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The 9th Emmy Awards , later referred to as the 9th Primetime Emmy Awards , were held on March 16, 1957, to honor the best in television of the year. The ceremony was held at the NBC Studios in Burbank, California . Desi Arnaz hosted the event. All nominations are listed, with winners in bold and series' networks are in parentheses. Categories were sorted based on running time, instead of by genre.
The top shows of the night were Caesar's Hour and Playhouse 90 . Each show won a then-record five major awards, (however, two of Playhouse 90's wins came in now defunct categories).
Caesar's Hour became the first show to be nominated in all four major acting categories. Caesar's Hour also made history when it swept the four acting categories. After over fifty years, it remains the only comedy or drama series to win every major acting award. In 2004 , the miniseries Angels in America became the second show, and first miniseries/television movie, to sweep the acting field.
Winners and nominees
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Programs
Best Series, Half Hour or Less
Best Series, One Hour or More
Best Live Camera Work
Best Coverage of a Newsworthy Event
Years of Crisis, (CBS)
Andrea Doria Sinking , (CBS)
Andrea Doria Survivors Arrive in New York , (CBS)
National Political Conventions , (ABC)
National Political Conventions , (NBC)
Best Public Service Series
Best New Program Series
Best Single Program of the Year
Playhouse 90, (Episode: "Requiem for a Heavyweight"), (CBS)
Kraft Television Theatre, (Episode: "A Night to Remember"), (NBC)
Omnibus, (Episode: "Leonard Bernstein"), (CBS)
See It Now, (Episode: "Secret Life of Danny Kaye"), (CBS)
The Victor Borge Show , (CBS)
Acting
Lead performances
Supporting performances
Best Supporting Performance by an Actor
Best Supporting Performance by an Actress
Carl Reiner as Various characters on Caesar's Hour , (NBC)
Pat Carroll as Various characters on Caesar's Hour , (NBC)
Single performances
Best Single Performance by an Actor
Best Single Performance by an Actress
Jack Palance as Harlan "Mountain" McClintock on Playhouse 90 , (Episode: "Requiem for a Heavyweight"), (CBS)
Claire Trevor as Fran Dodsworth on Producers' Showcase , (Episode: "Dodsworth"), (NBC)
Directing
Best Direction, Half Hour or Less
Best Direction, One Hour or More
Writing
Best Teleplay Writing, Half Hour or Less
Best Teleplay Writing, One Hour or More
James P. Cavanagh for Alfred Hitchcock Presents - "Fog Closing In", (CBS)
Rod Serling for Playhouse 90 - "Requiem for a Heavyweight", (CBS)
George Roy Hill , John Whedon for Kraft Television Theatre - "A Night to Remember", (NBC)
Elick Moll for Playhouse 90 - "Sizeman and Son", (CBS)
Louis Peterson for Alcoa-Goodyear Playhouse - "Joey", (NBC)
Reginald Rose for Alcoa-Goodyear Playhouse - "Tragedy in a Temporary Town", (NBC)
Best Writing, Variety or Situation Comedy
Billy Friedberg, Nat Hiken , Coleman Jacoby , Arnold Rosen Leonard Stern , Tony Webster , for The Phil Silvers Show , (CBS)
Goodman Ace , Jay Burton , Mort Green, George Foster for The Perry Como Show , (NBC)
George Balzer , Hal Goldman , Al Gordon , Sam Perrin for The Jack Benny Show , (CBS)
Gary Belkin, Mel Brooks , Larry Gelbart , Sheldon Keller Neil Simon , Michael Stewart, Mel Tolkin for Caesar's Hour , (NBC)
Louis M. Heyward , Ernie Kovacs, Rex Lardner, Mike Marmer for The Ernie Kovacs Show , (NBC)
Most major nominations
By network [note 1]
CBS – 59
NBC – 41
ABC – 6
By program
Playhouse 90 (CBS) – 11
Caesar's Hour (NBC) – 6
The Ernie Kovacs Show (NBC) / Kraft Television Theatre (NBC) / The Phil Silvers Show (CBS) – 4
Alcoa-Goodyear Playhouse (NBC) / Four Star Playhouse (CBS) / I Love Lucy (CBS) /Producers' Showcase (NBC) – 3
Most major awards
By network [note 1]
By program
Caesar's Hour (NBC) / Playhouse 90 (CBS) – 5
The Phil Silvers Show (CBS) – 2
Notes
^ a b "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.
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