On April 5, 2017, finalists for the 76th Annual Peabody Awards, honoring the best in electronic media for 2016, were announced. Of the 60 finalists selected by the Peabody Awards board of jurors, PBS programs received 11 nominations.
The 30 Peabody Award-winning programs will be will revealed by category in successive announcements: April 12 (Individual/Institutional), April 18 (Documentary), April 20 (Entertainment) and April 25 (News/Radio/Public Service/Web/Education).
The Peabody Awards will be presented during a ceremony hosted by Rashida Jones on May 20, 2017, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. PBS and FUSION will simultaneously air the ceremony on Friday, June 2, at 9/8c (check local listings). For more information, please click here.
A complete list of PBS finalists follows.
PBS congratulates our programs and producers!
FRONTLINE “Chasing Heroin”
PBS/WGBH
Documentary Finalist
FRONTLINE “Confronting ISIS”
PBS/WGBH
Documentary Finalist
FRONTLINE “Exodus”
PBS/WGBH
Documentary Finalist
GREAT PERFORMANCES “Hamilton’s America”
A Radical Media Production in association with THIRTEEN PRODUCTIONS LLC for WNET (PBS)
Documentary Finalist
INDEPENDENT LENS “The Armor of Light”
Purple Mickey Productions in association with Fork Films (PBS)
Documentary Finalist
INDEPENDENT LENS “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution”
Firelight Films, Inc. and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) (PBS)
Documentary Finalist
INDEPENDENT LENS “Trapped”
Trilogy Films LLC Bigmouth Productions, Cedar Creek Productions and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) (PBS)
Documentary Finalist
POV “Hooligan Sparrow”
POV | American Documentary (PBS)
Documentary Finalist
POV “The Look of Silence”
POV | American Documentary (PBS)
Documentary Finalist
POV “The Return”
POV | American Documentary (PBS)
Documentary Finalist
POV “What Tomorrow Brings”
POV | American Documentary (PBS)
Documentary Finalist
