Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program


The Primetime Emmy Award for Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program is awarded to one television documentary or nonfiction series each year.
Prior to 2006, nonfiction and reality programs competed together until the Outstanding Picture Editing for Reality Programming category was created.
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.

Programs with multiple nominations

;10 nominationsAmerican Masters
;4 nominationsAnthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
;2 nominationsAmerica UndercoverAnthony Bourdain: No ReservationsThe JinxPlanet Earth IIStanley Tucci: Searching for ItalyThis American LifeVice