The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special is handed out annually at the Creative Arts Emmy Award ceremony. The award was called Outstanding Informational Series or Special from 2013 until 2019, and was also presented from 1978 to 1998. From 1998 until 2012, informational series competed in Outstanding Nonfiction Series.
Beginning in 2020, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences renamed the category to reflect that it recognizes "personality-driven programs in which the host drives the show's narrative; includes documentaries, travelogues, segmented/magazine program and interview formats."
Winners and nominations 1970s Year Program Recipients Network 1975(27th) Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual AchievementAs a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award. The American Film Institute Salute to James Cagney Paul W. Keyes and George Stevens Jr., producers CBS Masterpiece Theatre Alistair Cooke, host PBS 86th Annual Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade Dick Schneider NBC The American Film Institute Salute to Orson Welles Paul W. Keyes and George Stevens Jr., producers CBS Bicentennial Minutes John Hueners, Jack Stewart CBS The Dick Cavett Show Dick Cavett, John Gilroy ABC That's Entertainment: 50 Years of MGM (ABC's Wide World of Entertainment) Jack Haley Jr., executive producer; Jimmie Baker, producer ABC Tomorrow Tom Snyder, host NBC 1978(30th) Outstanding Informational Series The Body Human Thomas W. Moore, executive producer; Alfred R. Kelman, producer CBS Between the Wars Alan Landsburg, executive producer; Anthony Potter, series producer Syndicated Cousteau: Oasis in Space Philippe Cousteau, executive producer; Andrew Solt, producer PBS Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Don Meier, producer Syndicated Nova John Angier, executive producer PBS Outstanding Informational Special The Great Whales: National Geographic Special Thomas Skinner and Dennis B. Kane, executive producers; Nicolas Noxon, producer PBS Bing Crosby: His Life and Legend Frank Konigsberg, executive producer; Marshall Flaum, producer ABC Calypso's Search for Atlantis: The Cousteau Odyssey Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Philippe Cousteau, executive producers; Andrew Solt, producerPBS The Treasures of Tutankhamun Donald Knox, executive producer; Valerie Gentile, producer Tut: The Boy King George A. Heinemann, executive producer NBC 1979(31st) Outstanding Informational Program Scared Straight! Arnold Shapiro, producer Syndicated The Body Human: The Sexes Thomas W. Moore, executive producer; Robert E. Fuisz and Alfred R. Kelman, producers; Charles A. Bangert and Vivian R. Moss, co-producers CBS Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? Henry Winkler, executive producer; John Korty, Warren Lockhart and Dan McCann, producers ABC
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