CNN once again leads all networks when it comes to the News and Documentary Emmys, scoring approximately 39 nominations, as the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences revealed this year’s contenders on Thursday morning.
Helping CNN dominate was Anderson Cooper, whose series “Anderson Cooper 360” and “The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper” stood out with multiple nominations. Also outperforming for the cabler were “Amanpour,” “The Lead With Jake Tapper,” “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” “The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer” and reporters Nada Bashir, Jeremy Diamond, Clarissa Ward, David Culver, Nima Elbagir and Donie O’Sullivan.
A combo CNN Films/Max landed four additional noms, bringing CNN’s total to 43. Close behind CNN were National Geographic and PBS, with 34 each. Also performing well was ABC, with 31 nods. (Add in additional streaming outlets Hulu and ABC News Live, and that overall ABC News number jumps to 40.) Among Spanish-lingo outlets, Univision led with 13. Nat Geo‘s “Trafficked With Mariana van Zeller” was among the top series nominees, with a whopping 20 nominations.
Vice, which last year was in second with 30 noms, canceled its flagship news program in spring 2023, which is why its count this year dropped to ten.
“We are honored to highlight the accomplishments and hard work of these exceptional journalists and documentarians,” said Adam Sharp, President and CEO of NATAS. “NATAS is proud to celebrate their dedication and creativity under increasing and ever-changing pressures.”
The 45th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards received more than 2200 submissions from the calendar year of 2023, and nominations were judged by a pool of more than 980 people from across the television and streaming/digital media news and documentary community.
This year’s News & Doc Emmys will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 25 (news categories) and on Thursday, Sept. 26 (doc categories) at the Palladium Times Square in New York. The ceremonies will be streamed live on NATAS’ dedicated viewing platform, on the web at watch.theemmys.tv and via The Emmys apps.
In the key best documentary category, there are ten nominees — including three from PBS (“Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover” from “Frontline,” “Free Chol Soo Lee” from “Independent Lens” and “Hidden Letters” from “Independent Lens”) and three from HBO/Max (“Great Photo, Lovely Life: Facing a Family’s Secrets,” “Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning” and “The Stroll”). They’ll face off with Discovery+’s “January 6th,” AMC+’s “Lakota Nation vs. United States,” Showtime’s “Mourning in Lod” and the indie “Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom.”
Here are the nominees across 65 news and doc categories:
OUTSTANDING LIVE NEWS PROGRAM
The CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell (CBS)
ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis (ABC)
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (ABC)
Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (NBC)
OUTSTANDING RECORDED NEWS PROGRAM
20/20 (ABC)
CBS Sunday Morning (CBS)
Impact x Nightline (Hulu) [ABC News Studios]
Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN)
OUTSTANDING EMERGING JOURNALIST
Ellison Barber (NBC)
Nada Bashir (CNN)
Dasha Burns (NBC)
Jeremy Diamond (CNN)
Ashan Singh (ABC)
OUTSTANDING BREAKING NEWS COVERAGE
Attack on Israel – October 7 NBC News Specials & Saturday Today (NBC | Peacock)
Israel at War — ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (ABC)
Israel-Hamas War (CNN)
Mass Shooting and Manhunt in Lewiston, Maine — ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis (ABC)
Tyre Nichols — The ReidOut (MSNBC)
OUTSTANDING CONTINUING NEWS COVERAGE: SHORT FORM
Clarissa Ward Covers the Israel-Hamas War (CNN)
David Culver Covers the Migrant Crisis — AC360 (CNN)
Israel – Gaza War (BBC World News)
War in Gaza (The New York Times)
War in Ukraine: Hope, Death and Defiance (BBC World News)
OUTSTANDING CONTINUING NEWS COVERAGE: LONG FORM
Richard Engel Reports: Rise of Wagner — On Assignment with Richard Engel (NBC)
Terror in Israel Series — The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN)
Uvalde 365 — 20/20 & ABC News Live (ABC)
War in the Holy Land — PBS NewsHour (PBS)
OUTSTANDING SOFT FEATURE STORY: SHORT FORM
How a 1968 Student Protest Fueled a Chicano Rights Movement (Retro Report)
On the Frontlines of the Abortion War: Death Threats and Arsons— Vice News Tonight (Vice)
South Sudan: Isolated by Water and War — ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (ABC)
This Land… Eatonville, FL — CBS Sunday Morning (CBS)
Uvalde 365: Recovering from Robb — ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis (ABC)
OUTSTANDING SOFT FEATURE STORY: LONG FORM
After the Blast: The Will to Survive (ABC) [ABC News Studios]
It Happened Here: A Year in Uvalde — 20/20 (ABC)
Moving Isa (Business Insider)
The Army We Had —Op-Docs (The New York Times)
What Happened to San Francisco? —The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN)
OUTSTANDING HARD NEWS FEATURE STORY: SHORT FORM
‘I Cry Quietly’: A Soldier Describes the Toll of Russia’s War (The New York Times)
Clarissa Ward Reports from Rafah Field Hospital in Gaza (CNN)
Haiti in Crisis — PBS NewsHour (PBS)
How I Survive: A Seven-Year-Old’s Life in Gaza — The Guardian Focus (The Guardian)
It’s Bisan from Gaza and I’m Still Alive — Aj+ Reports (AJ+)
OUTSTANDING HARD NEWS FEATURE STORY: LONG FORM
After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics — Frontline (PBS) [Frontline | Futuro Investigates | The Texas Tribune]
The Dangerous Rise of Andrew Tate — Vice Special Report (Vice)
Exclusive: Inside a Ukrainian Battlefield Hospital (The New York Times)
Inside Wagner: The Rise of Russia’s Notorious Mercenaries — ViceSpecial Report Vice
The Trek: A Migrant Trail to America — The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN)
Warped By War: Inside Putin’s Russia — Vice Special Report (Vice)
OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE NEWS COVERAGE: SHORT FORM
The Coast Guard’s Secret (CNN)
Dishonored (CBS)
NBC News Investigates: Hospital Giant Putting Profits Over Patients? —NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (NBC)
Poisoned Water (Scripps News)
Visual Evidence Shows Israel Dropped 2,000-Pound Bombs Where It Ordered – Gaza’s Civilians to Move for Safety (The New York Times)
OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE NEWS COVERAGE: LONG FORM
Inside the Uvalde Response — Frontline (PBS) [ProPublica | Frontline |The Texas Tribune]
Nima Elbagir Covers the War in Sudan (CNN)
The Discord Leaks — Frontline (PBS) [Frontline | The Washington Post]
Shadow Men: Inside Wagner, Russia’s Secret War Company (The Wall Street Journal)
Terrorist Oil — Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
OUTSTANDING LIVE NEWS SPECIAL
The 17th Annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute (CNN)
A CNN Town Hall: Toxic Train Disaster, Ohio Residents Speak Out (CNN)
Maui Strong, ABC News, 08/17/23 — Good Morning America (ABC)
Navalny and the Cost of Standing Up to Putin —CNN Primetime (CNN)
OUTSTANDING RECORDED NEWS SPECIAL
Campaign of Deceit: The Election of George Santos — CBS Reports (CBS)
How Saba Kept Singing — Retro Report (PBS) [Retro Report | HiddenLight Productions | Burnt Umber Productions | The WNET Group]
Our Barbara — 20/20 (ABC)
Uvalde: 365 Presents: Crisis of Command (ABC)
The Will to Win: Ukraine at War — CNN Special Report (CNN)
OUTSTANDING NEWS DISCUSSION & ANALYSIS
America Addicted: The Fentanyl Crisis — Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Guns: Three American Stories — Meet The Press Reports (NBC News Now)
Justice for Tyre — Nightline (ABC)
Nothing But the Truth — The Circus (Showtime) [Left/Right]
This Week: Live From Tel Aviv — ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos (ABC)
OUTSTANDING NEWS DISCUSSION & ANALYSIS: EDITORIAL AND OPINION
Meet the World’s Most Honorable Bank Robbers — The New York Times Opinion (The New York Times)
The Night Doctrine (ProPublica and The New Yorker)
They Know What They Did. They’d Like You to Know Who They’ve Become — The New York Times Opinion (The New York Times)
We Went to Puerto Rico: The Inequality We Saw Will Shock You (More Perfect Union)
Your Rewards Card Is Actually Bad for You, and for Everyone Else (The New York Times) — The New York Times Opinion (The New York Times)
OUTSTANDING LIVE INTERVIEW—SHORT FORM
A Father’s Plea: Interview with Thomas Hand (CBS)
Interview with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — Face the Nation (CBS)
Interview with Hunter Biden’s Attorney Chris Clark — Katy Tur Reports on MSNBC (MSNBC)
Interview with The House Majority Leader — ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos (ABC)
Israeli Leader Speaks Out —ABC News Live (ABC)
One on One with John Lauro — ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos (ABC)
OUTSTANDING LIVE INTERVIEW—LONG FORM
One-on-One with Cassidy Hutchinson — The Lead with Jake Tapper (CNN)
The Death of Tyre Nichols: A Family Speaks — ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis (ABC)
Christiane Amanpour interviews Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian — Amanpour (CNN)
Christiane Amanpour interviews Queen Raina Al Abdullah — Amanpour (CNN)
Christiane Amanpour interviews Siamak Namazi from inside Iran’s Evin Prison — Amanpour (CNN)
One-on-One with Cassidy Hutchinson — The Lead with Jake Tapper (CNN)
OUTSTANDING EDITED INTERVIEW
The Attorney General — 60 Minutes (CBS)
The Hostage Story — 60 Minutes (CBS)
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi — Fareed Zakaria GPS (CNN)
Vice World News Meets: Imran Khan (Vice)
Wolf Blitzer Interview with Gali Idan in Israel — The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer (CNN)
OUTSTANDING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COVERAGE
CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan Covers Science and Technology (CNN)
Revolution — 60 Minutes (CBS)
Trafficked: Cyber Pirates — Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
Voices of Nature — In Real Life (Scripps News)
Weaponization of Data — The Future with Hannah Fry (Bloomberg)
OUTSTANDING CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT AND WEATHER COVERAGE
Can We Really Rewild the Planet? — The Future with Hannah Fry (Bloomberg)
How to Unscrew a Planet — The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN)
The Shark Fin Hunters — Fault Lines (Al Jazeera)
The Sperm Whales of Domenica — 60 Minutes (CBS)
Toxic Farmland — Vice Special Report (Vice)
OUTSTANDING HEALTH OR MEDICAL COVERAGE
Black Market Organs —Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
Homebirth Journey: Saving Black Moms — The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN)
On the Brink — Impact x Nightline (Hulu) [ABC News Studios]
The Trans Parent Trap — Transnational (Vice)
Without Roe: The New Abortion Landscape — The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN)
OUTSTANDING ARTS, CULTURE OR ENTERTAINMENT COVERAGE
50 Years Fly: The Rise, Fall and Revolution of Hip-Hop Fashion — NBC News Digital (NBC)
James Nachtwey — 60 Minutes (CBS)
The New Face of Hollywood — A Soul of a Nation Presentation — Soul of a Nation (ABC)
Rap Trap: Hip Hop On Trial (Hulu) [ABC News Studios]
Fight Clubs — Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
OUTSTANDING BUSINESS, CONSUMER OR ECONOMIC COVERAGE
America’s Dangerous Trucks — Frontline (PBS) [ProPublica | Frontline]
Black Market Babies — Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
Crypto Scams — Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
Making a Killing: The Chinese Mafia Transforming the Global Drug Trade— Vice Special Report (Vice)
Our Mistake is Your Responsibility — 60 Minutes (CBS)
We Went to East Palestine: What We Saw Will Shock You (More Perfect Union)
OUTSTANDING CRIME AND JUSTICE COVERAGE
Gangs — Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
Ghost Guns — Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK (Hulu) [ABC News Studios | The Associated Press]
Inside Iran: What Happened to Iran’s Women-led Uprising? (Vice)
Stealing Ukraine’s Children: Inside Russia’s Camps (Vice)
OUTSTANDING CURRENT AFFAIRS DOCUMENTARY
Loudmouth (BET) [Naked Edge Films | Get Lifted Film Co. | Group Effort Films |Massenburg Media]
Love in the Time of Fentanyl —Independent Lens (PBS) [ITVS]
Mourning In Lod (Showtime) [MTV Documentary Films | Medalia Productions]
No Accident (HBO | Max) [McGee Media | Just Films/The Ford Foundation | Topic Studios]
Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food (Netflix) [Campfire Studios | Atlas Films]
OUTSTANDING POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTARY
Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court — Frontline (PBS)
Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court (Showtime) [Trilogy Films]
Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely — American Masters (PBS) [Salty Features | American Masters Pictures | Thirteen/WNET]
Giuliani: What Happened to America’s Mayor (CNN)
Superpower (Paramount+) [Projected Picture Works | Public School Productions | Aldamisa Entertainment |Vice Studios]
OUTSTANDING SOCIAL ISSUE DOCUMENTARY
Anonymous Sister (anonymoussister.com) [Big Mouth Productions | Vulcan Productions]
David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived (HBO | Max)
Eat Your Catfish — POV (PBS) [Zela Film | American Documentary, POV]
Every Body (NBC) [NBC News Studios |BetterThanFiction Productions]
Sound of the Police (Hulu) [ABC News Studios | Firelight Films]
OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE DOCUMENTARY
Crush (Paramount+) [Triage Entertainment | All Rise Films |See It Now Studios]
Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus — Frontline (PBS) [Frontline | Forbidden Film | the Forbidden Stories consortium]
Savior Complex (HBO | Max)[Latchkey Films]
Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America (Netflix) [Luminant Media |Grain Media |Insight Films]
Victim/Suspect (Netflix) [Motto Pictures, Center for Investigative Reporting Studios]
OUTSTANDING HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY
America and The Taliban — Frontline (PBS)
Free Chol Soo Lee — Independent Lens (PBS)
JFK: One Day in America (National Geographic) [72 Films | National Geographic]
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb —MSNBC Films (MSNBC) [NBC News Studios]
World War II: From the Front Lines (Netflix) [72 Films]
OUTSTANDING ARTS AND CULTURE DOCUMENTARY
A Song Film By Kishi Bashi – ‘Omoiyari’ (Paramount+) [Omoiyari, LLC | HappyOkay Films |Dialogue Pictures |Movement Content]
The Legacy of J. Dilla — The New York Times Presents (FX) [The New York Times | Left/Right (a North Road company)]
Lift (liftdocumentary.com) [Beaufort 9 Films]
Little Richard: I Am Everything (CNN Films | Max) [Bungalow Media + Entertainment]
Willie Nelson & Family (Paramount+) [MTV Entertainment Studios, 101 Studios, Sight Unseen, Blackbird]
OUTSTANDING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DOCUMENTARY
The Battle to Beat Malaria — Nova (PBS) [Wingspan Productions, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, Nova/GBH]
Cosmic Time Machine — Unknown (Netflix)
Encounters (Netflix) [Amblin Television, Boardwalk Pictures, VICE Studios]
Human Footprint (PBS) [Day’s Edge Productions]
Science Fair: The Series (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
OUTSTANDING NATURE DOCUMENTARY
Evolution Earth (PBS) [Passion Planet | PBS | Arte France| Love Nature]
The Hummingbird Effect — Nature (PBS) [Coneflower Productions | The WNET Group | Terra Mater Studios]
Incredible Animal Journeys (National Geographic) [Plimsoll Productions]
Path of the Panther (National Geographic) [Grizzly Creek Films | Wildpath | National Geographic]
Soul of the Ocean — Nature (PBS) [Howard Hall Productions | The WNET Group | Terra Mater Studios |Mark Fletcher Productions]
OUTSTANDING BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DOCUMENTARY
Age of Easy Money — Frontline (PBS)
Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul (Netflix)
Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover — Frontline (PBS)
Nothing Lasts Forever (Showtime) [Kilo Films]
Working: What We Do All Day (Netflix) [ Higher Ground | Concordia Studio]
OUTSTANDING CRIME AND JUSTICE DOCUMENTARY
Amber: The Girl Behind the Alert (Peacock) [Lusid Media]
Chowchilla (CNN Films | Max) [Zipper Bros Films | Sutter Road Picture Company]
El Equipo — Independent Lens (PBS) [Quiet Pictures LLC]
Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning (HBO | Max) [HBO Documentary Films | The Boston Globe | Little Room Films]
Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn (Apple TV+)
OUTSTANDING SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Birthing A Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney (Paramount+)
Deciding Vote — The New Yorker Documentary (The New Yorker)
Last Song From Kabul (Paramount+)
The Silent Witness (lifestories.org/films-series/the-silent-witness)
The Takeover (Field of Vision)
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover — Frontline (PBS)
Free Chol Soo Lee — Independent Lens (PBS)
Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom (freedomonfire.film) [Miraflores Films | Winter on Fire | MakeMake Entertainment | PFX | 1+1 MEDIA |Diamond Docs | Donbas Frontliner | Donetsk Institute of Information]
Great Photo, Lovely Life: Facing a Family’s Secrets (HBO | Max)
Hidden Letters — Independent Lens (PBS) [ITVS]
January 6th (Discovery+) [Discovery+ | Propagate]
Lakota Nation vs. United States (AMC+) [Unceded Films, LLC | IFC Films]
Mourning In Lod (Showtime) [MTV Documentary Films | Medalia Productions]
Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning (HBO | Max) [HBO Documentary Films | The Boston Globe | Little Room Films]
The Stroll (HBO | Max) [HBO Documentary Films]
OUTSTANDING NEWS PROGRAM IN SPANISH
Al Punto (Univision)
Aquí y Ahora (Univision)
Despierta America (Univision)
Noticias Telemundo (Telemundo)
Noticiero Univision (Univision)
OUTSTANDING JOURNALIST IN SPANISH LANGUAGE MEDIA
Victor Andrade (Entravision Communications)
Albert Martinez (The Weather Channel en Español)
Jorge Ramos (Univision)
Pedro Ultreras (Univision)
Julio Vaqueiro (Telemundo)
OUTSTANDING COVERAGE OF A BREAKING NEWS STORY IN SPANISH
Acapulco Devastado por Otis — Noticiero Univision (Univision)
Acuérdate de Acapulco — Aquí y Ahora (Univision)
Guerra en tierra Santa — Aquí y Ahora (Univision)
Guerra Israel-Hamás — Noticiero Univision (Univision)
Huracan Otis – Furia Repentina — Noticias Telemundo (Telemundo)
OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE NEWS COVERAGE IN SPANISH
Las Armas de Ovidio — N+ Focus (VIX | TelevisaUnivision)
Fentanilo llega a la escuela — Aquí y Ahora (Univision)
Decisiones: Datos y Cambio Climático (The Weather Channel en Español)
Executions in Tamaulipas — Noticiero Univision (Univision)
Si no pagas, no pasas — N+ Focus (VIX | TelevisaUnivision)
OUTSTANDING FEATURE STORY IN SPANISH
Los buscadores de migrantes perdidos en el desierto de Sonora (BBC News Mundo)
The Confession — Fault Lines (Al Jazeera)
No me olvides: el creciente drama del alzhéimer en la comunidad hispana — Univision News Digital (Univision)
Río de Armas, Dinero y Muerte — En Punto (VIX)
Victoria — Op-Docs (The New York Times)
OUTSTANDING WRITING: NEWS
After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics — Frontline (PBS) [Frontline | Futuro Investigates | The Texas Tribune]
This Ancient Atrocity — 60 Minutes (CBS)
Clarissa Ward’s Exclusive Report From Inside Gaza (CNN)
It Happened Here: A Year in Uvalde — 20/20 (ABC)
The Trek: A Migrant’s Trail to America — The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN)
OUTSTANDING RESEARCH: NEWS
Adrift: An AP Investigation — The Associated Press (apnews.com)
Failure at the Fence — Frontline (PBS) [Frontline | The Washington Post]
Fentanyl: The Silent Toll (Scripps News)
Inside the Uvalde Response — Frontline (PBS) [ProPublica | Frontline | The Texas Tribune]
The Looting of Cambodia — 60 Minutes (CBS)
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION: NEWS
Black in Vegas — ABC News Soul of a Nation (ABC)
The Freedom to Exist — ABC News Soul of a Nation (ABC)
Ghost Guns — Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
GMA’s Maui Strong 08/17/2023 — Good Morning America (ABC)
Today: October 9th, 2023 — Today (NBC)
OUTSTANDING VIDEO JOURNALISM
Exclusive: Inside a Ukrainian Battlefield Hospital (The New York Times)
Ghost Guns — Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
MDMA — Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
Terrorist Oil — Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
The Trek: A Migrant’s Trail to America — The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN)
OUTSTANDING EDITING: NEWS
Failure at the Fence — Frontline (PBS) [Frontline | The Washington Post]
Ghost Guns — Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK (Hulu) [ABC News Studios | The Associated Press]
It Happened Here: A Year in Uvalde — 20/20 (ABC)
MDMA — Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC DESIGN: NEWS
50 Years Fly: The Rise, Fall and Revolution of Hip-Hop Fashion — NBC News Digital (NBC)
A Soldier’s Struggle with PTSD (CNN)
Meet the Press (NBC)
Stay Tuned — NBC News Digital (NBC)
Texas Tornado Virtual Explainer — HoyDía (Telemundo)
The Night Doctrine (ProPublica and The New Yorker)
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION: NEWS
CNN News Central (CNN)
The Discord Leaks — Frontline (PBS) [Frontline | The Washington Post]
The Night Doctrine (ProPublica and The New Yorker)
OUTSTANDING SOUND: NEWS
Black Market Babies — Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
Black Market Organs — Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
MDMA — Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
The Trek: A Migrant’s Trail to America — The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN)
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DIRECTION: NEWS
The 17th Annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute (CNN)
Ghost Guns — Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
MDMA — Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) [Muck Media]
The Playlist — ABC News Live (ABC)
OUTSTANDING ART DIRECTION / SET DECORATION / SCENIC DESIGN: NEWS
The 17th Annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute (CNN)
Hip Hip @50: Rhythms, Rhymes with & Reflection — Soul of a Nation (ABC)
OUTSTANDING WRITING: DOCUMENTARY
Exposing Parchman (A&E) [Good Caper Content | Roc Nation | Red Summer TV ]
Great Photo, Lovely Life: Facing a Family’s Secrets (HBO | Max)
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony (National Geographic) [Steve Rotfeld Productions]
Netanyahu, America & the Road to War in Gaza — Frontline (PBS)
The Pigeon Tunnel (Apple TV+)
OUTSTANDING RESEARCH: DOCUMENTARY
Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus — Frontline (PBS) [Frontline | Forbidden Film | the Forbidden Stories consortium]
JFK: One Day in America (National Geographic) [72 Films | National Geographic]
Take Care of Maya (Netflix) [Story Syndicate | Wise Fool]
The Lady Bird Diaries (Hulu) [ABC News Studios | Trilogy Films]
Victim/Suspect (Netflix) [Motto Pictures | Center for Investigative Reporting Studios]
World War II: From the Front Lines (Netflix) [72 Films]
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION: DOCUMENTARY
Another Body (anotherbodyfilm.com) [WILLA | Murmuration Productions | Remarkably Calm Productions]
Lakota Nation vs. United States (AMC+) [Unceded Films, LLC, | IFC Films]
The Mission (National Geographic) [National Geographic | Lightbox | Mile End Films]
Take Care of Maya (Netflix) [Story Syndicate | Wise Fool]
Victim/Suspect (Netflix) [Motto Pictures | Center for Investigative Reporting Studios]
OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY: DOCUMENTARY
Incredible Animal Journeys (National Geographic) [Plimsoll Productions]
The Lost Pyramid — Unknown (Netflix) [A Story Syndicate]
Murder In Big Horn (Showtime) [Fairhaven]
The Pigeon Tunnel (Apple TV+) [Ink Factory | Fourth Floor | Jago Films | Storyteller Productions | 127 Wall]
Swift Justice — The New Yorker Documentary (The New Yorker)
OUTSTANDING EDITING: DOCUMENTARY
American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing (Netflix)
David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived (HBO | Max)
Little Richard: I Am Everything (CNN Films | Max) [Bungalow Media + Entertainment]
Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning (HBO | Max) [HBO Documentary Films | The Boston Globe | Little Room Films]
The Pigeon Tunnel (Apple TV+) [Ink Factory | Fourth Floor | Jago Films | Storyteller Productions | 127 Wall]
OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC DESIGN: DOCUMENTARY
Ancient Earth — Nova (PBS) [BBC Studios | Nova | WGBH]
Neighbour Abdi — Op-Docs (The New York Times)
Nixon’s Reversal (Ovid) [Hi-Lo | Lost Nation Pictures]
Who Killed Robert Wone? (Peacock) [Jupiter Entertainment]
World War II: From the Front Lines (Netflix) [72 Films]
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION: DOCUMENTARY
David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived (HBO | Max)
Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom (freedomonfire.film) [Miraflores Films, Winter on Fire, MakeMake Entertainment, PFX, 1+1MEDIA, Diamond Docs, Donbas Frontliner, Donetsk Institute of Information]
JFK: One Day in America (National Geographic) [72 Films]
Navajo Police: Class 57 (HBO | Max) [Concordia Studios]
World War II: From the Front Lines (Netflix) [72 Films]
OUTSTANDING SOUND: DOCUMENTARY
Big Beasts (Apple TV+) [Plimsoll Productions in association with Apple]
Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom (freedomonfire.film) [Miraflores Films | Winter on Fire | MakeMake Entertainment | PFX |1+1 MEDIA |Diamond Docs | Donbas Frontliner | Donetsk Institute of Information]
Incredible Animal Journeys (National Geographic) [Plimsoll Productions]
The Legacy of J. Dilla — The New York Times Presents (FX) [The New York Times | Left/Right (a North Road company)]
The Lost Pyramid — Unknown (Netflix) [Story Syndicate]
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DIRECTION: DOCUMENTARY
Homicide Hunter: The Man With No Face (ID: Investigation Discovery) [Jupiter Entertainment]
JFK: One Day in America (National Geographic)
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb — MSNBC Films (MSNBC) [NBC News Studios]
Who Killed Robert Wone? (Peacock) [Jupiter Entertainment]
Wild Crime: Blood Mountain (Hulu) [Lone Wolf Media, (ABC) News Studios]
OUTSTANDING ART DIRECTION / SET DECORATION / SCENIC DESIGN: DOCUMENTARY
Burden of Proof (HBO | Max)
Chowchilla (CNN Films | Max) [Zipper Bros Films | Sutter Road Picture Company]
The Enfield Poltergeist (Apple TV+) [MetFilm | Concordia Studio | Apple]
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street (Netflix) [RadicalMedia]
Stan Lee (Disney+) [Marvel Studios]
Who Killed Robert Wone? (Peacock) [Jupiter Entertainment]
OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE: NEWS
CNN’s Fourth in America (CNN)
Earthquake in Turkey — ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (ABC)
FloodFX – Florida Storms (Idalia) — Tracking Idalia (The Weather Channel)
OUTSTANDING PROMOTIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT: NEWS
60 Minutes: “It’s Time for…” — 60 Minutes (CBS)
ABC News – After The Blast: The Will to Survive (ABC)
Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview–A Story of Terror, Survival and Triumph (ABC)
Moderator — CBS News Face the Nation (CBS)
Power — The CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell (CBS)
OUTSTANDING PROMOTIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT: DOCUMENTARY
Giuliani: What Happened to America’s Mayor (CNN)
Incredible Animal Journeys (National Geographic) [Plimsoll Productions]
JFK: One Day in America (National Geographic) [72 Films]
The Mission (National Geographic) [National Geographic | Lightbox | Mile End Films] [ITVS]
Teaser: Free Chol Soo Lee on Independent Lens — Independent Lens (PBS)
Trailer: The Lady Bird Diaries (Hulu) [ABC News Studios | Jump Cut]