47th Primetime Emmy Awards

47th Primetime Emmy Awards
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Date	September 10, 1995 (Ceremony) September 9, 1995 (Creative Arts Awards)
Location	Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Hosted by	Jason Alexander Cybill Shepherd
Highlights
Most awards	Frasier (5)
Most nominations	ER (11)
Outstanding Comedy Series	Frasier
Outstanding Drama Series	NYPD Blue
Outstanding Miniseries	Joseph
Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Television/radio coverage
Network	Fox
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The 47th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 10, 1995. The ceremony was hosted by Jason Alexander and Cybill Shepherd. It was broadcast on Fox.

Frasier won its second consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series and led all shows with five major wins. For the second straight year, a freshman drama series came into the ceremony with a bevy of major nominations, but failed to win for Outstanding Drama Series. ER led all shows with 11 major nominations and won three major awards, but lost the top prize to NYPD Blue, which was in a similar situation to ER the previous year.

Candice Bergen's win for the seventh season of Murphy Brown made her the third performer to win five Emmys for playing the same character. She declined to be submitted for any future seasons of the show.

Marvin Hamlisch's win made him the sixth person to become an EGOT.

Winners and nominees[]

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Programs[]

Outstanding Comedy Series	Outstanding Drama Series
Frasier, (NBC) Friends, (NBC) The Larry Sanders Show, (HBO) Mad About You, (NBC) Seinfeld, (NBC)	NYPD Blue, (ABC) Chicago Hope, (CBS) ER, (NBC) Law & Order, (NBC) The X-Files, (Fox)
Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series	Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, (NBC) Dennis Miller Live, (HBO) Late Show with David Letterman, (CBS) MTV Unplugged, (MTV) Politically Incorrect, (Comedy Central)	Barbra: The Concert, (HBO) The 67th Annual Academy Awards, (ABC) AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Steven Spielberg, (NBC) A Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman, (NBC) Eagles: Hell Freezes Over, (MTV)
Outstanding Made for Television Movie	Outstanding Miniseries
Indictment: The McMartin Trial, (HBO) The Burning Season, (HBO) Citizen X, (HBO) The Piano Lesson, (CBS) Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, (NBC)	Joseph, (TNT) Buffalo Girls, (CBS) Children of the Dust, (CBS) Martin Chuzzlewit, (PBS) A Woman of Independent Means, (NBC)

Acting[]

Lead performances[]

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Frasier Crane on Frasier (Episode: "Adventures in Paradise", Part 2), (NBC) John Goodman as Dan Conner on Roseanne (Episode: "The Blaming of the Shrew"), (ABC) Paul Reiser as Paul Buchman on Mad About You (Episode: "Cake Fear"), (NBC) Jerry Seinfeld as Jerry Seinfeld on Seinfeld (Episode: "The Diplomat's Club"), (NBC) Garry Shandling as Larry Sanders on The Larry Sanders Show (Episode: "The Mr. Sharon Stone Show"), (HBO)	Candice Bergen as Murphy Brown on Murphy Brown (Episode: "Requiem for a Crew Guy"), (CBS) Roseanne Barr as Roseanne Conner on Roseanne (Episode: "Thanksgiving 1994"), (ABC) Ellen DeGeneres as Ellen Morgan on Ellen (Episode: "The Spa"), (ABC) Helen Hunt as Jamie Buchman on Mad About You (Episode: "The Ride Home"), (NBC) Cybill Shepherd as Cybill Sheridan on Cybill (Episode: "Virgin, Mother, Crone"), (CBS)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Mandy Patinkin as Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on Chicago Hope (Episode: "Over the Rainbow"), (CBS) George Clooney as Dr. Doug Ross on ER (Episode: "Long Day's Journey"), (NBC) Anthony Edwards as Dr. Mark Greene on ER (Episode: "Love's Labor Lost"), (NBC) Dennis Franz as Andy Sipowicz on NYPD Blue (Episode: "A.D.A. Sipowicz"), (ABC) Jimmy Smits as Bobby Simone on NYPD Blue (Episode: "The Bookie and Kooky Cookie"), (ABC)	Kathy Baker as Jill Brock on Picket Fences (Episode: "Frogman Returns"), (CBS) Claire Danes as Angela Chase on My So-Called Life (Episode: "Pilot"), (ABC) Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote (Episode: "Dear Deadly"), (CBS) Sherry Stringfield as Dr. Susan Lewis on ER (Episode: "Motherhood"), (NBC) Cicely Tyson as Carrie Grace Battle on Sweet Justice (Episode: "In the Name of the Sun"), (NBC)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special
Raul Julia as Chico Mendes on The Burning Season (HBO) Charles S. Dutton as Boy Willie Charles on The Piano Lesson (CBS) John Goodman as Huey P. Long on Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (TNT) John Lithgow as Tom Bradley and Bob Bradley on My Brother's Keeper (CBS) James Woods as Danny Davis on Indictment: The McMartin Trial (HBO)	Glenn Close as Margarethe Cammermeyer on Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (NBC) Sally Field as Bess Gardner Steed on A Woman of Independent Means (NBC) Anjelica Huston as Calamity Jane on Buffalo Girls (CBS) Diane Keaton as Amelia Earhart on Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight (TNT) Alfre Woodard as Berniece Charles on The Piano Lesson (CBS)

Supporting performances[]

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
David Hyde Pierce as Dr. Niles Crane on Frasier (Episodes: "Flour Child" + "An Affair to Forget") (NBC) Jason Alexander as George Costanza on Seinfeld (Episodes: "The Gymnast" + The Race), (NBC) Michael Richards as Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld (Episodes: "The Jimmy" + "The Fusilli Jerry"), (NBC) David Schwimmer as Dr. Ross Geller on Friends (Episodes: "The One with the Sonogram at the End" + "The One with the Blackout"), (NBC) Rip Torn as Arthur on The Larry Sanders Show (Episodes: "Like No Business I Know" + "Arthur's Crisis"), (HBO)	Christine Baranski as Maryann Thorpe on Cybill (Episode: "Starting on the Wrong Foot") (CBS) Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay on Friends (Episodes: "The One with the Monkey" + "The One with Two Parts: Part 1"), (NBC) Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes on Seinfeld (Episodes: "The Beard" + "The Fusilli Jerry"), (NBC) Laurie Metcalf as Jackie Harris on Roseanne (Episodes: "Bed and Bored" + "Single Married Female"), (ABC) Liz Torres as Mahalia Sanchez on The John Larroquette Show (Episodes: "Faith" + "In the Pink"), (NBC)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Ray Walston as Henry Bone on Picket Fences (Episode: "Final Judgement"), (CBS) Héctor Elizondo as Dr. Phillip Watters on Chicago Hope (Episodes: "You Gotta Have Heart" + "Great White Hope"), (CBS) James Earl Jones as Neb Langston on Under One Roof (Episodes: "Pilot" + "Daddy's Girl"), (CBS) Eriq La Salle as Dr. Peter Benton on ER (Episodes: "9½ Hours" + "Everything Old Is New Again"), (NBC) Noah Wyle as Dr. John Carter on ER (Episodes: "Hit and Run" + "Sleepless in Chicago"), (NBC)	Julianna Margulies as Carol Hathaway on ER (Episodes: "Make of Two Hearts" + "Sleepless in Chicago"), (NBC) Barbara Babcock as Dorothy Jennings on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (Episode: "Ladies Night"), (CBS) Tyne Daly as Alice Henderson on Christy (Episode: "The Hunt"), (CBS) Sharon Lawrence as Sylvia Costas on NYPD Blue (Episodes: "Travels With Andy" + "Un-American Graffiti"), (ABC) Gail O'Grady as Donna Abandando on NYPD Blue (Episodes: "A Murder With Teeth In It" + "Un-American Graffiti"), (ABC)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special
Donald Sutherland as Fetisov on Citizen X (HBO) Jeffrey DeMunn as Chikatillo on Citizen X (HBO) Sam Elliott as Wild Bill Hickok on Buffalo Girls, (CBS) Ben Kingsley as Potiphar on Joseph (TNT) Edward James Olmos as Wilson Pinheiro on The Burning Season (HBO)	Judy Davis as Diane on Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (NBC) Shirley Knight as Peggy Buckey on Indictment: The McMartin Trial (HBO) Sônia Braga as Regina De Carvalho on The Burning Season (HBO) Sissy Spacek as Spring Renfro on The Good Old Boys (TNT) Sada Thompson as Virginia McMartin on Indictment: The McMartin Trial (HBO)

Guest performances[]

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series	Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
Carl Reiner as Alan Brady on Mad About You (Episode: "The Alan Brady Show"), (NBC) Sid Caesar as Mr. Stein on Love & War (Episode: "At the Pantheon", Part 2), (CBS) Nathan Lane as Phil on Frasier (Episode: "Fool Me Once, Shame On You. Fool Me Twice..."), (NBC) Robert Pastorelli as Eldin Bernecky on Murphy Brown (Episode: "Bye, Bye Bernecky"), (CBS) Paul Reubens as Andrew J. Lansing III on Murphy Brown (Episode: "The Good Nephew"), (NBC)	Cyndi Lauper as Marianne Lugasso on Mad About You (Episode: "Money Changes Everything"), (NBC) Bebe Neuwirth as Lilith Sternin on Frasier (Episode: "Adventures in Paradise", Part 2), (NBC) Christina Pickles as Judy Geller on Friends (Episode: "The One Where Nana Dies Twice"), (NBC) Jean Stapleton as Aunt Vivian on Grace Under Fire (Episode: "The Road to Paris, Texas"), (ABC) JoBeth Williams as Madeline on Frasier (Episode: "Adventures in Paradise", Part 2), (NBC)
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series	Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
Paul Winfield as Judge Harold Nance on Picket Fences (Episode: "Enemy Lines"), (CBS) Milton Berle as Saul Howard on Beverly Hills, 90210 (Episode: "Sentenced to Life"), (Fox) Beau Bridges as Simon Kress on The Outer Limits (Episode: "Sandkings"), (Showtime) Vondie Curtis-Hall as Rena on ER (Episode: "ER Confidential"), (NBC) Alan Rosenberg as Sam Gasner on ER (Episode: "Into That Good Night"), (NBC)	Shirley Knight as Agnes Cantwell on NYPD Blue (Episode: "Large Mouth Bass"), (ABC) Amy Brenneman as Janice Licalsi on NYPD Blue (Episode: "For Whom the Skell Tolls"), (ABC) Rosemary Clooney as Madame X on ER (Episode: "Going Home"), (NBC) Colleen Flynn as Jodi O'Brien on ER (Episode: "Love's Labor Lost"), (NBC) C. C. H. Pounder as Agent Kazdin on The X-Files (Episode: "Duane Barry"), (Fox)

Directing[]

Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Comedy Series	Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Drama Series
David Lee, for Frasier (Episode: "The Matchmaker"), (NBC) Andy Ackerman for Seinfeld (Episode: "The Jimmy"), (NBC) James Burrows for Friends (Episode: "The One with the Blackout"), (NBC) Todd Holland for The Larry Sanders Show (Episode: "Hank's Night in the Sun"), (HBO) Lee Shallat Chemel, for The Nanny (Episode: "Canasta Master"), (CBS)	Mimi Leder for ER (Episode: "Love's Labor Lost"), (NBC) Lou Antonio for Chicago Hope (Episode: "Life Support"), (CBS) Rod Holcomb for ER (Episode: "Pilot"), (NBC) Mark Tinker for NYPD Blue (Episode: "Innuendo"), (ABC) Scott Winant for My So-Called Life (Episode: "Pilot"), (ABC)
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Variety or Music Program	Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Miniseries or a Special
Jeff Margolis for The 67th Annual Academy Awards, (ABC) Ellen Brown for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, (NBC) Hal Gurnee for Late Show with David Letterman, (CBS) Louis J. Horvitz for The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts, (CBS) Barbra Streisand, Dwight Hemion for Barbra: The Concert, (HBO)	John Frankenheimer for The Burning Season, (HBO) Jeff Bleckner for Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, (NBC) Chris Gerolmo for Citizen X, (HBO) Mick Jackson for Indictment: The McMartin Trial, (HBO) Lloyd Richards for The Piano Lesson, (CBS)

Writing[]

Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Comedy Series	Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Drama Series
Chuck Ranberg, Anne Flett-Giordano for Frasier (Episode: "An Affair to Forget"), (NBC) Jeff Greenstein, Jeff Strauss for Friends (Episode: "The One Where Underdog Gets Away"), (NBC) Joe Keenan for Frasier (Episode: "The Matchmaker"), (NBC) Garry Shandling, Peter Tolan for The Larry Sanders Show (Episode: "The Mr. Sharon Stone Show"), (HBO) Peter Tolan for The Larry Sanders Show (Episode: "Hank's Night in the Sun"), (HBO)	Lance Gentile for ER (Episode: "Love's Labor Lost"), (NBC) Chris Carter for The X-Files (Episode: "Duane Barry"), (Fox) Michael Crichton for ER (Episode: "Pilot"), (NBC) Winnie Holzman for My So-Called Life (Episode: "Pilot"), (ABC) David Milch, Walon Green, Steven Bochco for NYPD Blue (Episode: "Simone Says"), (ABC)
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Variety or Music Program	Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Miniseries or a Special
Dennis Miller Live, (HBO) Late Show with David Letterman (Episode: "Video Special"), (CBS) Politically Incorrect, (Comedy Central) The Kids in the Hall, (CBS) Mystery Science Theater 3000, (Comedy Central)	Alison Cross for Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, (NBC) Chris Gerolmo for Citizen X, (HBO) Abby Mann, Myra Mann for Indictment: The McMartin Trial, (HBO) William Mastrosimone, Michael Tolkin, Ron Hutchinson for The Burning Season, (HBO) August Wilson for The Piano Lesson, (CBS)

Most major nominations[]

By network ^{[note 1]}

• NBC – 56
• CBS – 32
• HBO – 27
• ABC – 20

By program

• ER (NBC) – 11
• Frasier (NBC) / NYPD Blue (ABC) – 9
• The Burning Season (HBO) / Friends (NBC) / Indictment: The McMartin Trial (HBO) / The Larry Sanders Show (HBO) / Seinfeld (NBC) – 6

Most major awards[]

By network ^{[note 1]}

• NBC – 14
• HBO – 7
• CBS – 6
• ABC – 3

By program

• Frasier (NBC) – 5
• ER (NBC) / Picket Fences (CBS) / Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (NBC) – 3

Notes

References[]

External links[]

• Emmys.com list of 1995 Nominees & Winners
• 47th Primetime Emmy Awards at IMDb