The Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards, or Engineering Emmys, are one of two sets of
Emmy Awards
The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the year, each with their own set of rules and award categor ...
that are presented for outstanding achievement in engineering development in the television industry. The Primetime Engineering Emmys are presented by the
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), also colloquially known as the Television Academy, is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the Television in the United States, television industry in the United S ...
(ATAS), while the separate
Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards are given by its sister organization, the
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), also known as the National Television Academy until 2007, is an American professional service organization founded in 1955 for "the advancement of the arts and sciences of televisio ...
(NATAS).
The Primetime Engineering Emmy is presented to an individual, company or organization for engineering developments so significant an improvement on existing methods or so innovative in nature that they materially affect the transmission, recording or reception of television. The award is determined by a jury of highly qualified, experienced engineers in the television industry. In addition, since 2003 the ATAS also bestows in most years the
Philo T. Farnsworth Award, which is a Primetime Engineering Emmy Award given to honor companies and organizations that have significantly affected the state of television and broadcast engineering over a long period of time, and the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award, which has been given in most years since 1991 to one or more individuals whose contributions over time have significantly affected the state of television technology and engineering.
The
Primetime Emmy Awards
The Primetime Emmy Awards, or Primetime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Owned and operated by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), the P ...
have been given since 1949 to recognize outstanding achievements in primetime television for performance, for the
Creative Arts
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, and for Engineering. The Primetime Engineering Emmys have separately been given annually since 1978 (the year that ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties), although Special Emmys for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development were occasionally bestowed in prior years. The awards which have been given include the Engineering Emmys, which are accorded the Emmy Statuette, and two other levels of recognition, the Engineering Plaque, and the Engineering Citation
Awards
;1978
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Petro Vlahos for the ULTIMATTE Video-Matting Device
*Engineering Citation: To the
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (
SMPTE)
;1979
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Ampex
Ampex Data Systems Corporation is an American electronics company founded in 1944 by Alexander M. Poniatoff as a spin-off of Dalmo-Victor. The name ''AMPEX'' is an acronym, created by its founder, which stands for Alexander M. Poniatoff Excell ...
Corporation for the Automatic Scan Tracking System for Helical Video Tape Equipment
*Engineering Citation: Magicam, Inc. for the Development of Real Time Tracking of Independent Scenes
;1980
*Engineering Emmy Award:
National Institute of Standards and Technology
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into Outline of p ...
(
NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical s ...
),
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia
Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a County (United States), county in the ...
(
PBS), and
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American Commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast Television broadcaster, television and radio Radio network, network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division ...
(ABC) for
Closed Captioning for the Deaf System
*Engineering Emmy Citation: David Bargan for the '409' and 'TRACE' Computer Programs used for Off-line Videotape Editing
*Engineering Emmy Citation: Vital Industries for its Pioneering Development of Digital Video Manipulation Technology
*Engineering Emmy Citation: Convergence Corporation for the ECS-100 Video Tape Editing Systems
;1981
*Engineering Emmy Award: Rank Cintel for the Mark III Flying Spot Telecine
;1982
*Engineering Emmy Award: Hal Collins for Contributions to the Art and Development of Videotape Editing (posthumous)
*Engineering Emmy Award: Dubner Computer Systems, Inc., and the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) for the Dubner CBG-2 Electronic Character and Background Generator
*Engineering Citation: Chapman Studio Equipment for the Development of Crane Systems
;1983
*Engineering Emmy Award: Eastman
Kodak for the Development of High Speed Color Film 5294/7294 Color Negative Film
*Engineering Citation: Ikegami Electronics for the Development of the EC-35 (a camera used for electronic cinematography)
*Engineering Citation:
Ampex
Ampex Data Systems Corporation is an American electronics company founded in 1944 by Alexander M. Poniatoff as a spin-off of Dalmo-Victor. The name ''AMPEX'' is an acronym, created by its founder, which stands for Alexander M. Poniatoff Excell ...
Corporation for Digital Effects Displaying Capabilities with Improved Picture Quality
;1984
*Engineering Emmy Award: ''None given''
*Engineering Citation: Corporate Communications Consultants Inc. for the 60XL Color Correction by Armand Belmares Sarabia
;1985
*Engineering Emmy Award: Auricle Control Systems (ACS) for the Auricle Time Processor
;1986
*Engineering Emmy Award: Nagra, Inc., for the
Nagra Recorder
*Engineering Emmy Award:
CBS,
Sony
is a Japanese multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses various businesses, including Sony Corporation (electronics), Sony Semiconductor Solutions (i ...
and Cinedco for Design and Implementation of Electronic Editing Systems for Film Programs
;1987
*Engineering Emmy Award: Spectra Image, Inc. for D220 Dual Headed Video Disc Player
;1988
*Engineering Emmy Award: Optical Disc Corporation for the Recordable Laser Videodisc System
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Sony
is a Japanese multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses various businesses, including Sony Corporation (electronics), Sony Semiconductor Solutions (i ...
for the DVR-1000 Component Digital VTR
;1989
*Engineering Emmy Award: Pacific Video Inc. for the Electronic Laboratory
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Cinema Products Corporation for the Steadicam
*Engineering Plaque: Composite Image Systems for the Pin Registered Transfer Process
*Engineering Plaque: Istec, Inc. for the WESCAM Camera Mount
*Engineering Plaque: Matthews Studio Electronics for the Nettman Cam-Remote
*Engineering Plaque: Offbeat Systems for the Streamline Scoring System
*Engineering Plaque: Steadi-Film Corporation for the Steadi-Film System
*Engineering Plaque:
UCLA Film and Television Archive for the restoration of the
Fred Astaire Specials
;1990
*Engineering Emmy Award: Comark Communications, Inc. and Varian/Eimac for the Klystrode UHF High Power Amplifier Tube and Transmitter
*Engineering Emmy Award: Zaxcom Video, Inc. for the TBC Control System
*Engineering Plaque: Samuelson Alga Cinema for the Louma Camera Crane
*Engineering Plaque: Alan Gordon Enterprises for Image 300 35mm High Speed Camera
;1991
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Vari-Lite for the Series 200 Lighting System
*Engineering Emmy Award: Camera Platforms International, Inc. for the D/ESAM Digital Mixer
*Engineering Plaque: Manfred Klemme for the Dcode TS-1 Time Code Slate
*Engineering Plaque: Lightmaker Company for the AC/DC HMI Ballast
*Engineering Plaque: George Hill for Optex UK - Mini Image Intensifier for ENG Cameras
*Engineering Plaque:
Grass Valley Group for the Kadenza Digital Picture Processor
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Harry Lubcke
;1992
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Charles Douglass for the Invention and Development of the Post Production Sweetener
*Engineering Emmy Award: The Accom D-Bridge 122 Video Encoder
*Engineering Plaque:
Filmlook, Inc. for the Filmlook Process for Film Simulation
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Kerns H. Powers
;1993
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Avid Technology for the
Media Composer
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Fox Television for the Fox Box
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Newtek for
Video Toaster
*Engineering Plaque:
CBS Laboratories for Mini-Rapid Deployment Earth Terminal (RADET)
*Engineering Plaque: Les Aseere for the scientific detective work that solved the mystery of type "C" video tape dropout and ventilated scanner debris.
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Richard S. O'Brien
;1994
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Philips Var-Lite for the VL5 Wash Luminaire
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Kodak for the Keykode Edgeprint Film Numbering System
*Engineering Plaque:
Cinema Products Corporation, Research in Motion,
Evertz Microsystems, and the
National Film Board of Canada
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; ) is a Canadian public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary films, animation, web documentaries, and altern ...
, four creative hardware developers whose reader, decoder and user technology enabled the widespread use of Keykode.
;1995
*Engineering Emmy Award:
C-Cube Microsystems for the
MPEG
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is an alliance of working groups established jointly by International Organization for Standardization, ISO and International Electrotechnical Commission, IEC that sets standards for media coding, includ ...
Encoding Chip Set
*Engineering Emmy Award: Barber Technologies for the Barber Boom
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Tascam for the DA-88 Digital Multitrack Recorder
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Philips Laboratories for the Ghost Cancellation
*Engineering Plaque: Saunders Electric Incorporated for the Synchronized Load Commander System and Mobile Power Distribution
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award:
Julius Barnathan
;1996
*Engineering Emmy Award:
LaserPacific Media Corporation for the Supercomputer Assembly
*Engineering Emmy Award:
General Instrument Corporation for the Digicipher Digital Television System
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Scientific-Atlanta for the Powervu Digital Video Compression System
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Tektronix
Tektronix, Inc., historically widely known as Tek, is an American company best known for manufacturing test and measurement devices such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and video and mobile test protocol equipment. Originally an independent c ...
for the Profile Professional Disk Recorder
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Joseph Flaherty
;1997
*Engineering Emmy Award: J.L. Fisher for the J.L. Fisher Camera Dolly
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Panasonic
is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturer, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Kadoma, Japan. It was founded in 1918 as in Fukushima-ku, Osaka, Fukushima by Kōnosuke Matsushita. The company was incorporated in 1935 and renamed and c ...
for the AJ-LT75 DVCPRO Laptop Editor
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Grand Alliance for the Digital TV Standard
*Engineering Plaque: The BOOM TRAC Microphone Dolly System
*Engineering Plaque: Alan Gordon Enterprises for the Mark V Director's Viewfinder
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award:
Richard E. Wiley
;1998
*Engineering Emmy Award: Brian Critchley of Digital Projection International and
Larry Hornbeck of Texas Instruments' for the
Digital Micromirror Device POWER Displays Projector
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Tiffen for the Design and Manufacture of State-of-the-art Camera Lens Filters
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Philips Digital Video Systems and Eastman
Kodak for the Design and Manufacture of the Industry-Standard
High-definition Digital
Telecine
*Engineering Plaque:
Avid for the Real-Time Multicamera System
*Engineering Plaque:
Tektronix
Tektronix, Inc., historically widely known as Tek, is an American company best known for manufacturing test and measurement devices such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and video and mobile test protocol equipment. Originally an independent c ...
for the Lightworks 'Heavyworks' Multistream Editing Systems
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Yves Faroudja
;1999
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Sony
is a Japanese multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses various businesses, including Sony Corporation (electronics), Sony Semiconductor Solutions (i ...
for the HDCAM HDW-500 Digital HD Studio VTR
*Engineering Emmy Award: George Hill and Derek Lightbody for Optex UK., for the Aurasoft Soft Light
*Engineering Plaque: Videotek for the VTM-200 Series Multi-Format, On-Screen Monitoring
*Engineering Plaque: Spectracine, Inc., for the Spectra Professional IV-A Digital Exposure Meter
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Charles A. Steinberg
;2000
*Engineering Emmy Award: The
Dorrough Loudness Meter
*Engineering Emmy Award: The
Panavision
Panavision Inc. is an American motion picture equipment company (law), company founded in 1954 specializing in cameras and photographic lens, lenses, based in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Woodland Hills, California. Formed by Robert Gottschalk a ...
Lightweight Camera
*Engineering Emmy Award: Clairmont Camera for the MovieCam Superlight
*Engineering Plaque: Lipsner-Smith Company and Consolidated Film Industries (CFI) for their joint development of the Model CF-8200 Ultrasonic Film Cleaning Machine
*Engineering Plaque:
TEAC
() is a Japanese electronics manufacturer. TEAC was created by the merger of the Tokyo Television Acoustic Company, founded in 1953, and the Tokyo Electro-Acoustic Company, founded in 1956.
Overview
TEAC has four divisions:
*TASCAM - con ...
America, Inc. for the MMR-8 and MMP-16 Recorders
*Engineering Plaque: Soundmaster Group for the Integrated Operations Nucleus ION Operating Environment
*Engineering Plaque:
Cooke Optics for Cooke Prime Lenses
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Charles Mesak
;2001
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Vari-Lite for the VARI*LITE Virtuoso Console
*Engineering Emmy Award: Cast Lighting, Ltd. for WYSIWYG
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Da Vinci Systems for 2K Color Enhancement System
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Pandora International for Pogle Platinum with MegaDef
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Panavision
Panavision Inc. is an American motion picture equipment company (law), company founded in 1954 specializing in cameras and photographic lens, lenses, based in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Woodland Hills, California. Formed by Robert Gottschalk a ...
for the Primo Lens Series
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Apple, Inc. for
FireWire
*Engineering Emmy Award: Clairmont Camera for Clairmont Camera Lenses
*Engineering Plaque: Chapman and Leonard Studio Equipment, Inc. for the LenCin Pedestal
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Gilbert P. Wyland
;2002
*Engineering Emmy Award: TM Systems for The Digital Solution to Language Translation, Dubbing and Subtitling
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Apple Inc. for
Final Cut Pro
*Engineering Emmy Award:
2d3 for the Boujou Automated Camera Tracker
*Engineering Emmy Award:
ARRI
Arri Group () (stylized as "ARRI") is a German manufacturer of motion picture film equipment. Based in Munich, the company was founded in 1917. It produces professional motion picture cameras, lenses, lighting and post-production equipment. It ...
for Arriflex Cameras
*Engineering Plaque: Barber Technologies for the EZ Prompter
*Engineering Plaque:
HBO
Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television service, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is based a ...
Interactive Ventures for Band Of Brothers Interactive Television Programming
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Charles Cappleman
;2003
*Engineering Emmy Award: Dedo Weigert of Dedotec, USA Inc. for the Dedolight 400 Series Lighting System
*Engineering Emmy Award: Emory Cohen, Randolph Blim and Doug Jaqua of
LaserPacific Media Corporation for the 24P HDTV Post-Production System
*Engineering Emmy Award: David Pringle, Leonard Pincus, Ashot Nalbandyan, Thomas Kong and George Johnson of Lightning Strikes, Inc. for Softsun
*Engineering Plaque: NewTek, Inc. for LightWave 3D
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award:
Ray Dolby
*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award:
Panavision
Panavision Inc. is an American motion picture equipment company (law), company founded in 1954 specializing in cameras and photographic lens, lenses, based in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Woodland Hills, California. Formed by Robert Gottschalk a ...
;2004
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Dolby Laboratories
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (Dolby Labs or simply Dolby) is a British-American technology corporation specializing in audio noise reduction, audio data compression, audio encoding/compression, spatial audio, and high-dynamic-range television (H ...
for the Dolby LM 100 Broadcast Loudness Meter With Dialogue Intelligence
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Sony
is a Japanese multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses various businesses, including Sony Corporation (electronics), Sony Semiconductor Solutions (i ...
and
Panavision
Panavision Inc. is an American motion picture equipment company (law), company founded in 1954 specializing in cameras and photographic lens, lenses, based in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Woodland Hills, California. Formed by Robert Gottschalk a ...
for the First 24P Digital Imaging System
*Engineering Plaque: Philip John Greenstreet of Rosco Laboratories, Inc. for Roscolite Scenic Backdrops
*Engineering Plaque: David Grober and Scott Lewallen of Motion Picture Marine for Perfect Horizon
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award:
Les Paul
Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known as Les Paul, was an American jazz guitarist, jazz, country guitarist, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of the solid body ...
*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award:
Chyron Corporation
;2005
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Dolby Laboratories
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (Dolby Labs or simply Dolby) is a British-American technology corporation specializing in audio noise reduction, audio data compression, audio encoding/compression, spatial audio, and high-dynamic-range television (H ...
for Dolby E Audio Coding Technology
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Sprint Corporation
Sprint Corporation was an American telecommunications company. Before being acquired by T-Mobile US on April 1, 2020, it was the fourth-largest mobile network operator in the United States, serving 54.3 million customers as of June 30, 2019. Th ...
for Sprint PCS VisionSM Multimedia Services
*Engineering Emmy Award: Toon Boom Animation Inc. for USAnimation Opus
*Engineering Emmy Award:
MobiTV for the first mobile television network and technology platform to bring live broadcasts to mobile phones.
*Engineering Plaque: Litepanels, Inc for Litepanels Mini LED Light
;2006
*Engineering Emmy Award: ''None awarded''
*Engineering Plaque: Scott Walker, Mark Walker, Jeff Watts, Scott Noe, Richard Brooker of BOXX Communications, LLC for Vid-Wave Boxx
*Engineering Plaque: Harry Fagle for the Four-Channel Video Integrator (Quad-Split)
;2007
*Engineering Emmy Award: ''None awarded''
*Engineering Plaque: TM Systems, LLC for the TM Systems QC Station
*Engineering Plaque:
Osram Sylvania for Osram HMI Metal Halide Lamp Technology
*Engineering Plaque: Digital Vision for DVNR Image Processing Hardware and DVO Image Processing Software
*Engineering Plaque:
Silicon Optix for the Teranex Video Computer
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award:
Howard A. Anderson, Jr.
;2008
*Engineering Emmy Award: Joint Video Team Standards Committee (JVT) for the development of the High Profile for
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC.
*Engineering Emmy Award: Glenn Sanders and Howard Stark of Zaxcom, Inc. for the Deva Location Sound Recorder.
*Engineering Plaque: Scott Leva for the Precision Stunt Air Bag
*Engineering Plaque: Sebastian Cramer and Andreas Dasser of P+S Technik GmbH for the Skater Dolly Product Family
*Engineering Plaque: Craige Bandy and Ed Bandy of Tricam Video Productions Company for the 360 Overhead Jib
*Engineering Plaque: Georg Dole, Swen Gerards, Jan Huewel and Daniel Schaefer of Coolux Media Systems for Pandoras Box Real-Time Compositing Media Server
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award:
Woo Paik
*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award: Evertz Technologies Limited
;2009
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Dolby Laboratories
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (Dolby Labs or simply Dolby) is a British-American technology corporation specializing in audio noise reduction, audio data compression, audio encoding/compression, spatial audio, and high-dynamic-range television (H ...
for the Dolby DP600 Program Optimizer
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Fujinon and
NHK
, also known by its Romanization of Japanese, romanized initialism NHK, is a Japanese public broadcasting, public broadcaster. It is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television licence, television license fee.
NHK ope ...
for the Fujinon Precision Focus Assistance System
*Engineering Emmy Award: Jim Henson's Creature Shop for the Henson Digital Puppetry Studio
*Engineering Emmy Award: Litepanels, Inc.for Litepanels LED Lighting Products
*Engineering Plaque: Herb Ault, Aaron Hammel and Bob Anderson of Grip Trix, Inc., for the Grip Trix Electric Motorized Camera Dolly
*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...
). In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the technological innovations that made possible the first live broadcast from the lunar surface by the crew of Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969.
;2010
*Engineering Emmy Award: Stagetec for the NEXUS Digital Audio Routing
*Engineering Plaque:
Apple, Inc. for Apple
Final Cut Studio
*Engineering Plaque:
Avid Technology for Avid Media Access
*Engineering Plaque: David Eubank for the pCAM Film + Digital Calculator
*Engineering Plaque: Showtime Sports Interactive
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Ron Estes and Robert Seidenglanz
*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Awards:
Desilu and Digidesign (now
Avid Technology)
;2011
*Engineering Emmy Award:
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...
and Fox Group for the Development and Application of LTFS (Linear Tape File System)
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Panavision
Panavision Inc. is an American motion picture equipment company (law), company founded in 1954 specializing in cameras and photographic lens, lenses, based in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Woodland Hills, California. Formed by Robert Gottschalk a ...
and
Sony
is a Japanese multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses various businesses, including Sony Corporation (electronics), Sony Semiconductor Solutions (i ...
for Single Chip Digital Camera Technology used for Primetime Television Production.
*Engineering Emmy Award: Ultimate Arm, for the Ultimate Gyrostabilized Remote Controlled Crane
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Apple, Inc. for the
iPad
The iPad is a brand of tablet computers developed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple that run the company's mobile operating systems iOS and later iPadOS. The IPad (1st generation), first-generation iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010. ...
*Engineering Plaque:
Yahoo!
Yahoo (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web portal that provides the search engine Yahoo Search and related services including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, y!entertainment, yahoo!life, and its a ...
for Connected TV to Yahoo!
*Engineering Certificate: The Xfinity iPad app
*Engineering Certificate:
Time Warner
Warner Media, LLC ( doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T. It was headquartered at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in New York City.
It was established as Time Warne ...
iPad app
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Andy Setos
*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Awards:
Time Warner
Warner Media, LLC ( doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T. It was headquartered at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in New York City.
It was established as Time Warne ...
and
Time Warner Cable for the creation of the Full Service Network
;2012
*Engineering Emmy Award: Colorfront, Ltd. for Colorfront On-Set Dailies
*Engineering Emmy Award: FilmLight for Truelight On-Set and Baselight TRANSFER
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, often pronounced ; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of adva ...
for the Academy Color Encoding System (ACES)
*Engineering Emmy Award:
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Technology Committee for the ASC Color Decision List (ASC CDL)
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Dolby Laboratories
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (Dolby Labs or simply Dolby) is a British-American technology corporation specializing in audio noise reduction, audio data compression, audio encoding/compression, spatial audio, and high-dynamic-range television (H ...
Inc. for the Dolby PRM-4200 Professional Reference Monitor
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Sony
is a Japanese multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses various businesses, including Sony Corporation (electronics), Sony Semiconductor Solutions (i ...
for the BVM E250 OLED Reference Monitor.
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Toon Boom Animation Inc. for the Toon Boom Storyboard Pro
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Netflix
Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple lang ...
Inc. for its new streaming video service.
*Engineering Plaque:
Adobe Systems
Adobe Inc. ( ), formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American software, computer software company based in San Jose, California. It offers a wide range of programs from web design tools, photo manipulation and vector creation, through to ...
for the Adobe Pass Viewer Authentication process
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr. Richard Green
*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award: Eastman
Kodak Company
;2013
*Engineering Emmy Award:
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in ...
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Aspera, for
FASP Transport Technology
*Engineering Emmy Award: Josh C. Kline of Digital Dailies Web Based Streaming Production Dailies and Cuts
*Engineering Emmy Award:
iZotope for RX Audio Repair Technology (iZotope)
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Lightcraft Technology for Previzion Virtual Studio System
*Engineering Plaque: LAWO AG Audio networking and routing system for large scale television entertainment productions
*Engineering Plaque: Final Draft Inc., Final Draft Screenwriting Software
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award:
Chris Cookson
*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award:
Sennheiser Electronic Corporation
;2014
*Engineering Emmy Award: Philips Professional Broadcasting for the LDK6000, DPM CCD Multi-format HDTV Camera System
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Sony
is a Japanese multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses various businesses, including Sony Corporation (electronics), Sony Semiconductor Solutions (i ...
Professional Solutions of America for the Multi-format HDTV CCD Fiber Optic Camera System
*Engineering Emmy Award: High-Definition Multimedia Interface (
HDMI
High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a proprietary digital interface used to transmit high-quality video and audio signals between devices. It is commonly used to connect devices such as televisions, computer monitors, projectors, gam ...
)
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo ...
Corp for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP)
*Engineering Emmy Award: Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) for its Recommended Practice on Techniques for Establishing and Maintaining Audio Loudness for Digital Television
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Laurence J. Thorpe
*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award: The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
;2015
*Engineering Emmy Award: Mark Franken for EdiCue
*Engineering Emmy Award: Michael Sechrest, Chris King, and Greg Croft for
SpeedTree
*Engineering Emmy Award: Zhou Wang,
Alan Bovik, Hamid Sheikh and
Eero Simoncelli for the Structural Similarity (
SSIM) Video Quality Measurement Model
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award:
Garrett Brown
*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award: Grass Valley USA, LLC
The 67th Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Ceremony took place on October 28, 2015 at Loews Hollywood Hotel.
;2016
*Engineering Emmy Award: SyncOnSet software application for production design
*Engineering Emmy Award: Ncam Technologies for camera tracking technology
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Sony
is a Japanese multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses various businesses, including Sony Corporation (electronics), Sony Semiconductor Solutions (i ...
for the Sony 2/3" 4K Imaging System
*Engineering Emmy Award: Saunders Electric for Saunders Mobile UPS Power Station
*Engineering Emmy Award: Zaxcom Inc for innovations in digital wireless technology.
*Engineering Emmy Award: Group It For Me! cloud-based software
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award:
John C. Malone
*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award: NHK's Science & Technology Research Laboratories
The 68th Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Ceremony took place on October 26, 2016 at Loews Hollywood Hotel.
;2017
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Arri
Arri Group () (stylized as "ARRI") is a German manufacturer of motion picture film equipment. Based in Munich, the company was founded in 1917. It produces professional motion picture cameras, lenses, lighting and post-production equipment. It ...
for ARRI Alexa Camera System
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Canon Inc and
Fujifilm
, trading as , or simply Fuji, is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, operating in the areas of photography, optics, Office supplies, office and Biomedical engine ...
(Fujinon) for 4K Zoom Lenses
*Engineering Emmy Award:
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16 ...
for Disney Global Localization
*Engineering Emmy Award: McDSP for the SA-2 Dialog Processor
*Engineering Emmy Award: Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) for
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)
*Engineering Emmy Award: Shotgun Software
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award:
Leonardo Chiariglione
Leonardo Chiariglione () (born 30 January 1943 (age ) in Almese, Turin province, Piedmont, Italy) is an Italian engineer who has led the development of international technical standards for digital media. In particular, he was the chairman of ...
*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award:
Sony Corporation
The 69th Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Ceremony took place on October 25, 2017 at Loews Hollywood Hotel.
;2018
*Engineering Emmy Award: Chemical Wedding for Artemis Digital Director's Viewfinder
*Engineering Emmy Award: Cospective for
cineSync Review and Approval
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Codex Digital for Codex Recording Platform and Capture Media
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Blue Microphones for Blue Mix-Fi Headphones
*Engineering Emmy Award: Production Resource Group for PRG GroundControl Followspot
*Engineering Plaque
Customized Animal Tracking Solutions (CATS)for th
CATS Cam: Animal-Borne Multi-Sensor Video System*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award:
Wendy Aylsworth
*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award:
Avid
The 70th Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Ceremony took place on October 24, 2018 at the JW Marriott Hotel LA Live.
;2019
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Boris FX for Sapphire
*Engineering Emmy Award:
iZotope for RX 7 Audio Repair
*Engineering Emmy Award:
FabFilter for Pro-Q3 Audio Equalizer
*Engineering Emmy Award:
SilhouetteFX LLC for SilhouetteFX Rotoscoping
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Boris FX for Mocha Pro Motion Tracking System
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Joint Photographic Experts Group
The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) is the joint committee between ISO/ IEC JTC 1/ SC 29 and ITU-T Study Group 16 that created and maintains the JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, JPEG XT, JPEG XS, JPEG XL, and related digital image standard ...
for
JPEG
JPEG ( , short for Joint Photographic Experts Group and sometimes retroactively referred to as JPEG 1) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degr ...
Image Compression
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Hugo Gaggioni
*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award:
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC)
The 71st Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Ceremony took place on October 23, 2019 at the JW Marriott Hotel LA Live.
;2020
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Evercast for Evercast real-time collaboration platform
*Engineering Emmy Award:
HP Inc
HP Inc. is an American Multinational corporation, multinational information technology, information technology company with its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, that develops personal computers (PCs), printer (computing), printers and re ...
for ZCentral Remote Boost
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Sohonet for ClearView Flex
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Teradici
Teradici Corporation was a privately held software company founded in 2004, which was acquired by HP Inc. in October 2021.
Teradici initially developed a protocol (PCoIP) for compressing and decompressing images and sound when remotely accessing ...
for Cloud Access Software
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Apple Inc
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley. It is best known for its consumer electronics, software, and services. Founded in 1976 as Apple Computer ...
for Apple ProRes
*Engineering Emmy Award: CODEX for CODEX RAW Workflow
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Dan Dugan for Gain Sharing Automatic Microphone Mixing
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Epic Games
Epic Games, Inc. is an American Video game developer, video game and software development, software developer and video game publisher, publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney (game developer), Tim Sween ...
for Unreal Engine
*Engineering Emmy Award: RE:Vision Effects for optical flow-based postproduction video tools
*Engineering Emmy Award: Sound Radix for Sound Radix Auto-Align Post
*Engineering Emmy Award: Bill Spitzak, Jonathan Egstad, Peter Crossley, and Jerry Huxtable for Nuke
The 72nd Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Ceremony was streamed live on Emmys.com on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. PDT.
;2021
*Engineering Emmy Award: Marcos Fajardo, Alan King, and Thiago Ize for Arnold Global Illumination Rendering System
*Engineering Emmy Award:
ARRI
Arri Group () (stylized as "ARRI") is a German manufacturer of motion picture film equipment. Based in Munich, the company was founded in 1917. It produces professional motion picture cameras, lenses, lighting and post-production equipment. It ...
for ARRI Skypanel
*Engineering Emmy Award: CEDAR Audio Ltd. for CEDAR Studio
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Golaem for
Golaem Crowd
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Stephen Regelous for
Massive
*Engineering Emmy Award: Steve Vitolo, Felipe A. Mendez, and Franco Zuccar for Scriptation
*Engineering Emmy Award: Nicolaas Verheem, Marius van der Watt, Dennis Scheftner, and Zvi Reznic for Teradek Bolt 4K
*Engineering Emmy Award: Chaos for
V-Ray
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award:
Reed Hastings
*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award:
Dolby Laboratories
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (Dolby Labs or simply Dolby) is a British-American technology corporation specializing in audio noise reduction, audio data compression, audio encoding/compression, spatial audio, and high-dynamic-range television (H ...
The 73rd Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Ceremony took place on Thursday, Oct. 21, at the JW Marriott Hotel, Los Angeles LA LIVE.
;2022
*Engineering Emmy Award: Mark Hills and Marc Bakos for the Cleanfeed Remote Audio Review/Recording System
*Engineering Emmy Award: Disguise Technologies Ltd. for the Disguise Platform
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Industrial Light & Magic for the
StageCraft
Stagecraft is a technical aspect of theatrical, film, and video production. It includes constructing and rigging scenery; hanging and focusing of lighting; design and procurement of costumes; make-up; stage management; audio engineering; ...
Virtual Production Tool Suite
*Engineering Emmy Award: Geoffrey Crawshaw and William Brinkley for the
Leostream Remote Access Software
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Shure Incorporated for the Axient Digital Wireless Audio System
*Engineering Emmy Award:
Sohonet for the ClearView Pivot Remote Collaboration Tool
*Engineering Emmy Award: Stype Cajic, Andrija Cajic, Daniel Kruselj, and Ivica Antolkovic for the stYpe Suite of Optical/Camera Tracking Tools
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award:
Paul Debevec
*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award:
ARRI
Arri Group () (stylized as "ARRI") is a German manufacturer of motion picture film equipment. Based in Munich, the company was founded in 1917. It produces professional motion picture cameras, lenses, lighting and post-production equipment. It ...
The 74th Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Ceremony took place on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022 at the Maybourne Hotel in Beverly Hills
;2023
*Engineering Emmy Award: Chris Deighton, Richard Mead, Adrian Jeakins, and Evangelos Apostolopoulos for the Brompton Technology Tessera SX40 LED video processor
*Engineering Emmy Award: Steve Rosenbluth, Thomas E. Burgess, Konstantin Smola, and Glen Winchester for the Concept Overdrive Motion System
*Engineering Emmy Award:
International Telecommunication Union
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)In the other common languages of the ITU:
*
* is a list of specialized agencies of the United Nations, specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information ...
– Radiocommunications – Study Group 6 for the Standardization of High Dynamic Range Television (HDR-TV)
*Engineering Emmy Award: Raymond Drewry and Jim Helman for the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR)
*Engineering Emmy Award: David Eubank for the pCAM Pro
*Engineering Emmy Award: Thomas Riedel, Jake Dodson, Wolfgang Fritz, and Jiou-Pahn Lee for the
Riedel BOLERO Wireless Intercom
*Engineering Emmy Award: Jeffrey Gray, Russell Hocken, Barrett Phillips, and Greg Smokler for the SmallHD Monitor Platform
*Engineering Emmy Award: Meir Shashoua, Yaniv Alon, and Shai Fishman for the Waves Clarity Vx Pro
*Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Birney Dayton
*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award:
National Association of Broadcasters
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is a Industry trade group, trade association and lobbying, lobby group representing the interests of commercial and non-commercial over-the-air radio and television broadcasting, broadcasters in th ...
(NAB)
The 75th Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Ceremony took place at the Television Academy’s Saban Media Center on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023.
See also
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List of American television awards
This is an index to articles about notable awards that are or were given by several organizations for contributions in various fields of television in the United States. The most notable are the Emmy Awards, considered as one of the EGOT, four ma ...
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List of engineering awards
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