The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the year, each wi
NASA Television's 2009 Philo T. Farnsworth Primetime Emmy trophy
Actress Dana Delany holding a Primetime Emmy Award in 1992
Comedian Garry Shandling during the rehearsal of the 45th Primetime Emmy Awards, in September 1993
TV producer and writer Bradley Bell accepting Daytime Emmy Awards for his work on the daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful in 2010
EGOT is an acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards, referring to all four of the major performing art awards in the United States. These awards honor outstanding achievements in televisio
Emmy Awards
…an atom, is named after "immy", an informal term for the image orthicon tube that was common in early television cameras. It is considered one of the four major annual American entertainment awards, along with the Grammy for music, the Oscar (Academy Award) for film, and the Tony for Broadway theater. The Emmys are presented by three related, but…
In 1962, Richard Rodgers became the first person to win all four awards.
In 1977, Helen Hayes became the second person and first woman to win all four awards.
In 1977, Rita Moreno became the third person and first Hispanic American to win all four awards.
In 1994, Audrey Hepburn became the fifth person to win all four awards, and the first to do so posthumously.