In 2007 , the episode won the Banff World Television Festival Award for Best Continuing Series , despite the fact that at the time of its win the series had already been cancelled by NBC . Thomas Del Ruth was nominated for an American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the Week/Pilots for his work on the pilot , and creator Aaron Sorkin was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Episodic Drama . For the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards , Thomas Schlamme was nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series , despite the fact that the series had been cancelled
59th Primetime Emmy Awards
59th Primetime Emmy Awards
Pilot (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip)