As of the 2021 ceremonies, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” has now won 92 Emmy Awards, breaking its own record of 84 from 2020. The variety series took seven trophies last September at the Creative Arts Emmys and one more for Best Variety Sketch Series at the Primetime event. The next closest show in second place is “Game of Thrones” with 59 overall.
Will the 47th season of “SNL” push the program up to 100 all-time victories? The series has nine nominations for the 2022 ceremonies:
Best Variety Sketch Series
Best Comedy Supporting Actress – Kate McKinnon
Best Comedy Supporting Actor – Bowen Yang
Best Comedy Guest Actor – Jerrod Carmichael
Best Variety Series Directing
Best Music Direction
Best Production Design
Best Sound Mixing
Best Variety Series Writing
Two victories in 2021 were in the comedy guest categories, the second ones for both Dave Chappelle and Maya Rudolph hosting “SNL.” Chappelle was triumphant as Best Comedy Guest Actor. Over the past 13 years,...
Will the 47th season of “SNL” push the program up to 100 all-time victories? The series has nine nominations for the 2022 ceremonies:
Best Variety Sketch Series
Best Comedy Supporting Actress – Kate McKinnon
Best Comedy Supporting Actor – Bowen Yang
Best Comedy Guest Actor – Jerrod Carmichael
Best Variety Series Directing
Best Music Direction
Best Production Design
Best Sound Mixing
Best Variety Series Writing
Two victories in 2021 were in the comedy guest categories, the second ones for both Dave Chappelle and Maya Rudolph hosting “SNL.” Chappelle was triumphant as Best Comedy Guest Actor. Over the past 13 years,...
- 8/9/2022
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” has now won 92 Emmy Awards, breaking its own record of 84 from 2020. The variety series took seven trophies at last weekend’s Creative Arts Emmys and one more for Best Variety Sketch Series at Sunday’s Primetime event. The next closest show in second place is “Game of Thrones” with 59 overall.
Two victories from a week ago were in the comedy guest categories, the second ones for both Dave Chappelle and Maya Rudolph hosting “SNL.” Chappelle was triumphant as Best Comedy Guest Actor. Over the past 12 years, other “SNL” guest actors to win have been Jimmy Fallon, Eddie Murphy and Justin Timberlake (see full list below). Rudolph won for playing Senator Kamala Harris and for hosting as Best Comedy Guest Actress. It was her second straight win, joining Tina Fey, Fey and Amy Poehler, Tiffany Haddish, Melissa McCarthy and Betty White.
SEE2021 Primetime Emmy winners list...
Two victories from a week ago were in the comedy guest categories, the second ones for both Dave Chappelle and Maya Rudolph hosting “SNL.” Chappelle was triumphant as Best Comedy Guest Actor. Over the past 12 years, other “SNL” guest actors to win have been Jimmy Fallon, Eddie Murphy and Justin Timberlake (see full list below). Rudolph won for playing Senator Kamala Harris and for hosting as Best Comedy Guest Actress. It was her second straight win, joining Tina Fey, Fey and Amy Poehler, Tiffany Haddish, Melissa McCarthy and Betty White.
SEE2021 Primetime Emmy winners list...
- 9/20/2021
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
On Christmas Eve 1951, NBC aired the very first “Hallmark Hall of Fame” with the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti’s Christmas opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” Rosemary Kuhlman and 12-year-old Chet Allen starred in this Peabody and Christopher Award-winning holiday story of the three Magi who stay with a young physically disabled boy and his widowed mother on their way to Bethlehem to find the Christ child. The presentation was so popular, the cast reprised their roles the following April. The production was done three more times in the 1950s on NBC, but Bill McIver played Amahl because Allen’s voice had changed.
The “Hallmark Hall of Fame,” which would air on NBC, ABC and CBS and is now exclusively on the Hallmark Channel, is the longest-running primetime series in TV history. In the past 70 years it has won over 80 Emmy Awards and dozens of Peabody Awards, Golden Globes,...
The “Hallmark Hall of Fame,” which would air on NBC, ABC and CBS and is now exclusively on the Hallmark Channel, is the longest-running primetime series in TV history. In the past 70 years it has won over 80 Emmy Awards and dozens of Peabody Awards, Golden Globes,...
- 9/13/2021
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
With the victories tonight by Eddie Murphy and Maya Rudolph, “Saturday Night Live” has now taken 84 Emmy Awards throughout its long history on NBC. The variety series had 78 after last year’s ceremonies and has won six this week on the virtual Creative Arts shows. The next closest show in second place is “Game of Thrones” with 59 overall.
Murphy was triumphant as Best Comedy Guest Actor four decades after starting his career on the show. Over the past 11 years, other “SNL” guest actors to win have been Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake (see full list below).
Rudolph won for playing Senator Kamala Harris as Best Comedy Guest Actress. She joins Tina Fey, Fey and Amy Poehler, Tiffany Haddish, Melissa McCarthy and Betty White.
SEE2020 Creative Arts Emmy winners: Full list of winners in all 100 categories
Throughout the earlier nights of the Creative Arts Emmys, the show won three...
Murphy was triumphant as Best Comedy Guest Actor four decades after starting his career on the show. Over the past 11 years, other “SNL” guest actors to win have been Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake (see full list below).
Rudolph won for playing Senator Kamala Harris as Best Comedy Guest Actress. She joins Tina Fey, Fey and Amy Poehler, Tiffany Haddish, Melissa McCarthy and Betty White.
SEE2020 Creative Arts Emmy winners: Full list of winners in all 100 categories
Throughout the earlier nights of the Creative Arts Emmys, the show won three...
- 9/20/2020
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
With the victories tonight by Eddie Murphy and Maya Rudolph, “Saturday Night Live” has now taken 84 Emmy Awards throughout its long history on NBC. The variety series had 78 after last year’s ceremonies and has won six this week on the virtual Creative Arts shows. The next closest show in second place is “Game of Thrones” with 59 overall.
Murphy was triumphant as Best Comedy Guest Actor four decades after starting his career on the show. Over the past 11 years, other “SNL” guest actors to win have been Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake (see full list below).
Rudolph won for playing Senator Kamala Harris as Best Comedy Guest Actress. She joins Tina Fey, Fey and Amy Poehler, Tiffany Haddish, Melissa McCarthy and Betty White.
SEE2020 Creative Arts Emmy winners: Full list of winners in all 100 categories
Throughout the earlier nights of the Creative Arts Emmys, the show won three...
Murphy was triumphant as Best Comedy Guest Actor four decades after starting his career on the show. Over the past 11 years, other “SNL” guest actors to win have been Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake (see full list below).
Rudolph won for playing Senator Kamala Harris as Best Comedy Guest Actress. She joins Tina Fey, Fey and Amy Poehler, Tiffany Haddish, Melissa McCarthy and Betty White.
SEE2020 Creative Arts Emmy winners: Full list of winners in all 100 categories
Throughout the earlier nights of the Creative Arts Emmys, the show won three...
- 9/20/2020
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Add two more Emmy Awards to the extraordinary collection accumulated by “Saturday Night Live” since 1975. The veteran NBC variety program won its 77th Emmy for Best Variety Sketch Series and 78th Emmy for Best Variety Series Directing on Sunday night. That brings the show’s impressive overall total to 78 trophies for Lorne Michaels and his many team members.
SEE2019 Emmy winners: Full list of nominees and winners in all 27 categories [Updating Live]
At last weekend’s Creative Arts Awards, “SNL” won for its lighting design, makeup, production design, and for the “Creating Saturday Night Live” short form series. That pushed the number to 76 for its 44 years on the air. No guest actors prevailed, although it had many chances with Sandra Oh, Emma Thompson, Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, John Mulaney and Adam Sandler all nominated. For this week’s ceremony, they lost out for Best Comedy Supporting Actress (Kate McKinnon) and for Best Variety Series Writing.
SEE2019 Emmy winners: Full list of nominees and winners in all 27 categories [Updating Live]
At last weekend’s Creative Arts Awards, “SNL” won for its lighting design, makeup, production design, and for the “Creating Saturday Night Live” short form series. That pushed the number to 76 for its 44 years on the air. No guest actors prevailed, although it had many chances with Sandra Oh, Emma Thompson, Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, John Mulaney and Adam Sandler all nominated. For this week’s ceremony, they lost out for Best Comedy Supporting Actress (Kate McKinnon) and for Best Variety Series Writing.
- 9/23/2019
- by Chris Beachum and Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Saturday Night Live's Don Roy King won the prize for best directing for a variety series for the third year in a row at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday night.
Onstage, King accepted the award in honor of longtime SNL lighting director Phil Hymes, who died earlier this year. "His fierce focus made us flinch, but also made us better," he said.
King went on to thank SNL creator Lorne Michaels.
"Lorne demands excellence and blue-ribbon writers take up that mandate and create 10 one-act plays in four days. The best sketch actors in the world ...
Onstage, King accepted the award in honor of longtime SNL lighting director Phil Hymes, who died earlier this year. "His fierce focus made us flinch, but also made us better," he said.
King went on to thank SNL creator Lorne Michaels.
"Lorne demands excellence and blue-ribbon writers take up that mandate and create 10 one-act plays in four days. The best sketch actors in the world ...
- 9/22/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
“Saturday Night Live” may not have won Best Comedy Guest Actor or Best Comedy Guest Actress at the 2019 Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday night, September 15, but it did win enough times on Saturday to extend its all-time record. It’s the most honored program in Emmy history, and it has now won 76 times in its 44 years on the air. Scroll down to see every single award it has won thus far, with possibly more to come next weekend on September 22.
SEE2019 Creative Arts Emmy winners (Sunday): Full list of nominees and winners in all 49 categories
At Saturday night’s Creative Arts Awards, “SNL” won for its lighting design, makeup, production design, and for the “Creating Saturday Night Live” short form series. That brings the show to a grand total of 76 awards in its 44 years on the air. On Sunday night it was nominated six times for guest acting: Sandra Oh,...
SEE2019 Creative Arts Emmy winners (Sunday): Full list of nominees and winners in all 49 categories
At Saturday night’s Creative Arts Awards, “SNL” won for its lighting design, makeup, production design, and for the “Creating Saturday Night Live” short form series. That brings the show to a grand total of 76 awards in its 44 years on the air. On Sunday night it was nominated six times for guest acting: Sandra Oh,...
- 9/16/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Longtime “Saturday Night Live” director Phil Hymes died Monday, an NBC spokesperson confirmed to Variety. He was 96.
Hymes, who began his career at NBC in 1951, starting work at “SNL” during its second season in 1976. He worked on more than 500 episodes of NBC’s venerable sketch comedy program and served as its lighting director until last year. In addition to his technical work, Hymes appeared in sketches during episodes hosted by Ralph Nader in 1977, Christopher Walken in 2000, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in 2006.
He broke records during his extensive career, becoming the oldest person to win an Emmy in 2018 for outstanding lighting design and lighting direction for a variety series for his work on Kevin Hart’s “SNL” episode. He also won an Emmy for Hallmark Hall of Fame television film “The Magnificent Yankee” in 1965 for outstanding individual achievements in entertainment centered on lighting design. Over the span of his career, he earned a total of 10 Emmy nominations,...
Hymes, who began his career at NBC in 1951, starting work at “SNL” during its second season in 1976. He worked on more than 500 episodes of NBC’s venerable sketch comedy program and served as its lighting director until last year. In addition to his technical work, Hymes appeared in sketches during episodes hosted by Ralph Nader in 1977, Christopher Walken in 2000, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in 2006.
He broke records during his extensive career, becoming the oldest person to win an Emmy in 2018 for outstanding lighting design and lighting direction for a variety series for his work on Kevin Hart’s “SNL” episode. He also won an Emmy for Hallmark Hall of Fame television film “The Magnificent Yankee” in 1965 for outstanding individual achievements in entertainment centered on lighting design. Over the span of his career, he earned a total of 10 Emmy nominations,...
- 7/31/2019
- by Mackenzie Nichols
- Variety Film + TV
Updated throughout: Phil Hymes, longtime Emmy-winning lighting director for Saturday Night Live, who joined the show in 1976, died this week of complications from cancer, NBC confirmed. He was 96.
Hymes, who began his career at NBC in 1951, worked on more than 500 episodes of the iconic late-night program until his most recent episode in January 2018. He was nominated for 10 Emmy Awards over the course of his career, winning twice 53 years apart, the first for Hallmark Hall of Fame: The Magnificent Yankee in 1965, and just this past September for the Kevin Hart-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live.
Shows Hymes worked on over his 68-year career include The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Kids in the Hall and The Miss Teen USA Pageant.
Earlier in his career, he worked on such iconic classics as Bell Telephone Hour,...
Hymes, who began his career at NBC in 1951, worked on more than 500 episodes of the iconic late-night program until his most recent episode in January 2018. He was nominated for 10 Emmy Awards over the course of his career, winning twice 53 years apart, the first for Hallmark Hall of Fame: The Magnificent Yankee in 1965, and just this past September for the Kevin Hart-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live.
Shows Hymes worked on over his 68-year career include The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Kids in the Hall and The Miss Teen USA Pageant.
Earlier in his career, he worked on such iconic classics as Bell Telephone Hour,...
- 7/31/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Phil Hymes, the longtime lighting director for Saturday Night Live who began with the show in its inaugural 1975-76 season and won Emmy Awards 53 years apart, has died. He was 96.
Hymes died Monday in a New York hospital from cancer complications, his granddaughter, Laura, told The Hollywood Reporter.
On Twitter, Late Night With Seth Meyers producer Mike Shoemaker called Hymes ornery and opinionated and truly hilarious." He also worked on Late Night and on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon until recently. (He did not work on every season of SNL.)
Hymes became the oldest person to win an Emmy when he was honored ...
Hymes died Monday in a New York hospital from cancer complications, his granddaughter, Laura, told The Hollywood Reporter.
On Twitter, Late Night With Seth Meyers producer Mike Shoemaker called Hymes ornery and opinionated and truly hilarious." He also worked on Late Night and on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon until recently. (He did not work on every season of SNL.)
Hymes became the oldest person to win an Emmy when he was honored ...
- 7/31/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
“Saturday Night Live” won Best Variety Sketch Series at Monday’s Primetime Emmy Awards, marking the first time the long-running show has defended a series award and extending its record haul to 72, the most of any program.
Though “SNL” has been on the air for 43 years, it has only won three series awards. It took home Best Variety Series in 1976 for its first season and again in 1993 for its 18th season. After the category was split into Best Variety Sketch Series and Best Variety Talk Series in 2015, “SNL” won the former last year for its buzzy, politically charged 42nd installment. It had leading 2/13 odds to repeat this year.
See Emmy Awards: Full list of winners
“SNL”‘s 43rd season earned 21 nominations this year, including nine acting bids. It received seven statuettes at last weekend’s Creative Arts Awards, including Best Comedy Guest Actress for Tiffany Haddish.
“Portlandia” was in second with 16/1 odds.
Though “SNL” has been on the air for 43 years, it has only won three series awards. It took home Best Variety Series in 1976 for its first season and again in 1993 for its 18th season. After the category was split into Best Variety Sketch Series and Best Variety Talk Series in 2015, “SNL” won the former last year for its buzzy, politically charged 42nd installment. It had leading 2/13 odds to repeat this year.
See Emmy Awards: Full list of winners
“SNL”‘s 43rd season earned 21 nominations this year, including nine acting bids. It received seven statuettes at last weekend’s Creative Arts Awards, including Best Comedy Guest Actress for Tiffany Haddish.
“Portlandia” was in second with 16/1 odds.
- 9/18/2018
- by Joyce Eng and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Over the weekend, NBC’s legendary variety program “Saturday Night Live” won seven more trophies at the Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday night. It prevailed for comedy guest actress (Tiffany Haddish), variety directing (Don Roy King), music and lyrics, production design, lighting design, make-up and technical direction.
The show now has a mind-blowing 71 Emmy wins in its 43-year run, way ahead in the all-time record books for any series. The next closest series for the all-time marks held by “Game of Thrones” with 45 and “Frasier” with 37. “SNL” has got three more shots at the primetime ceremony on Monday, September 17, so how many more victories will it achieve to bump up its total haul even more? Those categories are Variety Sketch Series (where it is a virtual lock to win), Comedy Supporting Actress and Comedy Supporting Actor (with Alec Baldwin and Kenan Thompson).
SEEKenan Thompson Interview: ‘Saturday Night Live’
Among the...
The show now has a mind-blowing 71 Emmy wins in its 43-year run, way ahead in the all-time record books for any series. The next closest series for the all-time marks held by “Game of Thrones” with 45 and “Frasier” with 37. “SNL” has got three more shots at the primetime ceremony on Monday, September 17, so how many more victories will it achieve to bump up its total haul even more? Those categories are Variety Sketch Series (where it is a virtual lock to win), Comedy Supporting Actress and Comedy Supporting Actor (with Alec Baldwin and Kenan Thompson).
SEEKenan Thompson Interview: ‘Saturday Night Live’
Among the...
- 9/13/2018
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Updated with full list of winners: Anthony Bourdain’s CNN series and Craig Zadan’s final live musical Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert led an emotional Night 2 of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday, with the shows scoring six and five wins respectively, including taking the top prizes in their fields. The night marked a fitting and final tribute to Bourdain and Zadan, who both passed away over the summer still in the primes of their TV-making lives.
Saturday Night Live, which comes into this year with 21 nominations overall, picked up seven wins Sunday to lead all shows, including multiple wins for the episode hosted by Donald Glover. In addition to the six wins by Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown (including a writing nod for Bourdain and Outstanding Informational Series or Special for the show) and Jcs (including snagging the marquee Outstanding Live Variety Special win), RuPaul’s Drag Race scored four nods,...
Saturday Night Live, which comes into this year with 21 nominations overall, picked up seven wins Sunday to lead all shows, including multiple wins for the episode hosted by Donald Glover. In addition to the six wins by Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown (including a writing nod for Bourdain and Outstanding Informational Series or Special for the show) and Jcs (including snagging the marquee Outstanding Live Variety Special win), RuPaul’s Drag Race scored four nods,...
- 9/10/2018
- by Antonia Blyth and Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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