This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling and Outstanding Period and/or Character Hairstyling. Prior to 2020, awards were split between miniseries or movies and ongoing series.
Beginning in 2024, the Outstanding Period and/or Character Hairstyling category will be renamed Outstanding Period or Fantasy/Sci-Fi Hairstyling.
In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place:
Winners and nominations 1970s Year Program Episode Nominees Network 1970 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Any Area of Creative Technical CraftsAs a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award. The nominees did not meet the benchmark and no award was given. The Don Adams Special: Hooray for Hollywood Edie Panda CBS 1974 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Any Area of Creative Technical CraftsAs a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award. Benjamin Franklin Lynda Gurasich CBS The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour Rena Leuschner CBS 1975 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Any Area of Creative Technical CraftsAs a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award. Benjamin Franklin "The Ambassador" Edie Panda CBS Little House on the Prairie "If I Should Wake Before I Die" Larry Germain NBC 1976 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Any Area of Creative Technical CraftsAs a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award. Eleanor and Franklin Billie Laughridge, Jean Burt Reilly ABC 1977 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Any Area of Creative Technical CraftsAs a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award. Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years Emma di Vittorio, Vivienne Walker ABC The Great Houdini Naomi Cavin ABC Little House on the Prairie "To Live with Fear" Larry Germain NBC 1978 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Any Area of Creative Technical CraftsAs a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award. The nominees did not meet the benchmark and no award was given. The Awakening Land "Part 3" Sugar Blymyer NBC Little House on the Prairie "Here Comes the Brides" Larry Germain, Gladys Witten NBC
Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling Year Program Episode Nominees Network 1979 The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal Janice D. Brandow NBC Backstairs at the White House "Book Four" Susan Germaine, Lola Kemp, Vivian McAteer NBC Ike: The War Years "Part 3" Jean Burt Reilly ABC
1980s Year Program Episode Nominees Network 1980 The Miracle Worker Larry Germain, Donna Barrett Gilbert NBC Fantasy Island "Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde/Aphrodite" Joan Phillips ABC Haywire Carolyn Elias, Bette Iverson CBS Murder Can Hurt You Naomi Cavin, Mary Hadley ABC The Silent Lovers Leonard Drake NBC 1981 Madame X Shirley Padgett NBC Father Damien: The Leper Priest Janice D. Brandow NBC The Jayne Mansfield Story Silvia Abascal, Janis Clark CBS Little House on the Prairie "To See the Light" Larry Germain NBC Lou Grant "Stroke" Jean Austin CBS 1982 Eleanor, First Lady of the World Hazel Catmull CBS Cagney & Lacey "Street Scene" Stephen Robinette CBS Fame "The Strike" Gloria Montemayor NBC Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Emma M. diVittorio, Dione Taylor ABC Marco Polo "Part 4" Renata Magnanti, Elda Magnanti NBC 1983 Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story Edie Panda CBS The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Mark Nelson Syndicated Missing Children: A Mother's Story Janice D. BrandowCBS Wizards and Warriors "The Rescue" Sharleen Rassi 1984 The Mystic Warrior Dino Ganzino ABC The Day After Dorothea Long, Judy Crown ABC Dempsey Adele TaylorCBS George Washington "Part 1" Janice D. Brandow, Shirley Crawford, Irene Aparicio, Cathy Engel, Emma M. diVittorio Samson and Delilah Jan Van Uchelen ABC 1985 The Jesse Owens Story Robert L. Stevenson OPT The Atlanta Child Murders Janice D. Brandow, Robert L. Stevenson CBS The Burning Bed Stephen Robinette NBC Love Lives On Vivian McAteer ABC My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn Adele TaylorCBS Robert Kennedy and His Times "Part 1" Lynda Gurasich 1986 Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Special Second Serve K.G. Ramsey CBS Alice in Wonderland "Part 1" Josée Normand, Jo Thomas CBS North and South "Part 1" Yolanda Toussieng, Shirley Crawford ABC North and South, Book II "Part 1" Virginia Darcy Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series Amazing Stories "Gather Ye Acorns" Bunny Parker NBC Dynasty "Masquerade" Gerald Solomon, Cherie, Linda Leiter Sharp ABC Moonlighting "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" Judy Crown, Josée Normand ABC 1987 Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Special The Two Mrs. Grenvilles "Part 2" Marsha Lewis, Mike Lockey, Sydney Guilaroff NBC Amerika "Part 3" Virginia Kearns ABC Fresno "Part 4" Carol A. O'Connell, Janice Alexander CBS George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation "Part 2" Shirley Crawford, Irene Aparicio, Cathy Engel, Gus Le Pre A Year in the Life "Springtime/Autumn" Janice D. Brandow NBC Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series Moonlighting "Atomic Shakespeare" Kathryn Blondell, Josée Normand ABC Crime Story "Top of the World" Bunny Parker NBC Dynasty "The Ball" Gerald Solomon, Cherie ABC The Facts of Life "62 Pickup" JoAnn Stafford-Chaney, Phillip Ackerman NBC Max Headroom "Body Banks" Janice Alexander ABC 1988 Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Special Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story Claudia Thompson, Aaron F. Quarles, Jan Archibald, Stephen Rose NBC Elvis and Me Russell Smith ABC Lincoln Kelvin R. Trahan NBC Right to Die N. Kristine Chadwick, Kathy W. Estocin Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series Designing Women "I'll Be Seeing You" Judy Crown, Monique DeSart CBS Crime Story "Moulin Rouge" Bunny Parker NBC Dynasty "The Fair" Gerald Solomon, Cherie, Monica Helpman ABC Frank's Place "Dueling Voodoo" Ora Green CBS Star Trek: The Next Generation "Haven" Richard Sabre Syndicated 1989 Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Special Jack the Ripper "Part 1" Betty Glasow, Stevie Hall, Elaine Bowerbank CBS Around the World in 80 Days "Part 1" Dorothy D. Fox, Maria Rizzo, Wendy Rawson, Fung Wai Man NBC Lonesome Dove "On the Trail" Philip Leto, Manlio Rocchetti CBS War and Remembrance "Part 3" Janis Clark, Dino Ganziano, Chris Taylor, Jan Archibald ABC Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series Quantum Leap "Double Identity" Virginia Kearns NBC Almost Grown "If This Diamond Ring Don't Shine" Susan Schuler-Page, Sharleen Rassi CBS Star Trek: The Next Generation "Unnatural Selection" Richard Sabre, Georgina Williams Syndicated Thirtysomething "We'll Meet Again" Carol Pershing ABC The Tracey Ullman Show "The Subway" Billy Laughridge Fox
1990s