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Primetime Emmy Award The Primetime Emmy Awards, or Primetime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Bestowed by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), the Primetime ...

for Outstanding Contemporary Costumes is presented as part of the Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2015, this category and Outstanding Costumes for a Period/Fantasy Series, Limited Series, or Movie were created. They replaced the now retired categories of Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special and Outstanding Costumes for a Series. Rules require that nominations are distributed proportionally among regular series and limited series/movies, based on the number of submissions of each. For instance, if two-fifths of submissions are limited series/movies then two of the five nominees will be limited series/movies.

Winners and nominations

2010s

2020s

Designers with multiple awards

This total includes nominations for Outstanding Costumes for a Series. ;2 awards * L. Paul Dafelmair * Lou Eyrich * Shelly Levine *

Bob Mackie Robert Gordon "Bob" Mackie (born March 24, 1939) is an American fashion designer and costumier, best known for his dressing of entertainment icons such as Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Diahann Carroll, Carol Channing, Cher, Doris Day, Marlene D ...

* Patrick R. Norris * Loree Parral * Uliva Pizzetti

Programs with multiple awards

This total includes nominations for Outstanding Costumes for a Series. ;2 awards * '' Fame'' * '' JAG'' * '' Picket Fences'' * '' thirtysomething''

Designers with multiple nominations

This total includes nominations for Outstanding Costumes for a Series. ;11 nominations * Shelly Levine * Loree Parral ;6 nominations * Ret Turner ;5 nominations * Michelle Cole * Lori DeLapp * Lou Eyrich * Bill Hargate * Allyson B. Fanger * Patrick R. Norris ;4 nominations * Catherine Adair * Cliff Chally * Grady Hunt * Al Lehman *

Nolan Miller Nolan Bertrandoff Miller (January 8, 1933 – June 7, 2012) was an American fashion and jewelry designer on QVC and a television costume designer best known for his work on the long-running 1980s series ''Dynasty'', its spin-off series ''The Colb ...

* Paolo Nieddu * Devon Patterson * Juliet Polcsa *

Robert Turturice Robert Turturice (March 15, 1949 – December 15, 2009) was an American costume designer who served as president of the Costume Designers Guild from 1992 to 1996. Turturice was presented posthumously with the Costume Designers Hall of Fame Award o ...

* Joyce Unruh * Karo Vartanian ;3 nominations * Marisa Aboitiz * Mark Agnes * Heidi Bivens * Molly Harris Campbell * Shawn Holly Cookson * Brenda Cooper * L. Paul Dafelmair * Terry Gordon * Anne Hartley *

* Bridget Ostersehite * Lauren Press * Jennifer Salim * Marie Schley * Marti M. Squyres * Rebecca Weinberg ;2 nominations * Danielle Baker * Karen Bellamy * Steffany Bernstein-Pratt * Eduardo Castro * Michael R. Chapman * Darci Cheyne * Kevin Draves * Lori Eskowitz * Elizabeth Feldbauer * Kathleen Felix-Hager * Dan Frank * Alix Friedberg * Laura Goldsmith * Kristine Haag * Artie Hach * Luellyn Harper * Debra Hanson * Leslie Herman * Daniele Hollywood * Mary Lane * Daniel Lawson * Marilyn Matthews * Jill Ohanneson * Heather Pain * Claire Parkinson * Lily Parkinson * Melina Root * Linda Serijan * Jerry Skeels * Wendy Stephanelli * Rachael Stanley * Travilla * Patricia Trujillo * Angelina Vitto * Mary Walbridge * Kim Wilcox * Eilish Zebrasky

Programs with multiple nominations

This total includes nominations for Outstanding Costumes for a Series. ;6 nominations * ''

L.A. Law ''L.A. Law'' is an American legal drama television series that ran for eight seasons on NBC, from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it centers on the partners, associates and staff of a Los ...

'' * '' The Nanny'' ;5 nominations * '' Black-ish'' * '' China Beach'' * ''

Empire An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) ex ...

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Grace and Frankie ''Grace and Frankie'' is an American comedy television series created by Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris for Netflix. The series stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as the eponymous Grace Hanson and Frankie Bergstein, two aging women who form ...

'' * ''

Murder, She Wrote ''Murder, She Wrote'' is an American crime drama television series, created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson and William Link, starring Angela Lansbury, and produced and distributed by Universal Television for the CBS network. The series f ...

'' * '' Sex and the City'' * '' thirtysomething'' ;4 nominations * ''

Designing Women ''Designing Women'' is an American television sitcom created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason that aired on CBS from September 29, 1986, to May 24, 1993, producing seven seasons and 163 episodes. It was a joint production of Bloodworth/Thomason M ...

'' * ''

Desperate Housewives ''Desperate Housewives'' is an American comedy-drama soap opera television series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry, Cherry Productions. It aired for eight seasons on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from Octobe ...

'' * ''

Dynasty A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family,''Oxford English Dictionary'', "dynasty, ''n''." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1897. usually in the context of a monarchical system, but sometimes also appearing in republics. A ...

'' * '' Picket Fences'' * ''

The Sopranos ''The Sopranos'' is an American Crime film#Crime drama, crime drama television series created by David Chase. The story revolves around Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a New Jersey-based American Mafia, Italian-American mobster, portraying h ...

'' ;3 nominations * ''

Alias Alias may refer to: * Pseudonym * Pen name * Nickname Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Alias'' (2013 film), a 2013 Canadian documentary film * ''Alias'' (TV series), an American action thriller series 2001–2006 * ''Alias the ...

'' * ''

Euphoria Euphoria ( ) is the experience (or affect) of pleasure or excitement and intense feelings of well-being and happiness. Certain natural rewards and social activities, such as aerobic exercise, laughter, listening to or making music and da ...

'' * '' JAG'' * ''

Mama's Family ''Mama's Family'' is an American sitcom television series starring Vicki Lawrence as Thelma Harper, Mama (Thelma Harper). The series is a Spin-off (media), spin-off of a recurring series of sketch comedy, comedy sketches called "The Family (sketc ...

'' * '' Married... with Children'' * ''

Moonlighting Moonlighting may refer to: * Side job, a job taken in addition to one's primary employment Entertainment * ''Moonlighting'' (film), a 1982 drama film by Jerzy Skolimowski * ''Moonlighting'' (TV series), 1985–1989 American television series, s ...

'' * ''

Murphy Brown ''Murphy Brown'' is an American television sitcom created by Diane English that premiered on November 14, 1988, on CBS. The series stars Candice Bergen as the eponymous Murphy Brown, a famous investigative journalist and news anchor for ''FYI'', a ...

'' * ''

Ugly Betty ''Ugly Betty'' is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which was originally broadcast on ABC. It premiered on September 28, 2006, and ended on April 14, 2010. The series is based on Fernando Gaitán's Colombian t ...

'' * ''

Pose Human positions refer to the different physical configurations that the human body can take. There are several synonyms that refer to human positioning, often used interchangeably, but having specific nuances of meaning. *''Position'' is a gen ...

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''’s nominations for Outstanding Period Costumes. * '' Six Feet Under'' * '' Transparent'' ;2 nominations * '' Ally McBeal'' * '' Cybill'' * ''

Dallas Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...

'' * '' Fame'' * ''

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'' * '' The Good Wife'' * ''

Hacks Hacks may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Hacks'' (1997 film), a 1997 American comedy film * ''Hacks'' (2002 film), a 2002 independent American film * '' Hacks: The Inside Story'', a book by Donna Brazile * ''Hacks'' (TV series), ...

'' * '' NewsRadio'' * ''

Night Court ''Night Court'' is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984 to May 31, 1992. The setting was the night shift of a Manhattan municipal court presided over by a young, unorthodox judge, Harold "Harry" T. Stone (portray ...

'' * '' The Politician'' * ''

Scarecrow and Mrs. King ''Scarecrow and Mrs. King'' is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to September 10, 1987, on CBS. The show starred Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner, as divorced housewife Amanda King and top-level "Agency" operative ...

'' * ''

Schitt's Creek ''Schitt's Creek'' (stylized as ''Schitt$ Creek'') is a Canadian television sitcom created by Dan Levy and his father, Eugene Levy, that aired on CBC Television from 2015 to 2020. It consists of 80 episodes spread over six seasons. Produced by ...

'' * '' Will & Grace''

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