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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series
This page lists the winners and nominees for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, since its institution in 1951. The award is often cited as one of the "main awards" at the Emmys ceremonies, and has changed names many times in its history. It was first called Best Dramatic Show...
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Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerome Leon "Jerry" Bruckheimer (born September 21, 1945) is an American film and television producer. He has achieved great success in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. His best known television series are CSI: Crime Scene...
David E. Kelley
David Edward Kelley (born April 4, 1956) is an American screenwriter and television producer, best known as the creator of Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Public and Boston Legal, as well as several films. Kelley's...
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J.J. Abrams
Jeffrey Jacob "J. J." Abrams (born June 27, 1966) is an American film and television producer, screenwriter, director, actor, composer, and founder of Bad Robot Productions. An Emmy and Golden Globe-winner, he is known as the creator or co-creator...
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Damon Lindelof
Damon Laurence Lindelof (born April 24, 1973) is an American television writer and executive, most recently noted as the co-creator and executive producer for the television series Lost. He has also written and produced Crossing Jordan, and wrote...
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Paul Attanasio
Paul Attanasio (born on November 14, 1959 in The Bronx, New York City) is an American screenwriter and producer of film and television, who is currently an executive producer on the television series House.
Attanasio was a film critic for The...
Scott Buck
Scott Buck is an American television writer.
Buck has written for several television series including Everybody Loves Raymond, COACH and The Oblongs. Buck wrote the teleplay for Tremors 4: The Legend Begins in 2004.
Buck joined the crew of Six Feet...
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Bryan Singer
Bryan Singer (born September 17, 1965) is an American film director and film producer. Singer won critical acclaim for his work on The Usual Suspects, and is especially popular among fans of the sci-fi and comic book genres, for his work on the...
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Adam Horowitz
Adam Horowitz (born December 4, 1971) is the writer of the television shows Felicity, Black Sash, One Tree Hill, Popular, Fantasy Island, Birds of Prey, Life As We Know It, and Lost. Since the 2006–2007 season, he is a co-executive producer and...
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Jack Bender
Jack Bender is an American film and television director and also an actor. Currently Bender is a producer and lead director on the ABC television series, Lost. It is confirmed he will direct the Series Finale of Lost. Bender has also directed on...
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David Shore
David Shore (born July 3, 1959) is a Canadian-born writer, best known for his work writing and producing in television. As a former lawyer, Shore became known for his work on Family Law, NYPD Blue, and Due South. Shore also produced many episodes of...
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Carlton Cuse
Carlton Cuse (born 22 March 1959 in Mexico City, Mexico) is an executive producer and screenwriter for the American television series Lost. Although born in Mexico City, Carlton Cuse grew up in Boston and Orange County, California. He was a student...
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Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams is a Canadian film and television director. Williams has directed several modern day television programs including work as a regular director on the ABC drama series, Lost, where he is also a co-executive producer. In addition to...
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Eli Attie
Eli Attie is a writer and political operative. He served as chief speechwriter for then-Vice President Al Gore from 1997 until Gore's concession of the 2000 election, and before that worked for President Bill Clinton and House Democratic Leader Dick...
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Drew Goddard
Drew Goddard (born February 26, 1975) is a film and television screenwriter best known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Cabin in the Woods) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield). He was nominated for...
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Matthew Weiner
Matthew Weiner (born 1965) is an American writer, director and producer of television drama. He is the creator, executive producer, head writer, and show runner of the AMC television series Mad Men. He is also noted for his work on the HBO series...
Edward Kitsis
Edward Lawrence Kitsis (also sometimes credited as Eddy Kitsis) (born February 4, 1971) is an American screenwriter and television producer, best known for his work on the popular American television series, Lost. He was nominated for a Writers...
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Daniel Zelman
Daniel Zelman (born June 16, 1967) is an American actor, screenwriter and television producer. Zelman is the husband of former Will & Grace and The Starter Wife star Debra Messing. The couple have a son, Roman Walker Zelman, born in 2004. Zelman is...
Deran Sarafian
Deran Sarafian (born January 17, 1958) is an American actor, film and television director.
Sarafian has directed several episodes of the FOX series House and was made a co-executive producer of the show for the 2007/08 season. He also directed a...
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Leonard Dick
Leonard Dick is an award winning television writer and producer who is currently writing for the Fox hit, House, M. D.
Leonard was born in Toronto, Ontario, and attended high school at Upper Canada College, where he was elected head of Howard's...
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Elizabeth Sarnoff
Elizabeth "Liz" Sarnoff is an American television writer and producer. She has written episodes of NYPD Blue, Crossing Jordan, Deadwood and Lost. She is currently a staff writer and co-executive producer on Lost. She was nominated for a Writers...
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Bryan Burk
Bryan "Burky" Burk is an American television producer, born on 30 December 1968.
A graduate of USC's School of Cinema-Television, Bryan Burk began his career working with producers Brad Weston at Columbia Pictures, Ned Tanen at Sony Pictures and...
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Doris Egan
Doris Egan (1955—) is an American screenwriter, producer, and writer. She has worked on Smallville, Dark Angel, and House as well as many other television programs.
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Melissa Rosenberg
Melissa Anne Rosenberg (born in 1962) is an American screenwriter. She has worked in both film and television and has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and two Writers Guild of America Awards, and won a Peabody Award. Since joining the Writers...
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Peter Blake
Peter Blake is a Co-Executive Producer with the Fox TV show House. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1995. He was also a History and Lit major at Harvard College. Prior to attending Harvard, he graduated from The Collegiate School in New York...
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John Goldwyn
John Howard Goldwyn (born August 10, 1958) is an American film producer.
John Goldwyn was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. and his wife Jennifer Howard. He has two brothers: film director and actor Tony Goldwyn and...
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Daniel Cerone
Daniel Howard Cerone is a writer/producer. He wrote and produced episodes for the popular tv shows Dexter and Charmed.
Cerone was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2008 ceremony for his work on...
Katie Jacobs
Katie Jacobs is an American television producer and director. Together with her husband, Paul Attanasio the couple run Heel and Toe Films production company which produces the current Fox series, House and formerly Century City. Jacobs made her...
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Mike Listo
Mike Listo is an American television director and co-executive producer.
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Clyde Phillips
Clyde B. Phillips is a writer and producer for television and film. He was nominated for the Edgar award for Best Television Episode (Teleplay), for writing the episode "Crocodile" of television series Dexter.
He has written for the shows Dexter,...
Todd A. Kessler
Todd A. Kessler is an American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and director. He is the co-creator and head Writer of the FX drama series Damages. He also has a small role in Damages as Perry the Doorman. Directed the 2008 Indie Drama ...
Glenn Kessler
Glenn Kessler (born 6 April 1970) is an American screenwriter and television producer. Kessler grew up in suburban Detroit suburb and graduated from the Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills in 1988. He is the co-creator and executive...
Andre Jacquemetton
Andre Jacquemetton is an American television writer and producer. He served as a producer for the first season of Mad Men and co-wrote three episodes of the season. Alongside his colleagues on the writing staff he won a Writers Guild of America...
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Tom Palmer
Tom Palmer is an American television writer and producer. He served as a co-executive producer on the first season of Mad Men and wrote two episodes of the season. Alongside his colleagues on the writing staff he won a WGA award for best new series...
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Maria Jacquemetton
Maria Jacquemetton is an American television writer and producer. She served as a producer for the first season of Mad Men and co-wrote three episodes of the season. Alongside her colleagues on the writing staff she won a Writers Guild of America...
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Lisa Albert
Lisa Albert is an American television writer and producer. She served as a producer for the first season of Mad Men and co-wrote two episodes of the season. Alongside her colleagues on the writing staff she won a Writers Guild of America Award for...
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Thomas L. Moran
Thomas L. Moran is a TV writer.
Gerrit van der Meer
Gerrit van der Meer is a television producer, production manager, and writer.
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