Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects

This is a list of the winning and nominated programs of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a television series, miniseries, television film, or special. Since the award ceremony of 1998, the category has been divided into Special Visual Effects for a Series and Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special. In 1991, the Television Academy nominated four programs, but did not determine a winner.

Winners and nominations

Winning programs are not indented and are written in bold font, while nominated programs are indented to the right and written in regular font:

1950s

1955
Best Engineering Effects
Four Quadrant Screen Electronic Editing The Jackie Gleason Show Space Patrol

1980s

1980
Not awarded
1981
Not awarded
1982
Not awarded
1983
Outstanding Individual Achievement – Special Visual Effects
The Winds of War SCTV Network
1984
Outstanding Individual Achievement – Special Visual Effects
26th Annual Grammy Awards Ceremonies The Day After V (The Final Battle)
1985
Outstanding Special Visual Effects
AD The Brain Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure The Hugga Bunch
1986
Outstanding Special Visual Effects
Dinosaur! Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
1987
Not awarded
1988
Not awarded
1989
Outstanding Achievement in Special Visual Effects
War and Remembrance Friday the 13th: The Series: "13 O'Clock" The Infinite Voyage: "The Geometry Of Life" Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Q Who?" thirtysomething: "Michael Writes A Story"

1990s

1990
Outstanding Achievement in Special Visual Effects
By Dawn's Early Light Miracle Landing The Orchestra Great Performances Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Deja Q" Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Tin Man"
1991
Outstanding Achievement in Special Visual Effects
No winner Star Trek: The Next Generation: "The Best of Both Worlds": Part I Star Trek: The Next Generation: "The Best of Both Worlds": Part II Ironclads The Magic of David Copperfield XIII: Mystery on the Orient Express
1992
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects
Star Trek: The Next Generation: "A Matter of Time" Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Conundrum" The Last Halloween
1993
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: "The Scandal of 1920" Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Emissary" Babylon 5: "The Gathering"
1994
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects
Star Trek: The Next Generation: "All Good Things..."
1995
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects
Star Trek: Voyager: "Caretaker" Earth 2 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "The Jem'Hadar" Fatherland The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: "Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies"
1996
Outstanding Special Visual Effects
Gulliver's Travels Family Matters: "Send In the Clone" Space: Above and Beyond: "Never No More" Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "The Way of the Warrior" The Tuskegee Airmen The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: "Young Indiana Jones and the Attack of the Hawkmen"
1997
Outstanding Special Visual Effects
The Odyssey: Part II 3rd Rock from the Sun: "A Nightmare on Dick Street" Asteroid Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Trials and Tribble-ations"
1998
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach: "The Sound of the Carceri" Star Trek: Voyager: "Year of Hell: Part II" Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "One Little Ship" Stargate SG-1: "Children of the Gods" Suddenly Susan: "I Love You, I Think"	Merlin: Part I From the Earth to the Moon: "1968" Moby Dick
1999
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Star Trek: Voyager: "Dark Frontier" Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "What You Leave Behind" Star Trek: Voyager: "Thirty Days" Star Trek: Voyager: "Timeless" Total Recall 2070: "Machine Dreams"	Alice in Wonderland Cleopatra: Part I Max Q Stephen King's Storm of the Century

2000s

2000
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
The X-Files: "First Person Shooter" Stargate SG-1: "Nemesis" Star Trek: Voyager: "The Haunting of Deck Twelve" Star Trek: Voyager: "Life Line" The X-Files: "Rush"	Walking with Dinosaurs 72nd Academy Awards: "Billy's Film" Aftershock: Earthquake in New York: "Part I" Jason and the Argonauts: "Part II" The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns: "Part I"
2001
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Star Trek: Voyager: "Endgame" Dark Angel: "Pilot" Stargate SG-1: "Exodus" Stargate SG-1: "Small Victories" Star Trek: Voyager: "Workforce: Part II"	Frank Herbert's Dune: Part I The Ballad of Big Al Haven Hornblower: Mutiny Race Against Time
2002
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Star Trek: Enterprise: "Broken Bow" Smallville: "Pilot" Stargate SG-1: "Enemies" Stargate SG-1: "Revelations" Star Trek: Enterprise: "Breaking the Ice"	Dinotopia: Part III Band of Brothers: "Day of Days" Band of Brothers: "Replacements" Walking with Beasts Superfire
2003
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Firefly: "Serenity" Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Chosen" Star Trek: Enterprise: "The Crossing" Star Trek: Enterprise: "Dead Stop" Star Trek: Enterprise: "The Expanse"	Frank Herbert's Children of Dune: Part I Building the Great Pyramid The Lost World: Part II Point of Origin Taken: "Jacob and Jesse"
2004
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Star Trek: Enterprise: "Countdown" Dead Like Me: "Pilot" Kingdom Hospital: "Thy Kingdom Come" Stargate SG-1: "Lost City: Part II" Star Trek: Enterprise: "The Council"	DreamKeeper: Part I 10.5: Part I Angels in America: "Perestroika" Battlestar Galactica: Part I The Winning Season
2005
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Lost: "Pilot" Battlestar Galactica: "33" Battlestar Galactica: "The Hand of God" Stargate Atlantis: "Rising" Stargate SG-1: "Reckoning: Part II"	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Dragons' World: A Fantasy Made Real Legend of Earthsea Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars: "Part II" Supervolcano
2006
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Rome: "The Stolen Eagle" Battlestar Galactica: "Resurrection Ship" Lost: "Live Together, Die Alone" Perfect Disaster: "Super Tornado" Surface: "Episode 101"	The Triangle Before the Dinosaurs Great Performances "The Nightingale" Into the West: "Hell on Wheels" Mammoth
2007
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Battlestar Galactica: "Exodus: Part II" Eureka: "Pilot" Grey's Anatomy: "Walk on Water" Heroes: "Five Years Gone" Rome: "Philippi"	Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King: "Battleground" Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Drive: "The Starting Line" Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King: "The End of the Whole Mess" The Path to 9/11: "Part I"
2008
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Battlestar Galactica: "He That Believeth in Me" Heroes: "Four Months Ago..." Human Body: Pushing the Limits: "Strength" Jericho: "Patriots and Tyrants" Stargate Atlantis: "Adrift" Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: "Pilot"	John Adams: "Join or Die" Comanche Moon: "Part I" The Company: "Part II" Life After People Tin Man: "Part I"
2009
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Heroes: "The Second Coming" / "The Butterfly Effect" Battlestar Galactica: "Daybreak: Part II" Fringe: "Pilot" Ghost Whisperer: "Ghost in the Machine" Sanctuary: "Sanctuary for All"	Generation Kill: "The Cradle of Civilization" Into the Storm

2010s

2010
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: "Family Affair" Caprica: "There is Another Sky" Stargate Universe: "Air" Stargate Universe: "Space" V: "Pilot"	The Pacific: "Peleliu Landing" Ben 10: Alien Swarm The Pacific: "Guadalcanal" / "Leckie" Virtuality
2011
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Boardwalk Empire: "Boardwalk Empire" The Borgias: "The Poisoned Chalice" / "The Assassin" Game of Thrones: "Fire and Blood" Stargate Universe: "Awakening" The Walking Dead: "Days Gone Bye"	Gettysburg Mildred Pierce: "Part Five" The Pillars of the Earth: "Witchcraft" Sherlock: "A Study in Pink"
2012
Special Visual Effects	Special Visual Effects in a Supporting Role
Game of Thrones: "Valar Morghulis" Falling Skies: "Live and Learn" / "The Armory" Inside the Human Body: "Episode One" Once Upon a Time: "The Stranger" Pan Am: "Pilot" The Walking Dead: "Beside the Dying Fire"	Boardwalk Empire: "Georgia Peaches" Bones: "The Twist in the Twister" The Borgias: "The Choice" Breaking Bad: "Face Off" Hemingway & Gellhorn Touch: "Pilot"
2013
Special Visual Effects	Special Visual Effects in a Supporting Role
Game of Thrones: "Valar Dohaeris" Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome Defiance: "Pilot" Falling Skies "Worlds Apart" Hemlock Grove: "Children of the Night" Last Resort: "Captain"	Banshee: "Pilot" Boardwalk Empire: "The Pony" The Borgias: "The Prince" Da Vinci's Demons: "The Lovers" Revolution: "Pilot" Vikings: "Dispossessed"
2014
Special and Visual Effects	Special and Visual Effects in a Supporting Role
Game of Thrones: "The Children" The 100: "We Are Grounders, Part 2" Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: "T.A.H.I.T.I." Almost Human: "Pilot" Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey: "The Immortals"	Black Sails: "I." Da Vinci's Demons: "The Sins of Daedalus" Hawaii Five-0: "Ho'onani Makuakane" Mob City: "A Guy Walks Into a Bar" Vikings: "Invasion" The Walking Dead: "30 Days Without an Accident"
2015
Special and Visual Effects	Special and Visual Effects in a Supporting Role
Game of Thrones: "The Dance of Dragons" Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: "The Dirty Half Dozen" Black Sails: "XVIII." The Flash: "Grodd Lives" Vikings: "To the Gates!"	American Horror Story: Freak Show: "Edward Mordrake", Part 2 Boardwalk Empire: "Golden Days for Boys and Girls" Daredevil: "Speak of the Devil" Gotham: "Lovecraft" The Walking Dead: "Conquer"
2016
Special and Visual Effects^[1]	Special and Visual Effects in a Supporting Role^[2]
Game of Thrones: "Battle of the Bastards" Black Sails: "XX." The Man in the High Castle: "The New World" Penny Dreadful: "And They Were Enemies" Vikings: "The Last Ship"	Sherlock: "The Abominable Bride" 11.22.63: "The Rabbit Hole" Better Call Saul: "Fifi" Hannibal: "Primavera" The Walking Dead: "No Way Out"

Programs with multiple awards

5 awards

Game of Thrones (consecutive)

3 awards

Star Trek: The Next Generation (consecutive)
Star Trek: Voyager

2 awards

Battlestar Galactica (consecutive)
Boardwalk Empire (consecutive)
Star Trek: Enterprise

Programs with multiple nominations

9 nominations

Star Trek: Voyager

8 nominations

Battlestar Galactica (6 for series, 1 for 2003 miniseries, 1 for Blood & Chrome)
Stargate SG-1
Star Trek: The Next Generation

7 nominations

Star Trek: Enterprise

6 nominations

5 nominations

The Walking Dead

4 nominations

Boardwalk Empire
Vikings

3 nominations

2 nominations

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Band of Brothers
Da Vinci's Demons
Falling Skies
Lost
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
Rome
Sherlock
Stargate Atlantis
The X-Files

References

↑ "Nominees/Winners". Retrieved 14 July 2016.
↑ "Nominees/Winners". Retrieved 14 July 2016.

External links

Nominated and winning programs at emmys.com

Primetime Emmy Award categories

Programs	Comedy Series Drama Series Limited Series Television Movie Variety Talk Series Variety Sketch Series Reality-Competition Program Animated Program Children's Program Documentary or Nonfiction Series Documentary or Nonfiction Special Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking Informational Series or Special Short-Format Animation Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series Short Form Variety Series Special Class Program Structured Reality Program Unstructured Reality Program Variety Special

Performance	Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Lead Actor in a Drama Series Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Lead Actress in a Drama Series Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Guest Actor in a Drama Series Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Guest Actress in a Drama Series Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Character Voice-Over Performance Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program Narrator

Directing	Directing for a Comedy Series Directing for a Drama Series Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special Directing for a Variety Series Directing for a Variety Special Directing for Nonfiction Programming

Writing	Writing for a Comedy Series Writing for a Drama Series Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special Writing for a Variety Series Writing for a Variety Special Writing for Nonfiction Programming

Creative Arts	Casting for a Comedy Series Casting for a Drama Series Casting for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special Choreography Cinematography for a Limited Series or Movie Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Series Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series Cinematography for a Reality Program Commercial Costumes for a Contemporary Series, Limited Series, or Movie Costumes for a Period/Fantasy Series, Limited Series, or Movie Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming Hairstyling for a Limited Series or Movie Hairstyling for a Multi-Camera Series or Special Hairstyling for a Single-Camera Series Individual Achievement in Animation Main Title Design Main Title Theme Music Makeup for a Limited Series or Movie (Non-Prosthetic) Makeup for a Multi-Camera Series or Special (Non-Prosthetic) Makeup for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic) Music and Lyrics Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special Music Composition for a Series Picture Editing for a Structured or Competition Reality Program Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Limited Series, Movie, or Special Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Limited Series or Movie Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary or Fantasy Program (One Hour or More) Production Design for a Narrative Program (Half-Hour or Less) Production Design for a Narrative Period Program (One Hour or More) Sound Editing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special Sound Editing for a Series Sound Editing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One-Hour) Sound Mixing for a Limited Series or Movie Sound Mixing for a Variety Series or Special Special and Visual Effects / Special and Visual Effects in a Supporting Role Stunt Coordination for a Comedy Series or Variety Program Stunt Coordination for a Drama Series, Limited Series, or Movie

Engineering	Engineering Philo T. Farnsworth Award

Retired	Art Direction for a Multi-Camera Series Animated Program (One Hour or More) Cinematography for a Half-Hour Series Cinematography for a One Hour Series Costumes for a Series Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program Miniseries or Movie New Series Picture Editing for Reality Programming Program of the Year Reality Program Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program Stunt Coordination Super Emmy Variety Series Voice-Over Performance

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