Stanley Tucci, Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series winnerElaine Stritch, Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series winnerJohn Goodman, Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series winnerLeslie Caron, Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series winner
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡). Sections are based upon the categories listed in the 2006–2007 Emmy rules and procedures. Area awards and juried awards are denoted next to the category names as applicable. For simplicity, producers who received nominations for program awards have been omitted.
Rome: "Heroes of the Republic" / "Philippi" / "Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus" – Joseph Bennett, Anthony Pratt, Carlo Serafini, and Cristina Onori (HBO)‡
Deadwood: "Tell Your God to Ready for Blood" / "True Colors" / "Amateur Night" – Maria Caso, David Potts, and Ernie Bishop (HBO)
Heroes: "Genesis" – Curtis A. Schnell, Daniel J. Vivanco, and Crista Schneider (NBC)
The Amazing Race: "I Know Phil, Little Ol' Gorgeous Thing" – Per Larsson, John Armstrong, Sylvester Campe, Petr Cikhart, Tom Cunningham, Chip Goebert, Bob Good, Peter Rieveschl, Dave Ross, Uri Sharon, and Alan Weeks (CBS)‡
Dirty Jobs: "Mule Logger" – Douglas Glover, Troy Paff, and Christopher Whiteneck (Discovery Channel)
Intervention: "Sylvia" – Chris Baron, Meri Pritchett, and Jamie Hall (A&E)
American Idol: "Idol Gives Back" – Bill DeRonde, Oren Castro, Gus Comegys, John Cox, Patrick Franks, Narumi Inatsugu, Tim Perniciaro, Jeff Roe, and Ryan Tanner (Fox)
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: "Episode 12043" – Tonya Dreher, Graham Frazier, Mark Paone, Daric Schlesselman, Einar Westerlund, and Rob York (Comedy Central)
Dancing with the Stars: "Episode 304" – Ned Kerwin, Pamela Malouf, David Timoner, and Hans van Riet (ABC)
The Amazing Race: "I Know Phil, Little Ol' Gorgeous Thing" – Jon Bachmann, Steven Escobar, Eric Goldfarb, Julian Gomez, Andy Kozar, Paul Nielsen, and Jacob Parsons (CBS)‡
American Idol: "Memphis Auditions" – Bill DeRonde, Gus Comegys, Cliff Dorsey, Ryan Tanner, Oren Castro, Narumi Inatsugu, and Tim Perniciaro (Fox)
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: "The Thomas Family" – Matt Deitrich, Wes Paster, Tenna Guthrie, Phil Stuben, Jason Cherella, Ben Daughtry, and Hilary Scratch (ABC)
Project Runway: "Iconic Statement" – Kevin Leffler, Annie Tighe, Steve Lichtenstein, Drew Brown, Clark Vogeler, Andy Robertson, and Jillian Moul (Bravo)
Survivor: "An Evil Thought" – Brian Barefoot, Bob Mathews, Eric Gardner, Chad Bertalotto, Fred Hawthorne, Tim Atzinger, and Evan Mediuch (CBS)
CSI: Miami: "No Man's Land" – Tim Kimmel, Todd Niesen, Bradley C. Katona, Ruth Adelman, Skye Lewin, Zane Bruce, and Joseph Sabella (CBS)
ER: "Bloodline" – Walter Newman, Bob Redpath, Darleen R. Stoker, Karyn Foster, Kenneth Young, Adam Johnston, Sharon Tylk-Gersh, Casey Crabtree, and Mike Crabtree (NBC)
Smallville: "Zod" – Michael E. Lawshe, Jeremy Gordon, Eric Hertsgaard, Timothy Cleveland, Eric Erickson, Marc Meyer, Paul Diller, Chris McGeary, Casey Crabtree, and Michael Crabtree (The CW)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Stephen Flick, Avram Gold, Steffan Falesitch, Eric Hertsgaard, Patricio Libenson, Denise Horta, Adam Johnston, Paul Berolzheimer, Dean Beville, Jeff Sawyer, Kenneth Young, Mike Flicker, David Lee Fein, and Hilda Hodges (HBO)‡
Broken Trail: "Night 2" – Kevin Howard, Robert Hegedus, Richard Calistan, Clive Turner, P. Jason MacNeill, Steve Copley, Carl Sealove, John Sievert, and Virginia Storey (AMC)
The Path to 9/11: "Night 1" – G. Michael Graham, J. Michael Hooser, Bob Costanza, Bill Bell, Mike Dickeson, Kevin Fisher, Anton Holden, Adriane Marfiak, Mark Steele, Joy Ealy, Devon Curry, Dan Johnson, Tim Chilton, and Jill Sanders (ABC)
Tsunami: The Aftermath: "Part 1" – Julian Slater, Paul Conway, Simon Price, Tony Currie, Peter Gates, Steve Browell, Ben Norrington, Stephen Griffiths, John Warhurst, John Fewell, and Julie Ankerson (HBO)
Planet Earth: "Pole to Pole" – Kate Hopkins (Discovery Channel)‡
The Amazing Race: "I Know Phil, Little Ol' Gorgeous Thing" – Jon Bachmann, Eric Goldfarb, Julian Gomez, Andy Kozar, Paul Nielsen, Jacob Parsons, and Rick Livingstone (CBS)
American Masters: "Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built" – Richard Fairbanks and Pamela Scott Arnold (PBS)
49th Annual Grammy Awards – Tom Holmes, John Harris, Eric Schilling, Paul Sandweiss, Don Worsham, Klaus Landsberg, Mikael Stewart, Ron Reaves, Mike Parker, Dave Velte, and Bob LaMasney (CBS)
Eureka: "Pilot" – Robert Habros, Matthew S. Gore, Darren Marcoux, Elizabeth Alvarez, Lane Jolly, Ben Funk, Tom Tennisco, Jarrod Davis, and Jamie Clark (Sci Fi Channel)
Grey's Anatomy: "Walk on Water" – Sam Nicholson, Val Pfahning, Scott Ramsey, Anthony Ocampo, Michael Cook, Diego Galtieri, Eric Grenaudier, Adalberto Lopez, and Jason Gustafson (ABC)
Heroes: "Five Years Gone" – Mark Kolpack, Mark Spatny, Gary D'Amico, Daniel Kumiega, Cedric Tomacruz, Diego Galtieri, Chris Martin, Ragui Hanna, and Jon Rosenthal (NBC)
Rome: "Philippi" – James Madigan, Barrie Hemsley, Anna Panton, Merrin Jensen, Paula Pope, Daniel Acon, Duncan Kinnaird, Gary Brozenich, and Doug Larmour (HBO)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – David Goldberg, Chris Del Conte, Joseph Bell, Justin Mitchell, Erik Bruhwiler, Tommy Tran, Benoit Girard, Tammy Sutton, and Andrew Roberts (HBO)
Drive: "The Starting Line" – Loni Peristere, Raoul Yorke Bolognini, Chris Jones, Jarrod Davis, Mark Shimer, Jamie Clark, Steve Meyer, Tyler Nathan, and Nate Overstrom (Fox.com)
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King: "The End of the Whole Mess" – David Vana, Peter Stubbs, Vit Komrzy, Marc van Buuren, Monika Pavlickova, Jiri Linhart, Jaroslav Poklensky, Jan Heusler, and Jiri Forejt (TNT)
The Path to 9/11: "Night 1" – Anthony Paterson, Tom Turnbull, Robert Crowther, Ian Britton, Tavia Charlton, Joel Skeete, Graham Cunningham, Andrew Nguyen, and Kristijan Danilovski (ABC)
Secrets of the Deep – Tim Greenwood, Pete Farrer, Lorna Paterson, Antony Carysforth, Pete Metelko, Theo Facey, Adam Burnett, and Jason Horley (Discovery Channel)
Saturday Night Live: "Host: Alec Baldwin and Musical Guest: Christina Aguilera" – Steven Cimino, John Pinto, Richard B. Fox, Brian Phraner, Barry Frischer, Eric A. Eisenstein, Susan Noll, and Frank Grisanti (NBC)‡
American Idol: "Bon Jovi" – John Pritchett, Manny Bonilla, Bert Atkinson, John Repczynski, George Prince, Danny Bonilla, Alex Hernandez, Dave Eastwood, Bobby Highton, Ken Dahlquist, Bill Chaikowski, Damien Tuffereau, Danny Webb, Ed Horton, and Mark Sanford (Fox)
Dancing with the Stars: "Episode 310" – Charles Ciup, Diane Biederbeck, Danny Bonilla, Dave Hilmer, James Karidas, Dave Levisohn, Hector Ramirez, Brian Reason, John Repczynski, Damien Tuffereau, Easter Xua, and Chuck Reilly (ABC)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!: "Jay-Z Show" – Ervin D. Hurd, Parker Bartlett, Randy Gomez, Greg Grouwinkel, Mark Gonzales, Garrett Hurt, Ritch Kenney, Kris Wilson, Mike Malone, Marc Hunter, and Guy Jones (ABC)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien: "Episode 2424" – Gregory Aull, Richard S. Carter, Kurt Decker, Eugene Huelsman, Chris Matott, James Palczewski, Pat Casey, Gregory Kasoff, and Carl M. Henry, III (NBC)
American Idol: "Idol Gives Back" – John Pritchett, Rick Edwards, Damien Tuffereau, Suzanne Ebner, John Repczynski, George Prince, Easter Xua, Alex Hernandez, Dave Eastwood, Bobby Highton, Ray Gonzales, Vince Singletary, Bert Atkinson, Brian Reason, Ed Horton, Rob Vuona, Mike Tribble, Hector Ramirez, Brad Zerbst, Garrett Hurt, Danny Bonilla, Dave Hilmer, Allen Merriweather, Marc Hunter, Richard Strock, and Mark Sanford (Fox)‡
79th Annual Academy Awards – John B. Field, Kenneth Shapiro, Allan Wells, Ted Ashton, Robert Balton, Danny Bonilla, John Burdick, Dave Eastwood, Marc Hunter, Charlie Huntley, Dave Levisohn, Lyn Noland, Rob Palmer, Bill Philbin, David Plakos, Hector Ramirez, Brian Reason, Mark Whitman, Kris Wilson, Brett Crutcher, Aaron Fitzgerald, Dean Hall, Easter Xua, Chuck Reilly, Mark Sanford, and Keith Winikoff (ABC)
Comic Relief 2006 – Keith Winikoff, Ted Ashton, Bill Chaikowski, Dave Eastwood, Larry Heider, Dave Hilmer, Dave Levisohn, Ken Patterson, Bill Philbin, Hector Ramirez, Gordi Saiger, and Mark Sanford (HBO)
Dane Cook: Vicious Circle – Keith Winikoff, Robert Balton, John Burdick, Bob Del Russo, Manny Gutierrez, Charlie Huntley, John Mieklejohn, Jay Millard, Lyn Noland, Mark Renaudin, Carlos Rios, Jofre Rosero, Jim Scurti, David Smith, Ron Washburn, Mark Whitman, Matty Randazzo, and Bob Amour (HBO)
49th Annual Grammy Awards – John B. Field, Ted Ashton, Mike Breece, Dave Eastwood, Freddy Frederick, Hank Geving, Dean Hall, Larry Heider, Dave Hilmer, Ed Horton, Marc Hunter, Charlie Huntley, Dave Levisohn, Steve Martyniuk, Rob Palmer, Bill Philbin, Hector Ramirez, Brian Reason, Guy Jones, and Keith Winikoff (CBS)
Prince Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show – Eric Becker, Dave Bernstein, Robert Balton, Danny Webb, Ray Hoover, John Burdick, Jofre Rosero, Mark Sanford, and Rob Levy (CBS)
Tony Bennett: An American Classic – Terry Donohue, Sion Michel, Darin Moran, John Grillo, Thomas G. Tcimpidis, and Nick Theodorakis (NBC)
The Governors Award, recognizing an individual or group "whose works stand out with the immediacy of current achievement", was presented to two programs:
American Idol's "Idol Gives Back" (Fox) was recognized for raising "more than $75 million to benefit relief programs for children and young people in extreme poverty in America and Africa".
The Addiction Project (HBO) was "an unprecedented multi-platform and outreach campaign [...] aimed at helping Americans understand addiction as a chronic but treatable brain disease".
Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development
One Emmy Award, four plaques, and one certificate of recognition were presented to recognize engineering achievements:
The Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Howard A. Anderson for his visual effects work.
Plaques for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development went to TM Systems' QC Station, Osram Sylvania Products' OSRAM HMI Metal Halide Lamp Technology, Digital Vision's DVNR Image Processing Hardware-DVO Image Process Software, and Silicon Optix's Teranex Video Computer.
A Certificate of Achievement, recognizing a historic contribution to television technology, was presented to Sycom for its work on the varicap.
Syd Cassyd Founders Award
The Syd Cassyd Founders Award was presented to Rich Frank, former television executive and president of the Television Academy, for his "significant positive impact on the Academy through [his] efforts and service over many years of involvement".
Nominations and wins by program
For the purposes of the lists below, any wins in juried categories are assumed to have a prior nomination.
The 59th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards were executive produced by Lee Miller and John Moffitt, produced by Spike Jones Jr. through his company SJ2 Entertainment, and directed by Chris Donovan. Comedian Carlos Mencia was announced as the host in August. Nominations were announced on July 19, a week later than usual due to changes in voting rules. The awards were presented on September 8 in a four-hour ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, which was then edited into a two-hour broadcast shown on E! on September 15, the day before the main ceremony on Fox.
Major rule changes for this year's Creative Arts categories included:
Broadband programs were allowed to compete in categories alongside cable and broadcast programs.
Episodes of an eligible program airing outside of the eligibility window became qualified for awards in the same year that the program was competing. Previously, such episodes were ineligible for any awards.
Notes
^The outlets listed for each program are the U.S. broadcasters or streaming services identified in the nominations, which for some international productions are different than the broadcaster(s) that originally commissioned the program.
Area awards are non-competitive and nominees are considered on their own terms. Any nominee with at least two-thirds approval received an Emmy. If no nominee received two-thirds approval, the nominee with the highest approval (and a minimum majority approval) received an Emmy.
Juried awards generally do not have nominations; instead, all entrants were screened before members of the appropriate peer group, and one, more than one, or no entry was awarded an Emmy based on the jury's vote.
^Finalists were announced for this juried category; they are not considered to be nominees.
^While Drive was broadcast on Fox, the relevant effects were released online because the series was cancelled before reaching the six-episode eligibility requirement. As a result, this nomination was the first broadband nominee at the Emmys. This also led to its nomination as a special, not a series.
