Awards & Winners

Ernie Kovacs

Date of Birth 23-January-1919
Place of Birth Trenton
(Mercer County, United States of America, New Jersey)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Ernest Edward Kovacs, Mister Moustache, Kovacs, Ernie
Profession Comedian, Actor, Screenwriter, Television Director, Television Producer, Author, Composer
Ernie Kovacs was an American comedian, actor, and writer. Kovacs' uninhibited, often ad-libbed, and visually experimental comedic style came to influence numerous television comedy programs for years after his death in an automobile accident. Many iconic and diverse shows have been influenced by Kovacs, such as Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Saturday Night Live, The Uncle Floyd Show, Captain Kangaroo, Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and TV hosts such as David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, and Craig Ferguson. Chevy Chase acknowledged Kovacs' influence and thanked him during his acceptance speech for his Emmy award for Saturday Night Live. Chase appeared in the 1982 documentary called Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius, speaking again of the impact Kovacs had on his work. On or off screen, Kovacs could be counted on for the unexpected, from having marmosets as pets to wrestling a jaguar on his live Philadelphia television show. When working at WABC as a morning-drive radio personality and doing a mid-morning television show for NBC, Kovacs disliked eating breakfast alone while his wife was sleeping in after her Broadway performances. His solution was to hire a taxi driver to come into their apartment with his own key and whose job was to make breakfast for them both, then take him to the WABC studios.

Awards by Ernie Kovacs

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ernie Kovacs.

1962


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement In Electronic Camera Work
Honored for : The Ernie Kovacs Show

Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement In Electronic Camera Work The Ernie Kovacs Show

1961


DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television
Honored for : The Ernie Kovacs Show
(For the special)

Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television The Ernie Kovacs Show
For the special

1958


Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Writing In Comedy The Ernie Kovacs Show
For episode No Dialogue Show

1957


Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Continuing Performance - Comedian In A Series The Ernie Kovacs Show
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Comedy Writing - Variety or Situation Comedy The Ernie Kovacs Show