Primetime Emmy Awards

Actor - Best Single Performance - Lead or Support

Winner

Peter Ustinov

Omnibus

Nominated

Ed Wynn

On Borrowed Time

David Wayne

Suspicion

Mickey Rooney

Playhouse 90

Lee J. Cobb

Studio One

Actress - Best Single Performance - Lead or Support

Winner

Polly Bergen

Playhouse 90

Nominated

Piper Laurie

Studio One

Teresa Wright

Playhouse 90

Helen Hayes

The Alcoa Hour

Julie Andrews

Cinderella

Best Art Direction

Winner

Twelfth Night

Rouben Ter-Arutunian

Nominated

Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall

Don Shirley

The George Gobel Show

Robert Kelly

Wagon Train

Howard E. Johnson

Climax!

Beulah Frankel

Best Cinematography for Television

Winner

Hemo the Magnificent

Harold E. Wellman

Nominated

The Loretta Young Show

Norbert Brodine

The Danny Thomas Show

Robert De Grasse

Goodyear Theatre

George E. Diskant

Have Gun - Will Travel

William Margulies

Best Comedy Series

Winner

The Phil Silvers Show

Nominated

Caesar's Hour

The Bob Cummings Show

Father Knows Best

The Jack Benny Program

Best Comedy Writing

Winner

The Phil Silvers Show

Nat Hiken

Billy Friedberg

Phil Sharp

Terry Ryan

Coleman Jacoby

Arnie Rosen

Sydney Zelinka

A.J. Russell

Tony Webster

Nominated

The Ernie Kovacs Show

Ernie Kovacs

Caesar's Hour

Mel Tolkin

Larry Gelbart

Mel Brooks

Neil Simon

Sheldon Keller

Michael Stewart

Gary Belkin

Father Knows Best

Roswell Rogers

Paul West

The Jack Benny Program

Sam Perrin

George Balzer

Al Gordon

Hal Goldman

Best Continuing Performance (Female) in a Series by a Comedienne, Singer, Hostess, Dancer, M.C., Announcer, Narrator, Panelist, or any Person who Essentially Plays Herself

Winner

Dinah Shore

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Nominated

Gracie Allen

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Dody Goodman

The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar

Lucille Ball

I Love Lucy

Loretta Young

The Loretta Young Show

Best Continuing Performance (Male) in a Series by a Comedian, Singer, Host, Dancer, M.C., Announcer, Narrator, Panelist, or any Person who Essentially Plays Himself

Winner

Jack Benny

The Jack Benny Program

Nominated

Jack Paar

The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar

Perry Como

Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall

Sid Caesar

Caesar's Hour

Steve Allen

The Steve Allen Plymouth Show

Best Continuing Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic or Comedy Series

Winner

Robert Young

Father Knows Best

Nominated

Robert Cummings

The Bob Cummings Show

Danny Thomas

The Danny Thomas Show

James Arness

Gunsmoke

Phil Silvers

The Phil Silvers Show

Best Continuing Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic or Comedy Series

Winner

Jane Wyatt

Father Knows Best

Nominated

Jan Clayton

Lassie

Ida Lupino

Mr. Adams and Eve

Spring Byington

December Bride

Eve Arden

The Eve Arden Show

Best Continuing Supporting Performance by an Actor in a Dramatic or Comedy Series

Winner

Carl Reiner

Caesar's Hour

Nominated

Paul Ford

The Phil Silvers Show

William Frawley

I Love Lucy

Louis Nye

The Steve Allen Plymouth Show

Dennis Weaver

Gunsmoke

Best Continuing Supporting Performance by an Actress in a Dramatic or Comedy Series

Winner

Ann B. Davis

The Bob Cummings Show

Nominated

Marion Lorne

Sally

Verna Felton

December Bride

Vivian Vance

I Love Lucy

Pat Carroll

Caesar's Hour

Best Coverage of an Unscheduled Newsworthy Event

Winner

World News Roundup

Best Direction - Half Hour or Less

Winner

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Robert Stevens

Nominated

The Danny Thomas Show

Sheldon Leonard

The Patrice Munsel Show

Clark Jones

Your Hit Parade

Bill Hobin

Father Knows Best

Peter Tewksbury

Best Direction - One Hour or More

Winner

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Bob Banner

Nominated

The Green Pastures

George Schaefer

Playhouse 90

John Frankenheimer

Playhouse 90

Arthur Penn

Playhouse 90

George Roy Hill

Best Dramatic Anthology Series

Winner

Playhouse 90

Nominated

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Studio One

Climax!

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Best Dramatic Series with Continuing Characters

Winner

Gunsmoke

Nominated

Maverick

Perry Mason

Lassie

Wagon Train

Best Editing of a Film for Television

Winner

Gunsmoke

Michael Pozen

Nominated

Schlitz Playhouse

Danny B. Landres

General Electric Theater

Michael R. McAdam

Maverick

Robert Sparr

Goodyear Theatre

Samuel E. Beetley

Best Live Camera Work

Winner

Playhouse 90

Nominated

Wide Wide World

General Motors 50th Anniversary Show

Annie Get Your Gun

Cinderella

Best Musical Contribution for Television

Winner

Omnibus

Leonard Bernstein

Nominated

Cinderella

Richard Rodgers

Project Twenty

Robert Russell Bennett

The Frank Sinatra Show

Nelson Riddle

Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall

Mitchell Ayres

Best Musical, Variety, Audience Participation or Quiz Series

Winner

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Nominated

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar

Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall

The Steve Allen Plymouth Show

Best New Program Series of the Year

Winner

The Seven Lively Arts

Nominated

The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar

Leave It to Beaver

Maverick

Wagon Train

Best News Commentary

Winner

See It Now

Edward R. Murrow

Nominated

John Daly

World News Roundup

Eric Sevareid

Douglas Edwards

Chet Huntley

Best Public Service Program or Series

Winner

Omnibus

Nominated

Person to Person

Hemo the Magnificent

Wide Wide World

See It Now

Best Single Program of the Year

Nominated

General Motors 50th Anniversary Show

Jess Oppenheimer

The Edsel Show

The Green Pastures

Playhouse 90

Best Teleplay Writing - Half Hour or Less

Winner

Schlitz Playhouse

Paul Monash

Nominated

Leave It to Beaver

Joe Connelly

Bob Mosher

Father Knows Best

Roswell Rogers

Frontiers of Faith

Morton Wishengrad

Gunsmoke

John Meston

Best Teleplay Writing - One Hour or More

Winner

Playhouse 90

Rod Serling

Nominated

Studio One

Arthur Hailey

Playhouse 90

William Gibson

The Green Pastures

Marc Connelly

Omnibus

James Lee