Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (Half-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. It was created as Outstanding Cinematography for a Half-Hour Series, incorporating both single and multi-camera programs, in 2008 alongside Outstanding Cinematography for a One Hour Series. From 2011 to 2016, the awards were combined as Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series.
The categories were divided again in 2017. However, only single-camera series are eligible for the award with multi-camera half-hour series competing for Outstanding Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Series.
Winners and nominations
Outstanding Cinematography for a Half-Hour Series2000s
2010s
Between 2011-2016, half-hour and one-hour series were both eligible for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series. No half-hour series were nominated during these years.Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series
| Year | Program | Episode | Nominees | Network |
| - | - | - | - | |
| Veep | "Qatar" | David Miller | HBO | |
| Ballers | "Game Day" | Rodney Taylor | HBO | |
| Divorce | "Pilot" | Reed Morano | HBO | |
| Mozart in the Jungle | "Now I Will Sing" | Tobias Datum | Amazon | |
| Silicon Valley | "Success Failure" | Tim Suhrstedt | HBO | |
| Transparent | "If I Were a Bell" | Jim Frohna | Amazon | |
| - | - | - | - | |
| Atlanta | "Teddy Perkins" | Christian Sprenger | FX | |
| Barry | "Chapter Eight: Know Your Truth" | Paula Huidobro | HBO | |
| The End of the F***ing World | "Episode 3" | Justin Brown | Netflix | |
| GLOW | "Pilot" | Christian Sprenger | Netflix | |
| Insecure | "Hella LA" | Patrick Cady | HBO | |
| Mozart in the Jungle | "Ichi Go Ichi E" | Tobias Datum | Amazon | |
| - | - | - | - | |
| Russian Doll | "Ariadne" | Chris Teague | Netflix | |
| Ballers | "Rough Ride" | Anthony Hardwick | HBO | |
| Fleabag | "Episode 1" | Tony Miller | Amazon | |
| Homecoming | "Optics" | Tod Campbell | Amazon | |
| Insecure | "High-Like" | Ava Berkofsky | HBO | |
| What We Do in the Shadows | "Manhattan Night Club" | D.J. Stipsen | FX |
2020s
Programs with multiple wins
;2 wins- Californication
Programs with multiple nominations
;4 nominations
- Insecure
- 30 Rock
- Ballers
- Californication
- The End of the F***ing World
- Everybody Hates Chris
- Homecoming
- Mozart in the Jungle
- Weeds