Awards

The Academy Awards®

Documentary Feature Film 20 Days in Mariupol (2023)

The Alfred I. duPont – Columbia University Award

Silver Baton FRONTLINE – 1984 Broadcast Season

Silver Baton Sue the Doctor? (1986)

Gold Baton for FRONTLINE 1988-1989, highlighting the following programs: The Choice (1988) Remember My Lai (1989) Who Profits from Drugs (1989) Children of the Night (1989) The Spy Who Broke the Code (1989)

Silver Baton High Crimes and Misdemeanors (1990)

Silver Baton Innocence Lost (1991)

Silver Baton Who Killed Adam Mann? (1992)

Silver Baton The Best Campaign Money Can Buy (1993)

Silver Baton Innocence Lost: The Verdict (1993)

Silver Baton Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo (1994)

Silver Baton School Colors (1995)

Silver Baton Shtetl (1996)

Gold Baton for FRONTLINE series 1996-1997, highlighting the following programs: The Choice ’96 (1996) Secret Daughter(1996) Innocence Lost: The Plea (1997) Murder, Money and Mexico (1997)

Silver Baton The Triumph of Evil (1999)

Silver Baton John Paul II: The Millenial Pope (1999)

Silver Baton Harvest Of Fear (2001)

Gold Baton for FRONTLINE’s seven programs, broadcast post-Sept. 11, 2001, on the origin and impact of terrorism by Islamic militants: Hunting bin Laden (9/13/01) Target America (10/04/01) Looking for Answers (10/09/01) Trail of a Terrorist (10/25/01) Gunning for Saddam (11/08/01) Saudi Time Bomb? (11/15/01) Inside the Terror Network (1/17/02)

Silver Baton Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero (2002) A Dangerous Business (2003) Failure to Protect (2003)

Silver Baton Truth, War and Consequences (2004) Ghosts of Rwanda (2004)

Silver Baton Secret History of the Credit Card (2005) Al Qaeda’s New Front (2005)

Silver Baton The Age of AIDS (2007)

Silver Baton FRONTLINE/World: Children of the Taliban (2010)

Silver Baton Behind Taliban Lines (2011)

Silver Baton The Interrupters (2013) Opium Brides (2013)

Silver Baton Rape in the Fields (2014)

Silver Baton United States of Secrets (2015) Syria’s Second Front (2015)

Silver Baton Outbreak (2016) Ebola Outbreak (2016) Growing Up Trans (2016)

Silver Baton Exodus (2017)

Gold Baton for FRONTLINE’s dynamic range of work across multiple platforms, highlighting the following films, podcast and interactive documentary: Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia (2018) Myanmar’s Killing Fields (2018) Mosul (2017) Putin’s Revenge (2017) The Gang Crackdown (2018) Life on Parole (2017) Living With Murder, pts. 1 & 2 (2017) The Last Generation (2018)

Silver Baton Documenting Hate (2019) The Facebook Dilemma (2019)

Silver Baton For Sama (2021)

Silver Baton Waste Land (2022)

Silver Baton 20 Days in Mariupol (2023)

Silver Baton Afghanistan Undercover (2023)

American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Awards

Multimedia Category Un(re)solved (2022)

Cannes Film Festival

Prix L’Œil d’Or For Sama (2019)

 

Deadline Club Awards

Right to Fail (2019)

Edward R. Murrow Awards

Excellence in Innovation The Virus at Sea (2020)

Podcast – Large Market Station I’m Not a Monster (2020-2021)

News Documentary Plot to Overturn The Election (2022)

News Documentary Inside the Uvalde Response (2023)

Feature Documentary 20 Days in Mariupol (2023)

IDA Awards

Best TV Feature Documentary Two American Families 1991-2024 (2024)

IRE Awards

Multiplatform – Larger Cateogry Firestone and the Warlord (2014)

Broadcast/Video – Large Category Rape on the Night Shift (2016)

Philip Meyer Journalism Award “War Crimes Watch Ukraine” (2022)

Tom Renner IRE Medal “Putin’s Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes” (2022)

The George Foster Peabody Award

FRONTLINE – 1984 Broadcast Season

Crisis in Central America (Four-part series 1985)

The Choice ’88 (1988)

Waco: The Inside Story (1995)

The Choice ’96 (1996)

The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1996)

Washington’s Other Scandal (1998)

The Triumph of Evil (When Good Men Do Nothing) (1998)

The Lost Children of Rockdale County (1999)

Drug Wars (2000)

Shattered Dreams of Peace (2002)

A Dangerous Business (2003)

Cheney’s Law (2007)

The Madoff Affair (2010)

The Wounded Platoon (2011)

League of Denial (2014)

United States of Secrets (2015)

ISIS in Afghanistan (2016)

Confronting ISIS & Exodus (2017)

The Facebook Dilemma (2019)

For Sama (2020)

Whose Vote Counts (2021)

China Undercover (2021)

Escaping Eritrea (2022)

A Thousand Cuts (2022)

Michael Flynn’s Holy War (2023)

The Power of Big Oil (2023)

Ukraine: Life Under Russia’s Attack (2023)

America and the Taliban (2024)

20 Days in Mariupol (2024)

Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court (2024)

Peabody-Facebook Futures of Media Award

Inheritance (2016)

Ebola Outbreak (2016)

The Institutional Peabody Award

FRONTLINE (PBS) (2020)

The Pulitzer Prize 2003

A Dangerous Business This joint project involving The New York Times, FRONTLINE and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

 

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Award

Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story Abortion Clinic (1983)

Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Scenic Designers Crisis in Zimbabwe (1983)

Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story Living Below the Line (1984)

Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Film Editors Living Below the Line (1984)

Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story Cry, Ethiopia, Cry (1984)

Outstanding Informational, Cultural, or Historical Programming The Mind of a Murderer, Parts I & II (1984)

Outstanding Informational, Cultural, or Historical Programming Captive in El Salvador (1984)

Outstanding Informational, Cultural, or Historical Programming A Class Divided (1985)

Outstanding Informational, Cultural, or Historical Programming The Lifer and the Lady (1985)

Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story Men Who Molest (1985)

Outstanding General Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story Sue the Doctor? (1986)

Outstanding Background of a Single Current Story Holy War, Holy Terror (1986)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism Murder on the Rio San Juan (1988)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism In Search of the Marcos Millions (1988)

Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Electronic Camera Persons Yellowstone Under Fire (1989)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism High Crimes and Misdemeanors (1990)

Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Researchers High Crimes and Misdemeanors (1990)

Special Classification of Outstanding News and Documentary Individual Achievement High Crimes and Misdemeanors (1990)

Outstanding General Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story The Struggle for South Africa (1990)

Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story Seven Days in Bensonhurst (1990)

Outstanding Achievement in a Craft: Writers In the Shadow of Sakharov (1991)

Outstanding Achievement in a Craft: Writers Don King Unauthorized (1991)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism Innocence Lost/When Children Testify (1991)

Outstanding Informational or Cultural Programming Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill: Public Hearing, Private Pain (1992)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism In Our Children’s Food (1993)

Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing News Story The Kevorkian File (1994)

Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing News Story High Stakes in Cyberspace (1995)

Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story The Choice ’96 (1996)

Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing News Story The Navy Blues (1996)

Outstanding Informational or Cultural Programming Secret Daughter (1996)

Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Directors Angel on Death Row (1996)

Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing News Story Hot Guns (1997)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism The Triumph of Evil (1999)

Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story Drug Wars (2000)

Outstanding Documentary on a Business Topic The Wall Street Fix (2002-03)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism An Ordinary Crime (2002)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism The Burden of Innocence (2003-04)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism Secret History of the Credit Card (2004-05)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism The Torture Question (2005-06)

Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story The Storm (2005-06)

Outstanding Documentary on a Business and Financial Topic Can You Afford to Retire? (2005-06)

Outstanding Arts, Lifestyle & Culture Programming for Broadband Libya: Out of the Shadow (2006)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine FRONTLINE/World: Iraq: Saddam’s Road to Hell (2006-2007)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism Sex Slaves (2006-2007)

Outstanding Historical Programming The Lost Year in Iraq (2006-2007)

Special Award to FRONTLINE for Excellence in Television Documentary Filmmaking (2007)

Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming The Undertaking (2007-2008)

Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft Cinematography The War Briefing (2008)

Outstanding Promotional Announcement – Institutional No One But You, Snow (2008)

Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story — Long Form Bush’s War (2008-2009)

Outstanding Documentary on a Business Topic The Madoff Affair (2008-2009)

Oustanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground (2009-2010)

Oustanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story — Long Form A Death in Tehran (2009-2010)

Oustanding Investigative Journalism — Long Form The Warning (2009-2010)

Outstanding Promotional Announcement — Institutional 2010 Times Like These Fall Image Campaign (2011)

Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine Syria Undercover (2012)

Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine Revolution in Cairo (2012)

Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine The Battle for Syria (2013)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine Opium Brides (2013)

Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story – Long Form Inside Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown (2013)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form Big Sky, Big Money (2013)

Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form The Interrupters (2013)

Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting – Long Form Money, Power and Wall Street (2013)

Lifetime Achievement Award David Fanning (2013)

Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a Current News Story — Long Form Syria Behind the Lines (2014)

Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting – Long Form The Retirement Gamble (2014)

Outstanding Research Outlawed in Pakistan (2014)

Outstanding Promotional Announcement – Episodic League of Denial – Dangerous Love Affair Trailer

Best Documentary United States of Secrets (2015)

Outstanding Current Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form United States of Secrets (2015)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form Firestone and the Warlord (2015)

Outstanding Research Firestone and the Warlord (2015)

Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine The Battle for Ukraine (2015)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine Hunting Boko Haram (2015)

Outstanding Informational Programming Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA (2016)

Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News Magazine ISIS in Afghanistan (2016)

Outstanding Coverage of a Current News Story: Long Form Outbreak (2016)

New Approaches: Documentary Inheritance (2016)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism: Long Form My Brother’s Bomber (2016)

Outstanding Research My Brother’s Bomber (2016)

Best Report in a News Magazine ISIS in Afghanistan (2016)

Best Story in a Newsmagazine Yemen Under Siege (2017)

Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News Magazine Yemen Under Siege (2017)

Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary The Choice 2016 (2017)

Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary Children of Syria (2017)

International Emmy for Current Affairs Saudi Arabia Uncovered (2017)

Outstanding Business & Economic Documentary Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2017)

Outstanding Cinematography Mosul  (2017)

New Approaches: Documentary The Last Generation (2018)

Outstanding Investigative Documentary Documenting Hate (2018)

Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newsmagazine Kids Caught in the Crackdown (2019)

Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine Iraq’s Secret Sex Trade (2019)

Outstanding Video Journalism: News Ebola in Congo (2019)

Best Story in a Newsmagazine Iraq’s Secret Sex Trade (2019)

Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine The Luanda Leaks (2020)

Outstanding Video Journalism: News Taliban Country (2020)

Best Story in a Newsmagazine Love, Life & The Virus (2020)

Outstanding Historical Documentary Once Upon A Time In Iraq (2020)

Outstanding Business & Economic Documentary Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos (2020)

Outstanding News Coverage: Long Form Yemen’s COVID Cover-Up (2021)

Outstanding Business, Consumer and Economic Reporting Boeing’s Fatal Flaw (2021)

Outstanding Social Issue Documentary A Thousand Cuts (2021)

Outstanding Interactive Media: Innovation Un(re)solved (2021)

Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Long Form Afghanistan Undercover (2022)

Outstanding Hard News Feature: Long Form Putin’s War at Home (2022)

Outstanding Political Documentary Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court (2023)

Outstanding Investigative Documentary Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus (2023)

The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award

Grand Prize Living Below the Line (1984)

1st Prize Domestic Television Bread, Butter, and Politics (1984)

1st Prize Domestic Television Growing up Poor (1986)

1st Prize Domestic Television Throwaway People (1990)

1st Prize Domestic Television A Kid Kills (1992)

1st Prize Domestic Television An Ordinary Crime (2002)

Grand Prize Failure to Protect (2003)

1st Prize Domestic Television The Plea (2004)

1st Prize International Television Ghosts of Rwanda (2004)

Grand Prize The New Asylums (2005)

1st Prize International Television The Age of AIDS (2006)

1st Prize Domestic Television Poor Kids (2013)

Grand Prize and 1st Prize Domestic Television Rape in the Fields (2014)

1st Prize Domestic Television Solitary Nation (2015)

New Media Firestone and the Warlord (2015)

1st Prize International Television Escaping ISIS (2016)

Television, International Iraq Uncovered (2017)

Television, International For Sama (2020)

Television, International A Thousand Cuts (2021)

International Television Award; International Print; Grand Prize Putin’s Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes (2023)

International Television Award Inside the Iranian Uprising (2024)

SXSW Film Festival

Jury Award for Best Room-Scale VR After Solitary (2017)

Audience Award; Grand Jury Award For Sama (2019)

SXSW Innovation Awards, Visual Media Experience Un(re)solved (2022)

Sundance Film Festival

2023 Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary 20 Days in Mariupol

2024 Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary 2000 Meters to Andriivka

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

DocLab Digital Storytelling Award Un(re)solved (2022)

NICHM Awards

Television and Radio Journalism Awards China’s COVID Secrets (2021)

Online Journalism Awards

Feature, Medium Stickup Kid (2015)

Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling, Small Newsroom The Last Generation (2018)

Digital Video Storytelling The Last Call (2020)

Excellence in Immersive Storytelling Un(re)solved (2021)

Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling, Limited Series Un(re)solved (2021)

Digital Video Storytelling, Medium Form, Large Newsroom “How Russia is Smuggling Ukrainian Grain to Pay for Putin’s War” (2022)

Digital Video Storytelling, Long Form, Large Newsroom The Discord Leaks (2023)

Explanatory Reporting, Large Newsroom Unprepared (2023)

The Overseas Press Club Awards

The Edward R. Murrow Award Ambush In Mogadishu (1998)

The Edward R. Murrow Award The Crash (1999)

The Edward R. Murrow Award Return of the Czar (2000)

The Whitman Bassow Award Heat (2008)

The Edward R. Murrow Award Obama’s War (2009)

Best TV Interpretation or Documentary – International Affairs Kill/Capture (2012)

Online Breaking News Revolution in Cairo (2012)

Best Online Commentary “In Assad’s Syria, There Is No Imagination” (2012)

David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award Outlawed in Pakistan (2013)

President’s Award for Lifetime Achievement (2016) David Fanning

David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award Escaping ISIS (2016)

Edward R. Murrow Award ISIS in Afghanistan (2016)

David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award Children of Syria (2017)

Edward R. Murrow Award Mosul (2017)

Peter Jennings Award For Sama (2020)

Morton Frank Award Trump’s Trade War (2020)

Roy Rowan Award Putin’s Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes (2022)

David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award Afghanistan Undercover (2022)

Peter Jennings Award 20 Days in Mariupol (2023)

The George Polk Award

Who’s Running This War? (1986)

The Great American Bailout (1991)

A Dangerous Business (2003)

Law and Disorder (2010)

Money, Power, and Wall Street (2013)

League of Denial (2014)

American Insurrection (2022)

PBS Beacon Award

FRONTLINE (2023)

Rose d’Or Award

Audio Entertainment I’m Not A Monster (2022)

Critics Choice Real TV Awards

Best Ongoing Documentary Series, FRONTLINE (2021)

Critics Choice Documentary Awards

Best First Documentary Feature 20 Days in Mariupol (2023)

Best Political Documentary 20 Days in Mariupol (2023)

The Television Critics Association

Outstanding Achievement in News and Information 1991-1992 Season

Outstanding Achievement in News and Information 1992-1993 Season

Outstanding Achievement in News and Information 1994-1995 Season

Outstanding Achievement in News and Information 1995-1996 Season

Outstanding Achievement in News and Information 2001-2002 Season

Outstanding Achievement in News and Information 2002-2003 Season

Outstanding Achievement in News and Information 2004-2005 Season

Outstanding Achievement in News and Information 2005-2006 Season

 

Banff Television Festival

Grand Prize Innocence Lost: The Verdict (1993)

Best Social & Political Documentary Innocence Lost: The Verdict (1993)

Special Jury Prize Innocence Lost: The Plea (1997)

Sony International Critics Prize Innocence Lost: The Plea (1997)

Best Social & Political Documentary The Killer At Thurston High (1999)

Best Social & Political Documentary Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero (2002)

Best Social & Political Documentary Ghosts of Rwanda (2004)

Best Environmental Program Heat (2008)

 

Sidney Hillman Prize Awards

A Class Divided (1985)

Innocence Lost: The Verdict (1993)

The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1996)

A Dangerous Business (2004)

Ghosts of Rwanda (2006)

The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan (2011)

 

Journalism Alumni Association of the University of Southern California

Distinguished Achievement in Journalism Award – FRONTLINE (1995)

The Scripps Howard Award

Jack R. Howard Award for Television/Cable In-Depth National/International Coverage Ebola Outbreak (2015)

Multimedia Journalism The Last Generation (2019)

Jack R. Howard Award for Broadcast – National/International Coverage Flint’s Deadly Water (2020)

Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize – National/International Investigative Reporting COVID’s Hidden Toll (2021)

Excellence in Multimedia Journalism Un(re)solved (2022)

Excellence in National/International Investigative Reporting, the Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize: Putin’s Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes (2023)

Excellence in National/International Video Storytelling, honoring Jack R. Howard Michael Flynn’s Holy War (2023)

Jack R. Howard Award for Broadcast – National/International Coverage 20 Days in Mariupol (2024)

The San Francisco International Film Festival Award

1986 Special Jury Award So You Want to Be President (1984)

1986 Special Jury Award Memory of the Camps (1985)

Best of Category-Environmental Murder in the Amazon (1989)

Best of Category-Current Affairs Death of a Terrorist (1989)

Best of Category-Current Affairs Seven Days in Bensonhurst (1990)

1991 Special Jury Award In the Shadow of Sakharov (1992)

1992 Special Jury Award The Choice ’92 (1992)

Writers Guild Awards

1999 Documentary Scripts — Current Events Once Upon a Time in Arkansas (1998)

2000 Documentary Scripts — Current Events Give War a Chance (1999)

2005 Documentary/Documentary Script — Current Events From China with Love (2004)

2006 Documentary Scripts — Current Events The Torture Question (2005)

2007 Documentary — Current Events The Dark Side (2006)

2009 Documentary – Current Events Bush’s War (2008)

Documentary — Current Events Flying Cheap (2011)

2012 Documentary — Current Events Top Secret America (2011)

2012 Documentary — Other than Current Events WikiSecrets (2011)

2012 News — Regularly Scheduled, Bulletin or Breaking Report Educating Sergeant Pantzke (2011)

2012 News — Analysis, Feature or Commentary Doctor Hot Spot (2011)

2014 Documentary Script — Other than Current Events The Choice 2012 (2012)

2015 Documentary Script — Current Events United States of Secrets: The Program (Part One) (2014)

2015 Documentary Script — Other Than Current Events League of Denial (2013)

2016 Documentary Script — Current Events American Terrorist

2017 Documentary Script – Current Events The Choice 2016 and Inside Assad’s Syria  (tie)

2017 WGA East’s inaugural Walter Bernstein Award Jelani Cobb, correspondent & co-writer, Policing the Police

2018 Documentary Script — Current Events Confronting ISIS

2019 Documentary Script — Current Events Trump’s Takeover (2018)

2020 Documentary Script — Current Events Trump’s Trade War  (2019)

2020 Documentary Script — Other Than Current Events Right to Fail (2019)

2021 Documentary Script — Current Events The Healthcare Divide (2020)

2023 Documentary Script — Current Events Lies, Politics & Democracy (2022)

Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards

Best Political Documentary Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2017)

 

Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in Television Political Journalism

Correspondent A.C. Thompson Documenting Hate (2019)

Excellence in Television Political Journalism Policing the Police 2020 (2020)

Excellence in Television Political Journalism FRONTLINE (2022)

Excellence in Television Political Journalism Lies, Politics and Democracy (2022)

Excellence in Television Political Journalism Plot to Overturn the Election (2022)

Excellence in Television Political Journalism Putin’s War at Home (2022)

Excellence in Television Political Journalism A Thousand Cuts (2022)

Webby Awards

People’s Voice Webby Award – Social: News & Information FRONTLINE (PBS) (2017)

People’s Voice Webby Award – Social – News & Information FRONLINE (PBS) Social Channels (2018)

People’s Voice Webby – the Podcasts & Digital Audio – Documentary The FRONTLINE Dispatch (2018)

Webby Award – Best Use of Interactive Video The Last Generation (2019)

Webby Award – Websites and Mobile Sites – News & Politics pbs.org/frontline (2021)

Webby Award – Podcasts: Documentary I’m Not a Monster (2021)

Webby Award – Social: Best Use of Stories Instagram version of Drawn From Memory

Webby Award – Video – News & Politics Crime Scene: Bucha (2022)

World Press Photo

Interactive of the Year Award The Last Generation (2019)

 

World VR Forum

After Solitary (2017)