"P.O.V." Garners Four Wins Including Best Documentary for "Promises"
"NOVA" and "The Natural History of the Chicken" Each Honored with Two Emmys
New York, NY, September 11, 2002 - PBS, with 14 Emmys, led the way at the 23rd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards last night. The awards ceremony was presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York.
Celebrating its 15th season, P.O.V., the award-winning showcase for independent non-fiction films, received four Emmys, bringing the series' total News and Documentary Emmy Awards over the years to 18. The P.O.V. program "Promises" garnered two, including the newly created category Best Documentary award. "Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story" received the other two Emmys.
NOVA, one of television's most acclaimed series, was also a multiple winner, taking home two Emmys: one for "Life's Greatest Miracle" and one for "Bioterror."
The humorous, critically praised special THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CHICKEN also received two awards, prompting Master of Ceremonies Garrick Utley to say, "It's a great night for the chicken!"
Single winners include VERMEER: MASTER OF LIGHT (distributed to public television stations by American Public Television); KOREAN WAR STORIES; GREAT PERFORMANCES "Dance in America: Free to Dance--Steps of the Gods"; TRADE SECRETS: A MOYERS REPORT; LIFE 360 "A PLACE IN TIME" ("Forever Fourteen" segment); and SHE SAYS: WOMEN IN NEWS.
The list of PBS winners follows:
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: GRAPHIC AND ARTISTIC DESIGN
VERMEER: MASTER OF LIGHT
Art Director: Carol Hilliard
Animator: Robert Grove
Distributed to public television stations by American Public Television (APT) Produced and presented by The National Gallery of Art via Nebraska ETV
OUTSTANDING HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY - LONG FORM
KOREAN WAR STORIES
Executive Producer: Phylis Geller
Producer: Robert Uth
Presented and produced by New Voyage Communications, Inc.
OUTSTANDING SCIENCE AND NATURE PROGRAMMING - LONG FORM
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CHICKEN
Executive Producer, Channel 4: Charles Furneaux
Executive Producer, Devillier Donegan Enterprises: Gregory Diefenbach
Producer: Mark Lewis
Produced by Mark Lewis Radio Pictures, Inc., in association with Channel 4 and Devillier Donegan Enterprises
OUTSTANDING CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC PROGRAMMING - LONG FORM
GREAT PERFORMANCES "Dance in America: Free to Dance--Steps of the Gods"
Producer: Madison Davis Lacy
Produced by Thirteen/WNET New York
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: EDITING
P.O.V. "Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story"
Editors: Eric Paul Fournier, Jean Kawahara
Presented by P.O.V./American Documentary, Inc. and the National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA)
Produced by The Korematsu Film Project
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: WRITING
NOVA "Life's Greatest Miracle"
Writer: Julia Cort
Produced by NOVA/WGBH Science Unit
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: DIRECTION
P.O.V. "Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story"
Director: Eric Paul Fournier
Presented by P.O.V./American Documentary, Inc. and NAATA
Produced by The Korematsu Film Project
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CHICKEN
Director: Mark Lewis
Produced by Mark Lewis Radio Pictures, Inc., in association with Channel 4 and Devillier Donegan Enterprises
OUTSTANDING BACKGROUND/ANALYSIS OF A SINGLE CURRENT STORY - LONG FORM
NOVA "Bioterror"
Executive Producers: Paula S. Apsell, Lawrie Mifflin, Michael Oreskes, Charles Tremayne
Producers: Matthew Collins, Kirk Wolfinger
A NOVA Production by The New York Times/Granada Factual USA and Lone Wolf Productions, Inc., for WGBH/Boston in association with Channel 4 Television
P.O.V. "Promises"
Executive Producers: Janet Cole, Sally Jo Fifer, Cara Mertes
Producers: B.Z. Goldberg, Justine Shapiro
Presented by P.O.V./American Documentary, Inc. in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS)
Produced by The Promises Film Project
OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM - LONG FORM
TRADE SECRETS: A MOYERS REPORT
Executive Producers: Judy Doctoroff O'Neill, Judith Davidson Moyers
Executive Editors: Judith Davidson Moyers, Bill Moyers
Producer: Sherry Jones
Presented by Thirteen/WNET New York
Produced by Public Affairs Television, Inc.
OUTSTANDING INFORMATIONAL PROGRAMMING - LONG FORM
LIFE 360: A PLACE IN TIME "Forever Fourteen"
Co-Executive Producers: Tom Bettag, John Lindsay
Executive Producer: Janet Tobias
Senior Producer: Dan Morris
Producer: Kelly St. John
Presented and produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting
SHE SAYS: WOMEN IN NEWS
Executive Producer: Joan Konner
Producer: Barbara Rick
Presented by KLRU Austin; KQED San Francisco; Louisiana Public Broadcasting; New Jersey Network; WCET Cincinnati; WETA Washington, D.C.
Produced by Out Of The Blue Films, Inc. and Joan Konner Productions
BEST DOCUMENTARY IN 2001
P.O.V. "Promises"
Executive Producers: Janet Cole, Sally Jo Fifer, Cara Mertes
Producers: B.Z. Goldberg, Justine Shapiro
Presented by P.O.V./American Documentary, Inc. in association with ITVS
Produced by The Promises Film Project
The complete list of winners is available on the Academy's Web site at: www.emmyonline.org
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