First awarded 1979 Official website emmys.com Instituted 1979 | Currently held by Archer (2016) Country United States of America Category of Primetime Emmy Award | |
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Awarded for Outstanding Animated Program Presented by Academy of Television Arts & Sciences People also search for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance Winners & Nominees Archer, Archer, Winner, Bob's Burgers, Bob's Burgers, Nominee, The Simpsons, The Simpsons, Nominee, Phineas and Ferb, Phineas and Ferb, Nominee, South Park, South Park, Nominee, Over The Garden WallPatrick McHale - Robert Alvarez - Tom Herpich -, Over The Garden Wall, Winner, ArcherAdam Reed - Matt Thompson - Neal Holman -, Archer, Nominee, Bob's BurgersLoren Bouchard - Kelvin Yu - Wendy Molyneux -, Bob's Burgers, Nominee, The Simpsons, The Simpsons, Nominee, South ParkTrey Parker - Bill Hader - Matt Stone -, South Park, Nominee, Bob's BurgersLoren Bouchard - Jim Dauterive - Scott Jacobson -, Bob's Burgers, Winner, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Nominee, Archer, Archer, Nominee, Futurama, Futurama, Nominee, South Park, South Park, Nominee, South ParkTrey Parker - Matt Stone - Vernon Chatman -, South Park, Winner, Regular ShowJ G Quintel - Mike Roth - Matt Price -, Regular Show, Nominee, Bob's BurgersLoren Bouchard - Wendy Molyneux - Jim Dauterive -, Bob's Burgers, Nominee, The Simpsons, The Simpsons, Nominee, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of AwesomenessDoug Langdale - Gene Grillo - Bret Haaland -, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Nominee, The Penguins of Madagascar: "Dr Blowhole's Revenge"Bob Schooley - Mark McCorkle - Shaun Cashman -, The Penguins of Madagascar: "Dr Blowhole's Revenge", Winner, Bob's BurgersLoren Bouchard - Jim Dauterive - Scott Jacobson -, Bob's Burgers, Nominee, The Simpsons, The Simpsons, Nominee, FuturamaMatt Groening - David X Cohen - Josh Weinstein -, Futurama, Nominee, American Dad!, American Dad!, Nominee | ||
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program is a Creative Arts Emmy Award which is given annually to an animated series which is judged to have been the best. Each series is allowed to submit one episode and a special.
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The Simpsons has won the most with 10 (out of 24 years of nominations), followed by the various Garfield specials which have won a combined four (out of 12 nominations) and South Park with five (out of 14 nominations). Though Fox could also submit episodes from The Simpsons or other series for consideration in the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series category, rules stipulate that a single program cannot be submitted in more than one category. The Simpsons was submitted to the Comedy Series category in 1993 and 1994, which happened to be the only years the series has not been nominated in the Outstanding Animated Program category (until 2014).
Rules
From 1999 to 2009, there are two categories for "Outstanding Animated Program", one for "Programming One Hour or Less" and one for "Programming One Hour or More", where the time refers to the broadcast time. Each series is allowed to submit a single episode or a special, and those programs are judged. For the individual people who receive nominations, a series is allowed to submit a maximum of 21 names alongside the episode, including a maximum of four directors, a maximum of three writers and a maximum of fourteen producers.
For many of the Primetime Emmy Award categories, the rules specifically say that animated programs can not be nominated, although some of the Creative arts categories do allow animated programs to be submitted for consideration. However, there have occasionally been programs submitted in the Primetime categories. For example, The Simpsons submitted the episodes "A Streetcar Named Marge" and "Mr. Plow" in the "Outstanding Comedy Series" category in 1993. However, they were not nominated.