For the seventh consecutive year, PBS programs have earned more News & Documentary Emmy® Award Nominations than any organization, with 48 nominations. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) announced the nominees on Thursday August 6, 2020. The awards honor programming distributed during the 2019 calendar year.
PBS programs receiving nominations include FRONTLINE (15), INDEPENDENT LENS (8), PBS NEWSHOUR (7), POV (8), NATURE (3) and NOVA (3), among others. A complete list of PBS nominations is below.
The 41st News & Documentary Emmy® Awards will be presented on September 21st and 22nd during two live-stream ceremonies. To see the full list of nominees, please click here.
Congratulations to all PBS programs and producers!
PBS Nominees
Outstanding Historical Documentary
Outstanding Social Issue Documentary
Outstanding Sound
Outstanding Video Journalism: News
FRONTLINE “Coal's Deadly Dust”
Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine
Best Story in a Newsmagazine
Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary
FRONTLINE “Flint's Deadly Water”
Outstanding Investigative Documentary
Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary
FRONTLINE “Iraq's Secret Sex Trade”
Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine
Best Story in a Newsmagazine
FRONTLINE “Kids Caught in the Crackdown”
Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newsmagazine
FRONTLINE “On the President's Orders”
Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary
FRONTLINE “Predator on the Reservation”
Outstanding Investigative Documentary
Outstanding Promotional Announcement
Outstanding Historical Documentary
Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newsmagazine
Outstanding Writing
Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary
Independent Lens “Made in Boise”
Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary
Independent Lens “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World”
Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary
Independent Lens “The Interpreters”
Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary
Outstanding Historical Documentary
Best Documentary
Outstanding Editing: Documentary
Outstanding Social Issue Documentary
Nature “Okavango: River of Dreams – Paradise”
Outstanding Cinematography: Documentary
Outstanding Nature Documentary
Outstanding Cinematography: Documentary
Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary
Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction
Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary
PBS NewsHour “Inside the Honduran Migrant Crisis”
Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newscast
PBS NewsHour “Making Her Own Sound: Redefining Who Can Be A Musician”
Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Report
PBS NewsHour “Stopping A Killer Pandemic”
Outstanding Science, Medical or Environmental Report
PBS NewsHour “The Opaque Operations Involved in Fighting the Taliban”
Outstanding Hard News Feature Story in a Newscast
PBS NewsHour “The Mueller Report, Explained”
Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis
PBS NewsHour “Warnings from Antarctica”
Outstanding Science, Medical or Environmental Report
PBS NewsHour “Why the Caliphate’s fall is a ‘milestone’ but not the end for ISIS”
Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Newscast
Outstanding Cinematography: Documentary
Outstanding Music Composition
Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary
Outstanding Sound
Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary
POV “The Distant Barking of Dogs”
Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary
Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary
Best Documentary
WHEN WHALES WALKED: JOURNEYS IN DEEP TIME
Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction
