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12th Primetime Emmy Awards

1960 American television programming awards

Field	Value
name	12th Primetime Emmy Awards
date	June 20, 1960
location	NBC Studios, Burbank, California
presenter	Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
host	Fred Astaire
network	NBC
most_awards	The Jack Benny Show
The Moon and Sixpence (2)
most_nominations	Startime (5)
award1_type	Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Humor
award1_winner	The Art Carney Special
award2_type	Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Drama
award2_winner	Playhouse 90
award3_type	Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Variety
award3_winner	Fabulous Fifties
award4_type	Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Children's Programming
award4_winner	The Huckleberry Hound Show
award5_type	Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Public Service
award5_winner	The Twentieth Century
previous	[11th](11th-primetime-emmy-awards)
main	Primetime Emmy Awards
next	[13th](13th-primetime-emmy-awards)

The Moon and Sixpence (2) The 12th Emmy Awards, later referred to as the 12th Primetime Emmy Awards, were held on June 20, 1960, to honor the best in television of the year. The ceremony was held at the NBC Studios, in Burbank, California. It was hosted by Fred Astaire. All nominations are listed, with winners in bold and series' networks are in parentheses.

The ceremony's format was a sharp contrast to the previous year's. Several Acting categories were either combined or simply removed, and nearly every category had only three nominees, as opposed to the traditional five or six. Due to the relatively small crop of categories, no show received more than two major awards. The NBC anthology Startime received the most major nominations with five.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).

Programs

Acting

Lead performances

Single performances

Directing

Writing

Most major nominations

Network	Number of
Nominations
CBS	32
NBC	17
ABC	3

Program	Category	Network	Number of
Nominations
Startime	Drama	NBC	5
Father Knows Best	Comedy	CBS	3
The Jack Benny Show
The Moon and Sixpence	Drama	NBC
Playhouse 90	CBS
CBS Reports	Documentary/Public Affairs	2
The Danny Thomas Show	Comedy
DuPont Show of the Month	Drama
The Red Skelton Show	Comedy
The Twentieth Century	Documentary/Public Affairs
The Untouchables	Drama	ABC

Most major awards

Network	Number of
Awards
CBS	8
NBC	4

Program	Category	Network	Number of
Awards
The Jack Benny Show	Comedy	CBS	2
The Moon and Sixpence	Drama	NBC

;Notes

References

"Emmys.com list of 1960 Nominees & Winners". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].

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