Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects

This is a list of the winning and nominated programs of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a television series, miniseries, or television movie. In 1998, the category was divided into Special Visual Effects for a Series and Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special.

Award titles

* 1955 Best Engineering Effects
* 1983 Outstanding Individual Achievement Special Visual Effects
* 1985 Outstanding Special Visual Effects
* 1989 Outstanding Achievement In Special Visual Effects
* 1992 Outstanding Individual Achievement In Special Visual Effects
* 1996 Outstanding Special Visual Effects

Award winners and nominations

1950s

* 1955: "Four Quadrant Screen"
** "Electronic Editing"
** "The Jackie Gleason Show"
** "Space Patrol"

1980s

* 1983: "The Winds of War"
** "SCTV Network"

* 1984: "26th Annual Grammy Awards Ceremonies" / "The Day After"
** "V (The Final Battle)"

* 1985: (four awards):: "A.D." / "The Brain" / "" / "The Hugga Bunch"
* 1986: "Dinosaur!" / ""
* 1989: "War and Remembrance"
** ":" "13 O'Clock"
** "The Infinite Voyage": "The Geometry Of Life"
** ":" "Q-Who?"
** "thirtysomething:" "Michael Writes A Story"

1990s

* 1990: "By Dawn's Early Light" / "Miracle Landing" / "The Orchestra"
** ":" "Deja Q"
** ":" "Tin Man"

* 1991 (no award)
** "Ironclads"
** "Magic of David Copperfield XIII: Mystery on the Orient Express"
** ":"
** ":"

* 1992 (three awards): - ":" : - ":" : - "The Last Holloween"

* 1993 (three awards): - : - ":" "Emissary": -

* 1994: - ":" "All Good Things..."

* 1995 (two awards): - "Earth 2": - ":" "Caretaker"
* ":" "The Jem'Hadar"
* "Fatherland"
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* 1996: "Gulliver's Travels"
** ":" "Never No More"
** "Family Matters:" "Send In the Clone"
** ":" "The Way of the Warrior"
** "The Tuskegee Airmen"
**

* 1997 (two awards): - "Asteroid": - "The Odyssey", Part II
** "3rd Rock from the Sun:" "A Nightmare on Dick Street"
** ":" "Trials and Tribble-ations"

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;Television Series
** 1998: "Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach": "The Sound of the Carceri"
** ":" "One Little Ship"
** ":" "Year of Hell, Part II"
** "Suddenly Susan:" "I Love You, I Think"
** "Stargate SG-1:" "Children of the Gods";Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
* 1998: "Merlin", Part I
** "From the Earth to the Moon:" "1968, Part IV:"
** "Moby Dick"

;Television Series
* 1999: ":" "Dark Frontier"
** ":" "What You Leave Behind"
** ":" "Thirty Days"
** ":" "Timeless"
** "Total Recall 2070:" "Machine Dreams";Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
* 1999: "Alice in Wonderland"
** "Cleopatra", Part I
** "Max Q"

2000s

;Television Series
* 2001: "The X-Files:" "First Person Shooter"
** ":" "Life Line"
** ":" "The Haunting of Deck 12"
** "Stargate SG-1:" "Nemesis"
** "The X-Files:" "Rush";Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
* 2001: "Walking with Dinosaurs"
** "73rd Academy Awards:" "Billy's Film"
** "", Part I
** "Jason and the Argonauts", Part II
** "The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns", Part I

; Television Series
* 2002: ":" "Endgame"
** ":" "Workforce, Part I"
** "Stargate SG-1:" "Small Victories"
** "Stargate SG-1:" "Exodus"
** "Dark Angel:" "Pilot"; Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
* 2003: "Frank Herbert's Dune", Part I
** "The Ballad of Big Al"
** "Haven"
** "Hornblower: Mutiny"
** "Race Against Time"

; Television Series
* 2002: ":" "Broken Bow"
** ":" "Breaking the Ice"
** "Smallville:" "Pilot"
** "Stargate SG-1:" "Revelations"
** "Stargate SG-1:" "Enemies";Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
* 2002: "Dinotopia", Part III
** "Band of Brothers:" "Day of Days, Part II"
** "Band of Brothers:" "Replacements, Part II"
** "Walking with Beasts"
** "Superfire"

; Television Series
* 2003: "Firefly:" "Serenity"
** "Buffy the Vampire Slayer:" "Chosen"
** ":" "The Expanse"
** ":" "The Crossing"
** ":" "Dead Stop"; Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
* 2003 "Frank Herbert's Children of Dune", Part I
** "Taken:" "Jacob and Jesse"
** "Building the Great Pyramid"
** "The Lost World", Part II
** "Point of Origin"

; Television Series
* 2004: ":" "Countdown"
** "Dead Like Me:" "Pilot"
** ":" "The Council"
** "Kingdom Hospital:" "Thy Kingdom Come"
** "Stargate SG-1:" "Lost City, Part II"; Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
* 2004: "DreamKeeper", Part I
** "10.5", Part I
** "Angels in America:" "Perestroika"
** "Battlestar Galactica", Part I
** "The Winning Season"

;Television Series
* 2005: "Lost:" "Pilot"
** "Battlestar Galactica:" "33"
** "Battlestar Galactica:" "The Hand of God"
** "Stargate SG-1:" "Reckoning, Part II"
** ":" "Rising";Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
* 2005: "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"
** "Legend of Earthsea"
** "Dragons' World: A Fantasy Made Real"
** ":" "Part II"
** "Supervolcano"

; Television Series
* 2006: "Rome:" "The Stolen Eagle"
** "Battlestar Galactica:" "Resurrection Ship"
** "Lost:" "Live Together, Die Alone"
** "Perfect Disaster": "Super Tornado"
** "Surface"; Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
* 2006: "The Triangle"
** "Into The West"
** "Mammoth"
** "Before the Dinosaurs"
** ""

; Television Series
* 2007: "Battlestar Galactica:" "Exodus, Part II"
** "Eureka:" "Pilot"
** "Grey's Anatomy:" "Walk On Water"
** "Heroes:" "Five Years Gone"
** "Rome:" "Philippi"; Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
* 2007: ":" "Battleground"
** "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"
** "Drive:" "The Starting Line"
** ":" "The End Of The Whole Mess"
** "The Path to 9/11:" "Part I"

;Television Series
* 2008: "Battlestar Galactica:" "He That Believeth in Me"
** "Heroes:" "Four Months Ago"
** ":" "Strength"
** "Jericho:" "Patriots and Tyrants"
** "Stargate Atlantis:" "Adrift"
** ":" "Pilot";Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special
* 2008: "John Adams:" "Join or Die"
** "Comanche Moon:" "Part 1"
** "Life After People"
** "The Company:" "Part 2"
** "Tin Man:" "Part 1"