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The series first aired on ABC in January 1977 over eight consecutive nights. A critical and ratings success over the course of its run, Roots received 37 Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won nine. It also won a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award.
This list showcases the Primetime Emmy Award winners in the comedy program, drama program, variety program, and lead actors categories. In the early days of the Primetime Emmy Awards , categories awarded by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences changed year-to-year, causing irregularities in the continuity of the listed awards.
The 29th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 11, 1977. The ceremony was broadcast on NBC.It was hosted by Angie Dickinson and Robert Blake.. The top shows of the night were Mary Tyler Moore, which, in its final season, won its third consecutive Outstanding Comedy Series Award, it also became the first comedy series to gain eleven major nominations (since broken).
Composer Gerald Fried, who won an Emmy for the landmark miniseries “Roots” and whose 1960s scores, from “Star Trek” to “Gilligan’s Island,” left an indelible impression on a ...
First non-US television series to be nominated a Primetime Emmy for the major program/series categories The Avengers (U.K.) – Outstanding Drama Series ( 1967 ) Tom Brown's Schooldays and The Last of the Mohicans (both U.K.), and The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (Italy/Spain/France) – Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series ( 1973 )
HBO; FX; HBO The 2023 Emmy Awards celebrated the best of the best in television, but two shows stood out among the rest. Both Succession and The Bear came out on top with six awards during the ...
Cole won an Emmy Award for her performance as Matilda, Chicken George's wife, in the 1977 miniseries Roots. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Cole became the first African American actress to win an Emmy award in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her performance in Roots .
This broke Hill Street Blues record for most nominations by a drama or comedy series of 16 set in 1982, and put it in second place all time behind Roots which gained 21 major nominations in 1977. NYPD Blue set another milestone when it received every nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series , this marked only the ninth time that a ...