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"This will come as no surprise to anyone who&amp;#x27;s ever read anything I&amp;#x27;ve ever written about TV, but the Emmys is a big night for me. Not just because I adore the medium it celebrates, but also because according to my very unscientific research, it&amp;#x27;s the awards show cool girls straight-up own (Exhibit A: the dresses. Exhibit B: go-team antics like pulling an all-nominees-on-stage prank.) But now for a research that&amp;#x27;s a bit more scientific: I&amp;#x27;m also loving these cool bits of trivia about the way women have shaped the Emmys&amp;amp;#8212;thus shaping the television industry itself&amp;amp;#8212;over the years. Enjoy. The very first Emmy ever was awarded to 20-year-old Shirley Dinsdale, a ventriloquist who starred on a children&amp;#x27;s show called Judy Splinters, in 1949. Source Late production designer Jan Scott holds the record for most Emmy awards won by a woman, with 11 (she also designed the Academy&amp;#x27;s grandiose Hall of Fame Plaza headquarters.) Source The record for Emmy wins by a female entertainer is held by Cloris Leachman, who has eight to her name. Source This year&amp;#x27;s nominations mark a milestone for female directors: of the 10 nominees for directing television, five are women. That&amp;#x27;s a record. (The female nominees are: Michelle MacLaren for Breaking Bad, Lesli Linka Glatter for Homeland, Gail Mancuso for Modern Family, Beth McCarthy-Miller for 30 Rock, and Lena Dunham for Girls.) Source This is great news since, a woman has not won for directing an episode of television since Mimi Leder in 1995, for an episode of ER. (*Editor&amp;#x27;s note: This is not a cool awesome fact; this is an inspiring-awe-in-a-bad-way awesome fact.) Source Betty White is the only woman who has won an Emmy in all female performing comedic categories (lead comedy actress, supporting comedy actress, and guest-actress). Source If Kerry Washington wins best actress in a drama for Scandal, she will become the first African-American woman to ever nab that award. Source It took Friends eight seasons to win the best-comedy Emmy&amp;amp;#8212;and that same year (2002), Jennifer Aniston won best lead actress for her role as Rachel Green. Lisa Kudrow also has an Emmy for Friends; she won best supporting actress in 1998. But Courteney Cox was never even nominated. That&amp;#x27;s insane. I&amp;#x27;m literally getting a little mad right now. Source Cynthia Nixon and Sarah Jessica Parker won the supporting actress and lead actress Emmys, respectively, for the final season of Sex and the City in 2004. Kristin Davis and Kim Cattrall never won an Emmy for the show. Source Connie Britton is on a hot streak: She&amp;#x27;s been nominated every year since 2010. (In &amp;#x27;10 and &amp;#x27;11, it was for Friday Night Lights; in &amp;#x27;12 it was for American Horror Story; this year, it&amp;#x27;s for Nashville.) Source The youngest Emmy winner in history is Roxana Zal, who was 14 when, in 1984, she won for the TV movie Something About Amelia. Keisha Knight Pullam came close to besting Roxana in 1986, when the six-year-old was nominated for her role as Rudy on The Cosby Show, but no cigar. Source The Emmy statuette was designed by engineer Louis McManus, who had his wife pose as a model for the design. The Academy settled on McManus&amp;#x27; design in 1948 after rejecting 47 proposals. The name &amp;quot;Emmy&amp;quot; came later; after nicknaming the statue &amp;quot;Immy,&amp;quot; the name of a commonly used camera, the Academy tweaked it to &amp;quot;Emmy&amp;quot; to make it more feminine. Source The episode Amy Poehler submitted for her best lead actress in a comedy consideration this year was &amp;amp;#8220;Emergency Response/Leslie and Ben,&amp;quot; a.k.a. the Parks and Rec episode where she got married. The only other actress to win the category for a wedding ep was Valerie Harper, for Rhoda, in 1975. Source Speaking of Valerie: She won four Emmys for playing her classic character, Rhoda, but she won them on two different shows (three for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, one for the spin-off Rhoda). Source Finally, the undisputed queen of Emmy history has got to be Julia Louis-Dreyfus: With her 14th career nomination this year, she&amp;#x27;s broken Lucille Ball&amp;#x27;s long-standing record. Plus, she is the only woman ever to win Emmys for three separate series (Veep, The New Adventures of Old Christine, and Seinfeld). Source Who are you rooting for this Sunday? Photo: "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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