The
Primetime Emmy Award for Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One-Hour) is an award handed out annually at the
Creative Arts Emmy Award
The Creative Arts Emmys are a class of Emmy Awards presented in recognition of technical and other similar achievements in American television programming. They are commonly awarded to behind-the-scenes personnel such as production designers, set ...
s. Prior to 1976 and between 1979 and 1983, regular series competed with
limited series and movies for Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Editing. In 2018, the category was split to separately recognize one-hour and
half-hour series.
In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place:
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Winners and nominations
Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Editing
1970s
Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Editing for a Single Episode of a Regular or Limited Series
Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Editing for a Series
1980s
Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Individuals with multiple awards
;8 awards
* Casey J. Crabtree
;6 awards
* David Klotz
* Jeffrey Wilhoit
* Bill Wistrom
;5 awards
* Jeff Charbonneau
* Michael Crabtree
*
Doug Grindstaff
Douglas Howard Grindstaff (April 6, 1931 – July 23, 2018) was an American sound editor. He won five Primetime Emmy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Outstanding Sound Editing for his work on the television programs ''St ...
* Thomas A. Harris
* Mace Matiosian
* Walter Newman
* Brett Voss
* James Wolvington
;4 awards
* Rick Camera
* Wilson Dyer
* Darleen Stoker
* Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit
* Darren Wright
;3 awards
* Pembrooke Andrews
* Michael Baber
* James Bailey
* Zane D. Bruce
* Bradley C. Katona
* Timothy A. Cleveland
* Benjamin L. Cook
* Paul J. Diller
* William Dotson
*
Paula Fairfield
* Tony Garber
* Jessica Goodwin
* Tim Hands
* Craig Henighan
* Rick Hromadka
* Al Kajita
* Shawn Kennelly
* Tim Kimmel
* Michael E. Lawshe
* Laura Macias
* Chris McGeary
* Vince Nicastro
* Richard Raderman
* Joe Sabella
* Gerry Sackman
* Hank Salerno
* Larry Singer
* Cathie Speakman
* Jeffrey R. Whitcher
;2 awards
* William Andrews
* Paul Bercovitch
* Susan Cahill
* Stuart Calderon
* Marko A. Costanzo
* Thierry J. Couturier
* Don Crosby
* Mark Dennis
* Catherine Flynn
* Karyn Foster
* George Fredrick
* Sharyn Gersh
* Tiffany S. Griffth
* Eileen Horta
* Samuel Horta
* Don V. Isaacs
* Constance A. Kazmer
* Marvin I. Kosberg
* Ira Leslie
* Maciek Malish
* John Matter
* James Moriana
* Bradley North
* Jeffrey A. Pitts
* Christopher B. Reeves
* Allan K. Rosen
* Fred Rosenberg
* Debby Ruby-Winsberg
* John Stacy
*
Josef von Stroheim
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Early life
Stroheim was born in Los Angeles on September 18, 1922 and grew up in Beverly Hills, California. He began his career a ...
* Tim Tuchrello
* Steven Visscher
* Bob Weatherford
* Susan Welsh
* David Werntz
* Jordan Wilby
* Michael D. Wilhoit
Programs with multiple awards
;4 awards
* ''
ER''
* ''
Star Trek: The Next Generation''
* ''
Stranger Things''
;3 awards
* ''
Game of Thrones''
* ''
Hill Street Blues
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''
* ''
Smallville''
* ''
24''
;2 awards
* ''
Black Sails''
* ''
Boardwalk Empire''
* ''
The X-Files
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Programs with multiple nominations
Totals combined for programs also nominated for
Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation.
;11 nominations
* ''
ER''
;8 nominations
* ''
Game of Thrones''
;7 nominations
* ''
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''
* ''
Star Trek: The Next Generation''
* ''
24''
;6 nominations
* ''
Smallville''
* ''
The X-Files
''The X-Files'' is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter. The series revolves around Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who ...
''
;5 nominations
* ''
Boardwalk Empire''
* ''
Hill Street Blues
''Hill Street Blues'' is an American serial police procedural television series that aired on NBC in prime-time from January 15, 1981, to May 12, 1987, for 146 episodes. The show chronicles the lives of the staff of a single police station loca ...
''
;4 nominations
* ''
Black Sails''
* ''
Breaking Bad''
* ''
Gotham''
* ''
Lost''
* ''
Stranger Things''
* ''
Third Watch
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''
* ''
The Walking Dead''
;3 nominations
* ''
Airwolf
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''
* ''
Better Call Saul
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* ''
CSI: Miami''
* ''
Hunter''
* ''
Northern Exposure''
* ''
Quantum Leap
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''
* ''
Star Trek: Discovery''
* ''
Westworld
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''
* ''
Wiseguy''
;2 nominations
* ''
Alias''
* ''
Battlestar Galactica''
* ''
Beauty and the Beast
''Beauty and the Beast'' (french: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in ''La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins'' (''The Young American and Marine ...
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* ''
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
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''
* ''
Homeland
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''
* ''
Law & Order''
* ''
MacGyver
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In both p ...
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* ''
The Mandalorian
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* ''
Marvel's Daredevil''
* ''
Miami Vice
''Miami Vice'' is an American crime drama television series created by Anthony Yerkovich and produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series stars Don Johnson as James "Sonny" Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, two M ...
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* ''
Nikita
Nikita may refer to:
* Nikita (given name)
* Nikita, Crimea, a town in Crimea
* Nikita the Tanner, a character in East Slavic folklore
Film and television
*''Little Nikita'', a 1988 film
* ''La Femme Nikita'' (film), also known as ''Nikita'', a 19 ...
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* ''
Police Story''
* ''
Ripley's Believe It or Not!''
* ''
St. Elsewhere''
* ''
Star Trek: Picard''
* ''
Star Trek: Voyager''
* ''
Supernatural''
* ''
True Blood
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The ser ...
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* ''
Twin Peaks
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* ''
The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
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* ''
Vikings
Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden),
who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and ...
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Notes
References
{{Primetime Emmy Award categories
Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One-Hour)