Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Contemporary Costumes

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Contemporary Costumes is presented as part of the Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2015, this category and Outstanding Costumes for a Period/Fantasy Series, Limited Series, or Movie were created. They replaced the now retired categories of Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special and Outstanding Costumes for a Series.

Rules require that nominations are distributed proportionally among regular series and limited series/movies, based on the number of submissions of each. For instance, if two-fifths of submissions are limited series/movies then two of the five nominees will be limited series/movies.

Designers with multiple awards
This total includes nominations for Outstanding Costumes for a Series.


 * 2 awards
 * L. Paul Dafelmair
 * Lou Eyrich
 * Shelly Levine
 * Bob Mackie
 * Patrick R. Norris
 * Loree Parral
 * Uliva Pizzetti

Programs with multiple awards
This total includes nominations for Outstanding Costumes for a Series.


 * 2 awards
 * Fame
 * JAG
 * Picket Fences
 * thirtysomething

Designers with multiple nominations
This total includes nominations for Outstanding Costumes for a Series.


 * 11 nominations
 * Shelly Levine
 * Loree Parral


 * 8 nominations
 * Lou Eyrich


 * 6 nominations
 * Ret Turner


 * 5 nominations
 * Michelle Cole
 * Lori DeLapp
 * Bill Hargate
 * Allyson B. Fanger
 * Patrick R. Norris


 * 4 nominations
 * Catherine Adair
 * Mark Agnes
 * Cliff Chally
 * Grady Hunt
 * Al Lehman
 * Nolan Miller
 * Paolo Nieddu
 * Devon Patterson
 * Juliet Polcsa
 * Jennifer Salim
 * Robert Turturice
 * Joyce Unruh
 * Karo Vartanian


 * 3 nominations
 * Marisa Aboitiz
 * Karen Bellamy
 * Heidi Bivens
 * Alex Bovaird
 * Molly Harris Campbell
 * Shawn Holly Cookson
 * Brenda Cooper
 * Dana Covarrubias
 * L. Paul Dafelmair
 * Kathleen Felix-Hager
 * Terry Gordon
 * Anne Hartley
 * Bob Mackie
 * Bridget Ostersehite
 * Lauren Press
 * Marie Schley
 * Brian Sprouse
 * Marti M. Squyres
 * Rebecca Weinberg


 * 2 nominations
 * Danielle Baker
 * Steffany Bernstein-Pratt
 * Adina Bucur
 * Michelle Carr
 * Eduardo Castro
 * Michael R. Chapman
 * Darci Cheyne
 * Kevin Draves
 * Lori Eskowitz
 * Elizabeth Feldbauer
 * Dan Frank
 * Alix Friedberg
 * Abby Geoghegan
 * Kathleen Gerlach
 * Laura Goldsmith
 * Kristine Haag
 * Artie Hach
 * Luellyn Harper
 * Debra Hanson
 * Leslie Herman
 * Daniele Hollywood
 * Helen Huang
 * Mary Lane
 * Daniel Lawson
 * Michelle Matland
 * Marilyn Matthews
 * Jill Ohanneson
 * Heather Pain
 * Claire Parkinson
 * Lily Parkinson
 * Angel Peart
 * Melina Root
 * Linda Serijan
 * Jerry Skeels
 * Wendy Stephanelli
 * Rachael Stanley
 * Travilla
 * Patricia Trujillo
 * Angelina Vitto
 * Mary Walbridge
 * Kim Wilcox
 * Eilish Zebrasky

Programs with multiple nominations
This total includes nominations for Outstanding Costumes for a Series.


 * 6 nominations
 * The Crown
 * L.A. Law
 * The Nanny


 * 5 nominations
 * Black-ish
 * China Beach
 * Empire
 * Grace and Frankie
 * Murder, She Wrote
 * Sex and the City
 * thirtysomething


 * 4 nominations
 * Designing Women
 * Desperate Housewives
 * Dynasty
 * Picket Fences
 * The Sopranos


 * 3 nominations
 * Alias
 * Euphoria
 * Hacks
 * JAG
 * Mama's Family
 * Married... with Children
 * Moonlighting
 * Murphy Brown
 * Only Murders in the Building
 * Ugly Betty
 * Pose
 * Six Feet Under
 * Transparent


 * 2 nominations
 * Ally McBeal
 * American Horror Story
 * Cybill
 * Dallas
 * Fame
 * Glee
 * The Good Wife
 * NewsRadio
 * Night Court
 * The Politician
 * Scarecrow and Mrs. King
 * Schitt's Creek
 * The White Lotus
 * Will & Grace