World In Crisis
To the Columbia Broadcasting System is given the George Foster Peabody Television Award for public service for its presentation of the one-hour long, full, and comprehensive visual report of the…
NBC Television Opera Theatre
The George Foster Peabody Television Award in music goes to NBC Television Opera Theatre, for its imaginative and stunning productions, splendidly cast and beautifully sung, directed and conceived. Praise goes…
CBS Is There
This award in education goes to a network, the Columbia Broadcasting System, for the real contribution it has made in its documentaries and in its program, CBS Is There. The…
La Llorona
“What’s in the past is in the past.” That simple captioned line thunders throughout Jayro Bustamante’s gripping horror film, La Llorona. But its English translation obscures the more insidious meaning…
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020 should have proven deadly to late-night television, a genre heavily dependent on the connection between the comedian host and a live audience. With New York…
Collective
In the documentary film Collective, director Alexander Nanau takes us deep inside a real-life political thriller. In the aftermath of a deadly nightclub fire in Bucharest, Romania, the survivors suffering…
PBS NewsHour: Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic
PBS NewsHour’s relentless and comprehensive reporting gave us the best news coverage of a once-in-a-century global pandemic. Despite the unique challenges posed by COVID-19 that made their jobs more difficult…
VICE on Showtime: Losing Ground
For most Americans, owning a home or land is their greatest source of wealth, one they proudly pass to the next generation. In Losing Ground, VICE’s Alzo Slade deftly explores…
That Dragon, Cancer
A video game that challenges our expectations of the medium, That Dragon, Cancer documents the true story of 4-year-old Joel Green’s lifelong battle with cancer in a beautifully poetic gameplay environment. Players…