free		Nominated
	Keegan-Michael Key	Key & Peele	Nominated
	Jordan Peele	Key & Peele	Nominated
2015	Travon Free	The Daily Show with Jon Stewart	Won
	Keegan-Michael Key	Key & Peele	Nominated
	Jordan Peele		Nominated
2016	Keegan-Michael Key		Nominated
	Jordan Peele		Nominated
	Michael Che	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
	Ashley Nicole Black	Full Frontal with Samantha Bee	Nominated
	Mathan Erhardt		Nominated
2017	Ashley Nicole Black		Nominated
	Mathan Erhardt
	Travon Free
	Amber Ruffin	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Nominated
	Michael Che	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
2018	Ashley Nicole Black	Full Frontal with Samantha Bee	Nominated
	Mathan Erhardt
	Travon Free
	Amber Ruffin	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Nominated
	Michael Che	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
	Sam Jay
	Stephen Glover
	Jamal Olori
2019	Ashley Nicole Black	Full Frontal with Samantha Bee	Nominated
	Mathan Erhardt	Full Frontal with Samantha Bee	Nominated
	Amber Ruffin	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Nominated
	Michael Che	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
	Sam Jay	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
	Greg Iwinski	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Nominated
	John Thibodeaux	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Nominated
2020	David Kibukka	The Daily Show With Trevor Noah	Nominated
	Christiana Mbakwe-Medina
	X Mayo
	Trevor Noah
	Randall Otis
	Mathan Erhardt	Full Frontal with Samantha Bee	Nominated
	Amber Ruffin	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Nominated
	John Thibodeaux	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Nominated
2021	Ashley Nicole Black	A Black Lady Sketch Show	Nominated
	Akilah Green
	Shenovia Large
	Rae Sanni
	Lauren Ashley Smith
	Robin Thede
	Kristin Layne Tucker
	Kindsey Young
	Holly Walker
	Demi Adejuyigbe	The Amber Ruffin Show	Nominated
	Ashley Nicole Black		Nominated
	Michael Harriot		Nominated
	Shantira Jackson		Nominated
	Dewayne Perkins		Nominated
	Amber Ruffin		Nominated
	Ali Barthwell	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	Won
	Greg Iwinski	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	Won
	Delmonte Bent	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Nominated
	John Thibodeaux	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Nominated
	Michael Che	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
Sam Jay		Saturday Night Live	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special[edit]

Year	Name	Show	Status	Milestone
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special
1977	Ntozake Shange	An Evening with Diana Ross (The Big Event)	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Special.
1985	Samm-Art Williams	Motown Returns to the Apollo	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program.
1997	Chris Rock	Chris Rock: Bring the Pain	Won
2000		Chris Rock: Bigger and Blacker	Nominated	Category was known as Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program.
2004		Chris Rock: Never Scared	Nominated
2009		Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger	Won
2010	Wanda Sykes	Wanda Sykes: I'ma Be Me	Nominated
2015	Keegan-Michael Key	Key & Peele Super Bowl Special	Nominated
2015	Jordan Peele	Key & Peele Super Bowl Special	Nominated
2017	Ashley Nicole Black	Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Presents Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner	Won
	Mathan Erhardt
	Travon Free
2018	Ashley Nicole Black	Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Presents The Great American Puerto Rico (It's Complicated)	Nominated
2018	Mathan Erhardt		Nominated
2019	Beyoncé Knowles Carter	Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé	Nominated
2019	Wanda Sykes	Wanda Sykes: Not Normal	Nominated
2020	Dave Chappelle	Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones	Won
2021	Dave Chappelle	8:46	Nominated
	Mitchell Marchand	John Lewis: Celebrating a Hero	Nominated
	Delmonte Bent	Stephen Colbert’s Election Night 2020: Democracy’s Last Stand Building Back America Great Again Better 2020	Nominated
	John Thibodeaux		Nominated

References[edit]

↑ White, Peter (2020-07-28). "Robin Thede Lauds 'A Black Lady Sketch Show's Dime Davis As She Becomes First Black Woman To Score Emmy Nom For Directing Variety Series". Deadline. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
↑ Schneider, Michael (November 2, 2020). "Primetime Emmys Drop Children's Program Category, as All Kids Awards Move to Daytime". Variety. Retrieved November 2, 2020.

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[1] White, Peter (2020-07-28). "Robin Thede Lauds 'A Black Lady Sketch Show's Dime Davis As She Becomes First Black Woman To Score Emmy Nom For Directing Variety Series". Deadline. Retrieved 2020-07-29.

[2] Schneider, Michael (November 2, 2020). "Primetime Emmys Drop Children's Program Category, as All Kids Awards Move to Daytime". Variety. Retrieved November 2, 2020.

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