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The 47th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 10, 1995. The ceremony was hosted by Jason Alexander and Cybill Shepherd . It was broadcast on Fox .
Frasier won its second consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series and led all shows with five major wins. For the second straight year, a freshman drama series came into the ceremony with a bevy of major nominations, but failed to win for Outstanding Drama Series . ER led all shows with 15 major nominations and won three major awards, but lost the top prize to NYPD Blue , which was in a similar situation to ER the previous year .
Candice Bergen's win for the seventh season of Murphy Brown made her the third performer to win five Emmys for playing the same character. She declined to be submitted for any future seasons of the show.
Marvin Hamlisch 's win made him the sixth person to become an EGOT .
Winners and nominees
[1]
Programs
Acting
Lead performances
Supporting performances
Guest performances
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
Carl Reiner as Alan Brady on Mad About You (Episode: "The Alan Brady Show"), (NBC)
Sid Caesar as Mr. Stein on Love & War (Episode: "At the Pantheon", Part 2), (CBS)
Nathan Lane as Phil on Frasier (Episode: "Fool Me Once, Shame On You. Fool Me Twice..."), (NBC)
Robert Pastorelli as Eldin Bernecky on Murphy Brown (Episode: "Bye, Bye Bernecky"), (CBS)
Paul Reubens as Andrew J. Lansing III on Murphy Brown (Episode: "The Good Nephew"), (NBC)
Cyndi Lauper as Marianne Lugasso on Mad About You (Episode: "Money Changes Everything"), (NBC)
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
Paul Winfield as Judge Harold Nance on Picket Fences (Episode: "Enemy Lines"), (CBS)
Shirley Knight as Agnes Cantwell on NYPD Blue (Episode: "Large Mouth Bass"), (ABC)
Directing
Writing
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Comedy Series
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Drama Series
Chuck Ranberg , Anne Flett-Giordano for Frasier (Episode: "An Affair to Forget"), (NBC)
Jeff Greenstein , Jeff Strauss for Friends (Episode: "The One Where Underdog Gets Away"), (NBC)
Joe Keenan for Frasier (Episode: "The Matchmaker "), (NBC)
Garry Shandling, Peter Tolan for The Larry Sanders Show (Episode: "The Mr. Sharon Stone Show"), (HBO)
Peter Tolan for The Larry Sanders Show (Episode: "Hank's Night in the Sun"), (HBO)
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Variety or Music Program
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Miniseries or a Special
Dennis Miller Live , (HBO)
Alison Cross for Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story , (NBC)
Most major nominations
By network [note 1]
NBC – 56
CBS – 32
HBO – 27
ABC – 20
By program
ER (NBC) – 15
Frasier (NBC) / NYPD Blue (ABC) – 9
The Burning Season (HBO) / Friends (NBC) / Indictment: The McMartin Trial (HBO) / The Larry Sanders Show (HBO) / Seinfeld (NBC) – 6
Most major awards
By network [note 1]
NBC – 14
HBO – 7
CBS – 6
ABC – 3
By program
Frasier (NBC) – 5
ER (NBC) / Picket Fences (CBS) / Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (NBC) – 3
Notes
^ a b "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.
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