PBS Programs Lead News and Documentary Emmys with 48 Nominations

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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