Nominations for the 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on July 17, 2003 and Nickelodeon won the most primetime Emmy nominations for animated shows with four, narrowly edging out FOX with three. THE SIMPSONS and FUTURAMA were again nominated for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour) along with Nick's AS TOLD BY GINGER and SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, while DISNEY'S KIM POSSIBLE on the Disney Channel rounded out the category. THE SIMPSONS also received a nomination for Outstanding Music And Lyrics, while Nick's THE FAIRLY ODDPARENTS received two noms in that g category. Usual favorites SOUTH PARK and KING OF THE HILL did not make the final cut.

UPN's ENTERPRISE, from Paramount Pictures, received three noms for Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series, with the other two slots going to BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER on UPN and FIREFLY on FOX.

Discovery Channel's CHASED BY DINOSAURS received the only nomination in the Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour Or More).

Disney's Lizzie McGuire, a live-action series, with an animated co-star, was nominated Outstanding Children’s Program.

Additional awards may also be given for the "juried areas" (nominations) of Voice Over Performance and Individual Achievement in Animation. The announcement of these awards, if any, will be released on August 11. Additional awards may also be given for Engineering Development, Interactive Television Programming and the Governors Award. These awards, if any, will be announced on July 21.

Awards for the majority of animation and visual effects categories will be presented on Saturday, September 13, 2002 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, in a non-televised ceremony produced by Spike Jones Jr. The main program categories and honors for acting and writing will be handed out during the telecast at the Shrine September 21 on FOX.

A list of animation, commercial and visual effects related nominees follows (for the full list of the teams nominated in the program categories):

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED PROGRAM (For Programming Less Than One Hour)

AS TOLD BY GINGER "And She Was Gone"

Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon and Klasky Csupo Productions

DISNEY’S KIM POSSIBLE "Crush"

Disney

Walt Disney Television Animation in association with Disney Channel

FUTURAMA "Jurassic Bark"

FOX

Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century Fox Television

THE SIMPSONS "Three Gays Of The Condo"

FOX

Gracie Films in association with 20th Century Fox Television, animation by Film Roman

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS "New Student Starfish/Clams"

Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon


OUTSTANDING ANIMATED PROGRAM (FOR PROGRAMMING ONE HOUR OR MORE)

CHASED BY DINOSAURS

Discovery Channel

Impossiblepictures Ltd. Production for BBC & Discovery Channel


OUTSTANDING SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS FOR A SERIES

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER "Chosen"

UPN

Mutant Enemy, Kuzui, Sandollar in association with 20th Century Fox Television

ENTERPRISE "Dead Stop"

UPN

Paramount Pictures

ENTERPRISE "The Crossing"

UPN

Paramount Pictures

ENTERPRISE "The Expanse"

UPN

Paramount Pictures

FIREFLY "Serenity"

FOX

Mutant Enemy, Inc. in association with 20th Century Fox Television


OUTSTANDING SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR A SPECIAL

BUILDING THE GREAT PYRAMID

Discovery Channel

BBC/Discovery Channel/NDR co-production and in association with TBS

FRANK HERBERT’S CHILDREN OF DUNE "Night 1"

Sci Fi

New Amsterdam Entertainment, Inc. in association with Blixa Film Produktion and Co. KG and Touchstone Television Productions, LLC

THE LOST WORLD "Part 2"

A&E

An A&E/BBC co-production in association with RTL Television

POINT OF ORIGIN

HBO

New Redemption Pictures in association with HBO Films

STEVEN SPIELBERG PRESENTS TAKEN "Episode 2 - Jacob And Jesse"

Sci Fi

DreamWorks