Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (One Hour)
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series is an annual award presented as part of the Primetime Emmy Awards. From 1971 until 2008, all single-camera series competed together in a combined category. Awards for one-hour and half-hour series were divided in 2008 and the category ran until 2010. From 2011 to 2016, the awards were again combined for all single-camera series. They were redivided in 2017.
Winners and nominations
1950s
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography1960s
1970s
Outstanding Cinematography for a SeriesOutstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series
| Year | Program | Episode | Nominees | Network |
| 1979 | - | - | - | - |
| 1979 | Little House on the Prairie | "The Craftsman" | Ted Voigtlander | NBC |
| 1979 | Barnaby Jones | "Memory of a Nightmare" | William W. Spencer | CBS |
| 1979 | Little Women | "Episode 2" | Joseph F. Biroc | NBC |
1980s
1990s
2000s
Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series| Year | Program | Episode | Nominees | Network |
| Mad Men | "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" | Phil Abraham | AMC | |
| Battlestar Galactica | "" | Stephen McNutt | Sci Fi | |
| Breaking Bad | "Pilot" | John Toll | AMC | |
| Dexter | "The British Invasion" | Romeo Tirone | Showtime | |
| Lost | "The Constant" | John Bartley | ABC | |
| Rescue Me | "Babyface" | Tom Houghton | FX | |
| The Tudors | "Dissension and Punishment" | Ousama Rawi | Showtime | |
| Breaking Bad | "ABQ" | Michael Slovis | AMC | |
| "For Warrick" | James L. Carter | CBS | ||
| Life on Mars | "Out Here in the Fields" | Kramer Morgenthau | ABC | |
| Mad Men | "The New Girl" | Christopher Manley | AMC |
2010s
Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series| Year | Program | Episode | Nominees | Network |
| 2011 | Boardwalk Empire | "Home" | Jonathan Freeman | HBO |
| 2011 | Boardwalk Empire | "Boardwalk Empire" | Stuart Dryburgh | HBO |
| 2011 | Boardwalk Empire | "A Return to Normalcy" | Kramer Morgenthau | HBO |
| 2011 | The Borgias | "The Poisoned Chalice" / "The Assassin" | Paul Sarossy | Showtime |
| 2011 | The Good Wife | "Double Jeopardy" | Fred Murphy | CBS |
| 2012 | Boardwalk Empire | "21" | Jonathan Freeman | HBO |
| 2012 | Breaking Bad | "Face Off" | Michael Slovis | AMC |
| 2012 | Glee | "Asian F" | Michael Goi | Fox |
| 2012 | Mad Men | "The Phantom" | Christopher Manley | AMC |
| 2012 | Pan Am | "Pilot" | John Lindley | ABC |
| 2013 | House of Cards | "Chapter 1" | Eigil Bryld | Netflix |
| 2013 | Boardwalk Empire | "Margate Sands" | Bill Coleman | HBO |
| 2013 | Breaking Bad | "Gliding Over All" | Michael Slovis | AMC |
| 2013 | Game of Thrones | "Mhysa" | Robert McLachlan | HBO |
| 2013 | Homeland | "Beirut is Back" | Nelson Cragg | Showtime |
| 2013 | Mad Men | "The Doorway" | Christopher Manley | AMC |
| 2014 | True Detective | "Who Goes There" | Adam Arkapaw | HBO |
| 2014 | Breaking Bad | "Granite State" | Michael Slovis | AMC |
| 2014 | Game of Thrones | "The Lion and the Rose" | Anette Haellmigk | HBO |
| 2014 | Game of Thrones | "Two Swords" | Jonathan Freeman | HBO |
| 2014 | Homeland | "The Star" | David Klein | Showtime |
| 2014 | House of Cards | "Chapter 18" | Igor Martinovic | Netflix |
| 2015 | Boardwalk Empire | "Golden Days for Boys and Girls" | Jonathan Freeman | HBO |
| 2015 | Game of Thrones | "The Dance of Dragons" | Rob McLachlan | HBO |
| 2015 | Game of Thrones | "Hardhome" | Fabian Wagner | HBO |
| 2015 | Game of Thrones | "Sons of the Harpy" | Anette Haellmigk | HBO |
| 2015 | Game of Thrones | "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken" | Gregory Middleton | HBO |
| 2015 | The Good Wife | "The Line" | Fred Murphy | CBS |
| 2015 | House of Cards | "Chapter 29" | Martin Ahlgren | Netflix |
| 2016 | The Man in the High Castle | "The New World" | James Hawkinson | Amazon |
| 2016 | Bates Motel | "A Danger to Himself and Others" | John S. Bartley | A&E |
| 2016 | Downton Abbey | "Episode Nine" | Graham Frake | PBS |
| 2016 | Game of Thrones | "Home" | Gregory Middleton | HBO |
| 2016 | Gotham | "" | Crescenzo Giacomo Notarile | Fox |
| 2016 | Homeland | "The Tradition of Hospitality" | David Klein | Showtime |
| 2016 | House of Cards | "Chapter 45" | David M. Dunlap | Netflix |
Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series
| Year | Program | Episode | Nominees | Network |
| 2017 | - | - | - | - |
| 2017 | The Handmaid's Tale | "Offred" | Colin Watkinson | Hulu |
| 2017 | The Crown | "Smoke and Mirrors" | Adriano Goldman | Netflix |
| 2017 | The Man in the High Castle | "Fallout" | James Hawkinson | Amazon |
| 2017 | Mr. Robot | "eps2.0_unm4sk-pt1.tc" / "eps2.0_unm4sk-pt2.tc" | Tod Campbell | USA |
| 2017 | Sense8 | "Obligate Mutualisms" | John Toll | Netflix |
| 2017 | Stranger Things | "Chapter Eight: The Upside Down" | Tim Ives | Netflix |
| 2017 | Westworld | "The Original" | Paul Cameron | HBO |
| 2018 | - | - | - | - |
| 2018 | The Crown | "Beryl" | Adriano Goldman | Netflix |
| 2018 | The Handmaid's Tale | "June" | Colin Watkinson | Hulu |
| 2018 | Legion | "Chapter 9" | Dana Gonzales | FX |
| 2018 | The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel | "Pilot" | M. David Mullen | Amazon |
| 2018 | Ozark | "The Toll" | Ben Kutchins | Netflix |
| 2018 | Stranger Things | "Chapter One: MADMAX" | Tim Ives | Netflix |
| 2018 | Westworld | "The Riddle of the Sphinx" | John Grillo | HBO |
| 2019 | - | - | - | - |
| 2019 | The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel | "Simone" | M. David Mullen | Amazon |
| 2019 | Game of Thrones | "The Iron Throne" | Jonathan Freeman | HBO |
| 2019 | The Handmaid's Tale | "Holly" | Zoë White | Hulu |
| 2019 | The Handmaid's Tale | "The Word" | Colin Watkinson | Hulu |
| 2019 | Hanna | "Forest" | Dana Gonzales | Amazon |
| 2019 | The Man in the High Castle | "Jahr Null" | Gonzalo Amat | Amazon |
| 2019 | Ray Donovan | "Staten Island, Part 1" | Robert McLachlan | Showtime |
2020s
Programs with multiple awards
;3 wins- Boardwalk Empire
- Columbo
- Law & Order
- Quantum Leap
- Little House on the Prairie
- Naked City
- The West Wing
Programs with multiple nominations
- Game of Thrones
- Little House on the Prairie
- Boardwalk Empire
- Breaking Bad
- '
- Bonanza
- Chicago Hope
- Highway to Heaven
- Law & Order
- Mad Men
- Quantum Leap
- The West Wing
- The X-Files
- The Handmaid's Tale
- House of Cards
- JAG
- Kojak
- The Sopranos
- Alias
- Amazing Stories
- Beauty and the Beast
- Columbo
- The Crown
- Hawaii Five-O
- Homeland
- The Loretta Young Show
- The Man in the High Castle
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Ozark
- Six Feet Under
- The Twilight Zone
- Westworld
- Ally McBeal
- Babylon 5
- Baretta
- Carnivàle
- Deadwood
- Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
- Fame
- Fantasy Island
- Four Star Playhouse
- General Electric Theater
- The Good Wife
- Have Gun – Will Travel
- Jake and the Fatman
- Lost
- Magnum, P.I.
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- Marcus Welby, M.D.
- Maverick
- Miami Vice
- Moonlighting
- Naked City
- Northern Exposure
- The Practice
- Roots
- '
- Stranger Things
- The Tudors
- 24
- Wagon Train
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles