| Year
 | 
Comedy
 | 
Drama
 | 
Variety
 | 
Lead Comedy Actor
 | 
Lead Drama Actor
 | 
Lead Comedy Actress
 | 
Lead Drama Actress
 | 
| 1949
 | 
Pantomime Quiz (Most Popular Television Program)  (KTLA)  The Necklace (Best Film Made for Television)  (Your Show Time series)
 | 
Shirley Dinsdale (Most Outstanding Television Personality)  (KTLA)
 | 
| 1950
 | 
Texaco Star Theatre   (KNBH)
 | 
The Ed Wynn Show   (KTTV)
 | 
Milton Berle (Most Outstanding Kinescoped Personality)  (KNBH)  Ed Wynn (Most Outstanding Live Personality)  (KTTV)
 | 
| 1951
 | 
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse   (ABC)
 | 
The Alan Young Show   (CBS)
 | 
Alan Young   (CBS)
 | 
Gertrude Berg   (CBS)
 | 
| 1952
 | 
The Red Skelton Show   (CBS)
 | 
Studio One   (CBS)
 | 
Your Show of Shows   (NBC)
 | 
Red Skelton   (NBC)
 | 
Sid Caesar   (NBC)
 | 
Imogene Coca   (NBC)
 | 
| 1953
 | 
I Love Lucy   (CBS)
 | 
Robert Montgomery Presents   (NBC)
 | 
Jimmy Durante   (NBC)
 | 
Thomas Mitchell
 | 
Lucille Ball   (CBS)
 | 
Helen Hayes
 | 
| 1954
 | 
The U.S. Steel Hour   (ABC)  Dragnet   (NBC)
 | 
Omnibus   (CBS)
 | 
Donald O'Connor   The Colgate Comedy Hour   (NBC)
 | 
Eve Arden   Our Miss Brooks   (CBS)
 | 
| 1955
 | 
Make Room for Daddy   (ABC)
 | 
The U.S. Steel Hour   (ABC)  Dragnet   (NBC)  Stories of the Century   (Syndicated)
 | 
Walt Disney's Disneyland   (ABC)
 | 
Danny Thomas   Make Room for Daddy   (ABC)
 | 
Loretta Young   The Loretta Young Show   (NBC)
 | 
| 1956
 | 
The Phil Silvers Show   (CBS)
 | 
Producers' Showcase   (NBC)
 | 
Toast of the Town   (CBS)
 | 
Phil Silvers   The Phil Silvers Show   (CBS)
 | 
Lucille Ball   I Love Lucy   (CBS)
 | 
| 1957
 | 
Playhouse 90   (CBS)
 | 
no award given
 | 
Sid Caesar   Caesar's Hour   (NBC)
 | 
Robert Young   Father Knows Best   (CBS)
 | 
Nanette Fabray   Caesar's Hour   (NBC)
 | 
Loretta Young   The Loretta Young Show   (NBC)
 | 
| 1958
 | 
Gunsmoke   (CBS)  Playhouse 90   (CBS)
 | 
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show   (NBC)
 | 
Robert Young   Father Knows Best   (CBS)
 | 
Jane Wyatt   Father Knows Best   (CBS)
 | 
| 1959
 | 
The Jack Benny Program   (CBS)
 | 
The Alcoa Hour / Goodyear Television Playhouse   (NBC)  Playhouse 90   (CBS)  Maverick   (ABC)
 | 
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show   (NBC)
 | 
Jack Benny   The Jack Benny Program   (CBS)
 | 
Raymond Burr   Perry Mason   (CBS)
 | 
Jane Wyatt   Father Knows Best   (CBS)
 | 
Loretta Young   The Loretta Young Show   (NBC)
 | 
| 1960
 | 
Art Carney Special   (NBC)
 | 
Playhouse 90   (CBS)
 | 
The Garry Moore Show   (CBS)
 | 
Robert Stack   The Untouchables   (ABC)
 | 
Jane Wyatt   Father Knows Best   (CBS)
 | 
| 1961
 | 
The Jack Benny Program   (CBS)
 | 
Macbeth   (Hallmark Hall of Fame)  (NBC)
 | 
Astaire Time   (NBC)
 | 
Raymond Burr   Perry Mason   (CBS)
 | 
Barbara Stanwyck   The Barbara Stanwyck Show   (NBC)
 | 
| 1962
 | 
The Bob Newhart Show   (NBC)
 | 
The Defenders   (CBS)
 | 
The Garry Moore Show   (CBS)
 | 
E. G. Marshall   The Defenders   (CBS)
 | 
Shirley Booth   Hazel   (NBC)
 | 
| 1963
 | 
The Dick Van Dyke Show   (CBS)
 | 
The Andy Williams Show   (NBC)
 | 
| 1964
 | 
The Danny Kaye Show   (CBS)
 | 
Dick Van Dyke   The Dick Van Dyke Show   (CBS)
 | 
Mary Tyler Moore   The Dick Van Dyke Show   (CBS)
 | 
| 1965
 | 
four winners[a]   (Outstanding Program Achievements in Entertainment)
 | 
five winners[b]   (Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment – Actors and Performers)
 | 
| 1966
 | 
The Dick Van Dyke Show   (CBS)
 | 
The Fugitive   (ABC)
 | 
The Andy Williams Show   (NBC)
 | 
Dick Van Dyke   The Dick Van Dyke Show   (CBS)
 | 
Bill Cosby   I Spy   (NBC)
 | 
Mary Tyler Moore   The Dick Van Dyke Show   (CBS)
 | 
Barbara Stanwyck   The Big Valley   (ABC)
 | 
| 1967
 | 
The Monkees   (NBC)
 | 
Mission: Impossible   (CBS)
 | 
Don Adams   Get Smart   (NBC)
 | 
Lucille Ball   The Lucy Show   (CBS)
 | 
Barbara Bain   Mission: Impossible   (CBS)
 | 
| 1968
 | 
Get Smart   (NBC)
 | 
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In   (NBC)
 | 
| 1969
 | 
NET Playhouse   (NET)
 | 
Carl Betz   Judd for the Defense   (ABC)
 | 
Hope Lange   The Ghost & Mrs. Muir   (ABC)
 | 
| 1970
 | 
My World and Welcome to It   (NBC)
 | 
Marcus Welby, M.D.   (ABC)
 | 
The David Frost Show   (Syndicated)
 | 
William Windom   My World and Welcome to It   (NBC)
 | 
Robert Young   Marcus Welby, M.D.   (ABC)
 | 
Susan Hampshire   The Forsyte Saga   (NET)
 | 
| 1971
 | 
All in the Family   (CBS)
 | 
The Bold Ones: The Senator   (NBC)
 | 
Singer Presents Burt Bacharach   (CBS)
 | 
Jack Klugman   The Odd Couple   (ABC)
 | 
Hal Holbrook   The Bold Ones: The Senator   (NBC)
 | 
Jean Stapleton   All in the Family   (CBS)
 | 
Susan Hampshire   The First Churchills   (Masterpiece Theatre)  (PBS)
 | 
| 1972
 | 
Elizabeth R   (Masterpiece Theatre)  (PBS)
 | 
The Carol Burnett Show   (CBS)
 | 
Carroll O'Connor   All in the Family   (CBS)
 | 
Peter Falk   Columbo   (NBC)
 | 
Glenda Jackson   Elizabeth R   (Masterpiece Theatre)  (PBS)
 | 
| 1973
 | 
The Waltons   (CBS)
 | 
The Julie Andrews Hour   (ABC)
 | 
Jack Klugman   The Odd Couple   (ABC)
 | 
Richard Thomas   The Waltons   (CBS)
 | 
Mary Tyler Moore   The Mary Tyler Moore Show   (CBS)
 | 
Michael Learned   The Waltons   (CBS)
 | 
| 1974
 | 
M*A*S*H   (CBS)
 | 
Upstairs, Downstairs   (Masterpiece Theatre)   (PBS)
 | 
The Carol Burnett Show   (CBS)
 | 
Alan Alda   M*A*S*H   (CBS)
 | 
Telly Savalas   Kojak   (CBS)
 | 
| 1975
 | 
The Mary Tyler Moore Show   (CBS)
 | 
Tony Randall   The Odd Couple   (ABC)
 | 
Robert Blake   Baretta   (ABC)
 | 
Valerie Harper   Rhoda   (CBS)
 | 
Jean Marsh   Upstairs, Downstairs   (Masterpiece Theatre)  (PBS)
 | 
| 1976
 | 
Police Story   (NBC)
 | 
Saturday Night Live   (NBC)
 | 
Jack Albertson   Chico and the Man   (NBC)
 | 
Peter Falk   Columbo   (NBC)
 | 
Mary Tyler Moore   The Mary Tyler Moore Show   (CBS)
 | 
Michael Learned   The Waltons   (CBS)
 | 
| 1977
 | 
Upstairs, Downstairs   (Masterpiece Theatre)  (PBS)
 | 
Van Dyke and Company   (NBC)
 | 
Carroll O'Connor   All in the Family   (CBS)
 | 
James Garner   The Rockford Files   (NBC)
 | 
Bea Arthur   Maude   (CBS)
 | 
Lindsay Wagner   The Bionic Woman   (ABC)
 | 
| 1978
 | 
All in the Family   (CBS)
 | 
The Rockford Files   (NBC)
 | 
The Muppet Show   (Syndicated)
 | 
Ed Asner   Lou Grant   (CBS)
 | 
Jean Stapleton   All in the Family   (CBS)
 | 
Sada Thompson   Family   (ABC)
 | 
| 1979
 | 
Taxi   (ABC)
 | 
Lou Grant   (CBS)
 | 
Steve & Eydie Celebrate Irving Berlin   (NBC)
 | 
Ron Leibman   Kaz   (CBS)
 | 
Ruth Gordon   Taxi   (ABC)
 | 
Mariette Hartley   The Incredible Hulk   (CBS)
 | 
| 1980
 | 
Baryshnikov on Broadway   (ABC)
 | 
Richard Mulligan   Soap   (ABC)
 | 
Ed Asner   Lou Grant   (CBS)
 | 
Cathryn Damon   Soap   (ABC)
 | 
Barbara Bel Geddes   Dallas   (CBS)
 | 
| 1981
 | 
Hill Street Blues   (NBC)
 | 
Lily: Sold Out   (CBS)
 | 
Judd Hirsch   Taxi   (ABC)
 | 
Daniel J. Travanti   Hill Street Blues   (NBC)
 | 
Isabel Sanford   The Jeffersons   (CBS)
 | 
Barbara Babcock   Hill Street Blues   (NBC)
 | 
| 1982
 | 
Barney Miller   (ABC)
 | 
Night of 100 Stars   (ABC)
 | 
Alan Alda   M*A*S*H   (CBS)
 | 
Carol Kane   Taxi   (ABC)
 | 
Michael Learned   Nurse   (CBS)
 | 
| 1983
 | 
Cheers   (NBC)
 | 
Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever   (NBC)
 | 
Judd Hirsch   Taxi   (NBC)
 | 
Ed Flanders   St. Elsewhere   (NBC)
 | 
Shelley Long   Cheers   (NBC)
 | 
Tyne Daly   Cagney & Lacey   (CBS)
 | 
| 1984
 | 
Kennedy Center Honors   (CBS)
 | 
John Ritter   Three's Company   (ABC)
 | 
Tom Selleck   Magnum, P.I.   (CBS)
 | 
Jane Curtin   Kate & Allie   (CBS)
 | 
| 1985
 | 
The Cosby Show   (NBC)
 | 
Cagney & Lacey   (CBS)
 | 
Motown Returns to the Apollo   (NBC)
 | 
Robert Guillaume   Benson   (ABC)
 | 
William Daniels   St. Elsewhere   (NBC)
 | 
| 1986
 | 
The Golden Girls   (NBC)
 | 
Kennedy Center Honors   (CBS)
 | 
Michael J. Fox   Family Ties   (NBC)
 | 
Betty White   The Golden Girls   (NBC)
 | 
Sharon Gless   Cagney & Lacey   (CBS)
 | 
| 1987
 | 
L.A. Law   (NBC)
 | 
41st Tony Awards   (CBS)
 | 
Bruce Willis   Moonlighting   (ABC)
 | 
Rue McClanahan   The Golden Girls   (NBC)
 | 
| 1988
 | 
The Wonder Years   (ABC)
 | 
thirtysomething   (ABC)
 | 
Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration   (CBS)
 | 
Richard Kiley   A Year in the Life   (NBC)
 | 
Bea Arthur   The Golden Girls   (NBC)
 | 
Tyne Daly   Cagney & Lacey   (CBS)
 | 
| 1989
 | 
Cheers   (NBC)
 | 
L.A. Law   (NBC)
 | 
The Tracey Ullman Show   (Fox)
 | 
Richard Mulligan   Empty Nest   (NBC)
 | 
Carroll O'Connor   In the Heat of the Night   (NBC)
 | 
Candice Bergen   Murphy Brown   (CBS)
 | 
Dana Delany   China Beach   (ABC)
 | 
| 1990
 | 
Murphy Brown   (CBS)
 | 
In Living Color   (Fox)
 | 
Ted Danson   Cheers   (NBC)
 | 
Peter Falk   Columbo   (ABC)
 | 
Patricia Wettig   thirtysomething   (ABC)
 | 
| 1991
 | 
Cheers   (NBC)
 | 
63rd Academy Awards   (ABC)
 | 
Burt Reynolds   Evening Shade   (CBS)
 | 
James Earl Jones   Gabriel's Fire   (ABC)
 | 
Kirstie Alley   Cheers   (NBC)
 | 
| 1992
 | 
Murphy Brown   (CBS)
 | 
Northern Exposure   (CBS)
 | 
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson   (NBC)
 | 
Craig T. Nelson   Coach   (ABC)
 | 
Christopher Lloyd   Avonlea   (Disney)
 | 
Candice Bergen   Murphy Brown   (CBS)
 | 
Dana Delany   China Beach   (ABC)
 | 
| 1993
 | 
Seinfeld   (NBC)
 | 
Picket Fences   (CBS)
 | 
Saturday Night Live   (NBC)
 | 
Ted Danson   Cheers   (NBC)
 | 
Tom Skerritt   Picket Fences   (CBS)
 | 
Roseanne Barr   Roseanne   (ABC)
 | 
Kathy Baker   Picket Fences   (CBS)
 | 
| 1994
 | 
Frasier   (NBC)
 | 
Late Show with David Letterman   (CBS)
 | 
Kelsey Grammer   Frasier   (NBC)
 | 
Dennis Franz   NYPD Blue   (ABC)
 | 
Candice Bergen   Murphy Brown   (CBS)
 | 
Sela Ward   Sisters   (NBC)
 | 
| 1995
 | 
NYPD Blue   (ABC)
 | 
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno   (NBC)
 | 
Mandy Patinkin   Chicago Hope   (CBS)
 | 
Kathy Baker   Picket Fences   (CBS)
 | 
| 1996
 | 
ER   (NBC)
 | 
Dennis Miller Live   (HBO)
 | 
John Lithgow   3rd Rock from the Sun   (NBC)
 | 
Dennis Franz   NYPD Blue   (ABC)
 | 
Helen Hunt   Mad About You   (NBC)
 | 
| 1997
 | 
Law & Order   (NBC)
 | 
Tracey Takes On...   (HBO)
 | 
Gillian Anderson   The X-Files   (Fox)
 | 
| 1998
 | 
The Practice   (ABC)
 | 
Late Show with David Letterman   (CBS)
 | 
Kelsey Grammer   Frasier   (NBC)
 | 
Andre Braugher   Homicide: Life on the Street   (NBC)
 | 
Christine Lahti   Chicago Hope   (CBS)
 | 
| 1999
 | 
Ally McBeal   (Fox)
 | 
John Lithgow   3rd Rock from the Sun   (NBC)
 | 
Dennis Franz   NYPD Blue   (ABC)
 | 
Edie Falco   The Sopranos   (HBO)
 | 
| 2000
 | 
Will & Grace   (NBC)
 | 
The West Wing   (NBC)
 | 
Michael J. Fox   Spin City   (ABC)
 | 
James Gandolfini   The Sopranos   (HBO)
 | 
Patricia Heaton   Everybody Loves Raymond   (CBS)
 | 
Sela Ward   Once and Again   (ABC)
 | 
| 2001
 | 
Sex and the City   (HBO)
 | 
Eric McCormack   Will & Grace   (NBC)
 | 
Edie Falco   The Sopranos   (HBO)
 | 
| 2002
 | 
Friends   (NBC)
 | 
Ray Romano   Everybody Loves Raymond   (CBS)
 | 
Michael Chiklis   The Shield   (FX)
 | 
Jennifer Aniston   Friends   (NBC)
 | 
Allison Janney   The West Wing   (NBC)
 | 
| 2003
 | 
Everybody Loves Raymond   (CBS)
 | 
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart   (Comedy Central)
 | 
Tony Shalhoub   Monk   (USA)
 | 
James Gandolfini   The Sopranos   (HBO)
 | 
Debra Messing   Will & Grace   (NBC)
 | 
Edie Falco   The Sopranos   (HBO)
 | 
| 2004
 | 
Arrested Development   (Fox)
 | 
The Sopranos   (HBO)
 | 
Kelsey Grammer   Frasier   (NBC)
 | 
James Spader   The Practice   (ABC)
 | 
Sarah Jessica Parker   Sex and the City   (HBO)
 | 
Allison Janney   The West Wing   (NBC)
 | 
| 2005
 | 
Everybody Loves Raymond   (CBS)
 | 
Lost   (ABC)
 | 
Tony Shalhoub   Monk   (USA)
 | 
James Spader   Boston Legal   (ABC)
 | 
Felicity Huffman   Desperate Housewives   (ABC)
 | 
Patricia Arquette   Medium   (NBC)
 | 
| 2006
 | 
The Office   (NBC)
 | 
24   (Fox)
 | 
Kiefer Sutherland   24   (Fox)
 | 
Julia Louis-Dreyfus   The New Adventures of Old Christine   (CBS)
 | 
Mariska Hargitay   Law & Order: Special Victims Unit   (NBC)
 | 
| 2007
 | 
30 Rock   (NBC)
 | 
The Sopranos   (HBO)
 | 
Ricky Gervais   Extras   (BBC / HBO)
 | 
James Spader   Boston Legal   (ABC)
 | 
America Ferrera   Ugly Betty   (ABC)
 | 
Sally Field   Brothers & Sisters   (ABC)
 | 
| 2008
 | 
Mad Men   (AMC)
 | 
Alec Baldwin   30 Rock   (NBC)
 | 
Bryan Cranston   Breaking Bad   (AMC)
 | 
Tina Fey   30 Rock   (NBC)
 | 
Glenn Close   Damages   (FX)
 | 
| 2009
 | 
Toni Collette   United States of Tara   (Showtime)
 | 
| 2010
 | 
Modern Family   (ABC)
 | 
Jim Parsons   The Big Bang Theory   (CBS)
 | 
Edie Falco   Nurse Jackie   (Showtime)
 | 
Kyra Sedgwick   The Closer   (TNT)
 | 
| 2011
 | 
Kyle Chandler   Friday Night Lights   (The 101 Network / NBC)
 | 
Melissa McCarthy   Mike & Molly   (CBS)
 | 
Julianna Margulies   The Good Wife   (CBS)
 | 
| 2012
 | 
Homeland   (Showtime)
 | 
Jon Cryer   Two and a Half Men   (CBS)
 | 
Damian Lewis   Homeland   (Showtime)
 | 
Julia Louis-Dreyfus   Veep   (HBO)
 | 
Claire Danes   Homeland   (Showtime)
 | 
| 2013
 | 
Breaking Bad   (AMC)
 | 
The Colbert Report   (Comedy Central)
 | 
Jim Parsons   The Big Bang Theory   (CBS)
 | 
Jeff Daniels   The Newsroom   (HBO)
 | 
| 2014
 | 
Bryan Cranston   Breaking Bad   (AMC)
 | 
Julianna Margulies   The Good Wife   (CBS)
 | 
| 2015
 | 
Veep   (HBO)
 | 
Game of Thrones   (HBO)
 | 
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart   (Comedy Central)
 | 
Jeffrey Tambor   Transparent   (Amazon)
 | 
Jon Hamm   Mad Men   (AMC)
 | 
Viola Davis   How to Get Away with Murder   (ABC)
 | 
| 2016
 | 
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver   (HBO)
 | 
Rami Malek   Mr. Robot   (USA)
 | 
Tatiana Maslany   Orphan Black   (BBC America)
 | 
| 2017
 | 
The Handmaid's Tale   (Hulu)
 | 
Donald Glover   Atlanta   (FX)
 | 
Sterling K. Brown   This Is Us   (NBC)
 | 
Elisabeth Moss   The Handmaid's Tale   (Hulu)
 | 
| 2018
 | 
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel   (Amazon)
 | 
Game of Thrones   (HBO)
 | 
Bill Hader   Barry   (HBO)
 | 
Matthew Rhys   The Americans   (FX)
 | 
Rachel Brosnahan   The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel   (Amazon)
 | 
Claire Foy   The Crown   (Netflix)
 | 
| 2019
 | 
Fleabag   (Amazon)
 | 
Billy Porter   Pose   (FX)
 | 
Phoebe Waller-Bridge   Fleabag   (Amazon)
 | 
Jodie Comer   Killing Eve   (BBC America)
 | 
| 2020
 | 
Schitt's Creek   (Pop)
 | 
Succession   (HBO)
 | 
Eugene Levy   Schitt's Creek   (Pop)
 | 
Jeremy Strong   Succession   (HBO)
 | 
Catherine O'Hara   Schitt's Creek   (Pop)
 | 
Zendaya   Euphoria   (HBO)
 | 
| 2021
 | 
Ted Lasso   (Apple TV+)
 | 
The Crown   (Netflix)
 | 
Jason Sudeikis   Ted Lasso   (Apple TV+)
 | 
Josh O'Connor   The Crown   (Netflix)
 | 
Jean Smart   Hacks   (HBO)
 | 
Olivia Colman   The Crown   (Netflix)
 | 
| 2022
 | 
Succession   (HBO)
 | 
Lee Jung-jae   Squid Game   (Netflix)
 | 
Zendaya   Euphoria   (HBO)
 | 
| 2023
 | 
The Bear   (FX)
 | 
Jeremy Allen White   The Bear   (FX)
 | 
Kieran Culkin   Succession   (HBO)
 | 
Quinta Brunson   Abbott Elementary   (ABC)
 | 
Sarah Snook   Succession   (HBO)
 | 
| 2024
 | 
Hacks   (Max)
 | 
Shōgun   (FX)
 | 
Hiroyuki Sanada   Shōgun   (FX)
 | 
Jean Smart   Hacks   (Max)
 | 
Anna Sawai   Shōgun   (FX)
 |