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Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Television Academy - 2018.jpg
Founded 1946; 78 years ago (1946)
Legal status 501(c)(6)
Location
Area served
 Television industry
Product Primetime Emmy Award
Key people
 Frank Scherma
(Chairman and CEO)
Revenue (2019)
 $36,921,627

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), also colloquially known as the Television Academy, is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the television industry in the United States. It is a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization founded in 1946, the organization presents the Primetime Emmy Awards, an annual ceremony honoring achievement in U.S. primetime television.

History

Syd Cassyd considered television a tool for education and envisioned an organization that would act outside the "flash and glamor" of the industry and become an outlet for "serious discussion" and award the industry's "finest achievements". Envisioning a television counterpart of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Cassyd founded the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1946 in conjunction with leaders of the early television industry who had gathered at a meeting he organized.

Cassyd's academy in Los Angeles merged with a New York academy founded by Ed Sullivan in 1955 to form the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The Los Angeles chapter broke away from NATAS in 1977, keeping the Primetime and Los Angeles Emmys.

In 2014, alongside its Hall of Fame induction ceremony and announced plans to expand its headquarters, the organization announced that it had changed its public brand to the Television Academy, with a new logo designed by Siegel + Gale. The new branding was intended to downplay the organization's antiquated formal name in favor of a more straightforward identity, and features a separating line (typically used to separate the organization's wordmark from a simplified image of the Emmy Award statuette) used to symbolize a screen, and also portrayed as a "portal".

In 2016, producer Hayma Washington was elected chairman and CEO of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, becoming the first African-American to hold the position.

Emmy Award

The courtyard -- Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
The courtyard and Emmy Award statue at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences facility on Lankershim

In 1949, the Television Academy held the first Emmy Awards ceremony, an annual event created to recognize excellence in U.S. television programming, although the initial event was restricted to programming from the Los Angeles area. The name "Emmy" was derived from "Immy," a nickname for the image orthicon camera tube, which aided the progress of modern television. The word was feminized as "Emmy" to match the statuette, which depicted a winged woman holding an atom.

The Emmy Awards are administered by three sister organizations that focus on various sectors of television programming: the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (primetime), the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (daytime, sports, news and documentary), and the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (international). The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences also presents the Los Angeles Emmy Awards.

Publications and programs

In addition to recognizing outstanding programming through its Primetime Emmy Awards, the Television Academy publishes the award-winning emmy magazine and through the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation, is responsible for the Archive of American Television, annual College Television Awards, Fred Rogers Memorial Scholarship, acclaimed student internships and other educational outreach programs.


Television Academy Honors

See footnote

The Television Academy Honors were established in 2008 to recognize "Television with a Conscience"—television programming that inspires, informs, motivates and even has the power to change lives.

1st Annual (2008)
  • Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
  • Boston Legal
  • Girl Positive
  • God's Warriors
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, "Harm"
  • Pictures of Hollis Woods
  • Planet Earth
  • Shame
  • Side Order of Life
2nd Annual (2009)
  • A Home for the Holidays (10th Annual)
  • Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football
  • Brothers & Sisters, "Prior Commitments"
  • Extreme Makeover Home Edition, "The Martirez & Malek Families"
  • Masterpiece Contemporary: "God on Trial"
  • Stand Up to Cancer
  • 30 Days
  • Whale Wars
3rd Annual (2010)
4th Annual (2011)
  • The 16th Man
  • The Big C, "Taking The Plunge"
  • Friday Night Lights, "I Can't"
  • Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
  • The Oprah Winfrey Show
  • Parenthood, "Pilot"
  • Private Practice, "Did You Hear What Happened to Charlotte King?"
  • Wartorn 1861–2010
5th Annual (2012)
  • The Dr. Oz Show
  • The Five
  • Harry's Law, "Head Games"
  • Hot Coffee
  • Men of a Certain Age, "Let the Sun Shine In"
  • Rescue Me, '344"
  • Women, War & Peace
6th Annual (2013)
  • A Smile as Big as the Moon
  • D.L. Hughley: The Endangered List
  • Half The Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity For Women Worldwide
  • Hunger Hits Home
  • The Newsroom
  • Nick News with Linda Ellerbee
  • One Nation Under Dog: Stories of Fear, Loss & Betrayal
  • Parenthood
7th Annual (2014)
  • The Big C: Hereafter
  • Comedy Warriors
  • The Fosters
  • Mea Maxima Culpa
  • Mom
  • Screw You Cancer
  • Vice
8th Annual (2015)
  • black-ish, "Crime and Punishment"
  • E:60, "Dream On: Stories of Boston's Strongest"
  • The Normal Heart
  • Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life & Times of Katrina Gilbert
  • Transparent
  • Virunga
9th Annual (2016)
  • Born This Way
  • Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
  • Homeland
  • The Knick
  • Mississippi Inferno
  • Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
10th Annual (2017)
11th Annual (2018)
  • 13 Reasons Why
  • Andi Mack
  • Daughters of Destiny
  • Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America
  • Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
  • LA 92
  • One Day at a Time
12th Annual (2019)
  • Alexa & Katie
  • A Million Little Things
  • I Am Evidence
  • My Last Days
  • Pose
  • Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story
  • RBG
13th Annual (2020)
  • 16 Shots
  • At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal
  • Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj
  • Queen Sugar
  • Unbelievable
  • Watchmen
14th Annual (2021)
  • For Life
  • I Am Greta
  • I May Destroy You
  • Little America
  • The Daily Show
  • The Social Dilemma
  • Welcome to Chechnya
15th Annual (2022)
  • Black and Missing
  • ...sick (miniseries)
  • Insecure
  • It's a Sin
  • Reservation Dogs
  • Taste the Nation: Holiday Edition
  • The Year Earth Changed
16th Annual (cancelled)
  • Profiled: The Black Man
  • 37 Words
  • As We See It
  • Mo
  • The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
  • The U.S. and the Holocaust
  • We're Here

Hall of Fame

Main page: Television Hall of Fame

The Television Academy Hall of Fame was founded by a former president of the ATAS, John H. Mitchell (1921–1988), to honor individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to U.S. television. Inductions are not held every year.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Academia de Artes y Ciencias de la Televisión para niños

  • List of American television awards
  • National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
  • International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
  • Primetime Emmy Award