The 32nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were held Sunday, September 7, 1980 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. The awards show was hosted by Steve Allen and Dick Clark and broadcast on NBC.
The ceremony was held while a strike by members of the Screen Actors Guild was in progress; in a show of support for their union, 51 of the 52 nominated performers boycotted the event.[1] Powers Boothe was the only nominated actor to attend; acknowledging his odd duck-type presence in his acceptance speech, he quipped, "this is either the most courageous moment of my career or the stupidest." (Boothe won for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Special, for his performance in Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones.)
For the second year in a row, the top series awards went to the same shows, Taxi and Lou Grant. Lou Grant was the most successful show of the night winning five major awards. It also received 14 major nominations, this tied the longstanding record for most major nominations by a drama series, set by Playhouse 90 in 1959.
Winners and nominees
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Programs
Acting
Lead performances
Supporting performances
Directing
| Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series |
Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series |
- James Burrows for Taxi, (Episode: "Louie and the Nice Girl"), (ABC)
- Alan Alda for M*A*S*H, (Episode: "Dreams"), (CBS)
- Charles S. Dubin, for M*A*S*H, (Episode: "Period of Adjustment"), (CBS)
- Burt Metcalfe for M*A*S*H, (Episode: "Bottle Fatigue"), (CBS)
- Harry Morgan for M*A*S*H, (Episode: "Stars and Stripes"), (CBS)
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| Outstanding Directing in a Variety or Music Program |
Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or a Special |
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Writing
| Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series |
Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series |
- Bob Colleary for Barney Miller, (Episode: "Photographer"), (ABC)
- Glen Charles, Les Charles for Taxi, (Episode: "Honor Thy Father"), (ABC)
- Stan Daniels, Ed Weinberger for The Associates, (Episode: "The Censors"), (ABC)
- Michael Leeson, Charlie Hauck for The Associates, (Episode: "The First Day"), (ABC)
- Ken Levine, David Isaacs for M*A*S*H, (Episode: "Goodbye Radar, Part II"), (CBS)
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- Seth Freeman for Lou Grant, (Episode: "Cop"), (CBS)
- Allan Burns, Gene Reynolds, for Lou Grant, (Episode: "Brushfire"), (CBS)
- Stephen J. Cannell for Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, (Episode: "Pilot"), (ABC)
- Michele Gallery for Lou Grant, (Episode: "Lou"), (CBS)
- Abby Mann for Skag, (Episode: "Pilot"), (NBC)
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| Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program |
Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special |
- Shirley MacLaine... 'Every Little Movement', (CBS)
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- David Chase for Off the Minnesota Strip, (ABC)
- James S. Henerson for Attica, (ABC)
- James Lee for This Year's Blonde, (NBC)
- David W. Rintels for Gideon's Trumpet, (CBS)
- Ken Trevey for Amber Waves, (ABC)
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Most major nominations
- By network [note 1]
- CBS – 53
- NBC – 23
- ABC – 19
- By program
- Lou Grant (CBS) – 14
- M*A*S*H (CBS) – 10
- The Rockford Files (NBC) / The Scarlet O'Hara War, The Silent Lovers, This Year's Blonde (NBC) – 6
- Barney Miller (ABC) – 5
Most major awards
- By network [note 1]
- By program
- Lou Grant (CBS) – 5
- Baryshnikov on Broadway (ABC) / M*A*S*H (CBS) / The Miracle Worker (NBC) / Soap (ABC) / Taxi (ABC) – 2
- Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.
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