SIMPSONS Emmy Award Facts

They have done it before and they're hoping to do it again. "The Simpsons", TV's not only longest running animated series, but longest running sitcom of all time, is shooting for their sixth Emmy Award for Best Animated Series. The way the system works is the creators of the show choose certain episodes each season to the judges of the Emmy's. Every year, five shows are nominated for Best Animated Series, and one show wins the award. This year, the creators of "The Simpsons" submitted the following five episodes to be judged: "Beyond Blunderdome"(AABF23), "Last Tap Dance in Springfield"(BABF15), "Kill the Alligator and Run" (BABF16), "Bart to the Future" (BABF13), and "Behind the Laughter"(BABF19). "Behind the Laughter" is now the official nominee for "The Simpsons" in this year's Emmy awards. Other shows competing for this award include "Family Guy", "South Park", "The Powerpuff Girls", and "MTV Downtown"."The Simpsons" has not been nominated for other awards.

Details can also be found on www.ebay.com because people with connections with others who work on the Emmy awards can be found selling adds for particular awards ("The Simpsons" Emmy add for this year, on the right), as well as videos of episodes being submitted to the judges ( 1999's video on the left) , which in reality are both only suppose to go to the judges considering the award. Watch the Emmy Awards broadcast on September 10 on ABC.

THIS YEAR'S NOMINEES FOR OUTSTANDING ANIMATED PROGRAM (for one hour or less):

Family Guy • Road To Rhode Island • FOX
Fuzzy Door Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television
Seth MacFarlane, David Zuckerman, Executive Producers; Craig Hoffman,
Daniel Palladino, Danny Smith, Co-Executive Producers; Billiam Coronel, Matt
Weitzman, Mike Barker, Sherry Gunther, Producers; Gary Janetti, Writer; Pete
Michaels, Peter Shin, Supervising Directors; Dan Povenmire, Director

MTV Downtown • Show 11 • MTV
MTV Animation
Abby Terkuhle, Executive Producer; John Worth Lynn, Jr., Supervising
Producer; Dave McGrath, Producer; Eric Friedman, Writer; Chris Prynoski,
Supervising Director; Tony Kluck, Director

The Powerpuff Girls • Beat Your Greens/Down ‘N Dirty • TOON
Cartoon Network Studios
Genndy Tartakovsky, Supervising Producer; Amy Keating Rogers, Writer; John
McIntyre, Writer/Director; Craig McCracken, Randy Myers, Directors; Robert
Alvarez, Animation Director

The Simpsons • Behind The Laughter • FOX
Gracie Films in association with 20th Century Fox Television
Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, Al Jean, Sam Simon, Executive Producers;
George Meyer, Mike Scully, Executive Producers/Writers; Dan Greaney, Frank
Mula, Ian Maxtone-Graham, Rob Lazebnik, Ron Hauge, Co-Executive
Producers; Julie Thacker, Larina Jean Adamson, Supervising Producers; Bonita
Pietila, Carolyn Omine, Denise Sirkot, Don Payne, Richard Raynis, Richard
Sakai, Tom Martin, John Frink, Larry Doyle, Producers; Matt Selman,
Producer/Writer; David Pritchard, Lolee Aries, Animation Executive Producers;
Michael Wolf, Animation Producer; Tim Long, Writer; Jim Reardon, Supervising
Director; Mark Kirkland, Director

South Park • Chinpoko Mon • COM
Comedy Central
Anne Garefino, Deborah Liebling, Matt Stone, Executive Producers; Trey
Parker, Executive Producer/Writer/Director; Frank Agnone, II, Supervising
Producer; Eric Stough, Animation Director

TIMELINE OF "THE SIMPSONS" AND THE EMMY'S

1990 (season 1)

Category: Outstanding Achievement in Main Title Theme Music
Recipient(s): Danny Elfman
Result: Did not win

Category: Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour Or Less)
Episode: "Life On the Fast Lane" (7G11)
Result:Winner

Category: Outstanding Editing for a Miniseries Or a Special (single-camera)
Episode: "Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire" (7G08)
Result: Did not win

Category: Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or a Special
Episode: "Call Of The Simpsons" (7G09)
Result: Did not win

1991 (season 2)

Category: Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less)
Episode: "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" (7F13)
Result: Winner

Category: Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or a Special
Episode: "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" (7F13)
Result: Did not win

1992 (season 3)

Category: Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less)
Episode: "Radio Bart" (8F11)
Result: Did not win

Category: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)
Episode: "Treehouse of Horror II" (8F02)
Result: Did not win

Category: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or a Special
Episode: "Treehouse of Horror II" (8F02)
Result: Did not win

Category: Outstanding Voice-over Performance
Episodes: (in respective order) "Separate Vocations" (8F15), "Lisa's Pony" (8F06), "I Married Marge" (8F10), "Lisa the Greek" (8F12), "Like Father, Like Clown" (8F05), "Bart the Lover" (8F16)
Result: Winner

1993 (season 4)

Category: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)
Episode: "Treehouse of Horror III" (9F04)
Result: Did not win

Category: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or a Special
Episode: "Treehouse of Horror III" (9F04)
Result: Did not win

Category: Outstanding Voice-over Performance
Episode: "Mr. Plow" (9F07)
Result: Winner

1994 (season 5)

Category: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics
Episode: "Homer and Apu" (1F10)
Song: "Who Needs the Kwik-E-Mart?"
Result: Did not win

Category: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)
Episode: "Cape Feare" (9F22)
Result: Did not win

1995 (season 6)

Category: Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour Or Less)
Episode: "Lisa's Wedding" (2F15)
Result: Winner

Category: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics
Episode: "Homer the Great" (2F09)
Song: "We Do!"
Result: Did not win

Category: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)
Episode: "Treehouse of Horror V" (2F04)
Result: Did not win

Category: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or a Special
Episode: "Bart vs. Australia" (2F13)
Result: Did not win

1996 (season 7)

Category: Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour Or Less)
Episode: "Treehouse of Horror VI" (3F04)
Result: Did not win

Category: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics
Episode: "Who Shot Mr.Burns?(Part Two)"
Song: "Senor Burns"
Result: Did not win

1997 (season 8)

Category: Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour Or Less)
Episode: "Homer's Phobia" (4F11)
Result: Winner

Category: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics
Episode: "Bart After Dark"
Song: "We Put the Spring in Springfield"
Result: Winner

Category: Outstanding Music Direction
Episode: "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" (3G03)
Result: Did not win

Category: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or a Special
Episode: "Brother From Another Series" (4F14)
Result: Did not win

1998 (season 9)

Category: Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour Or Less)
Episode: "Trash of the Titans" (5F09)
Result: Winner

Category: Outstanding Music and Lyrics
Episode: "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" (4F22)
Song: "You're Checkin' In"
Result: Winner

Category: Outstanding Music Direction
Episode: "All Singing, All Dancing"
Result: Did not win

Category: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)
Episode: " Treehouse of Horror VIII" (5F02)
Result: Did not win

Category: Outstanding Voice-over Performance
Episode: "Dumbbell Idemnity"(5F12)
Recipiant: Hank Azaria
Result: Winner

1999 (season 10)

Category: Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour Or Less)
Episode: "Viva Ned Flanders" (AABF06)
Result: Did not win (lost to "King of the Hill" which won its first Emmy)

Category: Outstanding Music Composition For a Series (Dramatic Underscore)
Episode: "Treehouse of Horror IX" (AABF01)
Result: Did not win

2000 (season 11)

Category: Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour Or Less)
Episode: "Behind the Laughter" (BABF19)
Result: ?