Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Motion Design

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Motion Design
Awarded for	Outstanding Motion Design
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Currently held by	Jim Henson Idea Man (2024)
Website	emmys.com

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Motion Design is an annual award given to recognize the best motion design work of the year. The award was introduced as a Primetime Emmy category at the 67th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in 2015. Winners are selected by a jury. ^[1]

Winners

2010s

2010s

Year	Program	Recipients	Network
2015 (67th) [2]	How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson	Miles Presland Donovan, creative producer; Luke Best, art director/illustrator; Peter Mellor, animation director; Chris Sayer, animator	PBS
2016 (68th)	—	—	—
2017 (69th) [3]	13th	Angus Wall and Leanne Dare, co-creative directors; Lynn Cho, designer; Dan Meehan and Ekin Akalin, animators	Netflix
	Beyond Magic	Orion Tait, executive creative director; Thomas Schmid and Daniel Oeffinger, creative directors; William Trebutien, lead animator	ABC
2018 (70th) [4]	Broad City	Mike Perry, animation director; Isam Prado, supervising animator; Eric Perez, Maya Edelman, and Barbara Benas, animators [5]	Comedy Central
	Wasted! The Story of Food Waste	Mike Houston, design and graphics director; Daniel de Graaf, as art director; Naoko Saito, Ryan Frost, and Chris King, motion graphics and visual effects artists [6]	Starz
2019 (71st) [7]	Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj	Michelle Higa Fox and Jorge L. Peschiera, creative directors; Yussef Cole, head of animation; Brandon Sugiyama and Paris London Glickman, lead animators	Netflix

2020s

2020s

Year	Program	Recipients	Network
2020 (72nd) [8]	Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates	Leanne Dare, creative director; Eben McCue, Sebastian Hoppe-Fuentes, and David Navas, animators	Netflix
2021 (73rd) [9]	Calls	Alexei Tylevich, creative director; Ethan Stickley, designer/animator; Scott Ulrich, Daisuke Goto, and Chi Hong, animators; James Connelly, editor	Apple TV+
2022 (74th) [10]	Home Before Dark	Jon Berkowitz and Brad Colwell, creative directors; Kimberly Tang, associate creative director; Nolan Borkenhagen, art director
2023 (75th) [11]	Ms. Marvel	Ian Spendloff, director; David Lochhead, Daniella Marsh and David Stumpf, designers; Philip Robinson and Matthew Thomas, 3D artists	Disney+
2024 (76th)	Jim Henson Idea Man	Mark Thompson, Seamus Walsh and Mark Caballero, creative directors; Ivan Viaranchyk and Max Strizich, designers; Momo Zhao, animator
2025 (77th) [12]	Octopus!	Minkyung Chung, designer; Michaela Olsen, creative director; Hayley Morris and Julie Gratz, art directors; Anthony Galante, cinematographer; Sabrina Chaney, compositor	Prime Video

References

1. "2015 Primetime Emmy Rules Changes" (PDF). Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . Retrieved April 27, 2022.
2. "Outstanding Motion Design – 2015". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . Retrieved April 27, 2022.
3. "Outstanding Motion Design – 2017". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . Retrieved April 27, 2022.
4. "Outstanding Motion Design (Juried) – 2018". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . Retrieved April 27, 2022.
5. "Broad City". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . Retrieved April 27, 2022.
6. "Wasted! The Story of Food Waste". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . Retrieved April 27, 2022.
7. "Outstanding Motion Design (Juried) – 2019". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . Retrieved April 27, 2022.
8. "Outstanding Motion Design (Juried) – 2020". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . Retrieved April 27, 2022.
9. "Outstanding Motion Design – 2021". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . Retrieved April 27, 2022.
10. "Outstanding Motion Design – 2022". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . Retrieved August 11, 2022.
11. "Outstanding Motion Design – 2023". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . Retrieved December 6, 2023.
12. David, Clayton (August 12, 2025). "Netflix, Prime Video and Beyoncé Lead Wins in 77th Emmy Juried Categories". Variety . Retrieved August 12, 2025.