The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program is a Creative Arts Emmy Award which is given annually to an animated series.

[citation needed] The Simpsons, for instance, unsuccessfully submitted the episodes "A Streetcar Named Marge" and "Mr.

Plow" in 1993 and 1994[1] while Family Guy was successfully nominated in 2009.

[2] Several animated programs won Outstanding Children's Program prior to 1979 and, in the years since, Rugrats, Winnie the Pooh specials and Star Wars Rebels have been nominated for that award.

Prior to 1989, all of the nominated programs were specials produced outside the confines of a running series.