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

8 DAYS: TO THE MOON AND BACK
Outstanding Historical Documentary

COLLEGE BEHIND BARS
Outstanding Social Issue Documentary
Outstanding Sound

FRONTLINE “Ebola in Congo”
Outstanding Video Journalism: News

FRONTLINE “Coal's Deadly Dust”
Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine
Best Story in a Newsmagazine

FRONTLINE “Fire in Paradise”
Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary

FRONTLINE “Flint's Deadly Water”
Outstanding Investigative Documentary

FRONTLINE “In the Age of AI”
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

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