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The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) announced the nominees for the 37th Annual Sports Emmy® Awards on Thursday, March 31.
ESPN led all networks in nominations with 40, followed by FS1 with 27. CBS received 21, Fox and NBC with 19 each, TNT 14, HBO 13 and ESPN2 11.
ESPN’s newsmagazine “E: 60” led the pack having earned eight nominations. FS1’s now-defunct “Fox Sports Live” and the CBS broadcast of “Super Bowl 50” each tied for the second-most amount of nominations with 7 each.
Verne Lundquist, longtime legendary announcer for CBS Sports, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The 37th Annual Sports Emmy® Awards will take place at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, located in the Time Warner Center on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 in New York City.
Categories and Nominations
Outstanding Live Sports Special
147th Belmont Stakes NBC
2015 NBA All Star Saturday Night TNT
Super Bowl 50 CBS
The 111th World Series: New York Mets vs. Kansas City Royals
FOX
The Masters CBS
Outstanding Live Sports Series
ESPN College Football ESPN/ABC
NASCAR on FOX FOX/FS1
NFL on FOX FOX
Sunday Night Football NBC
Thursday Night Football CBS/NFL Network
Outstanding Edited Sports Coverage
All Access: Mayweather vs. Berto: Epilogue
Showtime
Inside Mayweather vs. Pacquiao: Epilogue
Showtime
NFL Turning Point: Super Bowl 50 [NFL Films]
NBCSN
Spartan Race
NBC/NBCSN
UFC Fight Flashback: Mendes vs. McGregor [UFC]
FS2
Outstanding Playoff Coverage
AFC Playoffs: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Cincinnati Bengals; New England Patriots vs. Denver Broncos
CBS
American League Championship Series: Toronto Blue Jays vs. Kansas City Royals
FS1
American League Division Series: Texas Rangers vs. Toronto Blue Jays
FS1
NFC Championship: Arizona Cardinals vs. Carolina Panthers
FOX
NFC Divisional Playoff: Green Bay Packers vs. Arizona Cardinals
NBC
Outstanding Short Sports Documentary
30 for 30 Shorts “Brave in the Attempt” [ESPN Films]
ESPN
30 for 30 Shorts “First Pitch” [ESPN Films]
ESPN
30 for 30 Shorts “Unhittable: Sidd Finch and the Tibetan Fastball” [ESPN Films]
ESPN
“Never Say Die: Jason Day”
YouTube
SC Featured “No Excuses”
ESPN
Outstanding Long Sports Documentary
30 for 30 “Four Falls Of Buffalo” [ESPN Films/NFL Films]
ESPN
30 for 30 “I Hate Christian Laettner” [ESPN Films]
ESPN
30 for 30 “Of Miracles and Men” [ESPN Films/Hock Films Productions/Maggievision]
ESPN
Back on Board: Greg Louganis HBO
Happy Valley [Asylum Entertainment/Passion Pictures]
A&E
Outstanding Serialized Sports Documentary
A Football Life [NFL Films]
NFL Network
All Access “Mayweather vs. Berto”
Showtime
EPIX Presents: Road to the NHL Winter Classic [Ross Greenburg Productions]
EPIX
Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Houston Texans [NFL Films]
HBO
Jeremy Jones’ Higher [Teton Gravity Research]
Outside Television
Outstanding Studio Show – Weekly
“College GameDay” (Football), ESPN
“Football Night In America”, NBC
“Fox NFL Sunday”, Fox
“Garbage Time with Katie Nolan”, FS1/FOXSports.com
“Inside the NBA on TNT”, TNT
Outstanding Studio Show – Daily
“Inside The NBA on TNT: Playoffs”, TNT
“MLB on FOX Pregame Show”, FOX/FS1
“MLB Tonight”, MLB Network
“Road to the Final Four”, tbs/CBS/TNT/truTV
“Pardon the Interruption”, ESPN [Rydholm Projects]
“World Cup Tonight”, FS1
Outstanding Sports News Anthology
“E: 60”, ESPN2
“NFL Films Presents”, FOX Sports 1
“Outside the Lines”, ESPN/ESPN2
“Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel”, HBO
“SC Featured”, ESPN
Outstanding Sports Journalism
“60 Minutes Sports” Gold Medal Factory, Showtime [CBS News]
“E: 60” Sepp Blatter’s FIFA, ESPN2
“E: 60” The Turf War, ESPN2
“Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” The Killing Fields: Hunting the Elephant into Extinction, HBO
“Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” Uncaged: Domestic Violence in MMA, HBO
