Primetime Emmy Awards

Best Art Direction - Half Hour or Less

Winner

Your Hit Parade

Paul Barnes

Nominated

Adventure

Grover Cole

The Dinah Shore Show

Franklin Swig

General Electric Theater

Martin Obzina

John Robert Lloyd

John J. Lloyd

John Meehan

George Patrick

Frontiers of Faith

Warren Clymer

Best Art Direction - One Hour or More

Winner

Playhouse 90

Albert Heschong

Nominated

Omnibus

Henry May

The Kaiser Aluminum Hour

Jan Scott

Kraft Theatre

Duane McKinney

Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall

Don Shirley

Best Cinematography for Television

Winner

The Loretta Young Show

Norbert Brodine

Nominated

General Electric Theater

John L. Russell

The 20th Century-Fox Hour

Lloyd Ahern Sr.

General Electric Theater

Robert Pittack

Four Star Playhouse

George E. Diskant

Best Comedy Writing - Variety or Situation Comedy

Winner

The Phil Silvers Show

Nat Hiken

Billy Friedberg

Tony Webster

Leonard Stern

Arnie Rosen

Coleman Jacoby

Nominated

The Ernie Kovacs Show

Louis M. Heyward

Ernie Kovacs

Rex Lardner

Mike Marmer

Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall

Goodman Ace

Jay Burton

George Foster

Mort Green

Caesar's Hour

Mel Tolkin

Gary Belkin

Mel Brooks

Sheldon Keller

Neil Simon

Larry Gelbart

Michael Stewart

The Jack Benny Program

Sam Perrin

George Balzer

Hal Goldman

Al Gordon

Best Continuing Performance by a Comedian in a Series

Winner

Caesar's Hour

Sid Caesar

Nominated

The Bob Cummings Show

Robert Cummings

The Jack Benny Program

Jack Benny

The Phil Silvers Show

Phil Silvers

The Ernie Kovacs Show

Ernie Kovacs

Best Continuing Performance by a Comedienne in a Series

Winner

Caesar's Hour

Nanette Fabray

Nominated

The Ernie Kovacs Show

Edie Adams

Private Secretary

Ann Sothern

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Gracie Allen

I Love Lucy

Lucille Ball

Best Continuing Performance by an Actor in a Dramatic Series

Winner

Robert Young

Father Knows Best

Nominated

James Arness

Gunsmoke

David Niven

Four Star Playhouse

Charles Boyer

Four Star Playhouse

Hugh O'Brian

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Best Continuing Performance by an Actress in a Dramatic Series

Winner

Loretta Young

The Loretta Young Show

Nominated

Peggy Wood

Mama

Ida Lupino

Four Star Playhouse

Jan Clayton

Lassie

Jane Wyman

Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre

Best Coverage of a Newsworthy Event

Winner

Years of Crisis

Best Direction - Half Hour or Less

Winner

The Danny Thomas Show

Sheldon Leonard

Nominated

General Electric Theater

Herschel Daugherty

Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers

George Archainbaud

You Are There

William D. Russell

Camera Three

Clay Yurdin

Best Direction - One Hour or More

Winner

Playhouse 90

Ralph Nelson

Nominated

The 20th Century-Fox Hour

Lewis Allen

NBC Television Opera Theatre

Kirk Browning

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Bob Banner

Kraft Theatre

George Roy Hill

Playhouse 90

John Frankenheimer

Best Editing of a Film for Television

Winner

Our Mr. Sun

Frank P. Keller

Nominated

Father Knows Best

Richard Fantl

Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre

Daniel A. Nathan

Four Star Playhouse

Samuel E. Beetley

Cheyenne

Robert Watts

Best Female Personality - Continuing Performance

Winner

Dinah Shore

Nominated

Rosemary Clooney

Faye Emerson

Arlene Francis

Gisele MacKenzie

Best Live Camera Work

Winner

Kraft Theatre

Nominated

Wide Wide World

Playhouse 90

Producers' Showcase

Best Male Personality - Continuing Performance

Winner

Perry Como

Nominated

Alfred Hitchcock

Steve Allen

Fulton J. Sheen

Leonard Bernstein

Tennessee Ernie Ford

Best Musical Contribution for Television

Winner

Omnibus

Leonard Bernstein

Nominated

The Magical World of Disney

Oliver Wallace

The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show

Walter Schumann

The Rosemary Clooney Show

Nelson Riddle

Medic

Sidney Fine

Best New Program Series

Winner

Playhouse 90

Nominated

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

The Ernie Kovacs Show

Air Power

The Steve Allen Plymouth Show

Best News Commentator

Winner

Edward R. Murrow

Nominated

Walter Cronkite

Douglas Edwards

John Daly

Chet Huntley

Best Public Service Series

Winner

See It Now

Nominated

Meet the Press

You Are There

Wide Wide World

NBC Television Opera Theatre

Best Series - Half Hour or Less

Winner

The Phil Silvers Show

Nominated

Father Knows Best

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Person to Person

The Jack Benny Program

Best Series - One Hour or More

Winner

Caesar's Hour

Nominated

Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall

The Ed Sullivan Show

Climax!

Omnibus

Best Single Performance by an Actor

Winner

Jack Palance

Playhouse 90

Nominated

Fredric March

Producers' Showcase

Red Skelton

Playhouse 90

Lloyd Bridges

The Alcoa Hour

Sal Mineo

Studio One

Best Single Performance by an Actress

Winner

Claire Trevor

Producers' Showcase

Nominated

Nancy Kelly

Studio One

Edna Best

Ford Star Jubilee

Gracie Fields

The United States Steel Hour

Evelyn Rudie

Playhouse 90

Best Single Program of the Year

Winner

Playhouse 90

Nominated

Omnibus

Victor Borge: Comedy in Music

Kraft Theatre

See It Now

Best Supporting Performance by an Actor

Winner

Carl Reiner

Caesar's Hour

Nominated

Art Carney

The Jackie Gleason Show

Ed Wynn

Playhouse 90

William Frawley

I Love Lucy

Paul Ford

The Phil Silvers Show

Best Supporting Performance by an Actress

Winner

Pat Carroll

Caesar's Hour

Nominated

Vivian Vance

I Love Lucy

Audrey Meadows

The Jackie Gleason Show

Ann B. Davis

The Bob Cummings Show

Mildred Natwick

Blithe Spirit

Best Teleplay Writing - Half Hour or Less

Winner

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

James P. Cavanagh

Nominated

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Daniel B. Ullman

Telephone Time

John Nesbitt

The Loretta Young Show

Richard Morris

Frontier

Morton S. Fine

David Friedkin

Best Teleplay Writing - One Hour or More

Winner

Playhouse 90

Rod Serling

Nominated

Goodyear Playhouse

Louis S. Peterson

Playhouse 90

Elick Moll

Kraft Theatre

George Roy Hill

John Whedon

The Alcoa Hour

Reginald Rose