Netflix is an American over-the-top content platform and production company, since 2013 several programs from the platform have been nominated and won both Primetime Emmy Awards and Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, the latter being a part of the former focused on recognizing technical and other similar achievements in American television programming.
In 2019, the streaming service scored four nominations in the category; Hannah Gadsby: Nanette, Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé, Springsteen on Broadway, and Wanda Sykes: Not Normal.
Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance won Outstanding Children's Program in 2020.
For season two of Orange Is the New Black, Pablo Schreiber, received the only nomination for the series in the guest actor category.
House of Cards continued to dominate the guest acting field adding Mahershala Ali and Paul Sparks.
Netflix's only nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series was in 2015 for Jon Hamm in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
House of Cards is the Netflix original with the most nominations in the category with four; Kate Mara in 2014, Rachel Brosnahan in 2015, and Ellen Burstyn and Molly Parker in 2016.
In 2014, Orange Is the New Black's Uzo Aduba won her first Emmy for playing Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren for the first season while Natasha Lyonne and Laverne Cox were also nominated for the same season; Cox became the first transgender woman to be nominated for an Emmy Award.
In 2019, sixth-place finisher Ryan O'Connell became the fifth nominee in the category after Jonathan Banks' nomination was revoked.
[63] In 2019, Special scored two nominations in the category with actresses Jessica Hecht and Punam Patel, for the first season of the series.
In 2020, Maya Rudolph won for her role at Connie the Hormone Monstress in Big Mouth.
Both Meryl Streep and David Attenborough have won Outstanding Narrator, the former for Five Came Back in 2017 and the latter for Our Planet in 2019.
In 2019, Carmen Sandiego and Love, Death & Robots won the Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation, with the latter winning four times for three different episodes.
Tara Feldstein Bennett, Carmen Cuba and Chase Paris, from Stranger Things, won the award in 2017.
In 2019, Jennifer Rogien, Charlotte Svenson, Melissa Stanton won for their work in the episode "Superiority Complex" from Russian Doll.
In 2020, Linda Mendoza received a nomination for directing the episode "Flame Monroe" from Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready.
Two Netflix specials have won in this category, Thom Zimny for Springsteen on Broadway in 2019 and Stan Lathan for Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones in 2020.
In 2019, Marie Kondo was nominated for hosting Tidying Up with Marie Kondo while in 2020, Nicole Byer and the Fav Five (Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness) were nominated for Nailed It!
Four series have won Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music, Marvel's Jessica Jones, Stranger Things, Godless and Hollywood.
American rapper Common, Robert Glasper and Karriem Riggins won for their song "Letter to the Free" for the documentary 13th.
Stranger Things has received four nominations, winning in 2017 for the episode "Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers".
House of Cards received three consecutive nominations from 2014 to 2016 when contemporary and fantasy series where awarded within the same category.
13th, written by Ava DuVernay and Spencer Averick, won in 2017; Amanda Knox and Bill Nye Saves the World were also nominated.