Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
| Founded | 1946 |
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| Location |
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Area served | Television industry |
| Product | Emmy Awards |
Key people | Frank Scherma (Chairman and CEO) |
| Website | televisionacademy.com [12][redirects toemmys.com [13], official website of the Emmys and the Television Academy |
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.
Founded in 1946, the organization presents the Primetime Emmy Awards, an annual ceremony honoring achievement in U.S. primetime television.
| Founded | 1946 |
|---|---|
| Location |
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Area served | Television industry |
| Product | Emmy Awards |
Key people | Frank Scherma (Chairman and CEO) |
| Website | televisionacademy.com [12][redirects toemmys.com [13], official website of the Emmys and the Television Academy |
History
Syd Cassyd considered television a tool for education and envisioned an organization that would put outside the "flash and glamor" of the industry and become an outlet for "serious discussion" and award the industries "finest achievements".[1] 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.[2]
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".[3][4]
Emmy Award
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 who focus on various sectors of television programming: the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (primetime), the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (daytime, sports, news and documentary), and the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (international).
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.
Current governance
Hayma Washington[5] (Chairman & Chief Executive Officer)
Steve Venezia, CAS (Vice Chair)
Tim Gibbons (Second Vice Chair)
Sharon Lieblein, CSA (Secretary)
Allison Binder (Treasurer)
Mitch Waldow (Los Angeles Area Vice Chair)
Bob Bergen (Governors' Appointee)
Rickey Minor (Governors' Appointee)
Muchael Ruscio, ACE (Governors' Appointee)
Lori H. Schwartz (Governors' Appointee)
Madeline Di Nonno (Chair, Television Academy Foundation)[6]
Board of Governors
Television Academy honors
- See footnote.[8]
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)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, "Coup De Grace"
Glee, "Wheels"
Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am? With Maria Shriver
Explorer, "Inside Death Row"
Private Practice, "Nothing To Fear"
Taking Chance
Unlocking Autism
Vanguard, "The OxyContin Express"
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, "A Two-Day Oprah Show Event: 200 Adult Men Who Were Molested Come Forward"
Parenthood, "Pilot"
Private Practice, "Did You Hear What Happened to Charlotte King?"
Wartorn 1861–2010
5th Annual (2012)
The Dr. Oz Show
The Five (TV program)
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)
Before the Flood
The Night Of
Speechless
This Is Us
We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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
Hall of Fame
The Television Academy Hall of Fame was founded by a former president of the ATAS, John H. Mitchell (1921–1988),[9] to honor individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to U.S. television. Inductions are not held every year.