12th Primetime Emmy Awards

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Template other The 12th Emmy Awards, later referred to as the 12th Primetime Emmy Awards, were held on June 20, 1960, to honor the best in television of the year. The ceremony was held at the NBC Studios, in Burbank, California. It was hosted by Fred Astaire. All nominations are listed, with winners in bold and series' networks are in parentheses.

The ceremony's format was a sharp contrast to the previous year's. Several Acting categories were either combined or simply removed, and nearly every category had only three nominees, as opposed to the traditional five or six. Due to the relatively small crop of categories, no show received more than two major awards. The NBC anthology Startime received the most major nominations with five.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).

Programs

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Template:Award category The Art Carney Special (NBC)Template:Double dagger The Danny Thomas Show (CBS) Father Knows Best (CBS) The Jack Benny Show (CBS) The Red Skelton Show (CBS)	Template:Award category Playhouse 90 (CBS)Template:Double dagger DuPont Show of the Month (CBS) The Moon and Sixpence (NBC) Startime (NBC) The Untouchables (ABC)
Template:Award category The Fabulous Fifties (CBS)Template:Double dagger Another Evening with Fred Astaire (NBC) The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (NBC) The Garry Moore Show (CBS) The Revlon Revue (CBS)	Template:Award category The Huckleberry Hound Show (Syndicated)Template:Double dagger Captain Kangaroo (CBS) Lassie (CBS) Mr. Wizard (NBC) Quick Draw McGraw (Syndicated)
Template:Award category The Twentieth Century (CBS)Template:Double dagger CBS Reports (CBS) Meet the Press (NBC) Small World (CBS) The VIII Olympic Winter Games (CBS)	Template:Award category The Huntley–Brinkley Report (NBC)Template:Double dagger Chet Huntley Reporting (NBC) Douglas Edwards with the News (CBS) Journey to Understanding (NBC)

Acting

Lead performances

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Template:Award category Robert Stack – The Untouchables as Eliot Ness (ABC)Template:Double dagger Richard Boone – Have Gun — Will Travel as Paladin (CBS) Raymond Burr – Perry Mason as Perry Mason (CBS)

Template:Award category Jane Wyatt – Father Knows Best as Margaret Anderson (CBS)Template:Double dagger Donna Reed – The Donna Reed Show as Donna Stone (ABC) Loretta Young – The Loretta Young Show as herself (NBC)

Single performances

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Template:Award category Laurence Olivier – The Moon and Sixpence as Charles Strickland (NBC)Template:Double dagger Lee J. Cobb – Playhouse 90: "Project Immortality" as Dr. Lawrence Doner (CBS) Alec Guinness – Startime: "The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Deeks" as Jebal Deeks (NBC)

Template:Award category Ingrid Bergman – Startime: "The Turn of the Screw" as the Governess (NBC)Template:Double dagger Julie Harris – DuPont Show of the Month: "Ethan Frome" as Mattie Silver (CBS) Teresa Wright – NBC Sunday Showcase: "The Margaret Bourke-White Story" as Margaret Bourke-White (NBC)

Directing

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Template:Award category The Jack Benny Show – Ralph Levy and Bud Yorkin (CBS)Template:Double dagger The Danny Thomas Show – Sheldon Leonard (CBS) The Red Skelton Show – Seymour Berns (CBS)

Template:Award category The Moon and Sixpence – Robert Mulligan (NBC)Template:Double dagger Desilu Playhouse: "The Untouchables" – Phil Karlson (CBS) Startime: "The Turn of the Screw" – John Frankenheimer (NBC)

Writing

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Template:Award category The Jack Benny Show – George Balzer, Hal Goldman, Sam Perrin and Al Gordon (CBS)Template:Double dagger The Ballad of Louie the Louse – Nat Hiken (CBS) Father Knows Best – Dorothy Cooper and Roswell Rogers (CBS)	Template:Award category The Twilight Zone – Rod Serling (CBS)Template:Double dagger Playhouse 90: "Project Immortality" – Loring Mandel (CBS) Startime: "The Turn of the Screw" – James Costigan (NBC)
Template:Award category CBS Reports: "The Population Explosion" – Howard K. Smith and Av Westin (CBS)Template:Double dagger Project XX: "Life in the Thirties" – Richard Hanser (NBC) The Twentieth Century: "From Kaiser to Fuehrer" – James Benjamin (CBS)

Most major nominations

Networks with multiple major nominations

Network	Number of Nominations
CBS	32
NBC	17
ABC	3

Programs with multiple major nominations

Program	Category	Network	Number of Nominations
Startime	Drama	NBC	5
Father Knows Best	Comedy	CBS	3
The Jack Benny Show
The Moon and Sixpence	Drama	NBC
Playhouse 90		CBS
CBS Reports	Documentary/Public Affairs		2
The Danny Thomas Show	Comedy
DuPont Show of the Month	Drama
The Red Skelton Show	Comedy
The Twentieth Century	Documentary/Public Affairs
The Untouchables	Drama	ABC

Most major awards

Networks

Network	Number of Awards
CBS	8
NBC	4

Programs with multiple major awards

Program	Category	Network	Number of Awards
The Jack Benny Show	Comedy	CBS	2
The Moon and Sixpence	Drama	NBC

Notes

External links

• Emmys.com list of 1960 Nominees & Winners
• Template:IMDb event