Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program
This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program. The category was previously awarded as Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series. In 2008, it was reorganized and multi-camera series and specials competed for their own award. The category was reclassified and renamed again in 2020.
In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place:
Winners and nominations
1970s
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Any Area of Creative Technical CraftsOutstanding Achievement in Hairstyling
1980s
Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series| Year | Program | Episode | Nominees | Network |
| 1986 | - | - | - | - |
| 1986 | Amazing Stories | "Gather Ye Acorns" | Bunny Parker | NBC |
| 1986 | Dynasty | "Masquerade" | Gerald Solomon, Cherie, Linda Leiter Sharp | ABC |
| 1986 | Moonlighting | "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" | Judy Crown, Josée Normand | ABC |
| 1987 | - | - | - | - |
| 1987 | Moonlighting | "Atomic Shakespeare" | Kathryn Blondell, Josée Normand | ABC |
| 1987 | Crime Story | "Top of the World" | Bunny Parker | NBC |
| 1987 | Dynasty | "The Ball" | Gerald Solomon, Cherie | ABC |
| 1987 | The Facts of Life | "62 Pickup" | JoAnn Stafford-Chaney, Phillip Ackerman | NBC |
| 1987 | Max Headroom | "Body Banks" | Janice Alexander | ABC |
| 1988 | - | - | - | - |
| 1988 | Designing Women | "I'll Be Seeing You" | Judy Crown, Monique DeSart | CBS |
| 1988 | Crime Story | "Moulin Rouge" | Bunny Parker | NBC |
| 1988 | Dynasty | "The Fair" | Gerald Solomon, Cherie, Monica Helpman | ABC |
| 1988 | Frank's Place | "Dueling Voodoo" | Ora Green | CBS |
| 1988 | "Haven |Haven" | Richard Sabre | Syndicated | |
| 1989 | - | - | - | - |
| 1989 | Quantum Leap | "Double Identity" | Virginia Kearns | NBC |
| 1989 | Almost Grown | "If This Diamond Ring Don't Shine" | Susan Schuler-Page, Sharleen Rassi | CBS |
| 1989 | "Unnatural Selection |Unnatural Selection" | Richard Sabre, Georgina Williams | Syndicated | |
| 1989 | Thirtysomething | "We'll Meet Again" | Carol Pershing | ABC |
| 1989 | The Tracey Ullman Show | "The Subway" | Billy Laughridge | Fox |
1990s
2000s
Outstanding Hairstyling for a Multi-Camera Series or Special| Year | Program | Episode | Nominees | Network |
| 2008 | - | - | - | - |
| 2008 | Saturday Night Live | "Host: Tina Fey" | Bettie O. Rogers, AnneMichelle Radcliffe, Jodi Mancuso | NBC |
| 2008 | Dancing with the Stars | "Episode 510A" | Mary Guerrero, Lucia Mace, Cynthia P. Romo, Maria Valdivia | ABC |
| 2008 | Two and a Half Men | "City of Great Racks" | Pixie Schwartz, Krista Borrelli, Ralph M. Abalos, Janice Zoladz | CBS |
| 2009 | - | - | - | - |
| 2009 | Dancing with the Stars | "Episode 709" | Mary Guerrero, Cynthia P. Romo, Jennifer Guerrero-Mazursky, Maria Valdivia | ABC |
| 2009 | MADtv | "Episode 1412" | Matthew Kasten, Wendy Southard, Desiree Dizard, Desmond Miller | Fox |
| 2009 | Saturday Night Live | "Host: Josh Brolin" | Bettie O. Rogers, Jodi Mancuso, Inga Thrasher | NBC |
| 2009 | Two and a Half Men | "I Think You Offended Don" | Pixie Schwartz, Krista Borrelli, Janice Zoladz, Ralph M. Abalos | CBS |
2010s
2020s
Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality ProgramPrograms with multiple awards
;7 awards- Saturday Night Live
- Dancing with the Stars
- RuPaul's Drag Race
Programs with multiple nominations
- Saturday Night Live
- Dancing with the Stars
- The Voice
- MADtv
- RuPaul's Drag Race
- Key & Peele
- That '70s Show
- Two and a Half Men
- 3rd Rock from the Sun
- The Tracey Ullman Show