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
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Outstanding Historical Documentary
COLLEGE BEHIND BARS
Outstanding Social Issue Documentary
Outstanding Sound
FRONTLINE Ebola in Congo
Outstanding Video Journalism: News
FRONTLINE Coals Deadly Dust
Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine
Best Story in a Newsmagazine
FRONTLINE Fire in Paradise
Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary
FRONTLINE Flints Deadly Water
Outstanding Investigative Documentary
FRONTLINE In the Age of AI
Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary
FRONTLINE Iraqs 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 Presidents Orders
Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary
FRONTLINE Predator on the Reservation
Outstanding Investigative Documentary
FRONTLINE Rule The World
Outstanding Promotional Announcement
FRONTLINE Supreme Revenge
Outstanding Historical Documentary
FRONTLINE Targeting Yemen
Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newsmagazine
FRONTLINE Zero Tolerance
Outstanding Writing
Independent Lens Charm City
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
Independent Lens The King
Outstanding Historical Documentary
Best Documentary
Independent Lens Wrestle
Outstanding Editing: Documentary
Outstanding Social Issue Documentary
Nature Okavango: River of Dreams - Paradise
Outstanding Cinematography: Documentary
Nature The Serengeti Rules
Outstanding Nature Documentary
Outstanding Cinematography: Documentary
NOVA The Planets
Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary
Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction
NOVA The Violence Paradox
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
POV 306 Hollywood
Outstanding Cinematography: Documentary
Outstanding Music Composition
POV Farmsteaders
Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary
POV Grit
Outstanding Sound
POV Midnight Traveler
Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary
POV The Distant Barking of Dogs
Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary
POV The Silence of Others
Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary
Best Documentary
WHEN WHALES WALKED: JOURNEYS IN DEEP TIME
Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction
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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. 
