Winner

Jack Benny

The Jack Benny Program

Nominated

Robert Cummings

The Bob Cummings Show

Robert Young

Father Knows Best

Phil Silvers

The Phil Silvers Show

Danny Thomas

The Danny Thomas Show

Walter Brennan

The Real McCoys

Winner

Raymond Burr

Perry Mason

Nominated

Richard Boone

Have Gun - Will Travel

Craig Stevens

Peter Gunn

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

77 Sunset Strip

James Garner

Maverick

James Arness

Gunsmoke

Winner

Jane Wyatt

Father Knows Best

Nominated

Ida Lupino

Mr. Adams and Eve

Donna Reed

The Donna Reed Show

Spring Byington

December Bride

Ann Sothern

The Ann Sothern Show

Gracie Allen

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Winner

Loretta Young

The Loretta Young Show

Nominated

Jane Wyman

Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre

June Lockhart

Lassie

Phyllis Kirk

The Thin Man

Winner

An Evening with Fred Astaire

Edward Stephenson

Nominated

Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates

Jan Scott

The DuPont Show of the Month

Bob Markell

Little Moon of Alban

Warren Clymer

Playhouse 90

Walter Scott Herndon

The DuPont Show of the Month

Bob Wade

Winner

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Claudio Guzmán

Nominated

Alcoa Theatre

John T. McCormack

The Loretta Young Show

Frank Paul Sylos

The Californians

Albert M. Pyke

The Texan

Ralph Berger

Charles F. Pyke

Winner

An Evening with Fred Astaire

Hermes Pan

Nominated

Omnibus

Gene Kelly

Winner

The Alphabet Conspiracy

Ellis W. Carter

Nominated

Have Gun - Will Travel

William Margulies

Alcoa Theatre

Fred Jackman Jr.

Maverick

Ralph Woolsey

Maverick

Harold E. Stine

Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre

Mack Stengler

Winner

The Jack Benny Program

Nominated

Father Knows Best

The Bob Cummings Show

The Phil Silvers Show

The Red Skelton Hour

The Danny Thomas Show

Winner

Little Moon of Alban

George Schaefer

Nominated

Playhouse 90

John Frankenheimer

Playhouse 90

George Roy Hill

Winner

An Evening with Fred Astaire

Bud Yorkin

Nominated

Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall

Clark Jones

Pontiac Star Parade

Joseph Cates

Gower Champion

Winner

Father Knows Best

Peter Tewksbury

Nominated

The Danny Thomas Show

Sheldon Leonard

The Real McCoys

Hy Averback

Mr. Adams and Eve

Richard Kinon

The Jack Benny Program

Seymour Berns

Winner

Alcoa Theatre

Jack Smight

Nominated

General Electric Theater

James Neilson

General Electric Theater

Herschel Daugherty

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Gunn

Blake Edwards

Winner

Alcoa Theatre

Nominated

General Electric Theater

The Loretta Young Show

Peter Gunn

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Naked City

Winner

Playhouse 90

Nominated

The United States Steel Hour

Winner

Project Twenty

Silvio D'Alisera

Nominated

Alcoa Theatre

Richard Fantl

Schlitz Playhouse

Danny B. Landres

Maverick

Robert Watts

Maverick

Robert Sparr

The Bob Cummings Show

Robert Crawford

Bat Masterson

Richard L. Van Enger

Winner

An Evening with Fred Astaire

Nominated

Playhouse 90

The DuPont Show of the Month

Winner

An Evening with Fred Astaire

David Rose

Nominated

The Lux Show

Frank De Vol

The DuPont Show of the Month

Eddy Lawrence Manson

Art Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf

Paul Weston

Johnny Belinda

Bernard Green

Peter Gunn

Henry Mancini

Winner

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Nominated

Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall

The Steve Allen Plymouth Show

Winner

Edward R. Murrow

Nominated

John Daly

Chet Huntley

Winner

The Huntley-Brinkley Report

Nominated

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir

Douglas Edwards with the News

Winner

What's My Line?

Nominated

This Is Your Life

Keep Talking

The Price Is Right

You Bet Your Life

I've Got a Secret

Winner

Perry Como

Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall

Nominated

Jack Paar

The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar

Steve Allen

The Steve Allen Plymouth Show

Winner

Dinah Shore

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Nominated

Patti Page

The Patti Page Oldsmobile Show

Winner

Omnibus

Nominated

The Twentieth Century

Bold Journey

New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts

Meet the Press

Small World

Winner

Fred Astaire

An Evening with Fred Astaire

Nominated

Mickey Rooney

Alcoa Theatre

Christopher Plummer

Little Moon of Alban

Paul Muni

Playhouse 90

Rod Steiger

Playhouse 90

Robert Crawford Jr.

Playhouse 90

Winner

Julie Harris

Little Moon of Alban

Nominated

Maureen Stapleton

All the King's Men

Helen Hayes

The United States Steel Hour

Piper Laurie

Playhouse 90

Judith Anderson

The DuPont Show of the Month

Geraldine Page

Playhouse 90

Winner

Little Moon of Alban

Nominated

Johnny Belinda

The DuPont Show of the Month

Winner

An Evening with Fred Astaire

Nominated

Art Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf

Nominated

Chet Huntley Reporting

Years of Crisis

Winner

Tom Poston

The Steve Allen Plymouth Show

Nominated

Paul Ford

The Phil Silvers Show

Harry Morgan

December Bride

Billy Gray

Father Knows Best

Richard Crenna

The Real McCoys

Maurice Gosfield

The Phil Silvers Show

Winner

Dennis Weaver

Gunsmoke

Nominated

Johnny Crawford

The Rifleman

William Hopper

Perry Mason

Herschel Bernardi

Peter Gunn

Winner

Ann B. Davis

The Bob Cummings Show

Nominated

Zasu Pitts

The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna

Kathleen Nolan

The Real McCoys

Verna Felton

December Bride

Rosemary DeCamp

The Bob Cummings Show

Elinor Donahue

Father Knows Best

Winner

Barbara Hale

Perry Mason

Nominated

Amanda Blake

Gunsmoke

Lola Albright

Peter Gunn

Hope Emerson

Peter Gunn

Winner

Maverick

Nominated

The Rifleman

Gunsmoke

Have Gun - Will Travel

Wagon Train

Winner

Little Moon of Alban

James Costigan

Nominated

Playhouse 90

Horton Foote

Playhouse 90

Irving Gaynor Neiman

Playhouse 90

Rod Serling

Playhouse 90

J.P. Miller

Winner

An Evening with Fred Astaire

Herbert Baker

Bud Yorkin

Nominated

Art Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf

A.J. Russell

The Steve Allen Plymouth Show

Leonard Stern

Stan Burns

Herbert Sargent

Bill Dana

Don Hinkley

Hal Goodman

Larry Klein

Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall

Goodman Ace

Mort Green

George Foster

Jay Burton

The Sid Caesar Show

Woody Allen

Larry Gelbart

Winner

The Jack Benny Program

Sam Perrin

George Balzer

Al Gordon

Hal Goldman

Nominated

Father Knows Best

Roswell Rogers

The Bob Cummings Show

Paul Henning

Dick Wesson

The Phil Silvers Show

Billy Friedberg

Arnie Rosen

Coleman Jacoby

The Real McCoys

Bill Manhoff

Winner

Alcoa Theatre

Alfred Brenner

Ken Hughes

Nominated

Peter Gunn

Blake Edwards

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Roald Dahl

Alcoa Theatre

Christopher Knopf

General Electric Theater

Samuel A. Taylor

Winner

An Evening with Fred Astaire

Nominated

Little Moon of Alban

Playhouse 90