Primetime Emmy Awards 1997
The 49th Primetime Emmy Awards · Held September 14, 1997 · 30 categories · everything in 1997
Outstanding Drama Series
- Winner Law & Order
- Nominee Chicago Hope · Tim Kring, Dawn Prestwich, Nicole Yorkin
- Nominee ER · Neal Baer, Lance Gentile
- Nominee NYPD Blue · David Mills, Michael W. Watkins
- Nominee The X-Files · Howard Gordon, Vince Gilligan, Frank Spotnitz, Ken Horton
Outstanding Comedy Series
- Winner Frasier · Christopher Lloyd, Suzanne Martin, Rob Greenberg
- Nominee 3rd Rock from the Sun · Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner, Caryn Mandabach, David Sacks, Bob Kushell, Christine Zander, Mark Brazill, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner
- Nominee Mad About You · Richard Day, Helen Hunt, Maria Semple, Jenji Kohan
- Nominee Seinfeld · Alec Berg, Andy Robin, Jeff Schaffer, Gregg Kavet, Spike Feresten, David Mandel
- Nominee The Larry Sanders Show · Jeff Cesario, Earl Pomerantz
Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series
- Winner Prime Suspect: The Final Act · Rebecca Eaton
- Nominee In Cold Blood · Robert Halmi
- Nominee The Last Don · Joyce Eliason, Frank Konigsberg
- Nominee The Odyssey · Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Fuchs, Robert Halmi, Nicholas Meyer, Dyson Lovell
- Nominee The Shining · Stephen King
Outstanding Television Movie
- Winner Miss Evers' Boys · Laurence Fishburne
- Nominee Bastard Out of Carolina
- Nominee Gotti · Gary Lucchesi
- Nominee If These Walls Could Talk · Suzanne Todd, Demi Moore
- Nominee In the Gloaming · Frederick Zollo, Nicholas Paleologos, Michael J. Fuchs, Bonnie Timmermann
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
- Winner Dennis Franz · NYPD Blue
- Nominee Anthony Edwards · ER
- Nominee Sam Waterston · Law & Order
- Nominee Jimmy Smits · NYPD Blue
- Nominee David Duchovny · The X-Files
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
- Winner Gillian Anderson · The X-Files
- Nominee Christine Lahti · Chicago Hope
- Nominee Julianna Margulies · ER
- Nominee Sherry Stringfield · ER
- Nominee Roma Downey · Touched by an Angel
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
- Winner John Lithgow · 3rd Rock from the Sun
- Nominee Kelsey Grammer · Frasier
- Nominee Paul Reiser · Mad About You
- Nominee Michael J. Fox · Spin City
- Nominee Garry Shandling · The Larry Sanders Show
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
- Winner Helen Hunt · Mad About You
- Nominee Cybill Shepherd · Cybill
- Nominee Ellen DeGeneres · Ellen
- Nominee Patricia Richardson · Home Improvement
- Nominee Fran Drescher · The Nanny
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
- Winner Armand Assante · Gotti
- Nominee Beau Bridges · Hidden in America
- Nominee Sidney Poitier · Mandela and de Klerk
- Nominee Laurence Fishburne · Miss Evers' Boys
- Nominee Robert Duvall · The Man Who Captured Eichmann
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
- Winner Alfre Woodard · Miss Evers' Boys
- Nominee Meryl Streep · ...First Do No Harm
- Nominee Glenn Close · In the Gloaming
- Nominee Helen Mirren · Prime Suspect V: Errors of Judgement
- Nominee Stockard Channing
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
- Winner Héctor Elizondo · Chicago Hope
- Nominee Adam Arkin · Chicago Hope
- Nominee Noah Wyle · ER
- Nominee Eriq La Salle · ER
- Nominee Nicholas Turturro · NYPD Blue
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
- Winner Kim Delaney · NYPD Blue
- Nominee Laura Innes · ER
- Nominee C. C. H. Pounder · ER
- Nominee Gloria Reuben · ER
- Nominee Della Reese · Touched by an Angel
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
- Winner Michael Richards · Seinfeld
- Nominee David Hyde Pierce · Frasier
- Nominee Jason Alexander · Seinfeld
- Nominee Rip Torn · The Larry Sanders Show
- Nominee Jeffrey Tambor · The Larry Sanders Show
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
- Winner Kristen Johnston · 3rd Rock from the Sun
- Nominee Christine Baranski · Cybill
- Nominee Lisa Kudrow · Friends
- Nominee Julia Louis-Dreyfus · Seinfeld
- Nominee Janeane Garofalo · The Larry Sanders Show
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
- Winner The Second Civil War
- Nominee Michael Caine · Mandela and de Klerk
- Nominee Obba Babatundé · Miss Evers' Boys
- Nominee Ossie Davis · Miss Evers' Boys
- Nominee Joe Mantegna · The Last Don
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
- Winner Diana Rigg · Rebecca
- Nominee Glenne Headly · Bastard Out of Carolina
- Nominee Frances McDormand · Hidden in America
- Nominee Bridget Fonda · In the Gloaming
- Nominee Kirstie Alley · The Last Don
Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
- Winner Mark Tinker · Where's 'Swaldo? from NYPD Blue
- Nominee Christopher Chulack · Fear of Flying from ER
- Nominee Rod Holcomb · Last Call from ER
- Nominee James Wong · Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man from The X-Files
- Nominee Tom Moore · Union Station from ER
Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
- Winner David Lee · To Kill a Talking Bird from Frasier
- Nominee Alan Myerson · Ellen, or Isn't She from The Larry Sanders Show
- Nominee Todd Holland · Everybody Loves Larry from The Larry Sanders Show
- Nominee Andy Ackerman · The Pothole from Seinfeld
- Nominee Gil Junger · The Puppy Episode from Ellen
Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Dramatic Special
- Winner Andrei Konchalovsky · The Odyssey
Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series
- Winner Stephen Gaghan · Where's 'Swaldo? from NYPD Blue
- Nominee John Wells · Faith from ER
- Nominee Chris Carter, Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz · Memento Mori from The X-Files
- Nominee David Mills · Taillight's Last Gleaming from NYPD Blue
- Nominee John Shiban · The X-Files
- Nominee Neal Baer · Whose Appy Now? from ER
Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
- Winner Mark Driscoll · The Puppy Episode from Ellen
- Nominee Judd Apatow · Ellen, or Isn't She from The Larry Sanders Show
- Nominee Jon Vitti · Everybody Loves Larry from The Larry Sanders Show
- Nominee Peter Tolan · My Name is Asher Kingsley from The Larry Sanders Show
- Nominee Peter Mehlman · The Yada Yada from Seinfeld
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
- Winner Mel Brooks · Mad About You
- Nominee James Earl Jones · Frasier
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
- Winner Pruitt Taylor Vince · Murder One
- Nominee Alan Arkin · Chicago Hope
- Nominee Louis Gossett Jr. · Touched by an Angel
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
- Winner Carol Burnett · Mad About You
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
- Winner Dianne Wiest · Road to Avonlea
Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program
- Winner Bette Midler · Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
- Nominee George Carlin · George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy
- Nominee Bill Maher · Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher
- Nominee Billy Crystal · The 69th Annual Academy Awards
- Nominee Tracey Ullman · Tracey Takes On...
Outstanding Music Composition for a Series
- Winner The Cape · John Debney, Louis Febre
Outstanding Variety Special (Live)
- Winner Chris Rock: Bring the Pain · Chris Rock
- Nominee Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas · Bette Midler, Bonnie Bruckheimer, Marty Callner
- Nominee George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy · John Moffitt, Kimber Rickabaugh
- Nominee The 50th Annual Tony Awards · Walter C. Miller, Roy Somlyo
- Nominee The 69th Annual Academy Awards · Gilbert Cates
Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Dramatic Special
- Winner Horton Foote · William Faulkner
- Nominee William Nicholson · Crime of the Century
- Nominee Steve Shagan · Gotti
- Nominee Walter Bernstein · Miss Evers' Boys
- Nominee Larry Gelbart · Weapons of Mass Distraction