Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling

This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling and Outstanding Period and/or Character Hairstyling. Prior to 2020, awards were split between miniseries or movies and ongoing series.

Beginning in 2024, the Outstanding Period and/or Character Hairstyling category will be renamed Outstanding Period or Fantasy/Sci-Fi Hairstyling.

In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place:

1970s
Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling

Programs with multiple wins

 * 4 awards
 * Downton Abbey
 * Mad Men


 * 3 wins
 * American Crime Story
 * American Horror Story
 * Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman


 * 2 wins
 * Bridgerton
 * Rome
 * Tracey Takes On...
 * Westworld

Programs with multiple nominations

 * 9 nominations
 * Mad Men


 * 8 nominations
 * American Horror Story
 * Game of Thrones


 * 7 nominations
 * Star Trek: Deep Space Nine


 * 6 nominations
 * Star Trek: The Next Generation
 * Star Trek: Voyager


 * 5 nominations
 * Alias
 * Boardwalk Empire
 * The Crown
 * Downton Abbey
 * Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
 * The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel


 * 4 nominations
 * Deadwood
 * Desperate Housewives
 * Little House on the Prairie


 * 3 nominations
 * American Crime Story
 * Black-ish
 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer
 * Dynasty
 * Glee
 * Homefront
 * Pose
 * Sex and the City
 * Six Feet Under
 * Tracey Ullman's State of the Union


 * 2 nominations
 * Abbott Elementary
 * American Dreams
 * The Borgias
 * Bridgerton
 * Carnivàle
 * Crime Story
 * Fargo
 * Feud
 * Genius
 * GLOW
 * Hacks
 * The Handmaid's Tale
 * Into the West
 * The Knick
 * The Mandalorian
 * Moonlighting
 * Only Murders in the Building
 * Penny Dreadful
 * The Politician
 * Pushing Daisies
 * Rome
 * Star Trek: Enterprise
 * Stranger Things
 * Ted Lasso
 * Thirtysomething
 * The Tudors
 * Ugly Betty
 * Westworld
 * The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles