9th Primetime Emmy Awards

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Template other The 9th Emmy Awards, later referred to as the 9th Primetime Emmy Awards, were held on March 16, 1957, to honor the best in television of the year. The ceremony was held at the NBC Studios in Burbank, California. Desi Arnaz hosted the event. All nominations are listed, with winners in bold and series' networks are in parentheses. Categories were sorted based on running time, instead of by genre.

The top shows of the night were Caesar's Hour and Playhouse 90. Each show won a then-record five major awards, (however, two of Playhouse 90's wins came in now defunct categories).

Caesar's Hour became the first show to be nominated in all four major acting categories. Caesar's Hour also made history when it swept the four acting categories. For over fifty years, it remained the only show to win every major acting award. In 2004, the miniseries Angels in America became the second show, and first miniseries/television film, to sweep the acting field. In 2020, Schitt’s Creek became the first comedy or drama series to win in all four acting categories.

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 Phil Silvers Show (CBS)Template:Double dagger Alfred Hitchcock Presents (CBS) Father Knows Best (NBC) The Jack Benny Program (CBS) Person to Person (CBS)	Template:Award category Caesar's Hour (NBC)Template:Double dagger Climax! (CBS) The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS) Omnibus (CBS) The Perry Como Show (NBC)
Template:Award category Kraft Television Theatre (NBC)Template:Double dagger Playhouse 90 (CBS) Producers' Showcase (NBC) Republican National Convention (ABC / CBS / NBC) Wide Wide World (NBC)	Template:Award category Years of Crisis (CBS)Template:Double dagger Andrea Doria Sinking (CBS) Andrea Doria Survivors Arrive in New York (CBS) National Political Conventions (ABC) National Political Conventions (NBC)
Template:Award category See It Now (CBS)Template:Double dagger Meet the Press (NBC) NBC Opera Theatre (NBC) Wide Wide World (NBC) You Are There (CBS)	Template:Award category Playhouse 90 (CBS)Template:Double dagger Air Power (CBS) The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (NBC) The Ernie Kovacs Show (NBC) The Steve Allen Sunday Show (NBC)
Template:Award category Playhouse 90: "Requiem for a Heavyweight" (CBS)Template:Double dagger Kraft Television Theatre: "A Night to Remember" (NBC) Omnibus: "Leonard Bernstein" (CBS) See It Now: "Secret Life of Danny Kaye" (CBS) The Victor Borge Show (CBS)

Acting

Lead performances

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Template:Award category Sid Caesar – Caesar's Hour as various characters (NBC)Template:Double dagger Jack Benny – The Jack Benny Program as Jack Benny (CBS) Robert Cummings – The Bob Cummings Show as Bob Collins (CBS) Ernie Kovacs – The Ernie Kovacs Show as himself (NBC) Phil Silvers – The Phil Silvers Show as MSgt. Ernest G. Bilko (CBS)	Template:Award category Nanette Fabray – Caesar's Hour as various characters (NBC)Template:Double dagger Edie Adams – The Ernie Kovacs Show as herself (NBC) Gracie Allen – The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as Gracie Allen (CBS) Lucille Ball – I Love Lucy as Lucy Ricardo (CBS) Ann Sothern – Private Secretary as Susie McNamara (CBS)
Template:Award category Robert Young – Father Knows Best as Jim Anderson (NBC)Template:Double dagger James Arness – Gunsmoke as Marshal Matt Dillon (CBS) Charles Boyer – Four Star Playhouse as various characters (CBS) David Niven – Four Star Playhouse as various characters (CBS) Hugh O'Brian – The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Wyatt Earp (ABC)	Template:Award category Loretta Young – The Loretta Young Show as herself (NBC)Template:Double dagger Jan Clayton – Lassie as Ellen Miller (CBS) Ida Lupino – Four Star Playhouse as various characters (CBS) Peggy Wood – Mama as Mama (CBS) Jane Wyman – Jane Wyman Theatre as herself (NBC)

Supporting performances

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Template:Award category Carl Reiner – Caesar's Hour as various characters (NBC)Template:Double dagger Art Carney – The Jackie Gleason Show as Ed Norton (CBS) Paul Ford – The Phil Silvers Show as Col. John T. Hall (CBS) William Frawley – I Love Lucy as Fred Mertz (CBS) Ed Wynn – Playhouse 90: "Requiem for a Heavyweight" as Army (CBS)

Template:Award category Pat Carroll – Caesar's Hour as various characters (NBC)Template:Double dagger Ann B. Davis – The Bob Cummings Show as Charmaine Schultz (CBS) Audrey Meadows – The Jackie Gleason Show as Alice Kramden (CBS) Mildred Natwick – Ford Star Jubilee: "Blithe Spirit" as Madame Arcati (CBS) Vivian Vance – I Love Lucy as Ethel Mertz (CBS)

Single performances

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Template:Award category Jack Palance – Playhouse 90: "Requiem for a Heavyweight" as Harlan "Mountain" McClintock (CBS)Template:Double dagger Lloyd Bridges – Alcoa-Goodyear Playhouse: "Tragedy in a Temporary Town" as Alec Beggs (NBC) Fredric March – Producers' Showcase: "Dodsworth" as Sam Dodsworth (NBC) Sal Mineo – Studio One: "Dino" as Dino Minetta (CBS) Red Skelton – Playhouse 90: "The Big Slide" as Buddy McCoy (CBS)

Template:Award category Claire Trevor – Producers' Showcase: "Dodsworth" as Fran Dodsworth (NBC)Template:Double dagger Edna Best – Ford Star Jubilee: "This Happy Breed" as Ethel Gibbons (CBS) Gracie Fields – The United States Steel Hour: "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" as Sarah Dowey (CBS) Nancy Kelly – Studio One: "The Pilot" as Sister M. Aquinas (CBS) Evelyn Rudie – Playhouse 90: "Eloise" as Eloise (CBS)

Directing

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Template:Award category The Danny Thomas Show: "Danny's Comeback" – Sheldon Leonard (ABC)Template:Double dagger Camera Three: "As I Lay Dying" – Clay Yurdin (CBS) G.E. Theatre: "The Road That Led Afar" – Herschel Daugherty (CBS) Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers: "The Traitor" – George Archainbaud (NBC) You Are There: "The First Moscow Purge Trial" – William Russell (CBS)

Template:Award category Playhouse 90: "Requiem for a Heavyweight" – Ralph Nelson (CBS)Template:Double dagger The 20th Century Fox Hour: "Child of the Regiment" – Lewis Allen (CBS) The Dinah Shore Chevy Show: "Frank Sinatra" – Bob Banner (NBC) Kraft Television Theatre: "A Night to Remember" – George Roy Hill (NBC) NBC Opera Theatre: "La Boheme" – Kirk Browning (NBC) Playhouse 90: "Forbidden Area"– John Frankenheimer (CBS)

Writing

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Template:Award category Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Fog Closing In" – James P. Cavanagh (CBS)Template:Double dagger Frontier: "Patrol" – Morton Fine and David Friedkin (NBC) The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp: "The Buntime" – Dan Ullman (ABC) The Loretta Young Show: "The Pearl" – Richard Morris (NBC) Telephone Time: "Man with the Beard" – John Nesbitt (ABC)

Template:Award category Playhouse 90: "Requiem for a Heavyweight" – Rod Serling (CBS)Template:Double dagger Alcoa-Goodyear Playhouse: "Joey" – Louis Peterson (NBC) Alcoa-Goodyear Playhouse: "Tragedy in a Temporary Town" – Reginald Rose (NBC) Kraft Television Theatre: "A Night to Remember" – George Roy Hill and John Whedon (NBC) Playhouse 90: "Sizeman and Son" – Elick Moll (CBS)

Template:Award category The Phil Silvers Show – Billy Friedberg, Nat Hiken, Coleman Jacoby, Arnold Rosen, Leonard Stern and Tony Webster (CBS)Template:Double dagger Caesar's Hour – Gary Belkin, Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbart, Sheldon Keller, Neil Simon, Michael Stewart and Mel Tolkin (NBC) The Ernie Kovacs Show – Louis M. Heyward, Ernie Kovacs, Rex Lardner and Mike Marmer (NBC) The Jack Benny Program – George Balzer, Hal Goldman, Al Gordon and Sam Perrin (CBS) The Perry Como Show – Goodman Ace, Jay Burton, Mort Green and George Foster (NBC)

Most major nominations

Networks with multiple major nominations

Network	Number of Nominations
CBS	59
NBC	41
ABC	6

Programs with multiple major nominations

Program	Network	Number of Nominations
Playhouse 90	CBS	11
Caesar's Hour	NBC	6
The Ernie Kovacs Show		4
Kraft Television Theatre
The Phil Silvers Show	CBS
Alcoa-Goodyear Playhouse	NBC	3
Four Star Playhouse	CBS
I Love Lucy
The Jack Benny Program
Producers' Showcase	NBC
Alfred Hitchcock Presents	CBS	2
The Bob Cummings Show	NBC
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Father Knows Best
Ford Star Jubilee	CBS
The Jackie Gleason Show
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp	ABC
The Loretta Young Show	NBC
NBC Opera Theatre
Omnibus	CBS
The Perry Como Show	NBC
See It Now	CBS
Studio One
Wide Wide World	NBC
You Are There	CBS

Most major awards

Networks with multiple major awards

Network	Number of Awards
CBS	11
NBC	8

Programs with multiple major awards

Program	Network	Number of Awards
Caesar's Hour	NBC	5
Playhouse 90	CBS
The Phil Silvers Show		2

Notes

External links

• Emmys.com list of 1957 Nominees & Winners
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