12th Primetime Emmy Awards

12th Primetime Emmy Awards
Date	June 20, 1960
Location	NBC Studios, Burbank, California
Hosted by	Fred Astaire
Television/Radio coverage
Network	NBC

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

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Programs

Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Humor	Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Drama
Art Carney Special, (NBC) The Danny Thomas Show, (CBS) Father Knows Best, (CBS) The Jack Benny Show, (CBS) The Red Skelton Show, (CBS)	Playhouse 90, (CBS) The DuPont Show of the Month, (CBS) The Moon and Sixpence, (NBC) Startime, (NBC) The Untouchables, (ABC)
Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Variety	Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Children's Programming
The Fabulous Fifties, (CBS) Another Evening with Fred Astaire, (NBC) The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, (NBC) The Garry Moore Show, (CBS) The Revlon Revue, (CBS)	The Huckleberry Hound Show, (Syndicated) Captain Kangaroo, (CBS) Lassie, (CBS) Mr. Wizard, (NBC) Quick Draw McGraw, (Syndicated)
Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Public Affairs and Education
The Twentieth Century, (CBS) CBS Reports, (CBS) Meet the Press, (NBC) Small World, (CBS) The VIII Olympic Winter Games, (CBS)

Acting

Lead performances

Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series (Lead or Support)	Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series (Lead or Support)
*Robert Stack as Eliot Ness on The Untouchables, (ABC)* Richard Boone as Paladin on Have Gun, Will Travel, (CBS) Raymond Burr as Perry Mason on Perry Mason, (CBS)	*Jane Wyatt as Margaret Anderson on Father Knows Best, (CBS)* Donna Reed as Donna Stone on The Donna Reed Show, (ABC) Loretta Young as Herself on The Loretta Young Show, (NBC)

Single performances

Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor (Lead or Support)	Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress (Lead or Support)
*Laurence Olivier as Charles Strickland on The Moon and Sixpence,* (NBC)** Lee J. Cobb as Dr. Lawrence Doner on Playhouse 90, (Episode: "Project Immortality"), (CBS) Alec Guinness as Jebal Deeks on Startime, (Episode: "The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Deeks"), (NBC)	*Ingrid Bergman as The Governess on Startime, (Episode: "The Turn of the Screw"), (NBC)* Julie Harris as Mattie Silver on The DuPont Show of the Month, (Episode: "Ethan Frome"), (CBS) Teresa Wright as Margaret Bourke-White on Sunday Showcase, (Episode: "The Margaret Bourke-White Story"), (NBC) Patricia Barry as Miss Calhoun on Startime, (Episode: "The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Deeks"), (NBC)

Directing

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama
*Ralph Levy, Bud Yorkin for The Jack Benny Show,* (CBS)** Seymour Berns for The Red Skelton Show, (CBS) Sheldon Leonard for The Danny Thomas Show, (CBS)	*Robert Mulligan for The Moon and Sixpence,* (NBC)** John Frankenheimer for Startime, (Episode: "The Turn of the Screw"), (NBC) Phil Karlson for Desilu Playhouse, (Episode: "The Untouchables"), (CBS)

Writing

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

Most major nominations

By network ^{[note 1]}

CBS – 32
NBC – 17
ABC – 3

By program

Startime (NBC) – 6
Father Knows Best (CBS) / The Jack Benny Show (CBS) / The Moon and the Sixpence (NBC) / Playhouse 90 (CBS) – 3

Most major awards

By network ^{[note 1]}

CBS – 8
NBC – 4
ABC – 1

By program

The Jack Benny Show (CBS) / The Moon and the Sixpence (NBC) – 2

Notes

1 2 "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.

References

↑ "1960 Primetime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved April 19, 2013.

External links

Emmy Awards

Primetime Emmy Award

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Main ceremonies	1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Creative Arts	2007 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Daytime Emmy Award

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Main ceremonies	1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Creative Arts	2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

International

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