Boston (July 29, 2022) - Boston public media producer GBH has been honored with 16 nominations by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) for the 2022 Annual Emmy® Awards. FRONTLINE, NOVA, and WORLD Channel received nominations for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards while ANTIQUES ROADSHOW received its 20th nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award
FRONTLINE, GBH’s investigative journalism series received 13 nominations for its slate of innovative and exploratory multiplatform editorial projects, including two films in the Best Documentary category: A Thousand Cuts and American Insurrection, produced in partnership with ProPublica and Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program. FRONTLINE also received nominations in seven other categories, including Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Long Form; Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Coverage; Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary; Outstanding Social Issue Documentary; Outstanding Investigative Documentary; Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary; and Outstanding Interactive Media: Innovation.
WORLD Channel, public media’s platform for complex and diverse human-centered documentaries and programming, was also nominated in the Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Coverage category for the Local, USA series film Entangled, which chronicles the efforts to protect North Atlantic right whales and the impacts of the efforts on the lobster industry.
NOVA, the most-watched primetime science series on American television, earned a nomination in the Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary category for Picture a Scientist, a documentation of the fight for gender and race equality in the science field.
Earlier this month, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Structured Reality Program. It is the 20th year ANTIQUES ROADSHOW has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy award.
“It is an honor to be recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for the work being done by the teams at ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, FRONTLINE, NOVA, and WORLD Channel,” said Jon Abbott, president and CEO at GBH. “It is a privilege to work with these individuals every day and witness their commitment to delivering exceptional programming, trusted by audiences across the country.”
Winners of the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced on Monday, September 12. Winners of the 43rd Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards will be presented in two individual ceremonies: The News Categories will be presented Wednesday, September 28 while the Documentary Categories will be presented Thursday, September 29.
GBH’s 43rd Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards Nominees by category are:
Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Long Form
● FRONTLINE - Yemen's COVID Cover-Up
● FRONTLINE In Partnership with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - The Pandora Papers
Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Coverage
● FRONTLINE and NPR in conjunction with the Investigative Reporting Workshop - The Healthcare Divide
● FRONTLINE and The New York Times - Boeing’s Fatal Flaw
Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary
● FRONTLINE - China's COVID Secrets
● FRONTLINE In Partnership with ProPublica and Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program - American Insurrection
Outstanding Social Issue Documentary
● FRONTLINE - A Thousand Cuts
Outstanding Investigative Documentary
● FRONTLINE - Escaping Eritrea
● FRONTLINE - In the Shadow of 9/11
Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary
● NOVA - Picture a Scientist
Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary
● FRONTLINE and Chasing the Dream - The Power of the Fed
● WORLD Channel Local, USA - Entangled
Best Documentary
● FRONTLINE - A Thousand Cuts
● FRONTLINE in Partnership with ProPublica and Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program - American Insurrection
Outstanding Interactive Media: Innovation
● FRONTLINE - Un(re)solved
A full list of this year’s nominees can be found here.
About GBH
GBH is the leading multiplatform creator for public media in America. As the largest producer of content for PBS and partner to NPR and PRX, GBH delivers compelling experiences, stories and information to audiences wherever they are. GBH produces digital and broadcast programming that engages, illuminates and inspires, through drama and science, history, arts, culture and journalism. It is the creator of such signature programs as MASTERPIECE, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, FRONTLINE, NOVA, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, Arthur and Molly of Denali and a catalog of streaming series, podcasts and on-demand video. GBH’s television channels include GBH 2, GBH 44, GBH Kids and national services WORLD and Create. With studios and a newsroom headquartered in Boston, GBH reaches across New England with GBH 89.7, Boston’s Local NPR; CRB Classical 99.5; and CAI, the Cape and Islands NPR station. Dedicated to making media accessible to and inclusive of our diverse culture, GBH is a pioneer in delivering media to those who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind and visually impaired. GBH creates curriculum-based digital content for educators nationwide with PBS LearningMedia and has been recognized with hundreds of the nation’s premier broadcast, digital and journalism awards. Find more information at gbh.org.
