47th Primetime Emmy Awards

47th Primetime Emmy Awards
Promotional poster
Date
  • September 10, 1995
    (Ceremony)
  • September 9, 1995
    (Creative Arts Awards)
LocationPasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California
Presented byAcademy of Television Arts and Sciences
Hosted byJason Alexander
Cybill Shepherd
Highlights
Most awardsFrasier (5)
Most nominationsER (11)
Outstanding Comedy SeriesFrasier
Outstanding Drama SeriesNYPD Blue
Outstanding MiniseriesJoseph
Outstanding Variety SeriesThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Television/radio coverage
NetworkFox
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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

[1]

Programs

Acting

Lead performances

Supporting performances

Directing

Writing

  • Frasier (NBC): "An Affair to Forget" – Chuck Ranberg and Anne Flett-Giordano
    • Frasier (NBC): "The Matchmaker" – Joe Keenan
    • Friends (NBC): "The One Where Underdog Gets Away" – Jeff Greenstein and Jeff Strauss
    • The Larry Sanders Show (HBO): "Hank's Night in the Sun" – Peter Tolan
    • The Larry Sanders Show (HBO): "The Mr. Sharon Stone Show" – Garry Shandling and Peter Tolan

Most major nominations

Networks with multiple major nominations[note 1]
Network No. of
Nominations
NBC 56
CBS 32
HBO 27
ABC 20
Programs with multiple major nominations
Program Category Network No. of
Nominations
ER Drama NBC 11
NYPD Blue ABC 7
The Burning Season Movie HBO 6
Frasier Comedy NBC
Indictment: The McMartin Trial Movie HBO
The Larry Sanders Show Comedy
Seinfeld NBC
Citizen X Movie HBO 5
Friends Comedy NBC
The Piano Lesson Movie CBS
Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story NBC
Chicago Hope Drama CBS 4
Barbra Streisand: The Concert Variety HBO 3
Buffalo Girls Miniseries CBS
Mad About You Comedy NBC
My So-Called Life Drama ABC
Roseanne Comedy
The 67th Annual Academy Awards Variety 2
Cybill Comedy CBS
Dennis Miller Live Variety HBO
Joseph Miniseries TNT
Late Show with David Letterman Variety CBS
Picket Fences Drama
Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher Variety Comedy Central
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno NBC
A Woman of Independent Means Miniseries
The X-Files Drama Fox

Most major awards

Networks with multiple major awards[note 1]
Network No. of
Awards
NBC 12
HBO 8
CBS 5
ABC 2
Programs with multiple major awards
Program Category Network No. of
Awards
Frasier Comedy NBC 5
ER Drama 3
Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story Movie
Barbra Streisand: The Concert Variety HBO 2
The Burning Season Movie
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
Picket Fences Drama CBS
Notes
  1. ^ a b "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.

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