Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program

This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program. The category was previously awarded as Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series. In 2008, it was reorganized and multi-camera series and specials competed for their own award. The category was reclassified and renamed again in 2020.

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 Individual Achievement in Any Area of Creative Technical Crafts

Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling

1980s
Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series

2000s
Outstanding Hairstyling for a Multi-Camera Series or Special

Programs with multiple awards

 * 8 awards
 * Saturday Night Live


 * 3 awards
 * Dancing with the Stars
 * RuPaul's Drag Race

Programs with multiple nominations

 * 18 nominations
 * Saturday Night Live


 * 16 nominations
 * Dancing with the Stars


 * 9 nominations
 * The Voice


 * 7 nominations
 * MADtv


 * 5 nominations
 * RuPaul's Drag Race


 * 3 nominations
 * Key & Peele
 * That '70s Show
 * Two and a Half Men


 * 2 nominations
 * 3rd Rock from the Sun
 * So You Think You Can Dance
 * The Tracey Ullman Show
 * We're Here