Awards Awards 55th Emmy Nominees & Winners: Emmy Telecast Category Groups: Directing Lead Actor Lead Actress Supporting Actor Supporting Actress Individual Performance Comedy Series Drama Series Miniseries Made For Television Movie Variety, Music or Comedy Series Variety, Music or Comedy Special Writing Creative Arts Category Groups: Animated Program Art Direction Casting Choreography Cinematography Commercial Costumes Picture Editing Hairstyling Lighting Main Title Design Makeup Music Guest Actor Guest Actress Classical Music-Dance Program Children's Program Non-Fiction Reality/Competition Program Sound Editing Sound Mixing Special Visual Effects Stunt Technical Direction Winners are designated with an Emmy statuette Ray Dolby Receives Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award Sound Pioneer to be Feted at Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards As part of its Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has awarded The Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award to Ray Dolby,founder and chairman of Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Since 1965, Dolby has been developing practical noise reduction systems for improving sound quality in a variety of professional and consumer environments. The resulting innovations have become a part of audio systems across the world. This year, eight programs nominated for sound-related Emmys were mixed and broadcast in the Dolby Digital 5.1 audio format, including The Sopranos and Alias. Dolby began his engineering career in high school, working part-time for Ampex Corporation in Redwood City, California. As a college student, he joined a team of Ampex engineers dedicated to inventing the world's first practical video tape recorder, which was introduced in 1956. After graduating from Stanford, studying at Cambridge University as a Marshall Fellow, and earning a Ph.D. in physics, Dolby founded Dolby Laboratories, Inc. The company's first innovation was Dolby A-type noise reduction, a form of audio compression and expansion that dramatically reduced the background hiss commonly found in tape recordings. Dolby will receive the award prior to the Primetime Creative Arts Ceremony being held on September 13 at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The awards are overseen by the Technology and Convergence Awards Committee Co-Chairs Cristy Trembly (Engineering subcommittee) and Brian Seth Hurst (Interactive subcommittee). <<Back to Awards index