47th Primetime Emmy Awards

The 47th Emmy Awards in prime time division took place on Sunday, 10 September 1995 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California. The show was hosted by Jason Alexander and Cybill Shepherd and Fox broadcast.

Award winners and nominees (selection)

Programs

• Frasier ( NBC) Friends ( NBC)
• The Larry Sanders Show (HBO)
• Mad About You ( NBC)
• Seinfeld ( NBC)

• NYPD Blue ( ABC) Chicago Hope (CBS )
• ER ( NBC)
• Law & Order ( NBC)
• The X-Files (Fox )

• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( NBC) Dennis Miller Live (HBO)
• Late Show with David Letterman (CBS )
• MTV Unplugged ( MTV )
• Politically Incorrect ( Comedy Central )

• Barbra: The Concert (HBO) AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Steven Spielberg ( NBC)
• The 67th Annual Academy Awards (ABC)
• A Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman ( NBC)
• Eagles: Hell Freezes Over ( MTV )

• Indictment: The McMartin Trial ( HBO) The Burning Season (HBO)
• Citizen X ( HBO)
• The Piano Lesson (CBS )
• Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story ( NBC)

• The Bible - Joseph ( TNT) Buffalo Girls (CBS )
• Children of the Dust ( CBS)
• Martin Chuzzlewit (PBS )
• A Woman of Independent Means ( NBC)

Actor

Cast and Crew

• Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Frasier Crane in Frasier ( Episode: " Adventures in Paradise, Part II ") ( NBC) John Goodman as Dan Conner in Roseanne ( Episode: "The Blaming of the Shrew " ) ( ABC)
• Paul Reiser as Paul Buchman in Mad About You ( Episode: " Cake Fear" ) ( NBC)
• Jerry Seinfeld as Jerry Seinfeld in Seinfeld ( Episode: " The Diplomat 's Club " ) ( NBC)
• Garry Shandling as Larry Sanders in The Larry Sanders Show ( Episode: " The Mr. Sharon Stone Show") (HBO)

• Candice Bergen as Murphy Brown Murphy Brown, ( episode: "Requiem for a Crew Guy " ) ( CBS) Roseanne Barr as Roseanne Conner in Roseanne ( Episode: "Thanksgiving 1994 " ) ( ABC)
• Ellen DeGeneres as Ellen Morgan Ellen ( Episode: " The Spa " ) ( ABC)
• Helen Hunt as Jamie Buchman in Mad About You ( Episode: " The Ride Home " ) ( NBC)
• Cybill Shepherd Cybill Sheridan in Cybill as, ( episode: " Virgin, Mother, Crone " ) ( CBS)

• Mandy Patinkin as Dr. Jeffrey Geiger in Chicago Hope ( Episode: " Over the Rainbow" ) ( CBS) George Clooney as Dr. Doug Ross in ER, ( episode " Long Day 's Journey " ) ( NBC)
• Dennis Franz as Andy Sipowicz in NYPD Blue Det ( Episode: " ADA Sipowicz " ) ( ABC)
• Jimmy Smits as Det Bobby Simone in NYPD Blue ( Episode: "The Bookie and Kooky Cookie" ) ( ABC)

• Kathy Baker as Jill Brock in Picket Fences, ( Episode: " Frogman Returns" ) ( CBS) Claire Danes as Angela Chase in My So -Called Life ( Episode: "Pilot" ) ( ABC)
• Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote ( episode: "Dear Deadly " ) ( CBS)
• Sherry Stringfield as Dr. Susan Lewis in ER ( episode " Motherhood " ) ( NBC)
• Cicely Tyson as Carrie Grace Battle in Sweet Justice ( Episode: " In the Name of the Sun" ) ( NBC)

• Raul Julia as Chico Mendes in The Burning Season (HBO) Charles S. Dutton as Boy Willie Charles in The Piano Lesson (CBS )
• John Goodman as Huey Long in Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (TNT)
• John Lithgow as Tom Bradley and Bob Bradley in My Brother's Keeper ( CBS)
• James Woods as Danny Davis in Indictment: The McMartin Trial ( HBO)

• Glenn Close as Margarethe Cammermeyer in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story ( NBC) Sally Field as Bess Steed Gardner in A Woman of Independent Means ( NBC)
• Anjelica Huston as Calamity Jane in Buffalo Girls (CBS )
• Diane Keaton as Amelia Earhart in Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight ( TNT)
• Alfre Woodard as Berniece Charles in The Piano Lesson (CBS )