Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series is a retired award that was handed out annually at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. In 2014, the category was restructured into Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary or Fantasy Program (One Hour or More), Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Program (Half-Hour or Less) and Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Period Program (One Hour or More).

1960s
Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction and Scenic Design

1970s
Outstanding Art Direction for a Dramatic Program or Series

Outstanding Art Direction for a Series

1990s
Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series

Programs with multiple awards
Totals are combined with Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary or Fantasy Program and Production Design for a Narrative Period Program.


 * 5 awards
 * Boardwalk Empire (consecutive)


 * 4 awards
 * Game of Thrones (3 consecutive)


 * 2 awards
 * Rome (consecutive)
 * The X-Files (consecutive)

Programs with multiple nominations
Totals are combined with Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary or Fantasy Program and Production Design for a Narrative Period Program.


 * 11 nominations
 * Murder, She Wrote


 * 7 nominations
 * Mad Men


 * 6 nominations
 * True Blood


 * 5 nominations
 * Boardwalk Empire
 * Downton Abbey
 * Dynasty
 * Game of Thrones
 * Mission: Impossible
 * Six Feet Under
 * Star Trek: The Next Generation
 * The West Wing


 * 4 nominations
 * Heroes
 * Moonlighting
 * NYPD Blue
 * Quantum Leap
 * The Sopranos
 * Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
 * The X-Files


 * 3 nominations
 * Alias
 * Deadwood
 * Fame
 * Hart to Hart
 * Sex and the City
 * St. Elsewhere
 * The Tudors


 * 2 nominations
 * The Adams Chronicles
 * Ally McBeal
 * The Borgias
 * Carnivàle
 * Cybill
 * Desperate Housewives
 * Frasier
 * Hill Street Blues
 * Justified
 * Mannix
 * Maude
 * Modern Family
 * Murphy Brown
 * Northern Exposure
 * Pushing Daisies
 * Rome
 * Roots
 * Thirtysomething
 * Ugly Betty
 * The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles