The 45th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 19, 1993. The ceremony was broadcast on ABC and was hosted by Angela Lansbury. MTV received its first major nomination at this ceremony.
For its fourth season, Seinfeld won its first, and only, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. Cheers was once again nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series. It was nominated for all eleven years that it ran and won four times. This tied the record set by M*A*S*H which also went 11/11, but only won once.
On the drama side, Northern Exposure was the defending champion and was seen heavily as the favorite coming into the ceremony being the most nominated show with nine major nominations—but in a major upset, Picket Fences took home Outstanding Drama Series. Northern Exposure set the dubious record for the largest shutout of all time, as it lost all 11 major nominations; including its Creative Arts Emmy Awards nominations, the record increases to 0/16. This record would later be tied by The Larry Sanders Show in 1997, but both of these records were later broken by Mad Men (0/17) in 2012, and again by The Handmaid's Tale (0/21) in 2021.
With David Clennon's win for Outstanding Comedy Guest Actor, this was the first time HBO won an Acting Emmy.
Winners and nominees
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- Bob Hope: The First 90 Years (NBC)
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- Tom Skerritt as Jimmy Brock in Picket Fences (CBS) (Episode: "High Tidings")
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- Kathy Baker as Jill Brock in Picket Fences (CBS) (Episode: "Thanksgiving")
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- Laurie Metcalf as Jackie Harris in Roseanne (ABC) (Episodes: "Crime and Punishment" + "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home")
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- Chad Lowe as Jesse McKenna in Life Goes On (ABC) (Episodes: "Lost Weekend" + "Bedfellows")
- Barry Corbin as Maurice J. Minnifield in Northern Exposure (CBS) (Episodes: "The Big Feast" + "Sleeping with the Enemy")
- John Cullum as Holling Vincoeur in Northern Exposure (CBS) (Episodes: "Learning Curve" + "Mud and Blood")
- Fyvush Finkel as Douglas Wambaugh in Picket Fences (CBS) (Episodes: "Thanksgiving" + "The Body Politic")
- Dean Stockwell as Al Calavicci in Quantum Leap (NBC) (Episodes: "Lee Harvey Oswald: October 5, 1957 – November 22, 1963" + "Killin' Time: June 18, 1958")
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- Mary Alice as Marguerite Peck in I'll Fly Away (NBC) (Episodes: "Ruler of My Heart" + "The Third Man")
- Cynthia Geary as Shelly Tambo in Northern Exposure (CBS) (Episodes: "Kaddish for Uncle Manny" + "Mud and Blood")
- Kay Lenz as Maggie Zombro in Reasonable Doubts (NBC) (Episodes: "Two Women" + "Wish You Were Here")
- Kellie Martin as Becca Thatcher in Life Goes On (ABC) (Episodes: "Visions" + "Last Wish")
- Peg Phillips as Ruth Anne in Northern Exposure (CBS) (Episodes: "Blowing Bubbles" + "Revelations")
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- Beau Bridges as Terry Harper in The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (HBO)
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- Homicide: Life on the Street (NBC): "Three Men and Adena" – Tom Fontana
- Homefront (ABC): "The Lacemakers" – Bernard Lechowick
- Law & Order (NBC): "Manhood" – Story by : Walon Green and Robert Nathan
Teleplay by : Robert Nathan
- Northern Exposure (CBS): "Kaddish for Uncle Manny" – Jeff Melvoin
- Northern Exposure (CBS): "Midnight Sun" – Geoffrey Neigher
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- The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (HBO) – Jane Anderson
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Most major nominations
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Networks with multiple major nominations[note 1]
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No. of Nominations
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NBC
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45
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CBS
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36
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HBO
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35
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ABC
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20
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Programs with multiple major nominations
Program
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Category
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Network
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No. of Nominations
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Northern Exposure
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Drama
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CBS
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9
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Seinfeld
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Comedy
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NBC
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8
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Barbarians at the Gate
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Movie
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HBO
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6
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The Larry Sanders Show
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Comedy
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Cheers
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Comedy
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NBC
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5
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Citizen Cohn
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Movie
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HBO
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I'll Fly Away
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Drama
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NBC
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The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
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Movie
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HBO
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Stalin
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Law & Order
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Drama
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NBC
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4
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Picket Fences
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CBS
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Roseanne
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Comedy
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ABC
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The 65th Annual Academy Awards
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Variety
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3
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Dream On
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Comedy
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HBO
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Late Night with David Letterman
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Variety
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NBC
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Murphy Brown
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Comedy
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CBS
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Saturday Night Live
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Variety
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NBC
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The 46th Annual Tony Awards
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CBS
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2
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Alex Haley's Queen
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Miniseries
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Family Pictures
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ABC
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Home Improvement
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Comedy
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Homefront
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Drama
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Homicide: Life on the Street
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NBC
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Life Goes On
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ABC
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Prime Suspect II
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Miniseries
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PBS
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Quantum Leap
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Drama
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NBC
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The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
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Variety
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Showtime
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Sinatra
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Miniseries
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CBS
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Sisters
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Drama
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NBC
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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Variety
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Tru
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Movie
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PBS
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Networks with multiple major awards[note 1]
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No. of Awards
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NBC
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10
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HBO
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6
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CBS
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5
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ABC
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4
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PBS
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2
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Programs with multiple major awards
Programs
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Category
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Network
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No. of Awards
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Picket Fences
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Drama
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CBS
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3
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The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
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Movie
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HBO
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Seinfeld
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Comedy
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NBC
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Homicide: Life on the Street
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Drama
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2
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Roseanne
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Comedy
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ABC
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Saturday Night Live
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Variety
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NBC
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- Notes
- ^ a b "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.