64th Primetime Emmy Awards
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Date	September 23, 2012 (Ceremony) September 15, 2012 (Creative Arts Awards)
Location	Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Hosted by	Jimmy Kimmel
Highlights
Most awards	Major:Game Change Homeland Modern Family (4) All:Game of Thrones (6)
Most nominations	Downton Abbey Modern Family Mad Men (9)
Outstanding Comedy Series	Modern Family
Outstanding Drama Series	Homeland
Outstanding Miniseries or Movie	Game Change
Outstanding Reality-Competition Program	The Amazing Race
Outstanding Variety Series	The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Website	http://www.emmys.com/
Television/radio coverage
Network	ABC
Produced by	Don Mischer
Directed by	Glenn Weiss
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The64th Primetime Emmy Awards, honoring the best inprime time television programming from June 1, 2011, until May 31, 2012, were held on Sunday, September 23, 2012, at theNokia Theatre inDowntown Los Angeles,California, where 26 awards were presented.ABC televised the ceremony in the United States. Comedian and late-night talk show hostJimmy Kimmel hosted the Primetime Emmys for the first time.^[1] Kimmel andKerry Washington announced the nominations on July 19, 2012.Nick Offerman was originally scheduled to co-announce the nominations, but had to cancel due to travel delays.^[2] TheCreative Arts Emmy Awardsceremony was held on September 15 and was televised on September 22, 2012, onReelzChannel.^[3]

The award forOutstanding Drama Series went toShowtimecrime dramaHomeland, the first for that network, and which brokeMad Men's four-year hold on the award; while theOutstanding Comedy Series award went for the third year in a row to ABC'sModern Family. This was the first ceremony that none of thefour major American broadcasting TV networks were nominated in the categories ofOutstanding Drama Series,Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, andOutstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.^[4] ForBritain, the ceremony was noted for the successes of actorsDamian Lewis ofHomeland andMaggie Smith ofDownton Abbey.^[5][6][7]

Of the latter, Dame Maggie not only wasPBS' first win inher category, she had won the previous year, for the same rolein another category. Hers was also the first win in a major acting category for a Drama Series for PBS since1975.

Mad Men set a new record for the largest "shutout" in Emmy history, receiving nominations for 17 awards and winning none. This broke the previous record of 16 nominations without a win, set byNorthern Exposure in1993 andThe Larry Sanders Show in1997. This record was broken byThe Handmaid's Tale in2021, which did not win any of its 21 nominations that year.^[8]

Winners are listed first and highlighted inbold:^[9]

Notes

The awards were presented by the following:^{[10][11][12][13]}

Before the recorded segment,Ron Howard presented a tribute toAndy Griffith.

The people tributed in the segment included:

The ceremony, which was televised byABC on September 23, 2012, was watched by 13.26 million viewers. The event'sred carpet proceedings were watched by 5.63 million.^[14]

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