The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie is a retired award that was handed out annually at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. In 2014, the category was restructured into Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary or Fantasy Program (One Hour or More) and Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Period Program (One Hour or More).
Winners and nominations 1950s Year Program Episode(s) Nominees Network 1956 Outstanding Art Direction for a Film Series You Are There William Ferrari CBS Four Star Playhouse Duncan Cramer CBS Medic Ernst Fegté NBC Robin Hood Peter Proud CBS Schlitz Playhouse Serge Krizman Outstanding Art Direction for a Live Series Playwrights '56 and Producers' Showcase Otis Riggs NBC Alice in Wonderland and The Good Fairy (Hallmark Hall of Fame) Jan Scott NBC Climax! James Dowell Vance CBS Lux Video Theatre William Craig Smith NBC The Perry Como Show Don Shirley The United States Steel Hour Carl Kent CBS 1957 Outstanding Art Direction (Half Hour or Less) Your Hit Parade Paul Barnes NBC Adventure Grover Cole CBS The Dinah Shore Show Franklin Swig NBC Frontiers of Faith Warren Clymer G.E. Theatre John J. Lloyd, John Robert Lloyd, John Meehan, Martin Obzina, George Patrick CBS Outstanding Art Direction (One Hour or More) Requiem for a Heavyweight (Playhouse 90) Albert Heschong CBS The Kaiser Aluminum Hour Jan Scott NBC Kraft Television Theatre Duane McKinney Omnibus Henry May CBS The Perry Como Show Don Shirley NBC 1958 Twelfth Night (Hallmark Hall of Fame) Rouben Ter-Arutunian NBC Climax! Beulah Frankel CBS The George Gobel Show Robert Kelly NBC The Perry Como Show Don Shirley Wagon Train Howard E. Johnson 1959 Outstanding Art Direction for a Live Television Program An Evening with Fred Astaire Edward Stephenson NBC The Count of Monte Cristo (DuPont Show of the Month) Bob Wade CBS Hamlet (DuPont Show of the Month) Bob Markell Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates (Hallmark Hall of Fame) Jan Scott NBC Little Moon of Alban (Hallmark Hall of Fame) Warren Clymer Old Man (Playhouse 90) Walter Scott Herndon CBS Outstanding Art Direction for a Television Film Bernadette (Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse) Claudio Guzmán CBS The Californians "The Man from Paris" Albert M. Pyke NBC Corporal Hardy (Alcoa-Goodyear Theatre) John T. McCormack CBS Most Honorable Day (The Loretta Young Show) Frank Sylos NBC The Texan "The Dutches of Denver" Ralph Berger, Charles F. Pyke CBS
1960s Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction and Scenic Design Year Program Episode(s) Nominees Network 1960 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Ralph Berger, Frank Smith CBS Alfred Hitchcock Presents John J. Lloyd CBS The Garry Moore Show Charles Lisanby 1961 Checkmate John J. Lloyd CBS Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall Gary Smith NBC 24 Hours in a Woman's Life Jac Venza CBS 1962 Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall Gary Smith NBC The Garry Moore Show Charles Lisanby CBS The Power and the Glory Burr Smidt The Twilight Zone Philip Barber Theatre '62 Jan Scott NBC 1963 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color Carroll Clark, Marvin Aubrey Davis NBC Bonanza A. Earl Hedrick, Hal Pereira NBC The Defenders Willard Levitas CBS The DuPont Show of the Week Jan Scott NBC The Eleventh Hour George Davis, Merrill Pye Pygmalion (Hallmark Hall of Fame) Warren Clymer 1964 The Fantasticks (Hallmark Hall of Fame) Warren Clymer NBC The Danny Kaye Show Edward Stephenson CBS The Judy Garland Show Robert Kelly, Gary Smith The Outer Limits Jack Poplin ABC 1965 The Holy Terror (Hallmark Hall of Fame) Warren Clymer NBC My Name Is Barbra Bill Harp, Tom John CBS A Carol for Another Christmas (Xerox Specials) Gene Callahan, Jack Wright NBC The Magnificent Yankee (Hallmark Hall of Fame) Warren Clymer NBC 1966 The Hollywood Palace James Trittipo ABC The Andy Williams Show Edward Stephenson NBC Color Me Barbra Tom John CBS The Man from U.N.C.L.E. George Davis, Merrill Pye, James W. Sullivan NBC Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea William J. Creber ABC Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color "Further Adventures of Gallegher" Carroll Clark, William H. Tuntke NBC 1967 Death of a Salesman Earl Carlson, Tom John CBS 1968 The Fred Astaire Show James Trittipo CBS Kismet (Armstrong Center Theater) George Gaines, Jan Scott ABC Elizabeth the Queen (Hallmark Hall of Fame) Warren Clymer NBC Mission: Impossible "Echo of Yesterday" Bill Ross CBS The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour "Episode 210" Lucien Hafley, Bill Ross CBS 1969 Mission: Impossible "The Bunker" Lucien Hafley, Bill Ross CBS Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Ken Johnson NBC Star Trek "All Our Yesterdays" John M. Dwyer, Matt Jefferies NBC
1970s Outstanding Art Direction for a Dramatic Program or Series Year Program Episode(s) Nominees Network 1970 Shadow Game (CBS Playhouse) Earl Carlson, Jan Scott CBS The File on Devlin (Hallmark Hall of Fame) James Trittipo NBC Man on the Moon: The Epic Journey of Apollo XI Wesley Laws, Hugh Gray Raisky CBS Mission: Impossible Lucien M. Hafley, Gibson Holley 1971 Hamlet (Hallmark Hall of Fame) Peter Roden NBC Mannix "The Mouse That Died" Fred R. Price, Jan M. Van Tamelen CBS Montserrat Jan Scott PBS The Price (Hallmark Hall of Fame) John Clements NBC Vanished John J. Lloyd, Ruby R. Levitt 1972 The Scarecrow Jan Scott PBS Look Homeward, Angel (CBS Playhouse) Ben Edwards CBS Mission: Impossible Lucien M. Hafley, Gibson Holley The Snow Goose (Hallmark Hall of Fame) Stanley Morris NBC 1973 Much Ado About Nothing Tom John CBS Another Part of the Forest Jan Scott CBS Mannix Fred R. Price, Jan M. Van Tamelen Mission: Impossible Lucien M. Hafley, Gibson Holley Night of Terror William Campbell ABC The Red Pony Robert F. Boyle, James Hulsey, John Kurl NBC 1974 The Lie Jan Scott, Charles Kreiner CBS The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Michael D. Haller ABC The Execution of Private Slovik Walter H. Tyler, Richard Friedman NBC
Outstanding Art Direction for a Dramatic Special Year Program Episode(s) Nominees Network 1975 Love Among the Ruins Carmen Dillon, Tessa Davies ABC The Legend of Lizzie Borden Jack De Shields, Harry Gordon ABC 1976 Eleanor and Franklin Jan Scott, Antony Mondello ABC Barbary Coast Jack De Shields, Reg Allen ABC The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond Roy Christopher, Frank Lombardo CBS 1977 Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years Jan Scott, Anne D. McCulley ABC Amelia Earhart William H. Tuntke, Richard Friedman NBC Eccentricities of a Nightingale Trevor Williams, Robert ChecchiPBS The Last of Mrs. Lincoln Roy Christopher, Beulah Frankel 1978 Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women John DeCuir, Richard C. Goddard NBC The Bastard Loyd S. Papez, Richard Friedman Syndicated The Gathering Jan Scott, Anne D. McCulleyABC It Happened One Christmas John J. Lloyd, Hal Gausman Our Town Roy Christopher, James Shanahan NBC
Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie
Year Program Episode(s) Nominees Network 1979 Studs Lonigan "Part 3" Jan Scott, Bill Harp NBC Backstairs at the White House "Book One" Richard Y. Haman, Anne D. McCulley NBC Blind Ambition "Part 3" Michael Baugh, Robert Checchi, Arthur Jeph Parker CBS Centennial "The Shepherds" Jack Senter, John W. Corso, Sherman Loudermilk, Joseph J. Stone, John M. Dwyer, Robert George FreerNBC Studs Lonigan "Part 1" Jan Scott, Edward J. McDonald, Bill Harp
1980s Year Program Episode(s) Nominees Network 1980 Gauguin the Savage Wilfred Shingleton, Julian Sacks, Jean Taillandier, Cheryal Kearney, Robert Christidès CBS All Quiet on the Western Front John Stoll, Karel Vacek CBS Brave New World Tom H. John, Mary Ann Biddle NBC The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd Jack De Shields, Ira BatesCBS Orphan Train Jan Scott, Bill Harp The Silent Lovers Michael Baugh, Jerry Adams NBC 1981 East of Eden "Part 3" Ray Storey, Dennis W. Peeples, Dave L. Love ABC Marilyn: The Untold Story Jan Scott, Sydney Z. Litwack, Bill HarpABC Masada "Part 4" Jack Senter, George Renne, Kuli Sander, Joseph J. Stone, Edward M. Parker Playing for Time Robert Gundlach, Gary Jones CBS Shōgun "Part 5" Joseph R. Jennings, Yoshinobu Nishioka, Tom Pedigo, Shoichi Yasuda NBC 1982 The Letter James Hulsey, Jerry Adams ABC Brideshead Revisited "Et in Arcadia Ego" Peter Phillips PBS Inside the Third Reich Rolf Zehetbauer, Kuli Sander, Herbert Strabel ABC Marco Polo "Part 2" Luciano Ricceri, Bruno Cesari NBC 1983 The Thorn Birds "Part 1" Robert MacKichan, Jerry Adams ABC The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby "Part 4" John Napier Syndicated Little Gloria... Happy at Last Stuart Wurtzel, Guy J. Comtois, Enrico Campana, Doug Kraner, Maurice Leblanc NBC The Scarlet Pimpernel Tony Curtis, Carolyn Scott CBS The Winds of War "The Winds Rise" Jackson De Govia, John V. Cartwright, Malcolm Middleton, Michael Minor, Francesco Chianese, Hertha Hareiter, Thomas L. Roysden ABC 1984 A Streetcar Named Desire James Hulsey, George R. Nelson ABC Chiefs "Part 2" Charles C. Bennett, Victor Kempster CBS The Day After Peter Wooley, Mary Ann Good ABC The First Olympics: Athens 1896 Michael Stringer, Fred Carter, Petros Kapouralis, Terry Parr NBC Invitation to Hell Hub Braden, Bill Harp ABC The Master of Ballantrae John Biggs, Derek Nice CBS 1985 Evergreen "Part 1" Jan Scott, Charles C. Bennett, David Davis, Robert Drumheller, Jacques M. Bradette NBC Christopher Columbus Mario Chiari, Francesco Frigeri, Enzo Eusepi CBS A Death in California Hub Braden, Donald J. Remacle ABC The Jewel in the Crown "The Regimental Silver" Vic Symonds, Alan Pickford PBS My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn Albert Heschong, Richard Berger, Dave L. Love CBS 1986 Death of a Salesman Tony Walton, John Kasarda, Robert J. Franco CBS An Early Frost James Hulsey, Hal GausmanNBC The Long Hot Summer "Part 1" Jan Scott, Keith Hein Peter the Great "Part 1" Aleksandr Popov, John Blezard, Freddi Dobsak 1987 The Two Mrs. Grenvilles "Part 2" Malcolm Middleton, Herbert Westbrook, Harry Cordwell NBC Escape from Sobibor Allan Starski, Vlastimir Gavrik, Milorad Kalanj, Miodrag Miric CBS Fresno "Part 1" Tommy Goetz, Mary Ann Good, Charles B. Pierce Lyndon Johnston Ben Edwards, Mike Patterson PBS There Must Be a Pony James J. Agazzi, Ross Bellah, Audrey A. Blasdel, Jerry Adams ABC 1988 Foxfire Jan Scott, Erica Rogalla CBS Lincoln "Part 1" Paul Peters, Lynn Smart NBC Noble House "Part 1" Robert W. Laing, Francesco Chianese, George Richardson, Hugh Scaife 1989 I'll Be Home for Christmas Jan Scott, Jack Taylor, Edward J. McDonald NBC Around the World in 80 Days "Part 1" Vladislav Lasic, Mike Porter, Ian Watson, Jonathan Cheung, Roger Hulme, Chung Yee Fung, Svetislav Todorovic NBC I Never Sang for My Father Roy Christopher, Greg Richman PBS Lonesome Dove "The Return" Cary White, Michael J. Sullivan CBS War and Remembrance "Part 12" Guy J. Comtois, Veronica Hadfield, William Cruse, Norm Baron, Jean-Michel Hugon, Francesco Chianese, Hari Pischinger, Wally White, Don K. Ivey, Richard Reams, Jeff Haley, Malcolm Stone ABC
1990s