45th Primetime Emmy Awards

45th Primetime Emmy Awards
45th Primetime Emmy Awards
	Jerry Seinfeld speaking on behalf of the cast and crew of Seinfeld while accepting ; Outstanding Comedy Series
Date	September 19, 1993 ; (Ceremony); September 18, 1993 ; (Creative Arts Awards);
Location	Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Hosted by	Angela Lansbury
Highlights
Most awards	Picket Fences; The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom; Seinfeld (3);
Most nominations	Northern Exposure (9)
Outstanding Comedy Series	Seinfeld
Outstanding Drama Series	Picket Fences
Outstanding Miniseries	Prime Suspect II
Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series	Saturday Night Live
Television/radio coverage
Network	ABC

The 45th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 19, 1993. The ceremony was broadcast on ABC and was hosted by Angela Lansbury. MTV received its first major nomination at this ceremony.

For its fourth season, Seinfeld won its first, and only, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. Cheers was once again nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series. It was nominated for all eleven years that it ran and won four times. This tied the record set by M*A*S*H which also went 11/11, but only won once.

On the drama side, Northern Exposure was the defending champion and was seen heavily as the favorite coming into the ceremony being the most nominated show with nine major nominations—but in a major upset, Picket Fences took home Outstanding Drama Series. Northern Exposure set the dubious record for the largest shutout of all time, as it lost all 11 major nominations; including its Creative Arts Emmy Awards nominations, the record increases to 0/16. This record would later be tied by The Larry Sanders Show in 1997, but both of these records were later broken by Mad Men (0/17) in 2012, and again by The Handmaid's Tale (0/21) in 2021.

With David Clennon's win for Outstanding Comedy Guest Actor, this was the first time HBO won an Acting Emmy.