Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects

This is a list of the winning and nominated programs of the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a television series, miniseries, television movie or special. Since the award ceremony of 1998, the category has been divided into Special Visual Effects for a Series and Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special. In 1991 the academy nominated four programs, but did not determine a winner.

Award winners and nominations

Winning programs are not indented and are written in bold font; nominated programs are indented to the right and written in regular font.

1950s

1955
Best Engineering Effects
Four Quadrant Screen Electronic Editing The Jackie Gleason Show Space Patrol

1980s

1980
Not awarded
1981
Not awarded
1982
Not awarded
1983
Outstanding Individual Achievement - Special Visual Effects
The Winds of War SCTV Network
1984
Outstanding Individual Achievement - Special Visual Effects
26th Annual Grammy Awards Ceremonies The Day After V (The Final Battle)
1985
Outstanding Special Visual Effects
AD The Brain Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure The Hugga Bunch
1986
Outstanding Special Visual Effects
Dinosaur! Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
1987
Not awarded
1988
Not awarded
1989
Outstanding Achievement in Special Visual Effects
War and Remembrance Friday the 13th: The Series: "13 O'Clock" The Infinite Voyage: "The Geometry Of Life" Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Q Who?" thirtysomething: "Michael Writes A Story"

1990s

1990
Outstanding Achievement in Special Visual Effects
By Dawn's Early Light Miracle Landing The Orchestra Great Performances Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Deja Q" Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Tin Man"
1991
Outstanding Achievement in Special Visual Effects
No winner Star Trek: The Next Generation: "The Best of Both Worlds": Part I Star Trek: The Next Generation: "The Best of Both Worlds": Part II Ironclads The Magic of David Copperfield XIII: Mystery on the Orient Express
1992
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects
Star Trek: The Next Generation: "A Matter of Time" Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Conundrum" The Last Halloween
1993
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: "The Scandal of 1920" Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Emissary" Babylon 5: "The Gathering"
1994
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects
Star Trek: The Next Generation: "All Good Things..."
1995
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects
Star Trek: Voyager: "Caretaker" Earth 2 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "The Jem'Hadar" Fatherland The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: "Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies"
1996
Outstanding Special Visual Effects
Gulliver's Travels Family Matters: "Send In the Clone" Space: Above and Beyond: "Never No More" Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "The Way of the Warrior" The Tuskegee Airmen The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: "Young Indiana Jones and the Attack of the Hawkmen"
1997
Outstanding Special Visual Effects
The Odyssey: Part II 3rd Rock from the Sun: "A Nightmare on Dick Street" Asteroid Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Trials and Tribble-ations"
1998
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach: "The Sound of the Carceri" Star Trek: Voyager: "Year of Hell: Part II" Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "One Little Ship" Stargate SG-1: "Children of the Gods" Suddenly Susan: "I Love You, I Think"	Merlin: Part I From the Earth to the Moon: "1968" Moby Dick
1999
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Star Trek: Voyager: "Dark Frontier" Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "What You Leave Behind" Star Trek: Voyager: "Thirty Days" Star Trek: Voyager: "Timeless" Total Recall 2070: "Machine Dreams"	Alice in Wonderland Cleopatra: Part I Max Q Stephen King's Storm of the Century

2000s

2000
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
The X-Files: "First Person Shooter" Star Trek: Voyager: "Life Line" Star Trek: Voyager: "The Haunting of Deck Twelve" Stargate SG-1: "Nemesis" The X-Files: "Rush"	Walking with Dinosaurs 72nd Academy Awards: "Billy's Film" Aftershock: Earthquake in New York: Part I Jason and the Argonauts: Part II The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns: Part I
2001
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Star Trek: Voyager: "Endgame" Star Trek: Voyager: "Workforce: Part II" Stargate SG-1: "Small Victories" Stargate SG-1: "Exodus" Dark Angel: "Pilot"	Frank Herbert's Dune: Part I The Ballad of Big Al Haven Hornblower: Mutiny Race Against Time
2002
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Enterprise: "Broken Bow" Enterprise: "Breaking the Ice" Smallville: "Pilot" Stargate SG-1: "Revelations" Stargate SG-1: "Enemies"	Dinotopia: Part III Band of Brothers: "Day of Days" Band of Brothers: "Replacements" Walking with Beasts Superfire
2003
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Firefly: "Serenity" Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Chosen" Enterprise: "The Expanse" Enterprise: "The Crossing" Enterprise: "Dead Stop"	Frank Herbert's Children of Dune: Part I Taken: "Jacob and Jesse" Building the Great Pyramid The Lost World: Part II Point of Origin
2004
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Enterprise: "Countdown" Dead Like Me: "Pilot" Enterprise: "The Council" Kingdom Hospital: "Thy Kingdom Come" Stargate SG-1: "Lost City: Part II"	DreamKeeper: Part I 10.5: Part I Angels in America: "Perestroika" Battlestar Galactica: Part I The Winning Season
2005
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Lost: "Pilot" Battlestar Galactica: "33" Battlestar Galactica: "The Hand of God" Stargate SG-1: "Reckoning: Part II" Stargate: Atlantis: "Rising"	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Legend of Earthsea Dragons' World: A Fantasy Made Real Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars: "Part II" Supervolcano
2006
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Rome: "The Stolen Eagle" Battlestar Galactica: "Resurrection Ship" Lost: "Live Together, Die Alone" Perfect Disaster: "Super Tornado" Surface: "Episode 101"	The Triangle Into The West: "Hell on Wheels" Mammoth Before the Dinosaurs Great Performances "The Nightingale"
2007
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Battlestar Galactica: "Exodus: Part II" Eureka: "Pilot" Grey's Anatomy: "Walk on Water" Heroes: "Five Years Gone" Rome: "Philippi"	Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King: "Battleground" Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Drive: "The Starting Line" Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King: "The End Of The Whole Mess" The Path to 9/11: "Part I"
2008
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Battlestar Galactica: "He That Believeth in Me" Heroes: "Four Months Ago..." Human Body: Pushing the Limits: "Strength" Jericho: "Patriots and Tyrants" Stargate Atlantis: "Adrift" Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: "Pilot"	John Adams: "Join or Die" Comanche Moon: "Part I" Life After People The Company: "Part II" Tin Man: "Part I"
2009
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Heroes: "The Second Coming" / "The Butterfly Effect" Battlestar Galactica: "Daybreak: Part II" Fringe: "Pilot" Ghost Whisperer: "Ghost in the Machine" Sanctuary: "Sanctuary for All"	Generation Kill: "The Cradle of Civilization" Into the Storm

2010s

2010
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: "Family Affair" Caprica: "There is Another Sky" Stargate Universe: "Air" Stargate Universe: "Space" V: "Pilot"	The Pacific: "Peleliu Landing" Ben 10: Alien Swarm The Pacific: "Guadalcanal / Leckie" Virtuality
2011
Television Series	Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Boardwalk Empire: "Boardwalk Empire" The Borgias: "The Poisoned Chalice" / "The Assassin" Stargate Universe: "Awakening" The Walking Dead: "Days Gone Bye" Game of Thrones: "Fire and Blood"	Gettysburg Mildred Pierce: "Part Five" The Pillars of the Earth: "Witchcraft" Sherlock: "A Study in Pink"
2012
Special Visual Effects	Special Visual Effects in a Supporting Role
Game of Thrones: "Valar Morghulis" Falling Skies: "Live and Learn" / "The Armory" Inside the Human Body: "Episode One" Once Upon a Time: "The Stranger" Pan Am: "Pilot" The Walking Dead: "Beside the Dying Fire"	Boardwalk Empire: "Georgia Peaches" Bones: "The Twist in the Twister" The Borgias: "The Choice" Breaking Bad: "Face Off" Hemingway & Gellhorn Touch: "Pilot"
2013
Special Visual Effects	Special Visual Effects in a Supporting Role
Game of Thrones: "Valar Dohaeris" Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome Defiance: "Pilot" Falling Skies "Worlds Apart" Hemlock Grove: "Children of the Night" Last Resort: "Captain"	Banshee: "Pilot" Boardwalk Empire: "The Pony" The Borgias: "The Prince" Da Vinci's Demons: "The Lovers" Revolution: "Pilot" Vikings: "Dispossessed"
2014
Special and Visual Effects	Special and Visual Effects in a Supporting Role
Game of Thrones: "The Children" The 100: "We Are Grounders, Part 2" Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: "T.A.H.I.T.I." Almost Human: "Pilot" Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey: "The Immortals"	Black Sails: "I." Da Vinci's Demons: "The Sins of Daedalus" Hawaii Five-0: "Ho'onani Makuakane" Mob City: "A Guy Walks Into a Bar" Vikings: "Invasion" The Walking Dead: "30 Days Without an Accident"
2015
Special and Visual Effects	Special and Visual Effects in a Supporting Role
Game of Thrones: "The Dance of Dragons" Black Sails: "XVIII") The Flash: "Grodd Lives" Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: "The Dirty Half Dozen" Vikings: "To the Gates!"	American Horror Story: Freak Show: "Edward Mordrake", Part 2 Boardwalk Empire: "Golden Days for Boys and Girls" Gotham: "Lovecraft" Marvel's Daredevil: "Speak of the Devil" The Walking Dead: "Conquer"

External links

Nominated and winning programs at emmys.com

Primetime Emmy Award categories

Programs	Comedy Series Drama Series Miniseries Television Movie Reality-Competition Program Structured Reality Program Unstructured Reality Program Animated Program Short-Format Animation Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program Variety Talk Series Variety Sketch Series Variety Special Children's Program

Performance	Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Lead Actor in a Drama Series Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Lead Actress in a Drama Series Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Guest Actor in a Drama Series Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Guest Actress in a Drama Series Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program Character Voice-Over Performance Narrator

Directing + Writing	Directing for a Comedy Series Directing for a Drama Series Directing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special Writing for a Comedy Series Writing for a Drama Series Writing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special Writing for a Variety Series

Creative Arts	Art Direction for a Contemporary or Fantasy Series (Single-Camera) Art Direction for a Contemporary Program (Half-Hour or less) Art Direction for a Period Series, Miniseries, or Movie (Single-Camera) Casting for a Comedy Series Casting for a Drama Series Casting for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special Choreography Cinematography for a Miniseries or Movie Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Series Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series Main Title Design Main Title Theme Music Music and Lyrics Music Composition for a Series Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series Sound Editing for a Series Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special Special and Visual Effects Special and Visual Effects in a Supporting Role

Retired	Art Direction for a Multi-Camera Series Animated Program (One Hour or More) Cinematography for a Half-Hour Series Cinematography for a One Hour Series Costumes for a Series Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program Miniseries or Movie New Series Program of the Year Reality Program Stunt Coordination Super Emmy Variety Series Voice-Over Performance

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