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 American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with the ...

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 industry in the United States. It is a 501(c)(6) non-prof ...

(ATAS), while the separate

Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards The Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards, or Technology and Engineering Emmys, are one of two sets of Emmy Awards that are presented for outstanding achievement in engineering development in the television industry. The Technology and Engineer ...

are given by its sister organization, the

National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) is an American professional service organization founded in 1955 for "the advancement of the arts and sciences of television and the promotion of creative leadership for artistic, edu ...

(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 The Philo T. Farnsworth Award (also called the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award) is a non-competitive award presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) as part of the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards to "an agen ...

, 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. Bestowed by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), the Primetime ...

have been given since 1949 to recognize outstanding achievements in primetime television for performance, for the

Creative Arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both ...

, 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 Petro Vlahos ( gr, Πέτρος Βλάχος; August 20, 1916 – February 10, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor, considered to be one of the pioneering scientific and technical innovators of the motion picture and television indus ...

for the ULTIMATTE Video-Matting Device *Engineering Citation: To the

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) (, rarely ), founded in 1916 as the Society of Motion Picture Engineers or SMPE, is a global professional association of engineers, technologists, and executives working in the m ...

(

SMPTE The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) (, rarely ), founded in 1916 as the Society of Motion Picture Engineers or SMPE, is a global professional association of engineers, technologists, and executives working in the m ...

) ;1979 *Engineering Emmy Award:

Ampex Ampex is an American electronics company founded in 1944 by Alexander M. Poniatoff as a spin-off of Dalmo-Victor. The name AMPEX is a portmanteau, created by its founder, which stands for Alexander M. Poniatoff Excellence.AbramsoThe History ...

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 physical s ...

(

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 sci ...

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. PBS is a publicly funded nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educa ...

( PBS), and

American Broadcasting Company The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, Calif ...

(ABC) for

Closed Captioning Closed captioning (CC) and subtitling are both processes of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information. Both are typically used as a transcription of the audio po ...

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 The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak ) is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in analogue photography. The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York, and is incorpor ...

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:

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 Nagra is a brand of portable audio recorders produced from 1951 in Switzerland. Beginning in 1997 a range of high-end equipment aimed at the audiophile community was introduced, and Nagra expanded the company’s product lines into new markets. ...

Recorder *Engineering Emmy Award:

CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...

Sony , commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...

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:

for the DVR-1000 Component Digital VTR ;1989 *Engineering Emmy Award: Pacific Video Inc. for the Electronic Laboratory *Engineering Emmy Award:

Cinema Products Corporation Cinema Products Corporation was an American manufacturer of motion picture camera equipment. History The company was formed in 1968 by Ed DiGiulio, a former director and vice-president of the Mitchell Camera Corporation. Their first product was ...

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 The UCLA Film & Television Archive is a visual arts organization focused on the preservation, study, and appreciation of film and television, based at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Also a nonprofit exhibition venue, the a ...

for the restoration of the

Fred Astaire Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer. He is often called the greatest dancer in Hollywood film history. Astaire's career in stage, film, and tele ...

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 Vari-Lite is a brand of automated, variable-colour stage lighting systems. Their intelligent lighting fixtures are commonly used in theatre, concerts, television, film and corporate events. History Pre-history The origins of Vari-Lite dat ...

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 H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Harry Lubcke ;1992 *Engineering Emmy Award:

Charles Douglass Charles Rolland Douglass (January 2, 1910 – April 8, 2003) was a Mexican-born American sound engineer, credited as the inventor of the laugh track. Early years Douglass was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1910 to an American family. His fathe ...

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 H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Kerns H. Powers ;1993 *Engineering Emmy Award:

Avid Technology Avid Technology is an American technology and multimedia company based in Burlington, Massachusetts, and founded in August 1987 by Bill Warner. It specialises in audio and video; specifically, digital non-linear editing (NLE) systems, video edi ...

for the

Media Composer Avid Media Composer is a film and video editing software application or non-linear editing system (NLE) developed by Avid Technology. Initially released in 1989 on Macintosh II as an offline editing system, the application has since evolved to ...

*Engineering Emmy Award:

Newtek NewTek, Inc. is a San Antonio, Texas-based hardware and software company that produces live and post-production video tools and visual imaging software for personal computers. The company was founded in 1985 in Topeka, Kansas, United States, by T ...

for

Video Toaster The NewTek Video Toaster is a combination of hardware and software for the editing and production of NTSC standard-definition video. The plug-in expansion card initially worked with the Amiga 2000 computer and provides a number of BNC conne ...

*Engineering Plaque:

CBS Laboratories CBS Laboratories or CBS Labs (later known as the CBS Technology Center or CTC) was the technology research and development organization of the CBS television network. Innovations developed at the labs included many groundbreaking broadcast, indust ...

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 H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Richard S. O'Brien ;1994 *Engineering Emmy Award:

Philips Koninklijke Philips N.V. (), commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, it has been mostly headquartered in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarters is ...

Var-Lite for the VL5 Wash Luminaire *Engineering Emmy Award:

for the Keykode Edgeprint Film Numbering System *Engineering Plaque:

, Research in Motion, Evertz Microsystems, and the

National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary fi ...

, four creative hardware developers whose reader, decoder and user technology enabled the widespread use of Keykode. ;1995 *Engineering Emmy Award:

C-Cube C-Cube Microsystems was an early company in video compression technology as well as the implementation of that technology into semiconductor integrated circuits and systems. C-Cube was the first company to deliver on the market opportunity prese ...

Microsystems for the

MPEG The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is an alliance of working groups established jointly by ISO and IEC that sets standards for media coding, including compression coding of audio, video, graphics, and genomic data; and transmission and f ...

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:

Laboratories for the Ghost Cancellation *Engineering Plaque: Saunders Electric Incorporated for the Synchronized Load Commander System and Mobile Power Distribution *Charles H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Julius Barnathan ;1996 *Engineering Emmy Award:

LaserPacific LaserPacific Media Corporation was a television and motion picture post-production facility operating in Hollywood, Burbank, Calif., New York, and in Vancouver, Canada. Laser-Pacific was formerly a publicly traded corporation, prior to being a subsi ...

Media Corporation for the Supercomputer Assembly *Engineering Emmy Award:

General Instrument General Instrument (GI) was an American electronics manufacturer based in Horsham, Pennsylvania, specializing in semiconductors and cable television equipment. They formed in New York City in 1923 as an electronics manufacturer. During the 1950s, ...

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 ...

for the Profile Professional Disk Recorder *Charles H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Joseph Flaherty ;1997 *Engineering Emmy Award: J.L. Fisher for the J.L. Fisher Camera Dolly *Engineering Emmy Award:

Panasonic formerly between 1935 and 2008 and the first incarnation of between 2008 and 2022, is a major Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka. It was founded by Kōnosuke Matsushita in 1918 as a lightbulb ...

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 H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award:

Richard E. Wiley Richard E. Wiley (born July 20, 1934) is an American attorney and former government official. He served as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from March 8, 1974 to October 12, 1977. A member of the Republican Party, he support ...

;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:

Digital Video Systems and Eastman

for the Design and Manufacture of the Industry-Standard High-definition Digital

Telecine Telecine ( or ) is the process of transferring film into video and is performed in a color suite. The term is also used to refer to the equipment used in the post-production process. Telecine enables a motion picture, captured originally on fi ...

*Engineering Plaque: Avid for the Real-Time Multicamera System *Engineering Plaque:

for the Lightworks 'Heavyworks' Multistream Editing Systems *Charles H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Yves Faroudja ;1999 *Engineering Emmy Award:

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 H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Charles A. Steinberg ;2000 *Engineering Emmy Award: The

Dorrough Dorwin Demarcus Dorrough (born October 28, 1986), known professionally as Dorrough Music (or simply Dorrough), is an American rapper and songwriter. His singles include "Walk That Walk", "Get Big", " Ice Cream Paint Job", and "Beat Up the Block" ...

Loudness Meter *Engineering Emmy Award: The

Panavision Panavision is an American motion picture equipment company founded in 1953 specializing in cameras and lenses, based in Woodland Hills, California. Formed by Robert Gottschalk as a small partnership to create anamorphic projection lenses dur ...

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 TEAC may refer to: * TEAC Corporation, a Japanese electronics company * TEAC Oval, a sports stadium in Port Melbourne, Australia * Tetraethylammonium chloride, a chemical compound * Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity, a measure of antioxidant c ...

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 Cooke Optics Ltd. is a camera lens manufacturing company based in Leicester. Administratively speaking, Cooke Optics is a spin-off of the company Taylor-Hobson. However, Taylor-Hobson used to be a lens manufacturer and Cooke lenses used to be i ...

for Cooke Prime Lenses *Charles H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Charles Mesak ;2001 *Engineering Emmy Award:

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 Pandora International is a maker of hardware and software systems for video editing, Telecine Control and Colour Correction. Pandora was founded in 1985 By Steve Brett and Martin Greenwood, later Aine Marsland joined the team and took over the admi ...

for Pogle Platinum with MegaDef *Engineering Emmy Award:

for the Primo Lens Series *Engineering Emmy Award:

Apple, Inc. Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue (totaling in 2021) and, as of June 2022, is the world's biggest company ...

for

FireWire IEEE 1394 is an interface standard for a serial bus for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer. It was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by Apple in cooperation with a number of companies, primarily Sony an ...

*Engineering Emmy Award: Clairmont Camera for Clairmont Camera Lenses *Engineering Plaque: Chapman and Leonard Studio Equipment, Inc. for the LenCin Pedestal *Charles H. 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 Final Cut Pro is a series of non-linear video editing software programs first developed by Macromedia Inc. and later Apple Inc. The most recent version, Final Cut Pro 10.6.4, runs on Mac computers powered by macOS Big Sur 11.5.1 or later. The ...

*Engineering Emmy Award: 2d3 for the Boujou Automated Camera Tracker *Engineering Emmy Award:

ARRI The Arri Group () 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. Hermann Simon ment ...

for Arriflex Cameras *Engineering Plaque: Barber Technologies for the EZ Prompter *Engineering Plaque: HBO Interactive Ventures for Band Of Brothers Interactive Television Programming *Charles H. 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

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 H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award:

Ray Dolby Ray Milton Dolby (; January 18, 1933 – September 12, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He helped develop the video tape recorder while at Ampex and was the founder of Dolby Labo ...

*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award:

;2004 *Engineering Emmy Award:

Dolby Laboratories Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (often shortened to Dolby Labs and known simply as Dolby) is an American company specializing in audio noise reduction, audio encoding/compression, spatial audio, and HDR imaging. Dolby licenses its technologies to ...

for the Dolby LM 100 Broadcast Loudness Meter With Dialogue Intelligence *Engineering Emmy Award:

and

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 H. 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 The Chyron Corporation, formerly ChyronHego Corporation, headquartered in Melville, New York, is a company that specializes in broadcast graphics creation, playout, and real-time data visualization for live television, news, weather, and sports ...

;2005 *Engineering Emmy Award:

for Dolby E Audio Coding Technology *Engineering Emmy Award:

Sprint Corporation Sprint Corporation was an American telecommunications company. Before it merged with 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. The ...

for Sprint PCS VisionSM Multimedia Services *Engineering Emmy Award: Toon Boom Animation Inc. for USAnimation Opus *Engineering Emmy Award:

MobiTV MobiTV, Inc. (formerly named Idetic, Inc.) is a provider of live and on-demand video delivery solutions, headquartered in Emeryville, California. MobiTV is a privately held, venture-backed company, and was founded in 1999 by Paul Scanlan, Phillip A ...

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 Osram Sylvania Inc. is the North American operation of lighting manufacturer Osram Osram Licht AG is a German company that makes electric lights, headquartered in Munich and Premstätten (Austria). Osram positions itself as a high-tech phot ...

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 Silicon Optix Inc was a privately held fabless semiconductor company that designed and manufactured video/image digital processing integrated circuits. Originally a division of Genesis Microchip, Silicon Optix was spun off in 2000 by Paul Russo, ...

for the Teranex Video Computer *Charles H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award:

Howard A. Anderson, Jr. Howard Alvin Anderson Jr. (March 31, 1920 – September 27, 2015), was an American visual effects artist and cinematographer specializing in photographic effects, titles and opticals. A pioneer of visual effects, he was one of the effects artists ...

;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 H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Woo Paik *Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award: Evertz Technologies Limited ;2009 *Engineering Emmy Award:

for the Dolby DP600 Program Optimizer *Engineering Emmy Award:

Fujinon Fujinon is a brand of optical lenses made by Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd, now known as Fujifilm. Fujifilm's Fujinon lenses have been used by professional photographers and broadcast stations as well as cinematography. Fujifilm started manufacture ...

and

NHK , also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee. NHK operates two terrestr ...

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 agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...

). 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:

for Apple

Final Cut Studio Final Cut Studio is a discontinued professional video and audio production suite for Mac OS X from Apple Inc., and a direct competitor to Avid Media Composer in the high-end movie production industry. It was developed from 2005 to 2011. Three o ...

*Engineering Plaque:

for Avid Media Access *Engineering Plaque: David Eubank for the pCAM Film + Digital Calculator *Engineering Plaque: Showtime Sports Interactive *Charles H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Ron Estes and Robert Seidenglanz *Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Awards:

Desilu Desilu Productions () was an American television production company founded and co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. The company is best known for shows such as ''I Love Lucy'', ''The Lucy Show'', ''Mannix'', ''The Untouchabl ...

and Digidesign (now

) ;2011 *Engineering Emmy Award: IBM and Fox Group for the Development and Application of LTFS (Linear Tape File System) *Engineering Emmy Award:

and

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:

for the

iPad The iPad is a brand of iOS and iPadOS-based tablet computers that are developed by Apple Inc., Apple Inc. The iPad was conceived before the related iPhone but the iPhone was developed and released first. Speculation about the development, ...

*Engineering Plaque:

Yahoo! Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Mana ...

for Connected TV to Yahoo! *Engineering Certificate: The Xfinity iPad app *Engineering Certificate:

Time Warner Warner Media, LLC ( traded as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate. It was headquartered at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in New York City, United States. It was originally established in 1972 by ...

iPad app *Charles H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Andy Setos *Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Awards:

and

Time Warner Cable Time Warner Cable, Inc. (TWC) was an American cable television company. Before it was acquired by Charter Communications on May 18, 2016, it was ranked the second largest cable company in the United States by revenue behind only Comcast, opera ...

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 with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion ...

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:

Inc. for the Dolby PRM-4200 Professional Reference Monitor *Engineering Emmy Award:

for the BVM E250 OLED Reference Monitor. *Engineering Emmy Award:

Toon Boom Animation Toon Boom Animation Inc. is a Canadian software company that specializes in animation production and storyboarding software. Founded in 1994 and based in Montreal, Quebec, Toon Boom develops animation and storyboarding software for film, televi ...

Inc. for the Toon Boom Storyboard Pro *Engineering Emmy Award:

Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a ...

Inc. for its new streaming video service. *Engineering Plaque:

Adobe Systems Adobe Inc. ( ), originally called Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American multinational computer software company incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in San Jose, California. It has historically specialized in software for the cre ...

for the Adobe Pass Viewer Authentication process *Charles H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr. Richard Green *Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award: Eastman

Company ;2013 *Engineering Emmy Award:

YouTube YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second mo ...

*Engineering Emmy Award:

Aspera Aspera may refer to: Music * Aspera (band), an American indie rock band * ''(a)spera'', a 2009 album by Mirah * Above Symmetry, a Norwegian progressive metal band originally known as Aspera * "Aspera", the lead track from ''We Will Become Like Bir ...

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FASP The Fast Adaptive and Secure Protocol (FASP) is a proprietary data transfer protocol. FASP is a network-optimized network protocol developed by Aspera, owned by IBM. The associated client/server software packages are also commonly called Aspe ...

Transport Technology *Engineering Emmy Award: Josh C. Kline of Digital Dailies Web Based Streaming Production Dailies and Cuts *Engineering Emmy Award:

iZotope iZotope, Inc. is an audio technology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. iZotope develops professional audio software for audio recording, mixing, broadcast, sound design, and mastering which can be used in wide range of d ...

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 H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Chris Cookson *Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award:

Sennheiser Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG (, ) is a German privately held audio company specializing in the design and production of a wide range of high fidelity products, including microphones, headphones, telephone accessories and aviation headse ...

Electronic Corporation ;2014 *Engineering Emmy Award: Philips Professional Broadcasting for the LDK6000, DPM CCD Multi-format HDTV Camera System *Engineering Emmy Award:

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 audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data from an HDMI-compliant source device, such as a display controlle ...

) *Engineering Emmy Award:

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 ser ...

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 H. 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 SpeedTree is a group of vegetation programming and modeling software products developed and sold by Interactive Data Visualization, Inc. (IDV) that generates virtual foliage for animations, architecture and in real time for video games and dema ...

*Engineering Emmy Award: Zhou Wang,

Alan Bovik Alan Conrad Bovik (born June 25, 1958) is an American engineer, vision scientist, and educator. He is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), where he holds the Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair in the Cockrell School o ...

, Hamid Sheikh and

Eero Simoncelli Eero Simoncelli is an American computational neuroscientist and Silver Professor at New York University. He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator from 2000 to 2020. In 2020, he became the inaugural director of the Center for Computat ...

for the Structural Similarity ( SSIM) Video Quality Measurement Model *Charles H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award:

Garrett Brown Garrett Brown (born April 6, 1942) is an American inventor, best known as the creator of the Steadicam. Brown's invention allows camera operators to film while walking without the normal shaking and jostles of a handheld camera. The Steadicam wa ...

*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:

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 H. 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 The Arri Group () 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. Hermann Simon ment ...

for ARRI Alexa Camera System *Engineering Emmy Award:

Canon Inc is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, specializing in optical, imaging, and industrial products, such as lenses, cameras, medical equipment, scanners, printers, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment ...

and

Fujifilm , trading as Fujifilm, or simply Fuji, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, operating in the realms of photography, optics, office and medical electronics, biotechnology, and chemicals. The offerings from the ...

(Fujinon) for 4K Zoom Lenses *Engineering Emmy Award:

The Walt Disney Company The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on Octobe ...

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 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2, is a video compression standard designed as part of the MPEG-H project as a successor to the widely used Advanced Video Coding (AVC, H.264, or MPEG-4 Part 10). In comp ...

(HEVC) *Engineering Emmy Award: Shotgun Software *Charles H. 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 t ...

*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award:

Sony Corporation , commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...

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 cineSync is a software tool developed by Cospective, designed for viewing video content in sync with anyone, anywhere in the world. cineSync's drawing tools can be used for pointing at elements in the frame, sketching new ideas and writing text ...

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)
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CATS Cam: Animal-Borne Multi-Sensor Video System
*Charles H. 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 Boris FX is a visual effects and video editing software plug-in developer based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The developer is best known for its four flagship products, Continuum (formerly Boris Continuum Complete/BCC), Sapphire, Mocha, and Silh ...

for Sapphire *Engineering Emmy Award:

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:

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 standards. I ...

for

JPEG JPEG ( ) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and imag ...

Image Compression *Charles H. 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 information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that develops personal computers (PCs), printers and related supplies, as well as 3D printing solutions. It was formed on Novem ...

for ZCentral Remote Boost *Engineering Emmy Award:

Sohonet Sohonet is a community-of-interest network for the television, film and media production community based in the Soho area of London. Founded in 1995 by a group of post-production companies, Sohonet links many of the British film studios to Lon ...

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 technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue (totaling in 2021) and, as of June 2022, is the world's biggest company ...

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 and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in Potomac, ...

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:

for ARRI Skypanel *Engineering Emmy Award: CEDAR Audio Ltd. for CEDAR Studio *Engineering Emmy Award: Golaem for Golaem Crowd *Engineering Emmy Award:

Stephen Regelous Stephen Regelous is a pioneering computer graphics software engineer from New Zealand. He is best known as the creator of the '' Massive'' simulation system that generated the battle scenes of the Peter Jackson movie trilogy ''The Lord of the Ring ...

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 V-Ray is a biased computer-generated imagery rendering software application developed by Bulgarian software company Chaos . V-Ray is a commercial plug-in for third-party 3D computer graphics software applications and is used for visualizati ...

*Charles H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award:

Reed Hastings Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr. (born October 8, 1960) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder, chairman, and co-chief executive officer (CEO) of Netflix, and sits on a number of boards and non-profit organizations. A former member ...

*Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award:

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 Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American motion picture visual effects company that was founded on May 26, 1975 by George Lucas. It is a division of the film production company Lucasfilm, which Lucas founded, and was created when he began pr ...

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; a ...

Virtual Production Tool Suite *Engineering Emmy Award: Geoffrey Crawshaw and William Brinkley for the

Leostream Leostream, founded in 2002, is a privately held technology company based in Waltham, Massachusetts. Its flagship product is a connection broker for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and resources hosted in the datacenter. Software Leostream d ...

Remote Access Software *Engineering Emmy Award:

Shure Shure Incorporated is an American audio products corporation. It was founded by Sidney N. Shure in Chicago, Illinois, in 1925 as a supplier of radio parts kits. The company became a consumer and professional audio-electronics manufacturer of mi ...

Incorporated for the Axient Digital Wireless Audio System *Engineering Emmy Award:

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 H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Paul Debevec *Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award:

The 74th Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Ceremony took place on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022.

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