Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards
A Primetime Emmy Engineering Award is an award given most years by the Television Academy, also known as the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). It is a Primetime Emmy Award given specifically for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development. According to the Television Academy, the Primetime Emmy Engineering Award (or 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, which is Television's highest engineering honor, is determined by a jury of highly qualified, experienced engineers in the Television industry.
The Primetime Emmy Awards have been given since 1948 to recognize outstanding achievements in Primetime Television for Performance, for the Creative Arts and for Engineering. The Primetime Emmy Engineering Award is not the same as the Technology & Engineering Emmy Award, which is given by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), the Television Academy's sister organization. NATAS gives Emmy Awards in various categories including "Daytime," "Sports," "News and Documentary," and "Public Service."
In addition to the Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards, since 2003 the Television Academy also bestows in most years the Philo T. Farnsworth Award, which is a Primetime Emmy Engineering 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 Engineering Emmys have 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.
1978
Engineering Emmy Award: Petro Vlahos for the ULTIMATTE Video-Matting Device
Engineering Citation: To the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
1979
Engineering Emmy Award: Ampex 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 (NIST), Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and American Broadcasting Company (ABC) for Closed Captioning 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 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: Ampex 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 Recorder
Engineering Emmy Award: CBS, Sony 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: Sony for the DVR-1000 Component Digital VTR
1989
Engineering Emmy Award: Pacific Video Inc. for the Electronic Laboratory
Engineering Emmy Award: Cinema Products Corporation 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 for the restoration of the Fred Astaire 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 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: 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 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 for the Media Composer
Engineering Emmy Award: Newtek for Video Toaster
Engineering Plaque: CBS Laboratories 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 Var-Lite for the VL5 Wash Luminaire
Engineering Emmy Award: Kodak for the Keykode Edgeprint Film Numbering System
Engineering Plaque: Cinema Products, Research in Motion, Evertz Microsystems, and the National Film Board of Canada, four creative hardware developers whose reader, decoder and user technology enabled the widespread use of Keykode.
1995
Engineering Emmy Award: C-Cube Microsystems for the MPEG 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: Philips 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 Media Corporation for the Supercomputer Assembly
Engineering Emmy Award: General Instrument Corporation for the Digicipher Digital Television System
Engineering Emmy Award: Scientific-Atlanta for the Powervu Digital Video Compression System
Engineering Emmy Award: Tektronix 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 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
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: Philips Digital Video Systems and Eastman Kodak for the Design and Manufacture of the Industry-Standard High-definition Digital Telecine
Engineering Plaque: Avid for the Real-Time Multicamera System
Engineering Plaque: Tektronix for the Lightworks 'Heavyworks' Multistream Editing Systems
Charles H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Yves Faroudja
1999
Engineering Emmy Award: Sony for the HDCAM HDW-500 Digital HD Studio VTR
Engineering Emmy Award: Optex Inc., 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 Loudness Meter
Engineering Emmy Award: The Panavision 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 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 for Cooke Prime Lenses
Charles H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Charles Mesak
2001
Engineering Emmy Award: Vari-Lite 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 for Pogle Platinum with MegaDef
Engineering Emmy Award: Panavision for the Primo Lens Series
Engineering Emmy Award: Apple, Inc. for Firewire
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
Engineering Emmy Award: 2d3 for the Boujou Automated Camera Tracker
Engineering Emmy Award: ARRI 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 LaserPacific 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
Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award: Panavision
2004
Engineering Emmy Award: Dolby Laboratories for the Dolby LM 100 Broadcast Loudness Meter With Dialogue Intelligence
Engineering Emmy Award: Sony and Panavision 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
Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award: Chyron Corporation
2005
Engineering Emmy Award: Dolby Laboratories for Dolby E Audio Coding Technology
Engineering Emmy Award: Sprint Corporation for Sprint PCS VisionSM Multimedia Services
Engineering Emmy Award: Toon Boom Animation Inc. for USAnimation Opus
Engineering Emmy Award: MobiTV 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
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
Engineering Plaque: TM Systems, LLC for the TM Systems QC Station
Engineering Plaque: Osram Sylvania 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 for the Teranex Video Computer
Charles H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Howard A. Anderson, Jr.
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: Dolby Laboratories for the Dolby DP600 Program Optimizer
Engineering Emmy Award: Fujinon and NHK 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). 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: NEXUS Digital Audio Routing
Engineering Plaque: Apple, Inc. for Apple Final Cut Studio
Engineering Plaque: Avid Technology 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 Seiden
Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Awards: Desilu and Digidesign (now Avid Technology)
2011
Engineering Emmy Award: IBM and Fox Group for the Development and Application of LTFS (Linear Tape File System)
Engineering Emmy Award: Panavision and Sony 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: Apple, Inc. for the iPad
Engineering Plaque: Yahoo! for Connected TV to Yahoo!
Engineering Certificate: The Xfinity iPad app
Engineering Certificate: Time Warner iPad app
Charles H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Andy Setos
Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Awards: Time Warner and Time Warner Cable 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 for the Academy Color Encoding System (ACES)
Engineering Emmy Award: American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Technology Committee for the ASC Color Decision List (ASC CDL)
Engineering Emmy Award: Dolby Laboratories Inc. for the Dolby PRM-4200 Professional Reference Monitor
Engineering Emmy Award: Sony for the BVM E250 OLED Reference Monitor.
Engineering Emmy Award: Toon Boom Animation Inc. for the Toon Boom Storyboard Pro
Engineering Plaque: Adobe Systems for the Adobe Pass Viewer Authentication process
Charles H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr. Richard Green
Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award: Eastman Kodak Company
2013
Engineering Emmy Award: YouTube
Engineering Emmy Award: Aspera Inc., for FASP Transport Technology
Engineering Emmy Award: Josh C. Kline of Digital Dailies Web Based Streaming Production Dailies and Cuts
Engineering Emmy Award: iZotope 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 Electronic Corporation
2014
Engineering Emmy Award: Philips Professional Broadcasting for the LDK6000, DPM CCD Multi-format HDTV Camera System
Engineering Emmy Award: Sony Professional Solutions of America for the Multi-format HDTV CCD Fiber Optic Camera System
Engineering Emmy Award: High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)
Engineering Emmy Award: Intel 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
Engineering Emmy Award: Zhou Wang, Alan Bovik, Hamid Sheikh and Eero Simoncelli for the Structural Similarity (SSIM) Video Quality Measurement Model
Charles H. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award: Garrett Brown
Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Engineering Award: Grass Valley USA, LLC
The 67th Primetime Engineering Emmy 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: Sony 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 Engineering Emmy Awards Ceremony took place on October 26, 2016 at Loews Hollywood Hotel.
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- ↑ "30th (1978) Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Announced".
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- ↑ "34th (1982) Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Announced".
- ↑ "35th (1983) Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Announced (page 48)" (PDF).
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- ↑ "37th (1985) Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Announced" (PDF).
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- ↑ "48th (1996) Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Announced (page 89)" (PDF).
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- ↑ "62nd (2010) Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Announced".
- ↑ "63rd (2011) Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Announced".
- ↑ "64th (2012) Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Announced".
- ↑ "65th (2013) Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Announced".
- ↑ "66th (2014) Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Announced".
- ↑ "67th (2015) Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Announced".
- ↑ "68th (2016) Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Announced".