29th Primetime Emmy Awards
29th Primetime Emmy Awards | |
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Academy of Television Arts and Sciences | |
Hosted by | Angie Dickinson Robert Blake |
Highlights | |
Most awards | Roots (6) |
Most nominations | Roots (21) |
Outstanding Comedy Series | The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
Outstanding Drama Series | Upstairs, Downstairs |
Outstanding Limited Series | Roots |
Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Series | Van Dyke and Company |
Website | https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1977 |
Television/radio coverage | |
Network | NBC |
The 29th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 11, 1977. The ceremony was broadcast on NBC. It was hosted by Angie Dickinson and Robert Blake.
The top shows of the night were Mary Tyler Moore, which, in its final season, won its third consecutive Outstanding Comedy Series Award, it also became the first comedy series to gain eleven major nominations (since broken). Upstairs, Downstairs, also in its final season, won its third Outstanding Drama Series Award in four years (it competed as a miniseries in 1976, and won that category too). But the overwhelming champion of the ceremony was the miniseries Roots.
Roots set several milestones and broke multiple records during the night. It became the first show to receive at least twenty major nominations (21). Adding its nominations in
Other distinctions included
With this ceremony, the Primetime Emmys began a long residency at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium that would continue until 1997.
Winners and nominees
Programs
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Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Series
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Outstanding Special - Comedy-Variety or Music
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Outstanding Special - Drama or Comedy
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Outstanding Limited Series
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Acting
Lead performances
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Outstanding Lead Actor in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy
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Outstanding Lead Actress in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy
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Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series
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Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series
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Supporting performances
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Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special
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Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Special
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Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Variety or Music
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Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in Variety or Music
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Single performances
Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series
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Outstanding Lead Actress for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series
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Directing
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Outstanding Directing in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy
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Writing
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Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Special
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Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series
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Outstanding Writing in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy - Original Teleplay
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Outstanding Writing in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy - Adaptation
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Most major nominations
- By network [note 1]
Network | Number of Nominations |
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ABC | 59 |
CBS | 48 |
NBC | |
PBS | 14 |
Program | Category | Network | Number of Nominations |
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Roots | Limited | ABC | 21 |
The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Comedy | CBS | 11 |
M*A*S*H | 9 | ||
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years | Special | ABC | 8 |
Saturday Night | Variety | NBC | 7 |
The Carol Burnett Show | CBS | 6 | |
Raid on Entebbe | Special | NBC | |
Captains and the Kings | Limited | 5 | |
Family | Drama | ABC | |
Tail Gunner Joe | Special | NBC | |
The Adams Chronicles | Limited | PBS | 4 |
All in the Family | Comedy | CBS | |
Barney Miller | ABC | ||
Sybil | Special | NBC | |
The Waltons | Drama | CBS | |
Baretta | ABC | 3 | |
The Barry Manilow Special | Variety | ||
Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking | Special | PBS | |
The Moneychangers | Limited | NBC | |
The Muppet Show | Variety | Syndicated | |
Rhoda | Comedy | CBS | |
Sills and Burnett at the Met | Variety | ||
Van Dyke and Company | NBC | ||
Amelia Earhart | Special | 2 | |
America Salutes Richard Rodgers: The Sound of His Music | Variety | CBS | |
The Bob Newhart Show | Comedy | ||
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble | Special | ABC | |
Charlie's Angels | Drama | ||
Columbo | NBC | ||
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys | Special | ||
The Rockford Files | Drama | ||
Seventh Avenue | Limited | ||
The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here? | Variety | CBS | |
The Streets of San Francisco | Drama | ABC | |
Upstairs, Downstairs | PBS | ||
World of Magic | Variety | NBC |
Most major awards
Network | Number of Awards |
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ABC | 13 |
CBS | 11 |
NBC | 9 |
PBS | 2 |
Program | Category | Network | Number of Awards |
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Roots | Limited | ABC | 6 |
Sybil | Special | NBC | 3 |
America Salutes Richard Rodgers: The Sound of His Music | Variety | CBS | 2 |
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years | Special | ABC | |
Family | Drama | ||
M*A*S*H | Comedy | CBS | |
The Mary Tyler Moore Show | |||
Tail Gunner Joe | Special | NBC |
- Notes
- ^ technical categories.
References
External links
- 1977 nominees and winners at Emmys.com
- 29th Primetime Emmy Awards at IMDb