Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design
This is a list of the winning and nominated programs of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design presented for the best main title sequence in television programming. Prior to 1997, the Emmy was presented for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Graphic Design and Title Sequences.
Awards winners and nominees
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2010s
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| Year | Program | Designers | Network |
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| 2010 (62nd) | |||
| Bored to Death | Tom Barham, Marci Ichimura, Dean Haspiel, and Anthony Santoro, title designers | HBO | |
| Human Target | Karin Fong, Jeremy Cox, and Cara McKenney, title designers | Fox | |
| Nurse Jackie | Stephen Fuller, Mark Gardner, Corey Weisz, and Cara McKenney, title designers | Showtime | |
| The Pacific | Steve Fuller, Ahmet Ahmet, Peter Frankfurt, and Lauren Hartstone, title designers | HBO | |
| Temple Grandin | Michael Riley, Zee Nederlander, Dru Nget, and Bob Swensen, title designers | ||
| 2011 (63rd) | |||
| Game of Thrones | Angus Wall, creative director; Robert Feng, art director; Kirk H. Shintani, animator; Hameed Shaukat, designer | HBO | |
| Any Human Heart | Paul McDonnell, designer; Hugo Moss, art director; Justin Lowings, animator | PBS | |
| Boardwalk Empire | Karin Fong, Michelle Dougherty, designer/directors; Lauren Hartstone, designer/art director; Cara McKenney, producer/art director | HBO | |
| Rubicon | Karin Fong, creative director; Jeremy Cox, designer/animator; Theodore Daley, designer; Cara McKenney, producer/art director | AMC | |
| Too Big to Fail | Michael Riley, creative director; Bob Swensen, creative lead; Adam Bluming, editor; Cory Shaw, designer/animator | HBO | |
| 2012 (64th) | |||
| Great Expectations | Nic Benns, title designer; Rodi Kaya, 3D artist; Tom Bromwich, titles producer | PBS | |
| American Horror Story | Kyle Cooper, title designer; Juan Ruiz Anchia, director of photography; Gabriel Diaz, editor; Ryan Murphy, designer | FX | |
| Magic City | Ahmet Ahmet, designer/creative director; Michelle Dougherty, designer/creative designer; Kathy Kelehan, producer/creative lead; Danielle White, editor | Starz | |
| New Girl | Conn Reilly, producer; Veva Burns, art director; John Priday, creative director | Fox | |
| Strike Back | Nic Benns, creatie director/designer/animator; Miki Kato, art director; Joe Lea, compositor/editor | Cinemax | |
| 2013 (65th) | |||
| Da Vinci's Demons | Paul McDonnell, creative director; Hugo Moss, art director; Nathan Mckenna, illustrator; Tamsin McGee, designer | Starz | |
| American Horror Story: Asylum | Kyle Cooper, title designer; Ryan Murphy, designer; Juan Ruiz-Anchia, director of photography; Kate Berry, title producer | FX | |
| Elementary | Simon Clowes, title designer; Benji Bakshi, director of photography; Kyle Cooper, creative director; Nate Park, editor | CBS | |
| Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn | Heiko Schneck, CG lead; Fabian Poss, producer/animator; Csaba Letay, compositor; Jan Bitzer, CG lead/editor | Machinima.com | |
| The Newsroom | Michael Riley and Denny Zimmerman, title designers; Cory Shaw, animator; Justine Gerenstein, editor | HBO | |
| Vikings | Rama Allen, director; Audrey Davis, art director; Ryan McKenna, editor; Westley Sarokin, 2D lead artist/VFX supervisor | History | |
| 2014 (66th) | |||
| True Detective | Patrick Clair, creative director; Raoul Marks, animator; Jennifer Sofio Hall, creative producer | HBO | |
| Black Sails | Karen Fong, director; Michelle Dougherty, designer/director; Alan Williams, designer/art director; Kris Kuksi, fine art sculptor | Starz | |
| Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey | Curtis Doss and Shaun Collings, creative directors; Randall Smith, visual effects supervisor; Tom Connors, CG supervisor; Troy James Miller, Producer | Fox/NatGeo | |
| Masters of Sex | Leanne Dare, art director; Yi-Jen Liu, designer; Jon Forsman, animator; Gabriel Britz, editor | Showtime | |
| Silicon Valley | Garson Yu, creative director; Mehmet Kizilay, designer/lead animator | HBO |