Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects

This is a list of the winning and nominated programs of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a television series, miniseries, or television movie. In 1998, the category was divided into Special Visual Effects for a Series and Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special.

Award titles

• 1955 Best Engineering Effects
• 1983 Outstanding Individual Achievement Special Visual Effects
• 1985 Outstanding Special Visual Effects
• 1989 Outstanding Achievement In Special Visual Effects
• 1992 Outstanding Individual Achievement In Special Visual Effects
• 1996 Outstanding Special Visual Effects

Award winners and nominations

1950s

• 1955: Four Quadrant Screen
  • Electronic Editing
  • The Jackie Gleason Show
  • Space Patrol

1980s

• 1983: The Winds of War
  • SCTV Network

• 1984: 26th Annual Grammy Awards Ceremonies / The Day After
  • V (The Final Battle)

• 1985: (four awards)

A.D. / The Brain / Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure / The Hugga Bunch

• 1986: Dinosaur! / Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
• 1989: War and Remembrance
  • Friday the 13th: The Series: "13 O'Clock"
  • The Infinite Voyage: "The Geometry Of Life"
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Q Who?"
  • thirtysomething: "Michael Writes A Story"

1990s

• 1990: By Dawn's Early Light / Miracle Landing / The Orchestra
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Deja Q"
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Tin Man"

• 1991: - Star Trek: The Next Generation: "The Best of Both Worlds", Part I & Part II
  • Ironclads
  • Magic of David Copperfield XIII: Mystery on the Orient Express

• 1992 (three awards)

- Star Trek: The Next Generation: "A Matter of Time"

- Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Conundrum"

- The Last Holloween

• 1993 (three awards)

- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: "The Scandal of 1920"

- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Emissary"

- Babylon 5: "The Gathering"

• 1994: - Star Trek: The Next Generation: "All Good Things..."

• 1995: - Star Trek: Voyager: "Caretaker"
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "The Jem'Hadar"
  • Earth 2
  • Fatherland
  • The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: "Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies"

• 1996: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "The Way of the Warrior"
  • Space: Above and Beyond: "Never No More"
  • Family Matters: "Send In the Clone"
  • The Tuskegee Airmen
  • The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: "Young Indiana Jones and the Attack of the Hawkmen"

• 1997 (two awards)

- Asteroid

- The Odyssey, Part II

• 3rd Rock from the Sun: "A Nightmare on Dick Street"
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Trials and Tribble-ations"

Television Series

• 1998: Star Trek: Voyager: "Year of Hell, Part II"
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "One Little Ship"
  • Suddenly Susan: "I Love You, I Think"
  • Stargate SG-1: "Children of the Gods"
  • Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach: "The Sound of the Carceri"

Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• 1998: Merlin, Part I
  • From the Earth to the Moon: "1968, Part IV:"
  • Moby Dick

Television Series

• 1999: Star Trek: Voyager: "Dark Frontier"
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "What You Leave Behind"
  • Star Trek: Voyager: "Thirty Days"
  • Star Trek: Voyager: "Timeless"
  • Total Recall 2070: "Machine Dreams"

Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• 1999: Alice in Wonderland
  • Cleopatra, Part I
  • Max Q

2000s

Television Series

• 2000: The X-Files: "First Person Shooter"
  • Star Trek: Voyager: "Life Line"
  • Star Trek: Voyager: "The Haunting of Deck Twelve"
  • Stargate SG-1: "Nemesis"
  • The X-Files: "Rush"

Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• 2000: Walking with Dinosaurs
  • 73rd Academy Awards: "Billy's Film"
  • Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, Part I
  • Jason and the Argonauts, Part II
  • The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns, Part I

Television Series

• 2001: Star Trek: Voyager: "Endgame"
  • Star Trek: Voyager: "Workforce, Part II"
  • Stargate SG-1: "Small Victories"
  • Stargate SG-1: "Exodus"
  • Dark Angel: "Pilot"

Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• 2001: Frank Herbert's Dune, Part I
  • The Ballad of Big Al
  • Haven
  • Hornblower: Mutiny
  • Race Against Time

Television Series

• 2002: Enterprise: "Broken Bow"
  • Enterprise: "Breaking the Ice"
  • Smallville: "Pilot"
  • Stargate SG-1: "Revelations"
  • Stargate SG-1: "Enemies"

Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• 2002: Dinotopia, Part III
  • Band of Brothers: "Day of Days, Part II"
  • Band of Brothers: "Replacements, Part II"
  • Walking with Beasts
  • Superfire

Television Series

• 2003: Firefly: "Serenity"
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Chosen"
  • Enterprise: "The Expanse"
  • Enterprise: "The Crossing"
  • Enterprise: "Dead Stop"

Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• 2003 Frank Herbert's Children of Dune, Part I
  • Taken: "Jacob and Jesse"
  • Building the Great Pyramid
  • The Lost World, Part II
  • Point of Origin

Television Series

• 2004: Enterprise: "Countdown"
  • Dead Like Me: "Pilot"
  • Enterprise: "The Council"
  • Kingdom Hospital: "Thy Kingdom Come"
  • Stargate SG-1: "Lost City, Part II"

Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• 2004: DreamKeeper, Part I
  • 10.5, Part I
  • Angels in America: "Perestroika"
  • Battlestar Galactica, Part I
  • The Winning Season

Television Series

• 2005: Lost: "Pilot"
  • Battlestar Galactica: "33"
  • Battlestar Galactica: "The Hand of God"
  • Stargate SG-1: "Reckoning, Part II"
  • Stargate: Atlantis: "Rising"

Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• 2005: The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
  • Legend of Earthsea
  • Dragons' World: A Fantasy Made Real
  • Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars: "Part II"
  • Supervolcano

Television Series

• 2006: Rome: "The Stolen Eagle"
  • Battlestar Galactica: "Resurrection Ship"
  • Lost: "Live Together, Die Alone"
  • Perfect Disaster: "Super Tornado"
  • Surface: "Episode 101"

Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• 2006: The Triangle
  • Into The West
  • Mammoth
  • Before the Dinosaurs
  • Great Performances: The Nightingale

Television Series

• 2007: Battlestar Galactica: "Exodus, Part II"
  • Eureka: "Pilot"
  • Grey's Anatomy: "Walk on Water"
  • Heroes: "Five Years Gone"
  • Rome: "Philippi"

Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• 2007: Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King: "Battleground"
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • Drive: "The Starting Line"
  • Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King: "The End Of The Whole Mess"
  • The Path to 9/11: "Part I"

Television Series

• 2008: Battlestar Galactica: "He That Believeth in Me"
  • Heroes: "Four Months Ago"
  • Human Body: Pushing the Limits: "Strength"
  • Jericho: "Patriots and Tyrants"
  • Stargate Atlantis: "Adrift"
  • Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: "Pilot"

Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• 2008: John Adams: "Join or Die"
  • Comanche Moon: "Part 1"
  • Life After People
  • The Company: "Part 2"
  • Tin Man: "Part 1"

Television Series

• 2009: Heroes: "The Second Coming/The Butterfly Effect"
  • Battlestar Galactica: "Daybreak, Part II"
  • Fringe: "Pilot"
  • Ghost Whisperer: "Ghost in the Machine"
  • Sanctuary: "Sanctuary for All"

Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• 2009: Generation Kill: "The Cradle of Civilization"
  • Into the Storm

2010s

Television Series

• 2010: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: "Family Affair"
  • Caprica: "There Is Another Sky"
  • Stargate Universe: "Air"
  • Stargate Universe: "Space"
  • V: "Pilot"

Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• 2010: The Pacific: "Part Five"
  • Ben 10: Alien Swarm
  • The Pacific: "Part One"
  • Virtuality

Television Series

• 2011: Boardwalk Empire: "Boardwalk Empire"
  • The Borgias: "The Poisoned Chalice/The Assassin"
  • Stargate Universe: "Awakening"
  • The Walking Dead: "Days Gone Bye"
  • Game of Thrones: "Fire and Blood"

Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special

• 2011: Gettysburg
  • Mildred Pierce: "Part Five"
  • Sherlock: "A Study in Pink"
  • The Pillars of the Earth: "Witchcraft"