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Outstanding Achievement in Choreography

Winner
America Salutes Richard Rodgers: The Sound of His Music
7.4 (36)
Ron Field(choreographer)
Minstrel Man
8.4 (83)
Donald McKayle(choreographer)
Live from Lincoln Center
Episode:
American Ballet Theatre: Swan Lake
8.5 (309)
David Blair(choreographer)
The Carol Burnett Show
8.7 (7.8K)
Ernie Flatt(choreographer)
For episode with The Pointer Sisters.
The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
7.3 (63)
Alan Johnson(choreographer)

Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design for Music-Variety

Winner
Live from Lincoln Center
8.5 (309)
Jan Skalicky(costume designer)
For episode "The Barber of Seville".
The Sonny and Cher Show
6.9 (520)
Ret Turner(costume designer)
Bob Mackie(costume designer)
For episode with 'Barbara Eden (I)' and The Smothers Brothers.
America Salutes Richard Rodgers: The Sound of His Music
7.4 (36)
Frank L. Thompson(costume designer)
Posthumous nomination.
An Evening with Diana Ross
9.0 (57)
Bob Mackie(costume designer)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
Neil Sedaka Steppin' Out
9.2 (38)
Bill Hargate(costume designer)

Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design for a Drama Special

Winner
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
7.9 (359)
Joe I. Tompkins(costume designer)
Beauty and the Beast
6.8 (448)
Albert Wolsky(costume designer)
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
L'Homme au masque de fer
6.6 (3.6K)
Olga Lehmann(costume designer)

Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design for a Drama or Comedy Series

Winner
The Pallisers
8.2 (565)
Raymond Hughes(costume designer)
For episode #1.
La famille Adams
8.1 (227)
Alvin Colt(costume designer)
For episode "Henry Adams: Historian".
Madame Bovary
7.1 (134)
Joan Ellacott(costume designer)
For episode #3. (Shown within Masterpiece Theatre (1971)).
Sur la piste des Cheyennes
Episode:
Prairie Woman
7.0 (322)
Grady Hunt(costume designer)
Racines
8.4 (20K)
Jack Martell(costume designer)
For part I.

Outstanding Achievement in Coverage of Special Events - Individuals

Winner
The 28th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
5.8 (57)
Brian Bartholomew(art director)
Keaton S. Walker(art director)
Winner
The 28th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
5.8 (57)
John Moffitt(director)
48th Annual Academy Awards
5.6 (175)
Marty Pasetta(director)
Miss Universe Pageant
7.2 (33)
Helen O'Connell(hostess)

Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Editing for a Series

Winner
Racines
8.4 (20K)
Larry Carow(sound editor)
Lawrence E. Neiman(sound editor)
Donald L. Warner Jr.(sound editor)
Colin C. Mouat(sound editor)
George Fredrick(sound editor)
David Pettijohn(sound editor)
Bruce Richardson(sound editor)
For part II.
Le voyage extraordinaire
6.9 (855)
Stan Gilbert(sound editor)
Doug Grindstaff(sound editor)
Don Isaacs(sound editor)
Al Kajita(sound editor)
Sid Lubow(sound editor)
Hans Newman(sound editor)
Richard Raderman(sound editor)
Hank Salerno(sound editor)
Larry Singer(sound editor)
Luke Wolfram(sound editor)
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Drôles de dames
Episode:
The Mexican Connection
6.6 (15K)
Jerry Rosenthal(sound editor)
William L. Stevenson(sound editor)
Michael O'Corrigan(sound editor)
L'homme qui valait 3 milliards
7.1 (14K)
Dale Johnston(sound editor)
James A. Bean(sound editor)
Carl Brandon(sound editor)
Joe Divitale(sound editor)
Don Tomlinson(sound editor)
Don Weinman(sound editor)
Gene Craig(sound editor)
For episode "The Return of Bigfoot", part 1.

Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Editing for a Special

Winner
Raid sur Entebbe
6.7 (4K)
Bernard F. Pincus(sound editor)
Milton C. Burrow(sound editor)
Gene Eliot(sound editor)
Donald W. Ernst(sound editor)
Tony Garber(sound editor)
Don Isaacs(sound editor)
Larry Kaufman(sound editor)
William L. Manger(sound editor)
A. David Marshall(sound editor)
Richard Oswald(sound editor)
Edward L. Sandlin(sound editor)
Russ Tinsley(sound editor)
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
The Quest
6.1 (361)
William M. Andrews(sound editor)
Lee Chaney(sound editor)
Buzz Cooper(sound editor)
Jack A. Finlay(sound editor)
Richard Friedman(sound editor)
Stan Gilbert(sound editor)
Doug Grindstaff(sound editor)
Bob J. Human(sound editor)
Don Isaacs(sound editor)
Al Kajita(sound editor)
Larry Kaufman(sound editor)
Marvin I. Kosberg(sound editor)
Jack Milner(sound editor)
Richard Raderman(sound editor)
Hank Salerno(sound editor)
Larry Singer(sound editor)
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
L'enfant bulle
5.8 (5.9K)
Jerry Rosenthal(sound editor)
Bill Phillips(sound editor)
John Strauss(sound editor)
Bill Jackson(sound editor)
Jim Yant(sound editor)
Jerry Pirozzi(sound editor)
Bruce Bell(sound editor)
American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
7.9 (359)
Rich Harrison

Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Mixing

Winner
Quand les abeilles attaqueront
5.1 (920)
Alan Bernard(sound mixer)
George Porter(sound mixer)
Eddie Nelson(sound mixer)
Robert L. Harman(sound mixer)
Racines
8.4 (20K)
Willie D. Burton(sound mixer)
George Porter(sound mixer)
Eddie Nelson(sound mixer)
Robert L. Harman(sound mixer)
For part IV.
Racines
8.4 (20K)
Hoppy Mehterian(sound mixer)
George Porter(sound mixer)
Eddie Nelson(sound mixer)
Arnold Braun(sound mixer)
For part VII.
Racines
8.4 (20K)
George Porter(sound mixer)
Eddie Nelson(sound mixer)
Robert L. Harman(sound mixer)
Arnold Braun(sound mixer)
For part VIII.
Racines
8.4 (20K)
Bill Varney(sound mixer)
Leonard Peterson(sound mixer)
Robert J. Litt(sound mixer)
Willie D. Burton(sound mixer)
For part I.
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
7.9 (359)
Richard Portman(sound mixer)
David M. Ronne(sound mixer)
Don MacDougall(sound mixer)
Curly Thirlwell(sound mixer)

Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Title Sequences

Winner
The Bell Telephone Jubilee
7.4 (16)
Eytan Keller(graphic designer)
Stu Bernstein(graphic designer)
Les hommes d'argent
6.9 (229)
Phill Norman(graphic designer)
For part I. (Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
Previn and the Pittsburgh
Martine Sheon(graphic designer)
David Summers(graphic designer)
For episode "Mozart as Keyboard Prodigy".
Visions
Episode:
The Gardener's Son
5.9 (89)
Gene Piotrowsky(graphic designer)

Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction

Winner
The Dorothy Hamill Special
6.8 (30)
Bill Klages(lighting director)
Peter Edwards(lighting director)
La famille Adams
8.1 (227)
George Riesenberger(lighting director)
William C. Knight(lighting director)
For episode "John Quincy Adams: President".
La famille Adams
8.1 (227)
Dick Weiss(lighting director)
William C. Knight(lighting director)
For episode "Henry Adams: Historian".
Visions
Episode:
Gold Watch
5.9 (89)
Ken Dettling(lighting director)
Leard Davis(lighting director)
Neil Diamond: Love at the Greek
7.7 (34)
Imero Fiorentino(lighting director)
Scott Johnson(lighting director)

Outstanding Achievement in Make-Up

Winner
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
7.9 (359)
Ken Chase(makeup design)
Joe DiBella(makeup artist)
Beauty and the Beast
6.8 (448)
Del Acevedo(makeup)
John Chambers(makeup)
Daniel C. Striepeke(makeup)
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
An Evening with Diana Ross
9.0 (57)
Stan Winston(makeup)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking
8.3 (35)
Dick Smith(makeup)
The Million Dollar Rip-Off
5.6 (122)
Michael Westmore(makeup)
Edwin Butterworth(makeup)
Charles H. Schram(makeup)

Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)

Winner
Racines
8.4 (20K)
Quincy Jones(composer)
Gerald Fried(composer)
For part I.
Bronk
Episode:
The Vigilante
6.7 (158)
Jack Urbont(composer)
Captains and the Kings
7.8 (556)
Elmer Bernstein(composer)
For chapter 8.
Police Story
Episode:
Monster Manor
7.5 (1.3K)
Dick DeBenedictis(composer)
Racines
8.4 (20K)
Gerald Fried(composer)
For part VIII.

Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Special (Dramatic Underscore)

Winner
Sybil
7.9 (7.7K)
Leonard Rosenman(composer)
Alan Bergman(composer)
Marilyn Bergman(composer)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
7.9 (359)
John Barry(composer)
Helter Skelter
7.3 (4K)
Billy Goldenberg(composer)
Minstrel Man
8.4 (83)
Fred Karlin(composer)
Raid sur Entebbe
6.7 (4K)
David Shire(composer)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).

Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction

Winner
America Salutes Richard Rodgers: The Sound of His Music
7.4 (36)
Ian Fraser(music director)
Bronk
Episode:
The Vigilante
6.7 (158)
Jack Urbont(music director)
Live from Lincoln Center
8.5 (309)
Rafael Kubelík(music director)
For episode "New York Philharmonic: Rafael Kubelik".
Previn and the Pittsburgh
André Previn(music director)
For episode "Mozart as Keyboard Prodigy".
Sills and Burnett at the Met
8.8 (27)
Peter Matz(music director)

Outstanding Achievement in Tape Sound Mixing

Winner
John Denver and Friend
8.4 (19)
Doug Nelson(sound mixer)
La famille Adams
8.1 (227)
Emil Neroda(sound mixer)
For episode "John Quincy Adams: President".
Police Story
Episode:
Ice Time
7.5 (1.3K)
Michael T. Gannon(sound mixer)
Jerry Clemans(sound mixer)
Thomas J. Huth(sound mixer)
Phillip Seretti(sound mixer)
The American Music Awards
6.0 (42)
Doug Nelson(sound mixer)
Norm Schwartz(sound mixer)
John Black(sound mixer)

Outstanding Achievement in Technical Direction and Electronic Camerawork

Winner
Doug Henning's World of Magic
7.7 (19)
Karl Messerschmidt(technical director)
Jon Olson(cameraperson)
Bruce Gray(cameraperson)
John Gutierrez(cameraperson)
Jim Dodge(cameraperson)
Wayne McDonald(cameraperson)
Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking
8.3 (35)
Ken Anderson(technical director)
Art Vogel(cameraperson)
Neil Diamond: Love at the Greek
7.7 (34)
Gene Crowe(technical director)
Samuel E. Dowlen(cameraperson)
Tom Dokes(cameraperson)
Larry Heider(cameraperson)
Bob Keys(cameraperson)
Wayne Orr(cameraperson)
Bill Philbin(cameraperson)
Ron Sheldon(cameraperson)
A Special Olivia Newton-John
7.9 (87)
Ernie Buttelman(technical director)
Dave Hilmer(cameraperson)
Jim Balden(cameraperson)
Jack Denton(cameraperson)
Mayo Partee(cameraperson)
Victoire à Entebbé
5.9 (1.3K)
Ken Lamkin(technical director)
Lew Adams(cameraperson)
Mike Keeler(cameraperson)
Gary Stanton(cameraperson)
Samuel E. Dowlen(cameraperson)

Outstanding Achievement in Video Tape Editing for a Series

Winner
Visions
Episode:
The War Widow
5.9 (89)
Roy Stewart(editor)
CPO Sharkey
7.0 (512)
Ken Denisoff(editor)
Stowell Werden(editor)
For episode "Sharkey Boogies On Down".
Meeting of Minds
9.0 (169)
Terry M. Pickford(editor)
For episode #3.
Police Story
Episode:
Ice Time
7.5 (1.3K)
Jimmy B. Frazier(editor)

Outstanding Achievement in Video Tape Editing for a Special

Winner
American Bandstand's 25th Anniversary
8.2 (31)
Gary Anderson(editor)
The Barry Manilow Special
8.5 (38)
Thomas Klein(editor)
Bill Breshears(editor)
The Captain & Tennille Special
8.0 (19)
Susan Jenkins(editor)
Manuel Martínez(editor)
The Dorothy Hamill Special
6.8 (30)
Jimmy B. Frazier(editor)
Danny White(editor)
Neil Diamond: Love at the Greek
7.7 (34)
Bill Breshears(editor)
Barbara Babcock(editor)
Victoire à Entebbé
5.9 (1.3K)
Jim McElroy(editor)
Michael Gavaldon(editor)
David Saxon(editor)

Outstanding Art Direction or Scenic Design for a Comedy Series

Winner
Fish
Episode:
The Really Longest Day
6.4 (513)
Thomas Azzari(art director)
All in the family
8.4 (20K)
Don Roberts(art director)
For episode "The Unemployment Story", part II.
Maude
7.3 (5K)
Chuck Murawski(art director)
For episode "Walter's Crisis".
Mr. T and Tina
Episode:
The Americanization of Michi
4.4 (79)
Roy Christopher(art director)
Mary Ann Biddle(set decorator)
Sirota's Court
7.2 (23)
Seymour Klate(art director)
Mary Ann Biddle(set decorator)
For episode "The Happy Hooker".

Outstanding Art Direction or Scenic Design for a Comedy-Variety or Music Series

Winner
The Mac Davis Show
7.1 (71)
Romain Johnston(art director)
For episode with Susan Saint James, The Pointer Sisters and Robert Shields & 'Lorene Yarnell'.
The Carol Burnett Show
8.7 (7.8K)
Paul Barnes(art director)
Bob Sansom(art director)
Bill Harp(set decorator)
For episode with Glen Campbell.
Donny and Marie
6.2 (513)
Bill Bohnert(art director)
John Told(set decorator)
For episode with Chad Everett and Florence Henderson.
Saturday Night Live
8.0 (56K)
Eugene Lee(art director)
Akira Yoshimura(art director)
Franne Lee(art director)
For episode with Sissy Spacek.

Outstanding Art Direction or Scenic Design for a Comedy-Variety or Music Special

Winner
America Salutes Richard Rodgers: The Sound of His Music
7.4 (36)
Robert Kelly(art director)
Great Performances: Dance in America
7.7 (62)
Jac Venza(scenic designer)
For segment "Billy the Kid" in episode "American Ballet Theatre".
Great Performances: Dance in America
7.7 (62)
William Mickley(art director)
For segment "Les Patineurs" in episode "American Ballet Theatre".
The George Burns Special
6.1 (27)
Roy Christopher(art director)
John Hueners(set decorator)

Outstanding Art Direction or Scenic Design for a Drama Series

Winner
The Pallisers
8.2 (565)
Tim Harvey(scenic designer)
For episode #1.
La famille Adams
8.1 (227)
Ed Wittstein(production designer)
For episode "John Quincy Adams: Congressman".
Captains and the Kings
7.8 (556)
John W. Corso(art director)
Jerry Adams(set decorator)
For chapter 2.
Racines
8.4 (20K)
Joseph R. Jennings(art director)
Solomon Brewer(set decorator)
For part VI.
Racines
8.4 (20K)
Jan Scott(art director)
Charles C. Bennett(set decorator)
For part II.

Outstanding Art Direction or Scenic Design for a Dramatic Special

Winner
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
7.9 (359)
Jan Scott(art director)
Anne D. McCulley(set decorator)
Amelia Earhart
6.6 (145)
William H. Tuntke(art director)
Richard Friedman(set decorator)
Eccentricities of a Nightingale
8.6 (72)
Trevor Williams(art director)
Robert Checchi(set decorator)
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
7.6 (73)
Roy Christopher(art director)
Beulah Frankel(set decorator)

Outstanding Children's Special

Winner
Ballet Shoes
6.9 (147)
John McRae(producer)
Joan Sullivan(producer)
For parts 1 & 2. (Shown within Piccadilly Circus (1976)).
Peter Pan
6.6 (260)
Gary Smith(executive producer/producer)
Dwight Hemion(executive producer)
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown
7.2 (1.1K)
Lee Mendelson(executive producer)
Bill Melendez(producer)
The Little Drummer Boy Book II
6.5 (953)
Arthur Rankin Jr.(producer)
Jules Bass(producer)
Pinocchio
5.9 (251)
Bernard Rothman(producer)
Jack Wohl(producer)

Outstanding Cinematography in Entertainment Programming for a Series

Winner
Captains and the Kings
7.8 (556)
Ric Waite(cinematographer)
For chapter 1.
Les hommes d'argent
6.9 (229)
Joseph F. Biroc
For part I. (Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
Baretta
6.7 (3.1K)
Sherman Kunkel(cinematographer)
For episode "Soldier In The Jungle".
Kojak
7.1 (9.7K)
Sol Negrin
For episode "A Shield for Murder", part 2.
M.A.S.H.
Episode:
Dear Sigmund
8.5 (67K)
William K. Jurgensen(cinematographer)
L'aigle et le vautour
8.0 (536)
J.J. Jones(cinematographer)
For part I.
Racines
8.4 (20K)
Stevan Larner(cinematographer)
For part II.
Racines
8.4 (20K)
Joseph M. Wilcots(cinematographer)
For part VII.

Outstanding Cinematography in Entertainment Programming for a Special

Winner
Raid sur Entebbe
6.7 (4K)
Bill Butler(cinematographer)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
7.9 (359)
James Crabe
The Loneliest Runner
7.2 (505)
Ted Voigtlander
Sybil
7.9 (7.7K)
Mario Tosi(cinematographer)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
Tail Gunner Joe
6.7 (208)
Ric Waite(cinematographer)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).

Outstanding Classical Program in the Performing Arts

Winner
Live from Lincoln Center
Episode:
American Ballet Theatre: Swan Lake
8.5 (309)
John Goberman(producer)
Great Performances: Dance in America
7.7 (62)
Jac Venza(executive producer)
Emile Ardolino(series coordinating producer)
Merrill Brockway(series producer)
For episode(s) "American Ballet Theatre".
Great Performances: Dance in America
Episode:
Martha Graham Dance Company
7.7 (62)
Jac Venza(executive producer)
Emile Ardolino(series coordinating producer)
Merrill Brockway(series producer)
Martha Graham(star)
Great Performances
Episode:
Arthur Rubinstein at 90
7.9 (1K)
Jac Venza(executive producer)
Klaus Hallig(executive producer)
Herbert G. Kloiber(executive producer)
David Griffiths(producer)
Fritz Buttenstedt(producer)
Artur Rubinstein(star)
The Bolshoi Ballet: Romeo and Juliet
8.6 (38)
Lothar Bock(executive producer)
Alvin Cooperman(producer)

Outstanding Comedy Series

Winner
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
8.3 (11K)
Allan Burns(executive producer)
James L. Brooks(executive producer)
Ed. Weinberger(producer)
Stan Daniels(producer)
All in the family
8.4 (20K)
Mort Lachman(executive producer)
Milt Josefsberg(producer)
Barney Miller
8.3 (8K)
Danny Arnold(executive producer/prodcuer)
Roland Kibbee(producer)
The Bob Newhart Show
8.1 (7.3K)
Tom Patchett(executive producer)
Jay Tarses(executive producer)
Michael Zinberg(producer)
Gordon Farr(producer)
Lynne Farr(producer)
M.A.S.H.
8.5 (67K)
Gene Reynolds(executive producer)
Allan Katz(producer)
Don Reo(producer)
Burt Metcalfe(producer)

Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Series

Winner
Van Dyke and Company
7.5 (61)
Byron Paul(executive producer)
Allan Blye(producer)
Bob Einstein(producer)
Dick Van Dyke(star)
The Carol Burnett Show
8.7 (7.8K)
Joe Hamilton(executive producer)
Ed Simmons(producer)
Carol Burnett(star)
Evening at Pops
6.8 (50)
William Cosel(producer)
Arthur Fiedler(star)
Le Muppet Show
8.4 (27K)
Jim Henson(executive producer)
David Lazer(executive producer)
Jack Burns(producer)
Frank Oz(star)
Richard Hunt(star)
Dave Goelz(star)
Eren Ozker(star)
John Lovelady(star)
Jerry Nelson(star)
Saturday Night Live
8.0 (56K)
Lorne Michaels(producer)

Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

Winner
Gary Burghoff
M.A.S.H.
For playing: "Corp. O'Reilly".
Abe Vigoda
Barney Miller
For playing: "Phil Fish".
Harry Morgan
M.A.S.H.
For playing: "Sherman Potter".
Edward Asner
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
For playing: "Lou Grant".
Ted Knight
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
For playing: "Ted Baxter".

Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

Winner
Gary Frank
Family
For playing: "Willie Lawrence".
Tom Ewell
Baretta
For playing: "Billy Truman".
David Doyle
Drôles de dames
For playing: "John Bosley".
Noah Beery Jr.
Deux cent dollars plus les frais
For playing: "Joseph Rockford".
Will Geer
La famille des collines
For playing: "Zebulon Walton".

Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Winner
Mary Kay Place
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
For playing: "Loretta Haggers".
Loretta Swit
M.A.S.H.
For playing: "Margaret Houlihan".
Georgia Engel
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
For playing: "Georgette Franklin".
Betty White
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
For playing: "Sue Ann Nivens".
Julie Kavner
Rhoda
For playing: "Brenda Morgenstern".

Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Winner
Kristy McNichol
Family
For playing: "Letitia Lawrence".
Lee Meriwether
Barnaby Jones
For playing: "Betty Jones".
Meredith Baxter
Family
For playing: "Nancy Lawrence Maitland".
Jacqueline Tong
Maîtres et valets
For playing: "Daisy Peel". (Shown within Masterpiece Theatre (1971)).
Ellen Corby
La famille des collines
For playing: "Esther Walton".

Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Variety or Music

Winner
Tim Conway
The Carol Burnett Show
Harvey Korman
The Carol Burnett Show
John Belushi
Saturday Night Live
For episode with Candice Bergen on 11 December 1976.
Chevy Chase
Saturday Night Live
For episode with Elliott Gould on 29 May 1976.
Ben Vereen
The Bell Telephone Jubilee

Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in Variety or Music

Winner
Rita Moreno
Le Muppet Show
For her guest appearance (episode 1.5).
Vicki Lawrence
The Carol Burnett Show
Gilda Radner
Saturday Night Live
For episode with Steve Martin on 26 February 1977.

Outstanding Directing in a Comedy - Variety or Music Series

Winner
The Carol Burnett Show
8.7 (7.8K)
Dave Powers(director)
For episode with Eydie Gormé on 12 February 1977.
Saturday Night Live
8.0 (56K)
Dave Wilson(director)
For episode with host Paul Simon on 20 November 1976.
Van Dyke and Company
7.5 (61)
John Moffitt(director)
For episode with John Denver.

Outstanding Directing in a Comedy - Variety or Music Special

Winner
America Salutes Richard Rodgers: The Sound of His Music
7.4 (36)
Dwight Hemion(director)
The Barry Manilow Special
8.5 (38)
Steve Binder(director)
The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
7.3 (63)
Tony Charmoli(director)
Sills and Burnett at the Met
8.8 (27)
Dave Powers(director)
Doug Henning's World of Magic
7.7 (19)
Walter C. Miller(director)

Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series

Winner
M.A.S.H.
Episode:
Dear Sigmund
8.5 (67K)
Alan Alda(director)
All in the family
Episode:
The Draft Dodger
8.4 (20K)
Paul Bogart(director)
M.A.S.H.
Episode:
The Nurses
8.5 (67K)
Joan Darling(director)
M.A.S.H.
Episode:
Lt. Radar O'Reilly
8.5 (67K)
Alan Rafkin(director)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Episode:
The Last Show
8.3 (11K)
Jay Sandrich(director)

Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series

Winner
Racines
8.4 (20K)
David Greene(director)
For part I.
La famille Adams
8.1 (227)
Fred Coe(director)
For episode "John Quincy Adams: President".
Racines
8.4 (20K)
Marvin J. Chomsky(director)
For part III.
Racines
8.4 (20K)
John Erman(director)
For part II.
Racines
8.4 (20K)
Gilbert Moses(director)
For part VI.

Outstanding Directing in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy

Winner
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
7.9 (359)
Daniel Petrie(director)
Helter Skelter
7.3 (4K)
Tom Gries(director)
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
7.0 (93)
Fielder Cook(director)
Raid sur Entebbe
6.7 (4K)
Irvin Kershner(director)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
Tail Gunner Joe
6.7 (208)
Jud Taylor(director)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).

Outstanding Drama Series

Winner
Maîtres et valets
8.4 (3.8K)
John Hawkesworth(producer)
Joan Sullivan(producer)
(Shown within Masterpiece Theatre (1971)).
Baretta
6.7 (3.1K)
Anthony Spinner(executive producer)
Bernard L. Kowalski(executive producer)
Leigh Vance(executive producer)
Charles Dismukes(producer)
Family
7.7 (2.2K)
Aaron Spelling(executive producer)
Leonard Goldberg(executive producer)
Mike Nichols(executive producer)
Nigel McKeand(producer)
Columbo
8.3 (45K)
Everett Chambers
(Shown within The NBC Mystery Movie (1971).)
Police Story
7.5 (1.3K)
David Gerber(executive producer)
Liam O'Brien(producer)
Mel Swope(co-producer)

Outstanding Film Editing for a Special

Winner
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
7.9 (359)
Rita Roland
Michael S. McLean
Les 21 heures de Munich
6.3 (1.3K)
Ronald J. Fagan
Helter Skelter
7.3 (4K)
Byron 'Buzz' Brandt
Bud S. Isaacs
The Loneliest Runner
7.2 (505)
John Loeffler(editor)
Raid sur Entebbe
6.7 (4K)
Bud S. Isaacs
Art Seid
Nick Archer
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).

Outstanding Film Editing in a Comedy Series

Winner
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Episode:
Murray Can't Lose
8.3 (11K)
Douglas Hines
M.A.S.H.
Episode:
Dear Sigmund
8.5 (67K)
Samuel E. Beetley
Stanford Tischler

Outstanding Film Editing in a Drama Series

Winner
Racines
8.4 (20K)
Neil Travis(editor)
For part I.
Les héritiers
7.6 (900)
Jerrold Ludwig(editor)
For chapter 3.
Racines
8.4 (20K)
James T. Heckert(editor)
For part VIII.
Racines
8.4 (20K)
Peter Kirby(editor)
For part III.
Racines
8.4 (20K)
Neil Travis(editor)
James T. Heckert(editor)
For part II.

Outstanding Individual Achievement in Any Area of Creative Technical Crafts

Winner
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
7.9 (359)
Emma M. diVittorio(hairstylist)
Vivienne Walker(hairstylist)
La petite maison dans la prairie
7.5 (29K)
Larry Germain(hairstylist)
For episode "To Live With Fear", parts I & II.
The 28th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
5.8 (57)
Dick Wilson(live sound mixing)
Doug Nelson(live sound mixing)
The Great Houdini
6.4 (471)
Naomi Cavin(hairstylist)
Victoire à Entebbé
5.9 (1.3K)
Bob Biggart(tape sound editing)
Pat Somerset(tape sound editing)

Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming

Winner
Pinocchio
5.9 (251)
Jerry Greene(video tape editor)
CBS
Winner
Peter Pan
6.6 (260)
Jenn de Joux(videoanimation)
Elizabeth Savel(videoanimation)
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Winner
Pinocchio
5.9 (251)
Bill Hargate(costume designer)
The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People
Episode:
Making Pictures with Music (New York Philharmonic Young People's Concert)
6.9 (63)
Michael Tilson Thomas(music director)
Pinocchio
5.9 (251)
Stan Winston(makeup designer)
Larry Abbott(makeup artist)
Edwin Butterworth(makeup artist)

Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series

Winner
Louis Gossett Jr.
Racines
For playing "Fiddler". For episode: "Part 2".
John Amos
Racines
For playing "Toby". For episode: "Part V".
LeVar Burton
Racines
For playing "Kunta Kinte". For episode: "Part I".
Ben Vereen
Racines
For playing "George Moore". For episode: "Part VI".

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

Winner
Carroll O'Connor
All in the family
For playing: "Archie Bunker".
Hal Linden
Barney Miller
For playing: "Barney Miller".
Jack Albertson
Chico and the Man
For playing: "Ed Brown".
Henry Winkler
Happy Days - Les jours heureux
For playing: "Arthur Fonzarelli".
Alan Alda
M.A.S.H.
For playing: "Hawkeye Pierce".

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Winner
James Garner
Deux cent dollars plus les frais
For playing: "Jim Rockford".
Robert Blake
Baretta
For playing: "Tony Baretta".
Peter Falk
Columbo
For playing: "Columbo".
Jack Klugman
Quincy
For playing: "Dr. R. Quincy".
Karl Malden
Les rues de San Francisco
For playing: "Mike Stone".

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama or Comedy Special

Winner
Ed Flanders
Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking
For playing: "Harry S. Truman".
George C. Scott
Beauty and the Beast
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
For playing "The Beast".
Edward Herrmann
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
For playing: "Franklin D. Roosevelt".
Peter Finch
Raid sur Entebbe
For playing: "Yitzhak Rabin". Posthumous nomination, Finch died 5 days after the film was broadcast.(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
Peter Boyle
Tail Gunner Joe
For playing: "Joe McCarthy". (Shown within The Big Event (1976)).

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series

Winner
Christopher Plummer
Les hommes d'argent
For playing: "Roscoe Heyward". (Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
Richard Jordan
Captains and the Kings
For playing: "Joseph Armagh".
Stanley Baker
How Green Was My Valley
For playing: "Gwilym Morgan". (Shown within Masterpiece Theatre (1971)). Posthumous nomination.
Steven Keats
Septième Avenue
For playing: "Jay Blackman".

Outstanding Lead Actress for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series

Winner
Beulah Bondi
La famille des collines
For playing: "Martha Corinne Walton". For episode "The Pony Cart".
Susan Blakely
Les héritiers
For playing: "Julie Prescott". For chapter 1.
Madge Sinclair
Racines
For playing "Bell Reynolds". For episode: "Part IV".
Leslie Uggams
Racines
For playing "Kizzy Reynolds". For episode: "Part VI".
Jessica Walter
Les rues de San Francisco
For playing: "Maggie Jarris". For episode "'Til Death Us Do Part".

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

Winner
Bea Arthur
Maude
For playing: "Maude Findlay".
Jean Stapleton
All in the family
For playing: "Edith Bunker".
Suzanne Pleshette
The Bob Newhart Show
For playing: "Emily Hartley".
Mary Tyler Moore
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
For playing: "Mary Richards".
Valerie Harper
Rhoda
For playing: "Rhoda Morgenstern".

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Winner
Lindsay Wagner
Super Jaimie
For playing: "Jaime Sommers".
Kate Jackson
Drôles de dames
For playing: "Sabrina Duncan".
Sada Thompson
Family
For playing: "Kate Lawrence".
Angie Dickinson
Sergent Anderson
For playing: "Leann Anderson".
Michael Learned
La famille des collines
For playing: "Olivia Walton".

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama or Comedy Special

Winner
Sally Field
Sybil
For playing: "Sybil". (Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
Susan Clark
Amelia Earhart
For playing: "Amelia Earhart".
Jane Alexander
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
For playing: "Eleanor Roosevelt".
Julie Harris
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
For playing: "Mary Todd Lincoln".
Joanne Woodward
Sybil
For playing: "Cornelia Wilbur". (Shown within The Big Event (1976)).

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series

Winner
Patty Duke
Captains and the Kings
For playing: "Bernadette Hennessey".
Dori Brenner
Septième Avenue
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
For playing: "Rhoda Gold Blackman".
Susan Flannery
Les hommes d'argent
For playing: "Margot Bracken". (Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
Jane Seymour
Captains and the Kings
For playing: "Marjorie Chisholm".
Eva Marie Saint
La conquête de l'Ouest
For playing: "Kate Macahan".

Outstanding Limited Series

Winner
Racines
8.4 (20K)
David L. Wolper(executive producer)
Stan Margulies(producer)
La famille Adams
8.1 (227)
Jac Venza(executive producer)
Virginia Kassel(series producer)
Robert Costello(coordinating producer)
Fred Coe(producer)
James Cellan Jones(producer)
Les hommes d'argent
6.9 (229)
Ross Hunter(producer)
Jacque Mapes(producer)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
Captains and the Kings
7.8 (556)
Roy Huggins(executive producer)
Jo Swerling Jr.(producer)
Madame Bovary
7.1 (134)
Richard Beynon(producer)
(Shown within Masterpiece Theatre (1971)).

Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special

Winner
Burgess Meredith
Tail Gunner Joe
For playing: "Joseph Welch". (Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
Mark Harmon
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
For playing: "Robert Dunlap".
Walter McGinn
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
For playing: "Louis Howe". Posthumous nomination.
Martin Balsam
Raid sur Entebbe
For playing: "Daniel Cooper". (Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
Yaphet Kotto
Raid sur Entebbe
For playing: "President Idi Amin Jr.". (Shown within The Big Event (1976)).

Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Special

Winner
Diana Hyland
L'enfant bulle
American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
For playing: "Mickey Lubitch". Nomination and award were posthumous. The award was accepted by John Travolta.
Susan Oliver
Amelia Earhart
For playing: "Neta Snook".
Rosemary Murphy
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
For playing: "Sara Delano Roosevelt".
Ruth Gordon
The Great Houdini
For playing: "Cecilia Weiss".
Patricia Neal
Tail Gunner Joe
For playing: "Margaret Chase Smith". (Shown within The Big Event (1976)).

Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Series

Winner
Edward Asner
Racines
For playing "Captain Thomas Davies". For episode: "Part I".
Charles Durning
Captains and the Kings
For playing: "Ed Healey". For episode: "Chapter 2".
Moses Gunn
Racines
For playing "Kintango". For episode: "Part I".
Robert Reed
Racines
For playing "William Reynolds". For episode: "Part V".
Ralph Waite
Racines
For playing "Third mate Slater". For episode: "Part I".

Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Series

Winner
Olivia Cole
Racines
For playing "Mathilda". For episode: "Part VIII".
Eileen Heckart
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
For playing: "Flo Meredith". For episode: "Lou Proposes".
Nancy Walker
Rhoda
For playing: "Ida Morgenstern". For episode "The Separation".
Sandy Duncan
Racines
For playing "Missy Anne Reynolds". For episode: "Part V".
Cicely Tyson
Racines
For playing "Binta". For episode: "Part I".

Outstanding Special - Comedy-Variety or Music

Winner
The Barry Manilow Special
8.5 (38)
Miles Lourie(executive producer)
Steve Binder(producer)
Barry Manilow(star)
Neil Diamond: Love at the Greek
7.7 (34)
Jerry Weintraub(executive producer)
Gary Smith(producer)
Dwight Hemion(producer)
Neil Diamond(star)
The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
7.3 (63)
George Schlatter(producer)
Shirley MacLaine(star)
Sills and Burnett at the Met
8.8 (27)
Joe Hamilton(producer)
Beverly Sills(star)
Carol Burnett(star)
Doug Henning's World of Magic
7.7 (19)
Jerry Goldstein(executive producer)
Walter C. Miller(producer)
Doug Henning(star)

Outstanding Special - Drama or Comedy

Winner
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
7.9 (359)
David Susskind(executive producer)
Harry R. Sherman(producer)
Tied with Sybil (1976).
Winner
Sybil
7.9 (7.7K)
Peter Dunne(executive producer)
Philip Capice(executive producer)
Jacqueline Babbin(producer)
Tied with Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977). (Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
Les 21 heures de Munich
6.3 (1.3K)
Edward S. Feldman(executive producer)
Frank von Zerneck(producer)
Robert Greenwald(producer)
Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking
8.3 (35)
David Susskind(producer)
Raid sur Entebbe
6.7 (4K)
Edgar J. Scherick(executive producer)
Daniel H. Blatt(executive producer)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).

Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series

Winner
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
8.3 (11K)
Allan Burns(writer)
James L. Brooks(writer)
Ed. Weinberger(writer)
Stan Daniels(writer)
David Lloyd(writer)
Bob Ellison(writer)
For The Last Show (1977)
Barney Miller
8.3 (8K)
Tony Sheehan(writer)
Danny Arnold(writer)
For Quarantine: Part 2 (1976)
M.A.S.H.
8.5 (67K)
Alan Alda(writer)
For Dear Sigmund (1976)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
8.3 (11K)
David Lloyd(writer)
For Mary Midwife (1976)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
8.3 (11K)
Earl Pomerantz(writer)
For Ted's Change of Heart (1976)

Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series

Winner
Saturday Night Live
8.0 (56K)
Dan Aykroyd(writer)
Al Franken(writer)
Tom Davis(writer)
James Downey(writer)
Lorne Michaels(writer)
Marilyn Suzanne Miller(writer)
Michael O'Donoghue(writer)
Herbert Sargent(writer)
Tom Schiller(writer)
Rosie Shuster(writer)
Alan Zweibel(writer)
John Belushi(writer)
Bill Murray(writer)
For episode with Sissy Spacek.
The Carol Burnett Show
8.7 (7.8K)
Ed Simmons(writer)
Roger Beatty(writer)
Elias Davis(writer)
David Pollock(writer)
Rick Hawkins(writer)
Liz Sage(writer)
Adele Styler(writer)
Burt Styler(writer)
Tim Conway(writer)
Bill Richmond(writer)
Gene Perret(writer)
Dick Clair(writer)
Jenna McMahon(writer)
For episode with Eydie Gormé.
Le Muppet Show
8.4 (27K)
Jim Henson(writer)
Jack Burns(writer)
Marc London(writer)
Jerry Juhl(writer)
For episode with Paul Williams (#1.8).
Saturday Night Live
8.0 (56K)
Anne Beatts(writer)
Chevy Chase(writer)
Al Franken(writer)
Tom Davis(writer)
Lorne Michaels(writer)
Marilyn Suzanne Miller(writer)
Michael O'Donoghue(writer)
Herbert Sargent(writer)
Tom Schiller(writer)
Rosie Shuster(writer)
Alan Zweibel(writer)
For episode with Elliott Gould.
Van Dyke and Company
7.5 (61)
Bob Einstein(writer)
Allan Blye(writer)
George Burditt(writer)
Garry Ferrier(writer)
Ken Finkleman(writer)
Mitch Markowitz(writer)
Tom McLoughlin(writer)
Don Novello(writer)
Pat Proft(writer)
Leonard Ripps(writer)
Mickey Rose(writer)
Aubrey Tadman(writer)
Dick Van Dyke(writer)
Paul Wayne(writer)
For episode with John Denver.

Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Special

Winner
America Salutes Richard Rodgers: The Sound of His Music
7.4 (36)
Buz Kohan(writer)
Theodore Strauss(writer)
The Barry Manilow Special
8.5 (38)
Alan Thicke(writer)
Don Clark(writer)
Susan Clark(writer)
Ronny Pearlman(writer)
Steve Binder(writer)
Barry Manilow(writer)
Bruce Vilanch(writer)
An Evening with Diana Ross
9.0 (57)
Bill Dyer(writer)
Ntozake Shange(writer)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
John Denver and Friend
8.4 (19)
Digby Wolfe(writer)
George Schlatter(writer)
Sills and Burnett at the Met
8.8 (27)
Ken Welch(writer)
Mitzie Welch(writer)
Kenny Solms(writer)
Gail Parent(writer)

Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series

Winner
Racines
8.4 (20K)
Ernest Kinoy(writer)
William Blinn(writer)
For part II.
La famille Adams
8.1 (227)
Roger O. Hirson(writer)
For episode "Charles Francis Adams: Minister to Great Britain".
La famille Adams
8.1 (227)
Tad Mosel(writer)
For episode "John Quincy Adams: President".
Racines
8.4 (20K)
M. Charles Cohen(writer)
For part VIII.
Racines
8.4 (20K)
James Lee(writer)
For part V.

Outstanding Writing in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy - Adaptation

Winner
Sybil
7.9 (7.7K)
Stewart Stern(writer)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
A Circle of Children
7.3 (134)
Steve Gethers(writer)
Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking
8.3 (35)
Carol Sobieski(writer)
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
7.0 (93)
John McGreevey(writer)
L'Homme au masque de fer
6.6 (3.6K)
William Bast(writer)

Outstanding Writing in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy - Original Teleplay

Winner
Tail Gunner Joe
6.7 (208)
Lane Slate(writer)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
L'enfant bulle
5.8 (5.9K)
Douglas Day Stewart(teleplay/story)
Joe Morgenstern(story)
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
7.9 (359)
James Costigan(writer)
Raid sur Entebbe
6.7 (4K)
Barry Beckerman(writer)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
Victoire à Entebbé
5.9 (1.3K)
Ernest Kinoy(writer)

Special Classification of Outstanding Individual Achievement

Winner
NBC: The First Fifty Years
7.8 (35)
Allen Brewster(video tape editing)
Bob Roethle(video tape editing)
William Lorenz(video tape editing)
Manuel Martínez(video tape editing)
Ron Fleury(video tape editing)
Mike Welch(video tape editing)
Jerry Burling(video tape editing)
Walter Balderson(video tape editing)
Chuck Droege(video tape editing)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
Winner
NBC: The First Fifty Years
7.8 (35)
George Pitts(film editing)
Clay Cassell(film editing)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
7.3 (2.2K)
Enzo A. Martinelli(cinematographer)
For episode "Mystery of the Haunted House".
Life Goes to the Movies
7.8 (56)
Robert K. Lambert(film editor)
Peter C. Johnson(film editor)
(Shown within The Big Event (1976)).