Emmy Award facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Emmy Award |
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Awarded for | Excellence in the television industry |
Presented by | ATAS / NATAS / IATAS |
Country | United States |
First awarded | January 25, 1949 |
The Emmy Awards are United States television production awards which are given out each year. They are the television version of the Academy Awards. The first Emmy Awards were given out on January 25, 1949 at the Hollywood Athletic Club. Shirley Dinsdale was the very first person to be given an Emmy in the first awards ceremony.
Three organizations give Emmy Awards:
- The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences gives the award for American prime time entertainment (not including sports).
- The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences gives the award for daytime, sports, news, and documentary programming.
- The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences gives the award for programming that is created outside the United States.
The best-known of the awards are the Primetime Awards (some of which are named "Creative Arts Emmys") and the Daytime Emmy Awards.
The Emmy Awards is a statuette of a woman with wings holding an atom. It was created by television engineer Louis McManus, using his wife as a model. The trophies are made by a company that has a manufacturing site at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, a prison in El Dorado, Kansas.
Images for kids
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Actress Dana Delany holding a Primetime Emmy Award in 1992
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TV producer and writer Bradley Bell accepting Daytime Emmy Awards for his work on the daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful in 2010
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Goddard Space Flight Center Engineer Richard Nafzger, actress June Lockhart, and astronaut Buzz Aldrin accepting the Philo T. Farnsworth Emmy Award on behalf of NASA in 2009, honoring the technological innovations first used during the broadcasts of the Apollo 11 Moon landing
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Writer and producer Greg Berlanti holding an International Emmy Award in 2018
See also
In Spanish: Premios Emmy para niños