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Emmy Award

The Emmy Awards are United States television production awards, similar to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment. There are two types of Emmy Awards, the Daytime Awards and the Primetime Awards. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences administers the Daytime Awards, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is responsible for the Primetime Awards. The first Emmy Awards were presented on January 25, 1949 at the Hollywood Athletic Club.

Categories

Emmys are awarded in the following categories:

• Animation
• Art Direction
• Casting
• Choreography
• Cinematography
• Commercials
• Costuming / Costume Design
• Directing
• Electronic Camerawork
• Engineering Development
• Hairstyling
• Lighting Direction
• Main Title Design
• Makeup
• Music
• Non-Fiction
• Performing
• Picture Editing
• Program Categories
• Sound Mixing
• Sound Editing
• Special Visual Effects
• Technical Direction
• Video
• Voice-Over Performance
• Writing

Regional Emmys

All regional divisions of the National Academy hand out their own awards, for local programming (with the ATAS serving the Los Angeles area). These awards often border in the mundane; a 2003 Suncoast (Florida and parts of Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana) Emmy Award for Spot Coverage was awarded to coverage of a "Dump Truck Chase".

Other Emmys

It is the National Academy's honor to hand out Emmys for:

• National TV newscats and documentaries
• Sports programs and coverage
• Business and financial reporting
• Technology & Engineering
• Public Service (for Public Service Announcements and whenever TV programs "advance the common good")

The International Emmys

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences hands out these awards which honor the best of non-US television. Finding these programs takes months; with judging events taking place at many international TV festivals. The best 2 programs from a particular genre in 4 regions are selected to go to a semifinal round, from which the nominees are derived. Every nominee is screened at a festival in New York the day before the awards ceremony.

External links

• Primetime Emmy Awards (http://www.emmys.org/awards/index.php)
• Daytime Emmy Awards (http://www.emmyonline.org/emmy/awards.html)

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