Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show
| Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Game Show |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | |
| First awarded | 1974 |
| Currently held by | Jeopardy! (2017) |
| Most awards | Jeopardy!, (16) |
| Most nominations | Jeopardy!, (34) |
| Website | emmyonline.org/daytime |
The Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show is an award presented annually by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). It is given in honor of a game show that features "contestants, either alone or as part of a team, who play a game involving answering questions or solving problems for money and/or prizes". Programs that have aired at least 15 original episodes for the calendar year are eligible to enter.
The 1st Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held in 1974 with the game show Password receiving the award. The award category was originally called Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show before changing to its current title in 2013. The awards ceremony was not aired on television in 1983 and 1984, having been criticized for voting integrity. The Emmy was named after an "Immy", an affectionate term used to refer to the image orthicon camera tube. The statuette was designed by Louis McManus, who modeled the award after his wife, Dorothy. The Emmy statuette is fifteen inches tall from base to tip, weighing five pounds and is composed of iron, pewter, zinc and gold.
Since its inception, the award has been given to 10 game shows. In 1980, The $20,000 Pyramid and Hollywood Squares tied for the award, which was the first tie in this category. In 1998, Jeopardy! became the series with the most wins in the category when it won a seventh time, surpassing The $25,000 Pyramid's previous record of six; Jeopardy! went on to win in eight additional years, ultimately receiving fifteen wins. The Price Is Right has since received seven wins. Jeopardy! also has been nominated on 34 occasions, more than any other series. As of the 2017 ceremony, Jeopardy! is the most recent winner in this category.
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