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70th annual Peabody Awards winners announced
Claire Danes in HBO’s “Temple Grandin.”
The University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication has announced the winners of the 70th Annual Peabody Awards, which honor excellence in electronic media.
“For 70 years the Peabody Award has defined excellence in electronic media,” said Horace Newcomb, director of the Peabody Awards. “This list of Peabody recipients continues the commitment of the University of Georgia and the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, the stewards of the award. With that commitment, we challenge media makers and distributors to reach higher, try harder and be ever mindful of their central role in public life.”
This year’s record 39 recipients include miniseries such as HBO’s “The Pacific,” documentaries including PBS’ “Independent Lens” and entertainment programs such as CBS’ “The Good Wife” and TNT’s “Men of a Certain Age.” The locally-filmed HBO movie “Temple Grandin” was also honored.
Here is a list of the TV winners:
Justified (FX)
Great Performances: Macbeth (PBS)
Coverage of the Gulf Oil Spill (CNN)
The Pacific (HBO)
Sherlock: A Study in Pink (PBS)
LennonNYC (PBS)
Burma VJ (HBO)
Men of a Certain Age (TNT)
Independent Lens: Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian (PBS)
Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals (HBO)
Wonders of the Solar System with Brian Cox (Science Channel)
Degrassi: My Body Is a Cage (TeenNick)
My Lai (PBS)
For Neda (HBO)
12th & Delaware (HBO)
Elia Kazan: A Letter to Elia (PBS)
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise (HBO)
William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible (PBS)
30 for 30 (ESPN)
POV: The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
(PBS)
Temple Grandin (HBO)
The Wounded Patrol (PBS)
The Good Wife (CBS)
Dallas, Texas television station WFAA was honored for “Bitter Lessons,” an investigation that “exposed abuses by government-funded ‘career’ schools that provide poor training and sometimes leave desperate students deeper in debt than they started,” and C-SPAN was awarded for its video library (cspan.org/videolibrary), a searchable online archive of every program the network has shown since 1987.
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