Rod Serling's writing awards and honors

Rod Serling is the most honored writer
in Television history!

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6 EMMY awards from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

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Requiem for a Heavyweight Emmies, awarded 1957

At home in Pacific Palisades with 3 Emmies

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Rod's name is called at the Emmy ceremonies

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At home with 4 Emmies

With Playhouse 90 producer Martin Manulis,
celebrating Requiem for a Heavyweight.

1956 for Best Original Screenplay: Patterns
1957 for Best Original Screenplay: Requiem for a Heavyweight
1958 for Best Screenplay Adaption: The Comedian
1960 for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama: Twilight Zone
1961 for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama: Twilight Zone
Serling was nominated again in 1962, but fellow Golden-Ager Reginald Rose won for The Defenders.
1964 for Best Screenplay Adaption: It's Mental Work

Academy list of nominations and awards

3 HUGO awards from the Science Fiction Writers of America

1960 for Best Dramatic Presentation: Twilight Zone
1961 for Best Dramatic Presentation: Twilight Zone
1962 for Best Dramatic Presentation: Twilight Zone

1 George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award
given in 1957, for his 1956 CBS Television Playhouse 90 script Requiem for a Heavyweight. First Peabody ever awarded to a writer. Read News Article

Honors

1961: Unity Award for Outstanding Contributions to Better Race Relations
1965-66 President, National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
1971 Doctorate in Literature, Emerson College
1972 Doctorate in Literature, Alfred University
1972 Doctorate in Literature, Ithaca College
1985 Television Hall of Fame
1988 Star in Hollywood Walk of Fame

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2 Christopher Awards: 1956 & 1971

1 Director's Guild Award: 1960

1 Producer's Guild Award: 1960

1 Edgar Allen Poe Award for Night Gallery: 1969

3 Writer's Guild of America Awards

2 Sylvania Awards
One in 1956 for Requiem for a Heavyweight

1 Golden Globe Award

1 Harcourt-Brace Award

1 Look Magazine Television Award

1 Television-Radio Writers Award

Rod Serling talks about Hollywood Awards (1975):

Rod accepts a Binghamton public service award in April 1961.

"... awards in themselves really don't reflect major accomplishment. It's kind of a strange, backslapping ritual that we go through in this town where you get awards for almost everything. For surviving the day you're going to get awards. So I can't suggest that those things represent any pinnacle of achievement.

I'd like to write something that my peers, my colleagues, my fellow writers would find a source of respect. I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the Guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything.

Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks around bent-backed from slapping each other on the backs so much ..."

Rod and Carol Serling arrive at the
Emmy Awards ceremonies, Los Angeles 1959

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The 1956 Playhouse 90 "Requiem for a Heavyweight" won 1957 Emmies for (left to right): writer Rod Serling, producer Martin Manulis, (comedian Red Skelton and the unidentified girl were there for a different show) for star Jack Palance, ?CBS Executive VP Michael Dann?, and CBS Programming Chief Hubble Robinson.

Rod accepts his fourth Emmy.