The delayed 2023 Emmy Awards took place recently, with Succession winning the coveted award for Oustanding Drama series.
The Primetime Emmy Awards is an awards ceremony dedicated to celebrating the best of primetime television each year whether it be from an artistic or technical point of view. It is generally considered to be the most prestigious TV award ceremony in the world and has been running since the first ceremony took place at the Hollywood Athletic Club in Los Angeles in 1949.
The most coveted awards are for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series, Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series, Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series, though each of the awards given on the night comes with its own degree of prestige.
Each category winner is awarded a copy of a golden statuette as a trophy which depicts a winged muse holding an electron.
There are numerous versions of the Emmy Awards: Primetime, Daytime, Sports, News & Documentary, Children's & Family, Engineering and Regional.
Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series is one of the two most prestigious awards at the Emmys ceremony as it encompasses how well-made a television series is as a whole, with many factors taken into consideration as opposed to individual factors for the other remaining awards.
The first television series to win the award was Studio One back in 1952, and the latest is Succession.
Year |
Winner |
| 2023 | Succession |
| 2022 | Succession |
| 2021 | The Crown |
| 2020 | Succession |
| 2019 | Game of Thrones |
| 2018 | Game of Thrones |
| 2017 | The Handmaid's Tale |
| 2016 | Game of Thrones |
| 2015 | Game of Thrones |
| 2014 | Breaking Bad |
| 2013 | Breaking Bad |
| 2012 | Homeland |
| 2011 | Mad Men |
| 2010 | Mad Men |
| 2009 | Mad Men |
| 2008 | Mad Men |
| 2007 | The Sopranos |
| 2006 | 24 |
| 2005 | LOST |
| 2004 | The Sopranos |
| 2003 | The West Wing |
| 2002 | The West Wing |
| 2001 | The West Wing |
| 2000 | The West Wing |
| 1999 | The Practice |
| 1998 | The Practice |
| 1997 | Law & Order |
| 1996 | ER |
| 1995 | NYPD Blue |
| 1994 | Picket Fences |
| 1993 | Picket Fences |
| 1992 | Northern Exposure |
| 1991 | L.A Law |
| 1990 | L.A Law |
| 1989 | L.A Law |
| 1988 | thirtysomething |
| 1987 | L.A Law |
| 1986 | Cagney & Lacey |
| 1985 | Cagney & Lacey |
| 1984 | Hill Street Blues |
| 1983 | Hill Street Blues |
| 1982 | Hill Street Blues |
| 1981 | Hill Street Blues |
| 1980 | Lou Grant |
| 1979 | Lou Grant |
| 1978 | The Rockford Files |
| 1977 | Upstairs, Downstairs |
| 1976 | Police Story |
| 1975 | Upstairs, Downstairs |
| 1974 | Upstairs, Downstairs |
| 1973 | The Waltons |
| 1972 | Elizabeth R |
| 1971 | The Bold Ones |
| 1970 | Marcus Welby M.D |
| 1969 | NET Playhouse |
| 1968 | Mission: Impossible |
| 1967 | Mission: Impossible |
| 1966 | The Fugitive |
| 1965 | (Four winners) |
| 1964 | The Defenders |
| 1963 | The Defenders |
| 1962 | The Defenders |
| 1961 | Macbeth |
| 1960 | Playhouse 90 |
| 1959 | The Alcoa Hour |
| 1958 | Gunsmoke |
| 1957 | Playhouse 90 |
| 1956 | Producers' Showcase |
| 1955 | The U.S Steel Hour / Dragnet / Stories of the Century |
| 1954 | The U.S Steel Hour / Dragnet |
| 1953 | Robert Montgomery Presents |
| 1952 | Studio One |
| 1951 (Most Popular Television Program) | Pulitzer Prize Playhouse |
| 1950 (Most Popular Television Program) | Texaco Star Theatre |
| 1949 (Most Popular Television Program) | Pantomime Quiz |
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