CSI: Crime Scene Investigation won six Primetime Emmy Awards.
The total covers the original Las Vegas series across its run, rather than a single season or a single Emmy ceremony. The show received 39 Primetime Emmy nominations and won in several craft categories, reflecting its influence on the look and sound of television crime dramas.
Its Emmy successes included awards for sound editing, sound mixing, makeup, cinematography and special visual effects. The series was also repeatedly nominated for Outstanding Drama Series, but it did not win that top program award. That distinction often causes people to overestimate or underestimate its overall Emmy record.
CSI premiered on CBS in 2000 and became one of the defining procedural dramas of the early 2000s. Its forensic imagery, laboratory technology and visual reconstructions helped make crime-scene science a mainstream television subject. The franchise later expanded with CSI: Miami, CSI: NY and CSI: Cyber, but the six-Emmy figure belongs to the original CSI series, not the franchise combined.