PBS programs received 54 nominations for the 37th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, the most earned by any organization. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) announced the nominees on July 21, 2016. The awards honor programming distributed during the 2015 calendar year.
PBS programs receiving multiple nominations include FRONTLINE (18), INDEPENDENT LENS (8), NATURE (8), PBS NewsHour (6), NOVA (4) and POV (4). A complete list of PBS nominations is below.
At this moment in our nation's history, we feel a renewed responsibility to use our platforms to educate, engage and inspire our audiences, said Paula Kerger, PBS President and CEO. In addition to providing outstanding factual and science programming, we seek to convene conversations about the most important issues of the day through our news and public affairs work, as well as our documentary films. These nominations are a welcome recognition of that effort. Congratulations to all of our producers who have been recognized today, and to our public media system, for receiving the most News & Documentary Emmy nominations of any organization.
The awards will be presented on September 21, 2016 during a ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City. To see the full list of nominees, please visit http://emmyonline.com/news_37th_nominations.
PBS Nominees
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Last Days in Vietnam
- Outstanding Editing - Documentary and Long Form
E.O. WILSON - OF ANTS AND MEN
- Outstanding Music and Sound
FRONTLINE Being Mortal
- Outstanding Informational Programming - Long Form
FRONTLINE Ebola Outbreak: A Virtual Journey
- New Approaches: Current News Coverage
FRONTLINE Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA
- Outstanding Informational Programming - Long Form
FRONTLINE Growing Up Trans
- Best Documentary
FRONTLINE Inheritance
- New Approaches: Documentary
FRONTLINE Inside Assad's Syria
- Outstanding Coverage of a Current News Story - Long Form
FRONTLINE ISIS in Afghanistan
- Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a Current News Story in a Magazine
- Best Report in a News Magazine
FRONTLINE My Brother's Bomber
- Outstanding Investigative Journalism - Long Form
- Outstanding Research
FRONTLINE OUTBREAK
- Outstanding Coverage of a Current News Story - Long Form
- Outstanding Writing
- Outstanding Research
- Outstanding Cinematography - Documentary and Long Form
FRONTLINE Rape on the Night Shift
- Outstanding Investigative Journalism - Long Form
- Outstanding Research
FRONTLINE Secrets, Politics and Torture
- Outstanding Coverage of a Current News Story - Long Form
FRONTLINE Terror in Little Saigon
- Outstanding Investigative Journalism - Long Form
IN DEFENSE OF FOOD
- Outstanding Informational Programming - Long Form
INDEPENDENT LENS 1971
- Outstanding Historical Programming - Long Form
INDEPENDENT LENS After the Storm
- New Approaches: Documentary
INDEPENDENT LENS American Denial
- Outstanding Science and Technology Programming
INDEPENDENT LENS Born to Fly
- Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming
INDEPENDENT LENS The Kill Team
- Outstanding Investigative Journalism - Long Form
INDEPENDENT LENS Rich Hill
- Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting - Long Form
INDEPENDENT LENS The Homestretch
- Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting - Long Form
INDEPENDENT LENS Through a Lens Darkly
- Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming
LIFE ON THE REEF
- Outstanding Cinematography - Documentary and Long Form
NATURE
- Outstanding Promotional Announcement, for What's Coming Up Next on NATURE
NATURE Animal Homes
- Outstanding Nature Programming
- Outstanding Cinematography - Documentary and Long Form
NATURE Mystery Monkeys of Shangri-La
- Outstanding Nature Programming
NATURE Owl Power
- Outstanding Nature Programming
NATURE Soul of the Elephant
- Outstanding Nature Programming
NATURE The Last Orangutan Eden
- Outstanding Music and Sound
NATURE Wild France
- Outstanding Music and Sound
NOVA Dawn of Humanity
- Outstanding Science and Technology Programming
NOVA Inside Einstein's Mind
- Outstanding Science and Technology Programming
- Outstanding Graphic Design & Art Direction
NOVA The Great Math Mystery
- Outstanding Science and Technology Programming
PBS NEWSHOUR
- Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast, for Will a Robotic Arm Ever Have the Full Functionality of a Human Limb?
- Outstanding Hard News Report in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast, for Shaken Baby Syndrome: A Diagnosis Reconsidered
- Outstanding Hard News Report in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast, for Under the Radar
- Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast, for Deadly Oil Fields
- Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast, for G.I. BILL$
- Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast, for Get Ready For Another Round Of The Foreclosure Crisis
POV Art and Craft
- Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming
POV Cutie and the Boxer
- Best Documentary
POV Point and Shoot
- Outstanding Graphic Design & Art Direction
POV StoryCorps Shorts: Traffic Stop
- New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle, Culture
THE MYSTERY OF MATTER: SEARCH FOR THE ELEMENTS
- Outstanding Lighting Direction and Scenic Design
TWICE BORN - STORIES FROM THE SPECIAL DELIVERY UNIT
- Outstanding Science and Technology Programming
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PBS programs received 54 nominations for the 37th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, the most earned by any organization. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) announced the nominees on July 21, 2016. The awards honor programming distributed during the 2015 calendar year. 
