Year 1956, 8th Emmy Awards

Jessica Tandy 20th Century Fox Hour Nominated Your Hit Parade Winner Don Shirley Caesar's Hour Phil Silvers Show See It Now Thelma Ritter Dave Garroway Nominated Best Writing In Comedy Producers' Showcase Duncan Cramer Paddy Chayefsky Perry Como Show Art Carney Audrey Meadows Nominated Gracie Allen Frank LaTourette Playwrights '56 and Producers's Showcase Barry Wood Winner Winner Burns & Allen Gisele MacKenzie Nominated Winner Best Engineering Technical Achievment Walt Disney Medic Alfred Hitchcock John Daly Phil Silvers Show Best Art Direction-film Series Winner Guy Scarpitta Alfred Hitchcock Winner Art Linkletter's House Party Outstanding Variety Series Make Room for Daddy I Love Lucy I Love Lucy Producers' Showcase Winner Nominated Winner Bob Cummings Show Nominated George Gobel Show Producers' Showcase Alcoa-Goodyear TV Playhouse Football-Rose Bowl Nominated Carl Reiner Best Female Singer Barry Sullivan Coke Time - Eddie Fisher Winner Producers' Showcase Gunsmoke Rod Serling Max Liebman Presents & Shower of Stars Edward R. Murrow Producers' Showcase Winner Producers' Showcase Clete Roberts Producers' Showcase Producers' Showcase James Van Heusen A-Bomb Coverage Nominated DUMONT ELECTRONICAM Winner Ed Sullivan Show Four Star Playhouse Best Camera Work-live Show Nominated Best News Commentator Or Reporter Climax Daniel Nathan Wide Wide World Nominated Donald O'Connor Climax Your Hit Parade Dragnet
Bob Cummings Show Jose Ferrer Gracie Allen Matinee Theatre Phil Silvers Howdy Doody Make Room for Daddy Alex Segal Franklin Schaffner Home Hal Goldman Bob Cummings Show Samuel E. Beetley Eve Arden John Monks I Love Lucy David Shaw Nominated Line-Up Nominated Lucille Ball Ding Dong School Jess Oppenheimer U.S. Steel Hour Paul Gregory Best M.c. Or Program Host - Male Or Female Nominated Hallmark Hall of Fame Winner Best Music Series Best Cinematography For Television Winner Best Male Singer Alfred Hitchcock Presents Winner Studio One Bob Weiskopf Private Secretary Delbert Mann Best Contribution To Daytime Programming Make Room for Daddy Robin Hood Mel Brooks Perry Como Edward Colman Dinah Shore Show Best Original Teleplay Writing Lux Video Theatre Sheldon Leonard George Diskant Best Specialty Act - Single Or Group Ernst Fegte Victor Borge Terry Ryan Nominated Bob Cummings Show Danny Thomas Nominated Madelyn Pugh Nominated Best Musical Contribution William Ferrari Arnold Auerbach Harvey Orkin Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Awards Winner Rod Alexander Winner Dinah Shore Show Omnibus Max Liebman Spectaculars Winner Jack Benny Show Jackie Gleason Show Ford Star Jubilee Winner Jack Benny Show Kraft Theatre Rosemary Clooney Dave Garroway Private Secretary Ford Star Jubilee Robert Alan Arthur Bob Carroll Today Producers' Showcase Winner The Theatre Guild T. Miller Studio One Winner Best Comedienne Make Room for Daddy Harry Winkler The Mickey Mouse Club Sheldon Keller Nat Hiken Winner William Craig Smith Nominated Alcoa-Goodyear Playhouse Nominated Gordon MacRae Nominated Nelson Riddle Best Director-live Series Meet the Press RCA TRICOLOR PICTURE Nominated Lloyd Nolan Nominated Best Single Program Of The Year Cyril Hume Winner Jan Scott U.S. Steel Hour David Dortort Winner Wide Wide World Kukla, Fran and Ollie Perry Como Show Loretta Young Mel Tolkin Phil Silvers Edward W. Williams Nominated Person to Person Winner Loretta Young Show Phil Silvers Show Shower of Stars Kraft TV Theatre Navy Log Winner Phil Silvers Show Loretta Young Show Eva Marie Saint Best Action Or Adventure Series Best Special Event Or News Program Sammy Cahn Nominated Ford Star Jubilee Martin Manulis The Pinky Lee Show Everett Greenbaum Philco Playhouse Phil Silvers Alcoa-Goodyear Playhouse Producers' Showcase U.S. Steel Hour Winner Vincent Bogert Jean Hagen James D. Fonda Winner Best Editing Of A Film For Television Nominated Bob Cummings Show Herbert Brodkin Winner Winner Dinah Shore Winner Ralph Bellamy Perry Como Show Jackie Gleason Selma Diamond Best Producer-live Series Robert Young Coleman Jacoby Four Star Playhouse Franklin Schaffner Best Television Adaptation Winner Kraft Theatre Clark Jones $64,000 Question Noel Coward Rod Serling Winner Ford Star Jubilee Nominated Climax Sammy Cahn Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Awards Nominated Ford Star Jubilee Fred Coe You Are There Fireside Theatre Jane Wyman Nominated Four Star Playhouse Julie Harris Al Gordon George Gobel Show Winner Winner Nominated June Taylor James Starbuck William Frawley Nominated Bob Schiller People are Funny David Davidson Nanette Fabray Nat Hiken Arnold Rosen Schlitz Playhouse Howard Leeds Climax Alistair Cooke Climax Jerome Robbins Voice of Firestone Winner John Cameron Swayze U.S. Steel Hour Best Actress-single Performance Medic Serge Krizman Outstanding Comedy Series Sam Perrin Winner Best Actress-continuing Performance U.S. Steel Hour Best Documentary Program Nominated Paul Henning Robert Pittack Nominated Nominated John Daly U.S. Steel Hour You Are There U.S. Steel Hour Nominated Ann Sothern