The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Production Design for a Variety or Reality Series is awarded to one television series each year. Prior to 2016, specials and series competed together. Outstanding Production Design for a Variety Special now separately recognizes specials.

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.

Winners and nominations

1970s

Outstanding Art Direction for a Single Episode of a Comedy-Variety or Music Series or a Comedy-Variety or Music Special

Outstanding Art Direction for a Comedy-Variety or Music Series

1980s

Outstanding Art Direction for a Variety or Music Program

1990s

2000s

Outstanding Art Direction for a Variety, Music Program or Special

Outstanding Art Direction for Variety, Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Programming

2010s

Outstanding Production Design For Variety, Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Programming

Outstanding Production Design for a Variety, Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Series

Outstanding Production Design for a Variety, Reality or Reality-Competition Series

2020s

Programs with multiple wins

Programs with multiple nominations

Totals include nominations for Outstanding Art Direction for a Multi-Camera Series.

Notes

References

External links

  • Academy of Television Arts and Sciences website

2014 Emmy Nominations Reality Competition

The 2021 Emmy Awards Nominees for Best Production Design

Bubbleblabber's 2015 nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding

Primetime and Daytime Emmy Awards realigned by genre

The 2020 Emmy Awards Nominees for Best Production Design