Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects

This is a list of the winning and nominated programs of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a series, miniseries, film, or special. Since the award ceremony of 1998, the category has been divided into Special Visual Effects for a Series and Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special. In 1991, the Television Academy nominated four programs, but did not determine a winner.

Before becoming well-known directors, Neill Blomkamp, Gareth Edwards, and Robert Stromberg were nominees for the award.

Winners and nominations
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Programs with multiple awards

 * 7 awards
 * Game of Thrones


 * 3 awards
 * Star Trek: The Next Generation
 * Star Trek: Voyager


 * 2 awards
 * Battlestar Galactica
 * Boardwalk Empire
 * The Mandalorian
 * Star Trek: Enterprise

Programs with multiple nominations

 * 9 nominations
 * Star Trek: Voyager


 * 8 nominations
 * Game of Thrones
 * Stargate SG-1
 * Star Trek: The Next Generation


 * 7 nominations
 * Star Trek: Enterprise
 * Vikings


 * 6 nominations
 * Battlestar Galactica
 * Star Trek: Deep Space Nine


 * 5 nominations
 * The Walking Dead


 * 4 nominations
 * Black Sails
 * Boardwalk Empire
 * The Crown
 * Star Trek
 * Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea


 * 3 nominations
 * The Borgias
 * Gotham
 * The Handmaid's Tale
 * Heroes
 * Lost in Space
 * The Man in the High Castle
 * The Mandalorian
 * Stargate Universe
 * Stranger Things
 * The Umbrella Academy
 * Westworld
 * The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles


 * 2 nominations
 * Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Band of Brothers
 * Da Vinci's Demons
 * Falling Skies
 * Lost
 * The Nevers
 * Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
 * Rome
 * Sherlock
 * Stargate Atlantis
 * Star Trek: Discovery
 * Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
 * The X-Files