Entertainment: Emmy Awards
The categories and titles of the Emmy Awards changed almost every year. This list contains a selection of the
television awards generally considered to be the most important. Programs followed by an asterisk (*) are the
subject of their own full-length essay withinThe Nineties in America.
1990-1991
Outstanding Drama Series:L.A. Law(NBC)
Outstanding Comedy Series:Cheers(NBC)
Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special and
Miniseries:Separate but Equal(ABC)
Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Program:
The Sixty-third Annual Academy Awards(ABC)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series: James
Earl Jones,Gabriel’s Fire(ABC)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series:
Patricia Wettig,thirtysomething(ABC)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Burt
Reynolds,Evening Shade(CBS)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series:
Kirstie Alley,Cheers(NBC)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series:
Timothy Busfield,thirtysomething(ABC)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series:
Madge Sinclair,Gabriel’s Fire(ABC)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series:
Jonathan Winters,Davis Rules(ABC)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy
Series: Bebe Neuwirth,Cheers(NBC)
Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series: Thomas
Carter,Equal Justice(ABC)
Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series: James
Burrows,Cheers(NBC)
Outstanding Directing in a Variety or Music
Program: Hal Gurnee,Late Night with David
Letterman(NBC)
1991-1992
Outstanding Drama Series:Northern Exposure
(CBS)
Outstanding Comedy Series:Murphy Brown
(CBS)
Outstanding Miniseries:A Woman Named Jackie
(NBC)
Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special:Cirque du
Soleil II: A New Experience(HBO)
Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Series:
Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson(NBC)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series:
Christopher Lloyd,Avonlea(Disney)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Dana
Delany,China Beach(ABC)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Craig
T. Nelson,Coach(ABC)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series:
Candice Bergen,Murphy Brown*(CBS)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series:
Richard Dysart,L.A. Law(NBC)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series:
Valerie Mahaffey,Northern Exposure*(CBS)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series:
Michael Jeter,Evening Shade(CBS)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy
Series: Laurie Metcalf,Roseanne(ABC)
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing
in a Drama Series: Eric Laneuville,I’ll Fly Away
(NBC)
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing
in a Comedy Series: Barnet Kellman,Murphy
Brown*(CBS)
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing
in a Variety or Music Program: Patricia Birch,
Unforgettable, with Love: Natalie Cole Sings the
Songs of Nat King Cole(PBS)1992-1993
Outstanding Drama Series:Picket Fences(CBS)
Outstanding Comedy Series:Seinfeld*(NBC)
Outstanding Miniseries:Prime Suspect 2: Myster y
(PBS)
Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special:Bob Hope:
The First Ninety Years(NBC)
Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Series:
Saturday Night Live(NBC)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Tom
Skerritt,Picket Fences(CBS)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Kathy
Baker,Picket Fences(CBS)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Ted
Danson,Cheers(NBC)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series:
Roseanne Arnold,Roseanne(ABC)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series:
Chad Lowe,Life Goes On(ABC)