Emmy Award Winners

  • Alumni David Simon and David Mills won an Emmy award on September 10, 2000, for their HBO miniseries entitled The Corner.
  • On September 8, 2001, English professor Michael Olmert won an Emmy for "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or More)" for his work as co-writer on the film Allosaurus: A Walking with Dinosaurs Special, a documentary on the allosaurus dinosaur.  Olmert won his second and third Emmys in the same category for the film Walking with Prehistoric Beasts (2002) and the BBC animated program Before the Dinosaurs (2006).
  • Jimmy Roberts (Class of 1979), a sports broadcaster and writer, has won 13 Emmy Awards in the categories of writing, best feature, journalism, and individual achievement, including two for his "Olympic Moments" feature pieces for the Sydney and Salt Lake City games.
  • Dave Ottalini, former Senior Communications Manager for the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, won a National News Emmy for his part in the CNN coverage of the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing.
  • Connie Chung (Class of 1969) has won three Emmys, including two (1989 and 1990) for "Outstanding Interview" and one (1990) for "Outstanding News and Documentary Program" (Millennium Special).
  • Former School of Music faculty member Chris Vadala won an Emmy as part of the Chuck Mangione Quartet for the theme song for the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, "Give It All You Got!"
  • Catherine (Cassie) Mackin (Class of 1960) won two Emmys, one for a 20/20 piece she did on drunk driving in 1981 and one as part of the NBC News team that covered the Democratic and Republican national conventions in 1972.
  • Charles Michael (Mike) von Fremd (Class of 1974) was part of a team of reporters that received an Emmy Award for ABC's World News Tonight Saturday broadcast of the day Elian Gonzalez was taken from his Miami, Florida, relatives ad returned to his father in Cuba.
  • Alumnus Barry Louis Polisar (Class of 1977) hosted the Emmy Award-winning syndicated children's television show "Field Trip" about educational travel.
  • Alumnus Thomas F. Horton (Class of 1952) won an Emmy Award as a documentary film producer in 1984 in the "Outstanding Informational Special" category for his production entitled America Remembers John F. Kennedy (1983).  He also won an Emmy for the documentary Gossamer Albatross (1980).  Horton was also a member of the U.S. Olympic canoeing team in 1948 and 1952.
  • Leah Siegel (Class of 1989) was a three-time Emmy Award winner as one of the first women to become a full-time field producer for ESPN.
  • Diane Kredensor (Class of 1989) is an Emmy Award-winning animator who has created episodes of children's favorites "Pinky and the Brain," "WordWorld," and "Clifford the Big Red Dog."
  • Scot Reese, Head of Performance Studies at the university, won an Emmy for "Individual Achievement in Performance" in 1991.
  • Larry David (Class of 1969) won a Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Comedy Series" in 1993 for his work on the Seinfeld episode entitled "The Contest."  He also shared an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Comedy Series" that year for his work as a writer for Seinfeld, with co-creator Jerry Seinfeld.
  • Alumna Giuliana Rancic won a Daytime Emmy for "Fan Favorite" in 2014.
  • Alumna Alanna Delfino won a Capital (Regional) Emmy in 2018 for a story she prepared with reporter Joy Lambert for WBFF TV on crime in Baltimore.
  • Dianne Wiest (Class of 1969) has won two Emmy Awards, the first in 1989 as the "Outstanding Guest Actress in Dramatic Series" for her performance in Road to Avonlea, the second in 2008 for "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series" for her role as therapist Gina Toll on the HBO television series In Treatment.
  • Alumnus Glen Weiss has won 14 Emmy Awards as director and producer for various awards and reality shows.  His most memorable win occurred on September 17, 2018, when he captured an Emmy for "Outstanding Director for a Variety Special" for his work as the director of the 2017 Academy Awards and promptly turned around and proposed marriage to his girlfriend on national television, making it truly an unforgettable evening.
  • Sports anchor and reporter Chick Hernandez (Class of 1987) won multiple Emmy Awards in the Washington D.C. market for his sports reporting.
  • Hollywood writer and producer Norman Steinberg won an Emmy in 1971 for "Outstanding Achievement in Writing for Variety or Music" for his work on the Flip Wilson Show.
  • Alumnus Paul Monusky, a producer for NFL Films, has won 10 Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Live Event Turnaround," "Outstanding Edited Sports Series/Anthology," "Outstanding Serialized Sports Documentary," "Outstanding Sports Promotional Announcement," "Outstanding Studio Show - Weekly," "Outstanding Sports Promotional Announcement - Episodic," "Outstanding Sports Documentary Series," "Outstanding Edited Sports Event Coverage," and "Outstanding Editing."
  • Television producer and alumna Lori Beecher (Class of 1987) received an Emmy Award in 2010 for "Outstanding Interview" for a 60 Minutes segment on "Saving Flight 1549."
  • Alumnus and producer Michael Boretz won a 2009 Primetime Emmy Award in the "Outstanding Special Class - Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Programs" category for his work on Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
  • Alumna Angela Davis (Class of 1990) won multiple regional Emmy Awards for anchoring and covering breaking news in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, area.
  • Mary Beth Marsden, Class of 1983, was part of the "Christmas with Choral Arts" broadcast on Baltimore's WMAR-TV which won a local Emmy Award in the "Special Events Coverage" category in 2005.