Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour)

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour) is an annual award presented as part of the Primetime Emmy Awards. From 1971 until 2008, all single-camera series competed together in a combined category. Awards for one-hour and half-hour series were divided in 2008 and the category ran until 2010. From 2011 to 2016, the awards were again combined for all single-camera series. They were redivided in 2017.

Winners and nominations
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Programs with multiple awards

 * 3 wins
 * Boardwalk Empire
 * Columbo
 * Law & Order
 * The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
 * Quantum Leap


 * 2 wins
 * The Crown
 * CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
 * Little House on the Prairie
 * Naked City
 * The West Wing

Cinematographers with multiple awards

 * 3 wins
 * Jonathan Freeman
 * Constantine Makris
 * M. David Mullen


 * 2 wins
 * Thomas Del Ruth
 * Adriano Goldman
 * Jack Priestley
 * William W. Spencer
 * Ted Voigtlander
 * Roy H. Wagner
 * Michael W. Watkins
 * Harry L. Wolf

Programs with multiple nominations

 * 9 nominations
 * Game of Thrones


 * 7 nominations
 * The Crown
 * Little House on the Prairie


 * 6 nominations
 * Boardwalk Empire
 * Breaking Bad
 * CSI: Crime Scene Investigation


 * 5 nominations
 * Bonanza
 * Chicago Hope
 * Highway to Heaven
 * Law & Order
 * Mad Men
 * The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
 * Quantum Leap
 * The West Wing
 * The X-Files


 * 4 nominations
 * The Handmaid's Tale
 * House of Cards
 * JAG
 * Kojak
 * The Mandalorian
 * Ozark
 * The Sopranos


 * 3 nominations
 * Alias
 * Amazing Stories
 * Beauty and the Beast
 * Columbo
 * Hawaii Five-O
 * Homeland
 * The Loretta Young Show
 * The Man in the High Castle
 * Six Feet Under
 * The Twilight Zone
 * Westworld


 * 2 nominations
 * Ally McBeal
 * Babylon 5
 * Baretta
 * Carnivàle
 * Deadwood
 * Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
 * Euphoria
 * Fame
 * Fantasy Island
 * Four Star Playhouse
 * General Electric Theater
 * The Good Wife
 * Have Gun – Will Travel
 * Jake and the Fatman
 * Lost
 * Magnum, P.I.
 * The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
 * Marcus Welby, M.D.
 * Maverick
 * Miami Vice
 * Moonlighting
 * Naked City
 * Northern Exposure
 * The Practice
 * Roots
 * Shōgun
 * Star Trek: The Next Generation
 * Stranger Things
 * The Tudors
 * 24
 * Wagon Train
 * Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
 * The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

Cinematographers with multiple nominations

 * 13 nominations
 * Ted Voigtlander


 * 7 nominations
 * Michael Slovis


 * 6 nominations
 * Thomas Del Ruth


 * 5 nominations
 * Phil Abraham
 * Gerald Perry Finnerman
 * John C. Flinn III
 * Jonathan Freeman
 * Adriano Goldman
 * M. David Mullen


 * 4 nominations
 * John Bartley
 * Joseph F. Biroc
 * Haskell Boggs
 * Hugo Cortina
 * Constantine Makris
 * Christopher Manley
 * William Margulies
 * Sol Negrin
 * Jack Priestley
 * Walter Strenge
 * Michael W. Watkins


 * 3 nominations
 * Lloyd Ahern
 * James R. Bagdonas
 * Guy Blanchard
 * Michael Bonvillain
 * Norbert Brodine
 * George T. Clemens
 * George E. Diskant
 * William Jurgensen
 * Jeffrey Jur
 * Stevan Larner
 * Robert McLachlan
 * Kramer Morgenthau
 * John McPherson
 * Woody Omens
 * Michael D. O'Shea
 * Robert Pittack
 * Richard M. Rawlings Jr.
 * Howard Schwartz
 * William W. Spencer
 * Roy H. Wagner
 * William F. Whitely
 * Harry L. Wolf
 * Ralph Woolsey


 * 2 nominations
 * Emmett Bergholz
 * Edward R. Brown
 * Paul Cameron
 * Alan Caso
 * Rodney Charters
 * Robert E. Collins
 * Billy Dickson
 * John Elsenbach
 * Dana Gonzales
 * Anette Haellmigk
 * Robert B. Hauser
 * James Hawkinson
 * Winton C. Hoch
 * Tim Ives
 * David Klein
 * Fred J. Koenekamp
 * Sherman Kunkel
 * Ben Kutchins
 * Enzo A. Martinelli
 * Gregory Middleton
 * Robert L. Morrison
 * Brianne Murphy
 * Fred Murphy
 * Frank Prinzi
 * Ousama Rawi
 * Richard L. Rawlings
 * Marcell Rév
 * Bill Roe
 * Marvin V. Rush
 * Dennis Smith
 * Roland 'Ozzie' Smith
 * John Toll
 * Jonathan West
 * Kenneth Zunder